Includes bibliographical references.

Action. Reinhabiting environmentalism / Peter Sauer -- Consent of the governed / Jeffrey Kaplan -- Beyond hope / Derrick Jensen -- The union makes them strong / Laura Paskus -- Got tape? / BK Loren -- A license to be human: an interview with Van Jones -- Refugees. Conservation refugees / Mark Dowie -- Jeremiad for Belarus / Hope Burwell -- Moving mountains / Erik Reece -- On thin ice / Charles Wohlforth -- The Black Mesa syndrome / Judith Nies -- Boundaries. Faux falls / Ginger Strand -- The edges of the civilized world / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- On waste lonely places / John Landretti -- A word in favor of rootlessness / John Daniel -- The riddle of the Apostle Islands / William Cronon -- Reverence. Beyond ecophobia / David Sobel -- Charlotte's webpage / Lowell Monke -- The leadership imperative: an interview with Oren Lyons / Barry Lopez -- Assailed / David James Duncan -- The rise and fall of natural history / Robert Michael Pyle -- "These green things": the San Francisco garden project / Cathrine Sneed -- Monsters. Designer genes / Bill McKibben -- The pirates of Illiopolis / Sandra Steingraber -- Radioactive roadtrip / William L. Fox -- Winged Mercury and the golden calf / Rebecca Solnit -- In the name of restoration / Marybeth Holleman -- Native. The idea of a local economy / Wendell Berry -- The culture of owning / Eric T. Freyfogle -- Listening to the other / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Staying put / Scott Russell Sanders -- Endnotes: what came next -- Author biographies.