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Sharon Smith knows a thing or two about organizing. (Photo by Dan Constable)

Audacious Hope: An Interview with Environmental Activist Sharon Smith

Author, activist, and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies student Sharon Smith knows a thing or two about organizing.
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Activist and Social Entrepreneur Jeff Gang on Green Organizing and Green Buying

Activist and Social Entrepreneur Jeff Gang on Green Organizing and Green Buying

If an environmental advocate has sent you an email, called your phone, or knocked on your door in the last two years, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve made the acquaintance of Jeff Gang. In his year as a Green …

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Sunrise on the Amazon

Night Swimming in the Amazon

"The Peruvian Amazon never fails to impose quandaries." Conservation scientist Sarah Federman describes one night's mishap near a far-flung research station in the isolated Peruvian Amazon.
by × November 18, 2011 × 0 comments

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Fishing for the Future of Fish

Fishing for the Future of Fish

Angela Orthmeyer reports on fishers across America who are voluntarily changing the way they fish so that their kids will someday be able to fish as well. She visits four towns to talk to four innovators who are fishing for the future.
by × November 17, 2011 × 3 comments

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The Anti-Sushi (of Miya’s Sushi)

The Anti-Sushi (of Miya’s Sushi)

The concept of “sustainable seafood” has become an oxymoron, but not at Miya's Sushi, where chef Bun Lai is tossing out old standards in favor of the local, the safe, the clean -- the under-appreciated.
by × November 17, 2011 × 3 comments

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On the Path to Regulating Climate Change: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit

On the Path to Regulating Climate Change: The Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit

Should Cost-Benefit Analysis be used in the generation of climate change policy? Yale Environmental Economics Professor Matthew Kotchen and Yale Environmental Law Professor Douglas Kysar debate.
by × November 13, 2011 × 1 comment