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Emily Raboteau Answers the Orion Questionnaire
Sep 11, 2024 · Award-winning author and Orion contributing editor Emily Raboteau writes at the intersection of social and environmental justice, race, climate change, and parenthood, as beautifully demonstrated in her most recent book, Lessons for Survival, where you can find mother employed as both noun and verb. We know she collects photos of street art, but what, you may ask, is her favorite tree in her ...
The Day the Lake Took the Edmund Fitzgerald - Orion Magazine
Oct 25, 2022 · NAMING A SHIP AFTER A MAN used to be bad luck in sailing. The Edmund Fitzgerald is named after the president of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, who wanted to build the biggest freighter on the biggest lake. And there was her ill-fated nickname: “Titanic of the Great Lakes.” Maybe greed cursed the ship. There were omens from the start. At the christening, Elizabeth Fitzgerald had ...
The Elephant and The Tragopan - Orion Magazine
Nov 15, 2022 · In Bingle Valley, broad and green, Where neither hut nor field is seen, Where bamboo, like a distant lawn, Is gold at dusk and flushed at dawn, Where rhododendron forests crown
The Imagination of the Tiny - Orion Magazine
Oct 17, 2023 · THE FIRST RULE OF BORROWING, a father tells his daughter in Mary Norton’s Borrowers, is that “a Borrower must never be seen.”But like in Fight Club, the story is dependent on this rule being broken.And so Arrietty, a girl two and a half inches tall, steps forth onto a boy’s palm and looks at his skin: a landscape, a touch, a stage.
The Crying Indian - Orion Magazine
* In more recent years, Burson-Marsteller performed crisis management for Union Carbide after the Bhopal disaster, for reactor builders Babcock & Wilcox after Three Mile Island, for British Petroleum after their Torrey Canyon oil spill, for Dow-Corning after silicone-breast-implant lawsuits, and for the government of Saudi Arabia after …
From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic …
May 14, 2024 · THE HISTORY OF the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion.. For over a century, the paper bag held dominion over how groceries were hauled home. By the 1980s, the plastics industry saw the grocery bag—a lucrative market, over $600 million at the time—as “the last stronghold” of the American supermarket ...
Forget Shorter Showers - Orion Magazine
Jul 7, 2009 · WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
Jun 12, 2017 · A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
Kinship Is a Verb - Orion Magazine
Nov 16, 2021 · THE FOLLOWING IS A CONVERSATION between Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn, the coeditors of the five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Center for Humans and Nature Press, 2021). It was recorded during an event hosted by Point Reyes Books and has been excerpted and edited for clarity.