Terrain.org's Issue No. 20 : Community Sustained : Now Online!

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce our newest issue:

Issue No. 20 : Community Sustained : www.terrain.org

Columns

• Guest Editorial : “Grassroots Good, Communities of Change” by Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network
• Simmons B. Buntin’s The Literal Landscape : “A Taco Stand in Every Neighborhood”
• David Rothenberg’s Bull Hill : “Avatud!” with place poems translated
• Catherine Cunningham’s View from the Summit : “Westward Expansion”
• NEW: Deborah Fries’ Plein Air : “Sustainable Magic: Restoring the Allure of Bedford Springs”

Interview

• “Speaking Truth to Power” : Terrain.org interviews ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber

UnSprawl Case Study

• Southside in Greensboro, North Carolina

Articles

• “Siena and Sustainability: City and Country in Tuscany,” with “Spannocchia: A Tuscan Sustainable Estate” article and extra Siena photos, by Thomas Harvey
• “Community Development in Denver’s Curtis Park: A New Model for Urban Infill,” by Joe Colistra
• “The Arts and Austin’s Second Street District,” by Janet Seibert
• “Aging in Community: How the Coming Baby Boom Generation will Transform Traditional Models of Independent Living,” by Jan Moran and Paul Rollins
• “Kiva: Reducing Poverty and Building Sustainable Communities through Micro-Lending,” by J.D. Stein

Essays

• “Listening without Distraction: Sustainability in Little Tibet,” by Pamela Uschuk, with photos by William Pitt Root
• “Accidental Summer Soundtrack” by Nishta Jaya Mehra
• “Sitting on the Front Porch” by Cynthia Staples
• “A Lake of Pure Sunshine” by Scott Calhoun
• “Bollywood: An Obsession” with narrative slideshow, by Kaizer Rangwala

Poetry

• Lynn Strongin
• Danica Colic
• Matthew Thorburn
• Elizabeth Aamot
• Lyn Lifshin
• Justin Evans
• Tim Bellows
• Anca Vlasopolos
• J.D. Smith
• Eric Magrane, with images

Fiction

• “The Great Citrus War” by Terry Sanville
• “The Split” by Kim Whitehead
• “Renting” by John Michael Cummings
• “Thrashing” by Teague Bohlen

Reviews

• Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future, by Eric Dregni and Jonathan Dregni
• Bonnie Richardson reviews Drosscape: Wasting Urban Land in America, by Alan Berger
• Simmons B. Buntin reviews On the Altar of Greece, poems by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
• Terrain.org reviews Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song, by Les Beletsky

Check out the latest issue now at http://www.terrain.org/.