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 way.
Recent Articles
TAKE OUR POLL: Attitudes Toward Fracking
In an effort to gauge interest and knowledge, Sage Magazine has created a brief poll about public attitudes toward hydraulic fracturing –– frackitudes, if you will.
Op-Ed: Uncertainty Looms Over Fracking Debate
While the recent panel discussion “Hydraulic Fracturing: Bridge to a Clean Energy Future?” fell far short of answering its title question, the conversation did reveal one essential truth about the state of this extraction method: uncertainties abound.
Gas Puzzler
What happens when an economist, a hydrologist, an activist, and a CEO sit down to talk about the country’s most controversial form of energy extraction?
The Frontlines of Fracking
How do Pennsylvanians feel about the hydraulic fracturing happening literally in their backyards?
Solutions From the Gas Fields
For better or worse, hydraulic fracturing wells are springing up across the country, with uncertain social and environmental effects. Here’s how one researcher thinks we can make fracking safer.
Book Review: America the Possible
Gus Speth’s new tome marshals an impressive array of policy proposals in envisioning a new nation.
Infographic: Big Bad Corn
From ethanol subsidies to obesity, the litany of corn-related problems is almost endless.
Pollinating Connecticut
Throw on your protective suit, strap on your fencing mask, and make sure your EpiPen is in an easily accessible pocket: it’s beekeeping time, and New Haven is abuzz with apiary awesomeness.
Painting the Pacific Northwest
Where the mountains and forests end, the ocean begins.
Turtles
In travels from Kiribati to Baja to the Great Salt Lake, Ben Cromwell reflects upon the sacred and the abused, destruction and birth, and how transcending our nature requires that we step into the unknown.
Voters Care About Climate, But Will Candidates Notice?
Independents are in favor of climate action, and most voters –– even Republicans! –– are in favor of solutions like revenue-neutral carbon taxes.