Poetry
Articles and Prose
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Oil, Oil, Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink
In Texas, just because you own the ground beneath your feet doesn’t mean you own the oil beneath the ground.
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Left to the Whim of Nature: The Strange Saga of Pleasure Beach
The decline and renewal of Connecticut’s most famous seaside resort may hold a few lessons for America’s blighted cities.
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Thinking Like a Mountain Climber
How has Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard forged one of the world’s most environmentally responsible companies? Easy: by drawing inspiration from the rock.
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Delta Blues: Documenting Nigeria’s Oil Conflict
What does our thirst for cheap coil cost the people of the Niger Delta? Filmmaker Andrew Berends spent eight months amongst guerilla warriors fighting for…
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Tragedy of the Commons in Reverse: Talking Land Grabs with Fred Pearce
Land grabbing is emerging as one of the great international social and environmental problems of our time. Journalist Fred Pearce and anthropologist Jennifer Baka let…
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Debating the Issues, Glasses in Hand
Was that a Solyndra reference?! Glasses up, people. Live on the scene at the Presidential Debate Drinking Game.
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Wild Things, They Make His Heart Sing
Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, talks to Sage about preserving large landscapes, working with stakeholders, and staying persistent in the face of conservation…
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A Boulder Vision for Kroon Hall
A professor’s plan to turn the outside of FES into a haven for plant-lovers and climbers alike.
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Presence in Absence: The Lengths We Go to Leave No Trace
While restoring an old ranch site in Idaho’s Selway-Bitteroot to wild land, forester Shane Hetzler ponders what we are talking about when we are talking…
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Knowing the Risks
Sage Magazine’s Caitlin Feehan interviews environmental economist Sheila Olmstead to get the skinny on regulations, water quality, and the future of fracking.
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Into the Lion’s Den
What’s the former president of an oil company doing at an environmental school? Getting his point across, and maybe changing a few minds along the…