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“Forget Nature Writing”

 

Published 14 days ago by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

On November 12–15, 2009, Orion gathered together fifteen writers from across the country for a weekend-long conversation about the genre formerly known as “nature writing.” Our purpose was to discuss a kind of writing that ...

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Four Essays from Orion Published/Mentioned in 2010 Pushcart Anthology

 

Published 16 days ago by Chip at 187 Main Street

The 2010 Pushcart anthology arrived at Orion today, and in addition to including Ginger Strand’s “The Crying Indian” and Ben Quick’s “The Boneyard,” it lists two Orion pieces in the “special mention” ...

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Michelle Nijhuis’s Orion Article a Best American

 

Published 10/29/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We are very pleased to see that Michelle Nijhuis’s article, “ To Take Wilderness in Hand ,” from the May/June 2008 Orion is included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 , edited by Elizabeth Kolbert.

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H2O: Film on Water

 

Published 10/19/2009 by Chip at 187 Main Street

On October 17 three of us from Orion traveled to Newport, New Hampshire, to visit an extraordinary art exhibition, “ H2O: Film on Water .” The show includes videos, paintings, photographs, and other installations – all focused on ...

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Author Curtis White Stumps for Orion

 

Published 10/8/2009 by Hal at 187 Main Street

Curt White came by our offices on October 7. His new book, The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and Crisis of Nature, is just out from Polipoint Press, and Curt was in town this week to speak to students at nearby Williams College. Curt told us the book ...

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Orion Joins BIFF, WGBY at NOW Screening

 

Published 10/7/2009 by Hal at 187 Main Street

On October 5, executive editor Hal Clifford joined David Brancaccio, editor and lead correspondent for the PBS investigative reporting television show NOW, at the Triplex Theater in Great Barrington. The event was a screening of the NOW segment ...

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Sheffield Land Trust at Green Drinks

 

Published 9/3/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

The Orion Grassroots Network hosted its monthly Green Drinks gathering last night at Route 7 Grill and featured the work of nearby member group Sheffield Land Trust. Kathy Orlando (director, pictured) and her board and supporters turned out in ...

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Two Orion Panels at AWP 2010

 

Published 9/1/2009 by Chip at 187 Main Street

Both proposals for panels that Orion submitted to the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference were accepted and will be presented at the AWP conference next April in Denver. The panels are: Writing the Mind’s ...

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Jim Carrier, Just Outside Orion

 

Published 8/31/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Jim Carrier, author of “ All You Can Eat ” published in the March/April 2009 issue of Orion , Orion, Wisconsin.

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The Barbaric Heart

 

Published 8/24/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Curtis White’s book (less than $12 in paper via Amazon) The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature has just been published. Parts were in Orion , accompanied by lively discussions. http://bit.ly/nKbg5

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Success!

 

Published 7/28/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

The Orion Grassroots Network successfully concluded its mini-fundraising campaign for member group Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR), and now the school kids in their stream remediation classes will all have dry ...

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Amy Irvine Snags Colorado Book Award

 

Published 7/7/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

2009 Orion Book Award winner Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine (McHarg) was named winner of the Colorado Book Award for creative nonfiction. Congratulations, Amy! For more information:  ...

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ASLE Conference

 

Published 7/1/2009 by Chip at 187 Main Street

Editor-in-Chief Chip Blake attended the conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in Victoria, BC, in June. While there he appeared as part of a plenary session devoted to “new media,” with Andy Revkin of ...

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OGN helping get kids outdoors

 

Published 6/30/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

The Orion Grassroots Network is piloting a mini-fundraising campaign, The Wish List, in an effort to raise small pots of money for our Grassroots Network members via Orion’s visibility and channels, for items they can use for their missions but ...

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Orion as a Graduation Gift

 

Published 6/18/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We’ve just learned that the College of Idaho gave subscriptions to Orion to all graduating seniors as a parting gift! We love that!

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Wildbranch Writing Workshop 2009

 

Published 6/17/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Orion Editor Jennifer Sahn writes: With a faculty like Alison Hawthorne Deming, Erik Reece, and Ginger Strand, in a setting as sublime as Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, it’s hard to go wrong. But still, it’s a pleasure to report how ...

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James Prosek Visits Orion

 

Published 5/18/2009 by Hal at 187 Main Street

James Prosek, whose art and writing we published in “The Failure of Names” in our March-April 2008 issue, joined the staff for lunch at 187 Main recently. James talked about his ten-year project to write a book about eels, which has taken ...

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Erik Reece on Fresh Air

 

Published 5/14/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Frequent Orion contributor Erik Reece was on Fresh Air last night: http://bit.ly/qZRTs

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On the Road, Looking at Photos

 

Published 5/5/2009 by Jason at 187 Main Street

Orion Picture Editor Jason Houston recently finished up another round of great portfolio reviews, this time for Portland, OR-based PhotoLucida . This annual week-long event brings together museum curators, gallery owners, magazine editors, book ...

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Erik Reece on Trueslant

 

Published 4/30/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Orion writer Erik Reece just started blogging for a promising new site, trueslant.com.

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Pushcart Prizes for Two 2008 Orion Articles

 

Published 4/30/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Orion articles by Ginger Strand ( http://bit.ly/Strand ) and Ben Quick ( http://bit.ly/BenQuick ) have won Pushcart Prizes. We cheer.

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Video of the Orion Book Award Ceremony

 

Published 4/28/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

StyleMusicTV made a brief video at the Orion Book Award event in NYC in April… http://bit.ly/IsLzU

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Goldman Prize Report

 

Published 4/27/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

The East Coast ceremony for Goldman Prize winners was at the Smithsonian, right on the National Mall, and it was a great setting. We feted these heroes of grassroots environmentalism under the looming hulks of right whales and pachyderms. As each ...

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OGN Member Wins Prestigious Goldman Prize

 

Published 4/23/2009 by Hal at 187 Main Street

The Orion Grassroots Network nominated one of its own for the Goldman Environmental Prize, Maria Gunnoe, and she was just named as one of six winners worldwide. Maria was honored for her courageous stand against mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR). ...

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The First Orion Podcast!

 

Published 4/23/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We’ve done audio and video extras—and we’re glad our readers appreciate them—but today, with the launch of the May/June 2009 issue on the website, we also launch the first official Orion Podcast . Chip and Jen pause to enjoy ...

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Reminder: Orion Book Award April 15

 

Published 4/14/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

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Orion Writers, Elsewhere (Too)

 

Published 4/8/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We’re pleased to see our colleagues at The Georgia Review putting literary excellence to work on the environment. The Spring 2009 issue, released yesterday, includes work by five environmental writers gathered under the title, ...

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Utne Independent Press Award Nominations for Orion

 

Published 4/7/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We’re pleased to know that Orion has been nominated in the General Excellence, Best Writing, and Environmental Coverage categories for the 2009 Utne Awards! See the other nominees here .

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Job board tops with Gates Foundation

 

Published 4/3/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

The Orion Grassroots Network’s job board, The Grassroots Jobsource , is valued not only by thousands of job seekers every day, but it’s also highly recommended by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we learned recently. It’s ...

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2009 Orion Readers’ Choice Award Results

 

Published 4/2/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Orion readers have weighed in, and a winner has emerged from the 2009 Orion Readers’ Choice Award: Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships , a memoir by John T. Price. For more information about the award and to see a list of other ...

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2008 Orion Book Award: A Winner!

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Amy Irvine’s Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (North Point Press) is the winner of the 2008 Orion Book Award, which recognizes books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship ...

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Scott Gast’s Blog

 

Published 3/23/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Orion Grassroots Network intern has launched an interesting and thoughtful blog found at http://www.lifeaftergrowth.com . The blog is called Abalone, and Scott writes, “The abalone might be a good symbol for what we should strive for in ...

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Brian Doyle’s Greatest Nature Essay Ever

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We just heard from Brian Doyle that his Coda from the November/December 2008 “ The Greatest Nature Essay Ever ” has been selected for the forthcoming Best American Essays .

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Van Jones!

 

Published 3/12/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

Orion Advisory Board member Van Jones, founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, was named Special Advisor to the Obama Administration. Sustainable Business News reported, “As a member of the ...

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Former Staffer Now Staffing the Hill

 

Published 3/10/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

Peter Viola, Orion Grassroots Network intern from 2006-2007, is now a legislative aide to Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA). A climate activist and organizer at Middlebury College, Peter and some classmates (along with their advisor, the one and ...

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Building Grassroots Capacity

 

Published 3/3/2009 by Erik Hoffner at 187 Main Street

The Orion Grassroots Network’s coordinator, Erik Hoffner, was in Nashville recently for the annual meeting of the Environmental Capacity Builders Network. The member organizations of this group are, like OGN, working to support the ...

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Emmanuel Dongala

 

Published 2/25/2009 by Chip at 187 Main Street

We were visited today by Emmanuel Dongala , a Congolese writer who teaches at a local college, Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Emmanuel is the author of a number of award-winning novels, including Johnny Mad Dog . We discussed Africa, ...

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Good News for Michelle Nijhuis

 

Published 2/23/2009 by Scott Walker at 187 Main Street

We just learned that Elizabeth Kolbert, this year’s guest editor for The Best American Science and Nature Writing , has chosen Michelle Nijhius’s “ To Take Wilderness In Hand, ” published in the May/June 2008 Orion , for the ...

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Orion at AWP

 

Published 2/16/2009 by Chip at 187 Main Street

Chip, Jennifer, and Hannah were in Chicago for the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), February 11-14. AWP conference- attended by 5800 people this year—is an opportunity for university writing ...

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Peter Sauer, 1937-2009

 

Published 2/2/2009 by Chip at 187 Main Street

Peter was an editorial board member of Orion from 1990-2006. He contributed many articles and reviews, as well as two columns: Placemarks and RealEcology. Peter was a remarkably imaginative thinker on matters of culture and nature, and challenged ...

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Picture Editor, Jason Houston, at Center’s Review LA

 

Published 1/13/2009 by Jason at 187 Main Street

The snow plow had just taken out our mailbox and it was raining ice when I left Great Barrington - all the more reason it felt right to be headed to Southern California in mid-January. I was headed to Center’s Review LA, the first of a handful ...

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Orion Writer Wins Alicia Patterson Fellowship

 

Published 12/16/2008 by Hal at 187 Main Street

Rebecca Clarren has been awarded one of the most coveted fellowships in journalism for 2009. Her one-year project, funded by a $40,000 grant from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, will focus on “the unmitigated effects of oil and gas ...

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Jennifer on NPR

 

Published 11/24/2008 by Chip at 187 Main Street

Orion’s editor Jennifer Sahn appeared yesterday on NPR as part of a story about Terry Tempest Williams. Read/listen at here .

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The “Art of Stewardship” gathering at Unity College in Maine

 

Published 11/22/2008 by Jason at 187 Main Street

Adding to Orion’s busy fall travel schedule… On Saturday November 15th, Orion picture editor Jason Houston joined almost 50 other artists, curators, environmental and sustainability advocates, students, and friends of the arts for an ...

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