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Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition — A Narrative Slideshow
by Colin Donohue

These ceremonial patterns reinforce the traditional Subak irrigation system — a complex, pulsed artificial ecosystem of rice paddies based around a water temple. Allocation of irrigation water is determined by the temple’s priest. The system not only provides environmental and agricultural stability, but also socioreligious consistency.
  
  

Sky Islands of North America: A Globally Unique and Threatened Inland Archipelago
by Matt Skroch

From atop a mountain peak in southeastern Arizona, one’s gaze falls upon a folded fabric of earth that strikes awe, resonates beauty, and hosts one of the most biologically diverse corners of the world.  Neither desolate desert nor expanses of scrubland occur here.
  
  

No Community is an Island: Tributary and the Young & the Restless
by Rick Mildner and Brian Canin

The size of the Tributary site allows for a truly mixed-use master plan integrating and interconnecting a range of residential neighborhoods, a village center with boutique retailers, a town center for national retailers, a supermarket-anchored community center, and a park of commerce with mid-rise office buildings.

Tourism Takes the Bird: Are Proposed Changes to Four Seasons Development Enough to Protect the Rare Grenada Dove?
by Dr. George Wallace

A major resort development at Mt. Hartman National Park and Mt. Hartman Estate in Grenada threatens the largest and only viable population of the critically endangered Grenada dove, the national bird of Grenada. While the developers have made some significant improvements to the original resort plan, questions remain.
  
  

Ocean Acidification: A Greater Threat than Global Warming or Overfishing?
by William G.C. Burns

There is growing evidence that the gravest peril for ocean species may be posed by what Victoria Fabry of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has termed “the other CO2 problem” — acidification of the world’s oceans as a consequence of the influx of carbon dioxide generated by human activities.