Poetry
Articles and Prose
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Three reasons America should ratify the Law of the Sea right now
For three decades the United States has shamefully failed to ratify the UN’s Law of the Sea. Now more than ever, it’s time for America…
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Climate and the Coast: Learning to Love Filipino Culture
Maybe it was the first time I rode on a sakayan, a handmade pontoon boat; or perhaps it was when I sat down to hire my…
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Perspectives from the People’s Land: First Nations, Forestry, and Ferocious Flies
Have you ever been in northern Quebec in bug season? Black flies, horse flies, deer flies, moose flies, then a fifteen minute “bug window” –…
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How the West Was Won: The Sage + Westies Photo Essay
What happens when a magazine and a student group collaborate to put out a call for images that tell stories about the North American West?…
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Should Japan Turn Its Nuclear Reactors Back On? A Sage + PolicyMic Forum
With 130 million people in need of power (but 80% of the population against nuclear power), should Japan end the moratorium currently keeping 54 nuclear…
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An Unsettling Experiment: Dispersants in the Gulf
On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, kicking off a long summer of videos of crude gushing…
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Dear Earth: Happy 400th Birthday! Love, Groupon.
Ah, Earth Day: an opportunity for the country’s worst polluters to rise, phoenix-like, from puddles of industrial effluent and recreate themselves as environmentalists. An opportunity…
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Review: The Whale
arrived at the theater a little early. There were good seats left at the front, and the crowd – an older, calmer population than I…