
Orion Magazine Amazing story (and interesting that it appeared in the WSJ).
Source: online.wsj.com
It has been 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell. But deep in the forest here, a red deer called Ahornia still refuses to cross the old Iron Curtain.

Orion Magazine Friends of the Earth report (BBC) challenges carbon trading: "... failing dismally at reducing emissions": http://bit.ly/1jqdEA

Orion Magazine Worldwatch Institute: livestock generates not 18% but 51% of carbon emissions: http://bit.ly/A5MTv . That's pretty huge.

Orion Magazine Orion picture editor Jason Houston will be in San Francisco Friday night at the opening of the show "Family of Mine," at the RayKo Gallery at 428 Third Street, 6-8pm. He'd love to see some Orion readers there.
Source: raykophoto.com
Photography community center: digital, darkroom, studio, gallery, and workshops

Orion Magazine Extinction: "One in five of all known mammals, over a quarter of reptiles and 70 percent of plants are under threat" http://bit.ly/1xCZKm
Source: bit.ly
A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.

Orion Magazine For those of you who have never been out this way, this 6-minute TV clip gives a sense of Orion's home here in the Berkshires. http://bit.ly/lxUWC

Orion Magazine We're really pleased to have published "Mind in the Forest" -- intimate encouters with really old trees -- by Scott Russell Sanders, in the most recent Orion. We miss those really old trees... http://bit.ly/243I52
Source: bit.ly

Orion Magazine
The next Great Barrington Green Drinks is Wednesday, November 4th, at Route 7 Grill, from 5:15 on.
This edition of Drinks features the work of Co-Act, an energetic grassroots group that is working to capture and redistribute the waste food stream in the region, develop renewable energy, as well as local economics. Come ...down and find out about their recent successes and new projects that you can plug into.
What exactly is Green Drinks, you may ask? Well, it's a monthly social event hosted by the folks who publish Orion magazine, for people like you interested in everything from environmental education to local agriculture, the arts, green business & design, and the ways all of these intersect.
As always there will be deliciously free d'oeuvres, courtesy of our lovely/handsome Route 7 hosts, and copies of the new issue of Orion magazine for your enjoyment.
So grab a friend and bring them down to share what you're working on and meet others active in the community.
Please forward this on to your friends and Facebook contacts...the more the merrier.
Erik
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This edition of Drinks features the work of Co-Act, an energetic grassroots group that is working to capture and redistribute the waste food stream in the region, develop renewable energy, as well as local economics. Come ...down and find out about their recent successes and new projects that you can plug into.
What exactly is Green Drinks, you may ask? Well, it's a monthly social event hosted by the folks who publish Orion magazine, for people like you interested in everything from environmental education to local agriculture, the arts, green business & design, and the ways all of these intersect.
As always there will be deliciously free d'oeuvres, courtesy of our lovely/handsome Route 7 hosts, and copies of the new issue of Orion magazine for your enjoyment.
So grab a friend and bring them down to share what you're working on and meet others active in the community.
Please forward this on to your friends and Facebook contacts...the more the merrier.
Erik
Read More

Orion Magazine Excellent video about mountaintop removal mining, at Yale 360: http://bit.ly/R9YqD
Source: bit.ly
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Orion Magazine Recent articles in Orion have the touted the "Transition Town" concept - here's an interesting counterpoint to TT by Worldchanging's Alex Steffen: http://bit.ly/2flD3B

Orion Magazine Photos, text, audio on one New Orleans neighborhood by Dave Anderson, in current Orion: http://bit.ly/4y4Xt3

Madelyn Clare Powell
Orion, WOW! I thank you for sending me your updates, free, via email for years now. I confess I have, a few times, signed up as a subscriber, knowing that I couldn't afford you. I did so for the joy of holding your sample issue in my hands, peering into your photography, and setting my dreams for the night as I fe...ll asleep. Now, I will share you w/my friends here. When I am well, I will skip in from the mailbox with you again, only without the feeling guilty part.Read More




















