Author: Sage Editors
We want your photos of the WEST!
The West: land of frontier aspirations, gold-pan booms and dot-com busts. Things are bigger out West, we’re told, and maybe they’re better too.
We’re creating a new series of photo essays about issues affecting the North American West. If you’ve got a photo to share or a tale to tell – we want to see it and we’d love to hear it.
Submit now!
International Society of Tropical Foresters 2012 Photo Contest
The winning photographs from this year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Conference Photo Contest are as diverse as the tropical regions in which they were captured. These winning photos represent images from more than a dozen tropical countries and depict forests in transition, solitary travelers and unique animals, indigenous communities and sweeping, epic landscapes. Enjoy!
Polar Brokers
Drawing by Byron King.
World Population: 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 Billion!
Today is 7 billion day, the day on which world population officially hits 7 billion. In honor of this momentous occasion, Sage did a quick and decidedly non-comprehensive roundup of the news–not only from this year, but also from the years of future and previous population milestones. Rev up the time machine!
Planet Earth
The Atlantic pieces together a series of incredible videos from the international space station.
7 Billion – which are you?
World population is about to hit (or has hit) 7 billion. What number baby were you? Use this calendar from The Guardian to find out.
Animal Fashion News
Following the oil spill, New Zealand calls for knitted penguin sweaters. Meanwhile, Brooklyn DIY-ers are using 3D printers to solve a global hermit crab housing (crabitat) crisis.
The Whale Hunt
Photographer Jonathan Harris charts a traditional Inupiat Eskimo whale hunt. One community, two bowhead whales, 3,214 incredible photographs. See the full story or highlights.
The World’s Craziet Bike Racks
In which The Atlantic Cities looks into the problem of bike storage in booming urban centers.
Background Reading on Occupy Wall Street
Below is a basic reading list of sorts – to describe and outline the movement, to help people get up to speed, to help aggregate good solid coverage into a foundation – sites for following development, specific journalism, prominent voices, and miscellany. We will be adding to this foundation in the coming days, and in perpetuity while the occupation persists. […]
Bill McKibben on the Keystone XL Pipeline
In an interview with Sage Magazine, environmental leader Bill McKibben says protesting the Keystone XL pipeline is about buying time for the planet.