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Title:

The Orion Society

Url:

https://orionmagazine.org/

Publisher:

Orion Society.

Description: The Orion Society is the Website for two excellent magazines -- Orion and Orion Afield -- dedicated to the issue of humans living more harmoniously with our environment. The Website offers selected articles and features from both magazines as well as some content unique to Orion Online. Orion, which won the 2000 Utne Reader award for Best Design, features "the highest literary and artistic representation of the natural world." The current online issue includes three articles about the Monarch butterfly, considering both its aesthetic value and its role as a bellwether species in the controversy over the use of genetically modified foods since some research suggests Monarchs are adversely affected by the pollen from genetically modified corn. There are also pieces by well-known essayists such as Scott Russell Sanders and Anne Matthews as well as meditative photographs by Lynn Geesaman. Orion Afield is dedicated to reporting on community involvement in local environmental and economic projects. The current issue has less online content than its companion periodical but includes an interesting feature on Virginia high school students who built a piece of land art made up of five hundred tires to indicate the path a proposed highway would take through current greenspace. Unique online content includes an interview with Joni Mitchell discussing, in essence, her thoughts on how to unpave paradise and take out the parking lot; "Curmudgeon in the Wild" James Howard Kunstler discussing open space conservation as a means to revitalize community; and a gallery of paintings of the New England landscape by artist Forrest Moses.

LC Classification:

Agriculture -- Agriculture (General) -- Conservation of natural resources -- Periodicals and societies
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation -- Environmental sciences -- Environmental management
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation -- Human ecology. Anthropogeography -- Human ecology. Anthropogeography -- Periodicals. Societies. Serials
Technology -- Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering -- Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering -- Environmental protection -- Periodicals, societies, congresses, etc.

GEM Subject:

Science
Science -- Ecology
Science -- Earth science
Science -- General science
Science -- Informal education
Science -- Natural history

Key Concept:

Ecology -- Conservation
Ecology -- Ecosystems
Geography -- Natural resources
Geography -- Resource management

Resource Type:

Reference Material
Instructional Material

Format:

Document -- HTML

Audience:

Educator
Learner

Education Level:

Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education

Language:

English

Access Rights:

Free access

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