Table of Contents
This is the full table of contents of the print edition of OnEarth, Summer 2007; Volume 29, No.2. You can have the whole magazine delivered to your door four times a year by clicking here and joining NRDC.
FEATURE STORIES
Falling in Love with Wind
by Joseph D'Agnese
When Bill Moore told the dairy farmers of Lowville, New York that they should be milking wind, not cows, they were unimpressed. But eight years later, they're not tilting at windmills anymore -- they're making a small fortune. Behold the energy future.
The Cave Creatures
by Kevin Krajick
In the darkness deep underground, beneath the Missouri Ozarks, a stunning variety of strange and beautiful creatures were almost snuffed out until Tom Aley arrived to save them.
Appalachian Apocalypse
by Erik Reece
In the verdant hills of Kentucky and West Virginia, coal companies are decapitating entire mountains, wrecking one of our biologically richest and most iconic landscapes. Even more tragic, though, is how little anyone seems to notice.
Looking Deep, Deep Into Your Genes
by Laura Wright
How does the environment affect our DNA? Using a new generation of powerful genetic tools, scientists are finding
unexpected answers that could revolutionize our understanding of the causes and prevention of disease.
FRONTLINES
Drinking the Desert Dry
Scrambled Eggs
Troubled Waters
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Cleaner than What?
UN-fit for Human Habitation
Art from the Garbage Can
INSIDE NRDC
The View from NRDC: The China Syndrome
by Frances Beinecke
A powerhouse economy is learning to lighten its carbon load
Dispatches
The new economics of coal, and more.
NRDC Works...
NRDC works on many of the issues covered in OnEarth by independent journalists. Check out what we're doing on: Wind Power, Mountaintop Mining and Public Health.
Fieldwork: A Legal Eagle Lands
New York State's top environmental enforcer joins NRDC
DEPARTMENTS
Letter from the Editor
by Douglas S. Barasch
Letters
Living Green: My 30 Days of Consumer Celibacy
by Wendee Holtcamp
Those living by "the Compact" have withdrawn from the rampant consumerism that marks our throwaway culture. One intrepid author discovers the challenges of abstinence.
Open Space: Flying the High-Tech Skies
by David Gessner
Birdwatching used to be seen as the ultimate geeky pastime. But combine it with new online technologies and it can reveal new truths about how our world is stitched together.
Poetry
"By A Pond" by David Wagoner
"Straight Talk From Fox" by Mary Oliver
"This Day, Tomorrow, And The Next" by Pattiann Rogers
"Weeds" by John Bensko
"Nest" by Brendan Galvin
"Mowing the Lawn" by Kevin Stein
"Behold, The Lord God Bird" by Chard deNiord
Book Reviews
Florence Williams explores the landscape -- in sickness and in health. Plus, the activist in his underpants, and the hurricanes that blew open the debate on climate change.
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