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The Future of Environmental Essay: A Discourse with Audio Excerpts
by Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Gessner, David Rothenberg, and Lauret Savoy

In February 2008, Terrain.org's editor facilitated a panel titled “The Future of Environmental Essay” in New York City. This article includes the full text, and brief audio excerpts, of the panelists’ important and entertaining discourse.

An Undefended Buffet: The Unnecessary Extiction of the Redbay, a Defining Southern Tree
by Susan Cerulean

“Something’s dead wrong in these woods,” said Georgia forester Chip Bates, as he led a group of 30 scientists into Jekyll Island’s interior forests on a hot afternoon last July. “You may be seeing extinction in progress.”

Planting Pipelines in National Parks: The West-wide Energy Corridor and the Future of Public Lands in the West
by Erin Podolak

Energy production and distribution is a problem in the United States. To help solve the problem, the federal government has proposed the creation of energy corridors, areas of land where the infrastructure needed to move energy resources including hydrogen, oil, natural gas, and electricity will be constructed.

High Point: A Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing in Seattle
by Walker Wells

Numerous aspects of High Point’s site design address resource conservation and environmental responsiveness. By combining the natural drainage system with traditional neighborhood design, the design team was able to capture synergies stemming from traditional, narrow streets and wide landscaped medians and parkways.

The Currency of Nature
by David Wann