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Guest Editorial: Cycling Toward Sustainable Community
Mandy Creighton, Within Reach

In the summer of 2007, the dream of bicycling 12,000 miles across the U.S. to visit and document sustainable communities was born, and manifested as the project called Within Reach. In February 2008, I jumped on board, realizing that this could help me find a way to live outside the box — to learn about, serve, and grow sustainable communities.

The Literal Landscape: Flare: An Online Photo Gallery of Cranes and Geese at the Bosque del Apache
Simmons B. Buntin, Terrain.org Editor/Publisher

Over the New Year my family and I drove from Tucson to the Bosque, a gain in elevation of nearly 2,000 feet. We arrived in the afternoon to welcome the birds’ advent, then woke before sunrise and bundled ourselves against the 15-degree morning to watch the birds flare into the day.

Plein Air: The Language of Give and Take
by Deborah Fries, Terrain.org Editorial Board Member

She and I have developed an easy rapport, even though we were matched only recently by the Literacy Council of Norristown, where she tested into the advanced class for English as a second language, and I completed tutor training — something I’d wanted to do for years.

Bull Hill: Does Nature Need Us? Symbiosis as One Way to Survive
by David Rothenberg, Terra Nova Editor

We may not sing the Earth into being, but we sing our parts in the whole chorus only if we know the rest of the music. We’re going to be changing our tune, but each new part still has to fit in with the rest. If nature is never going to depend on us, more than ever we must depend on it, especially if we want to be more than a curious footnote in evolutionary history.
  
  

A Stone's Throw: Placing Washington, D.C., before the Inauguration
by Lauret Savoy, Terrain.org Editorial Board Member

But Washington, D.C., has always been a contested place of paradox and contradiction. Unlike the capitals of most other nations, the district was established distant from the country’s economic, intellectual, or cultural centers — its unlikely origins and location as the seat of government due to political machinations and deal-making.