Disappearing Languages by ROSEMARIE OSTLER: 6,000 languages still exist in the world, but they’re disappearing faster than birds or mammals. What’s to be done?
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Just Speak Your Language by RICHARD LITTLEBEAR: Advice from a Cheyenne teacher to Native Americans, on how to keep their languages vital.
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English: The Killer Language? by JOSHUA A. FISHMAN
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A Whole Earth Forum of Compassionate Linguists: ELENA BENEDICTO, NORA ENGLAND, KENNETH HALE, LEANNE HINTON, DON RINGE, AND DOUGLAS WHALEN Why save languages? And how?
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Salila-ti Mi-mu d-enn-i-gu by DARRYL BABE WILSON
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Antarctica: THE UN-BIO BIOREGION
Introduction Peter Warshall
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Radar Images
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Informed by Indifference by BARRY LOPEZ
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SPECIAL COLOR PHOTO SECTION: Stuart Klipper, Frans Lanting, Galen Rowell, & Mark J. Thomas
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The Cryosphere by Stephen J. Pyne
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GRASSROOTS Radio
Introduction
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Micro- Powered Radio by Dorothy Kidd
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Internet Radio
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Relinquishing the Mic by Jeanne Carstensen
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Migrant Mushroomers by DAVID ARORA: Unique American nomads wander the West hunting and selling mushrooms.
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The Global Mushroom Trade
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The Living Water Garden by Betsy Damon with Anne H. Mavor: Creating the first inner-city ecological park in Chengdu, China was a nearly impossible task.
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Bring Back the Elephants by Paul S. Martin and David A. Burney: Early hunters killed off the mammoths. Should we bring back proboscideans and restore America to its Pleistocene richness?
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John Davis Responds
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A Letter from Allan Savory
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Left-Handed Bears & Androgynous Cassowaries by Bruce Bagemihl: Homosexual and transgendered animals are common. Biologists could learn from these creatures, and from the indigenous peoples who have observed and recorded their behavior.
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The World Trade Organization: FIX IT OR NIX IT?
WTO: Fix it or Nix It? by Peter Warshall
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WSO: Journal of the Uninvited by PAUL HAWKEN: Paul reports on the first day of protest in Seattle.
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A Whole Earth Think-In: Fourteen thought leaders brainstorm the future of the WTO. They cover India, agriculture, corporate response, water, globalization of education, forests... MAUDE BARLOW, STEVE BARNETT, TONY CLARKE, WILLIAM GREIDER, RANDY HAYES, TIM LANG, JERRY MANDER, DONELLA MEADOWS, ANURADHA MITTAL, RICHARD O’BrIEN, MARK RITCHIE, ANITA RODDICK, PETER SCHWARTZ, AND LORI WALLACH