In an article originally published in E: The Environmental Magazine, Christopher Weber writes about a hip-hop movement with a environmental message. Read about it here: Tuning Into Environmental Hip-Hop
environmentalism
V.24 No.21 | 5/21/2015
Books
Where Is Edward Abbey?
The search for an environmental hero's final resting place
Author Sean Prentiss discusses his haunting new memoir about searching for the secret grave of Edward Abbey.
V.24 No.18 | 4/30/2015
Book Review
Radical Quest and Loss
All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
One worked from within the establishment while one sought to overthrow it. David Gessner finds a deep love for the American West in the work of Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey.
V.24 No.14 | 4/2/2015
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all works by Julie Suzanne Brokken
Arts Feature
This Life Is But a Dream, or a Magic Show
The harmonious art, poetry and photography of Julie Suzanne Brokken
Julie Suzanne Brokken’s art juxtaposes fanciful elements—everything from Rio Grande river water to encaustic wax—in uncanny ways.
V.23 No.41 | 10/9/2014
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Culture Shock
Haiku in a paper sash
This week’s dose of local culture gives us an unusual fusion of paper art and haiku, dry produce artified and a one-man play celebrating the great conservationist Aldo Leopold.
V.23 No.34 | 8/21/2014
Letters
Wherein Alibi readers write—about violence in Albuquerque, the brutality of boxing and the environmental apathy of baby boomers.
V.22 No.49 | 12/5/2013
Book Review
Breaking Green
Two young adult novels grapple with being green in a world intent on destroying itself.
V.22 No.46 | 11/14/2013
Book Review
Embracing the Decisive Moment
David Muench's National Parks
Landscape photographer David Muench captures what once was and will never be again.
V.22 No.45 | 11/7/2013
courtesy of Quivira Coalition
Arts Feature
Adaptation and the Environmental Beat
Poet-activist Gary Snyder lands in Albuquerque
At the Inspiring Adaptation conference, Gary Snyder explores land ethics as only a Pulitzer-winning poet could do.
Jay Esposito
Spotlight
Tuning Into Environmental Hip-Hop
New songs about green jobs, alternative energy and better air quality hit the ’hood
A new wave of green hip-hop is challenging America’s food systems and our relationship with nature.
V.19 No.10 | 3/11/2010
Joanna Furgal
Performance Review
In Good Conscience
Tricklock’s one-woman Waste Her
Juli Hendren may not have sought to change our perceptions of violent activism when she started composing Waste Her, her new one-woman show playing at Tricklock Space. But she clearly intended to explore how people move from enthusiasm to extremism, and why they come to view destruction as the only viable solution to the world’s ills. Inspired by the real-life exploits of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) between the early '90s and the early Naughts, Hendren conceived of Waste Her after reading Outside’s September 2007 interview with Chelsea Gerlach.
