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.
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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.
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.
Painting the Pacific Northwest
Where the mountains and forests end, the ocean begins.
The End of Watching
If I were a caught fish, I think I would at least want someone to look at, in full awareness, my death. As my blood slows and my scales fade, I wish at least that there will be eyes watching me, hot and caring for even just that moment.
Young Environmental Writers Contest 2012
The moment you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! Read on to discover incredible environmental stories from the American Southwest, South Asian coast, and chilly Himalayas.
Scratch the Salmon, I’ll Have the Sea Robin
When will consumers figure out that locally-caught fluke and porgies are tastier than farmed and imported fish species?
Perspectives from the People’s Land: If the Caribou Help Us
Can protecting endangered caribou in Quebec help preserve the Cree’s way of life?
Climate and the Coast: The Seaweed in Your Sandals
You’ve probably eaten seaweed, used it for walking, or taken it along with your morning vitamins.
Talking Tongass: First Impressions from the Last Frontier
After several weeks of traveling, I’ve finally arrived in Sitka, Alaska, where I’m working with the US Forest Service in the Tongass National Forest.
Will Nanotubes Create an Environmental Health Crisis?
Carbon nanotubes are among the most extraordinary materials ever constructed, capable of revolutionizing industries from solar energy to space travel. But for all their futuristic promise, nanotubes pose a grave environmental health threat, and have been linked to lung cancer. Will nanotubes change the world for better, or for worse?