Summary: Orion editors Chip Blake, Jennifer Sahn, and Andrew Blechman discuss the September/October 2011 issue. In particular, they reflect on Erik Reece's article about addressing his freshman comp students' grievances and how education influences democracy; the wonderment one feels when contemplating an animal as strange and beautiful as the sturgeon; author Ginger Strand's visit to Speed Week in the Utah desert; Rachel Barrett's photo essay on how gender can imprint itself on the land; and Sandra Steingraber's frustration with how the public perceives environmental change.
