This issue explores and celebrates organizations, individuals, community groups, and businesses we would not necessarily find working together, coming to the table to solve tough environmental problems. Though their work is never easy, their conclusions are provocative and heartening for those who work in environmental fields.

Editor’s Note

Martha Twombly, Editor

Cover Art

Symbols
Ty Minton

Contents

Axis
Tatyana Mamonova

Sonnet for Eden
Kenneth Boulding

Pledging Allegiance to All Sorts of Diversity
Gary Paul Nabhan

Distance Vision
Carolyn Duckworth

Beyond Coalitions: Partnerships for Environmental and Social Change
Alesia Maltz

A Chance for the Wild
Jody Larson

Shaping a Living Democracy: an interview with Frances Moore Lapp and Dr. Paul Martin DuBois
Martha Twombly

Recreating Environmentalism in the Northern Forest
David Dobbs and Richard Ober

The Art of Collaboration: an interview with Daniel Kemmis
Martha Twombly

Federated Along One Keel: Scholar and Activist at Sea – an interview with David Morris
Michael Branch

Environmental Education and Coexistence in the Middle East
Anne-Seymour St. John

Weaving the Fabric of Community
Delia Clark

Valuing Diversity
Thomas Webler and Seth Tuler

Inviting Them to Dance
Cynthia Thomashow and Susan Gentile

Beyond Civility
Alexandra Dawson