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Cover Story NATURAL CAPITALISM |
"I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time." -- Visions
FEATURES
WORLD WITH A VIEW
By Hannah Frost
Award-winning photographs from Russia -- and Iran, China, and Brazil -- with love.
CEASE FIRE
By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Embattled NRA lobbyist Tanya Metaksa lets her guard down.
MEET A POTATO
By Leah Shahum
It's been mashed, boiled, fried, and genetically altered. What's next for the spud?
NATURAL CAPITALISM
By Paul Hawken
How business can restore rather than destroy our environments, natural and social.
CAPITAL GAINS Mother Earth provides commerce with trillions of dollars in services.
RESOURCE WASTE From Sunday papers to toothpaste tubes, America fills the world's biggest trash can.
SOCIAL WASTE Can the world really sustain 1 billion un- and underemployed people?
OUR LOST WEALTH With a growing economy, why can't we pay for decent schools or elderly care?
MAGIC CARPET Why buy a carpet when you can lease one that stays new forever?
HYPERCAR In the next few years, look for a new superstrong car that gets up to 200 mpg.
GEORGE CARLIN
Interview by Ricky Young
George on what's wrong with Mickey Mouse, baby boomers, and political activism.
DEPARTMENTS
EDITOR'S NOTE Bipartisans in Crime.
BACKTALK Genetic profiteering; Democratic disunity; politically extinct; flag waiver.
OUTFRONT
Condom Bust
Update: Corn-ered Market, Social Security
Nicole Hollander: The Nightmare
Back-scratch Fever
MoJo's April Hellraiser!
As the World Spins
HOME/PLANET Community farming -- it delivers.
VISIONS Poet laureate Robert Hass on literacy.
INTERVIEW Gloria Feldt, Planned Parenthood president.
HOT!MEDIA Resources for advanced hellraising.
PAULA POUNDSTONE Lean, green fighting machine.
PLUS: Letters to Paula
Image: MacDuff Everton; Wyatt Counts/Outline (Carlin)