A collection of writings by such contributors as Ursula Le Guin, David Orr, and Mark Dowie evaluates the role of human nature as both a key and obstacle in achieving environmental goals, in a volume that explores such topics as America's incarnation society, spiritual ecology, and the military-industrial landscape Barry Lopez, Introduction ix Action Peter Sauer, Reinhabiting Environmentalism 5 Jeffrey Kaplan, Consent of the. Governed 14 Derrick Jensen, Beyond Hope 27 Laura Paskus, The Union Makes Them Strong 32 BK Loren, Got Tape? 43 A License to Be Human: An Interview with Van Jones 53 Refugees Mark Dowie: Conservation Refugees 65 Hope Burwell, Jeremiad for Belarus 78 Erik Reece, Moving Mountains 91 Charles Wohlforth, On Thin Ice 107 Judith Nies, The Black Mesa Syndrome 117 Boundaries Ginger Strand, Faux Falls 131 Alison Hawthorne Deming, The Edges of the Civilized World 143 John Landretti, On Waste Lonely Places 154 John Daniel, A Word in Favor of Rootlessness 160 William Cronon, The Riddle of the Apostle Islands 167 Reverence David Sobel, Beyond Ecophobia 184 Lowell Monke, Charlotte's Webpage 194 Barry Lopez, The Leadership Imperative: An Interview with Oren Lyons 205 David James Duncan, Assailed 214 Robert Michael Pyle, The Rise and Fall of Natural History 233 Cathrine Sneed, "These Green Things" The San Francisco Garden Project 244 Monsters Bill McKibben, Designer Genes 257 Sandra Steingraber, The Pirates of Illiopolis 268 William L. Fox, Radioactive Roadtrip 284 Rebecca Solnit, Winged Mercury and the Golden Calf 295 Marybeth Holleman, In the Name of Restoration 307 Native Wendell Berry, The Idea of a Local Economy 319 Eric T. Freyfogle, The Culture of Owning 331 Gary Paul Nabhan, Listening to the Other 341 Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put 353 Endnotes: What Came Next 369 Author Biographies 384