Poetry
Articles and Prose
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Lady with a Lacewing Tattoo
As researcher Marta Wells educates her students on identifying insects, she works on revising the meaning of the word “species.”
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Nature Compensates
SAGE Magazine sits down with Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy, to discuss why he see nature as resilient, not fragile. Photo by…
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Litterati: A 21st Century Solution to Litter
Inspired by his 4-year-old daughter, a Bay Area writer creates a virtual landfill with the vision of cleaner streets for us all.
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An Interview with Patagonia’s Director of Environmental Strategy Jill Dumain
SAGE sat down with Jill Dumain, Patagonia’s Director of Environmental Strategy, to find out what makes the company unique and to get some advice.
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Shutdown: Ignored
Ben Goldfarb (Yale FES ’13 and former SAGE Editor-in-Chief) finds that it takes more than a “Closed” sign to keep him out of National Parks…
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Honorable Mention: Sunset at Mile 16
In a place where the plants are invasive and the people are illegal, Alycia Parnell describes a refuge meant only for certain plants and people.…
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NATURE–CULTURE–ACTION!
Nature vs. culture. Wild vs. civilized. Country vs. city. These binaries, time and again, have been shown to be false dichotomies. But many groups and…
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FESers in Cities
“The streets in midsummer. There they lie! The sun beating down upon them all day long, until the stones are individually as hot as frying…
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3rd Place: The Pit in the Woods
In Amazonian Peru, Nigel Pitman was responsible for “Science Saturdays,” when he would try to impart some worldly knowledge to the children of the village…
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Caitlin Doughty in Perú, part 4
Arrival back into the United States has snapped me back to “reality” – academic e-mails, air-conditioning, over-priced metros, costly produce – aspects of the “developed”…
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Tess Croner in Rwanda, part 4
The third and final stop on our study tour of Rwanda brought us to the northwestern corner of the country, where a chain of dramatic…
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2nd Place: Return to the Mountain
David Johnson returns to his childhood home in Arkansas to see what fracking has changed (and what it hasn’t).