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    Special Report: The toxic footprint of America’s prisons
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    By Jeff Conant
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A Sustainable Trip Around the World

Using clean technology to sail around the globe and visit every country on Earth

by Ryan Langley – June 23, 2017

When I first considered the idea of sailing around the world and visiting every sovereign nation along the way, I was quite surprised to learn that no one has ever actually tried to do it. In an age when adrenaline junkies are…
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Setting Free the Urban Tomato

Swiss project has city dwellers enthusiastically farming rare vegetable varieties while producing free seeds for all

by Claudia Thöny – June 22, 2017

Slivi Limonje looks like a lemon. Bulging Vincent’s appearance is deceptive, too: Is it a bell pepper or a tomato? Both are masters of disguise. Looking at a “bull’s heart,” we are quite certain it is a tomato — we’ve seen that…
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Major Publishers Defend Greenpeace in Dispute with Logging Firm

Publishers concerned case could set dangerous precedent, have silencing effect on environmental organizations

by The Guardian – June 21, 2017

The world’s biggest book publishers have been dragged into a bitter dispute between a US logging company and environmental campaigners Greenpeace. It follows legal action taken by the logging company, Resolute Forest Products, which campaigners and publishers fear has implications for freedom…
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Adventures in Canyonlands

On car troubles, nuclear power, and life in the desert

by Josh Schlossberg – June 20, 2017

“Next services on I-70 110 miles,” warns the sign on the side of the highway just outside Green River, Utah, the longest stretch of Interstate in the country without a gas station. And that’s one of the reasons I love Utah. Despite…
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Trump’s Planned EPA Cuts Will Hurt America’s Most Vulnerable

Administration's actions embrace a time when rivers caught fire and pollution darkened the skies

by Mustafa Santiago Ali – June 19, 2017

The Trump administration is using a deliberate and systematic approach to undermine, weaken, and disempower America's most vulnerable communities. The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed budget cuts are a clear-cut example of this attack. The cuts will gravely reduce the ability…
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Embracing Earth-Centric Learning

When today's students inherit a host of environmental problems, they will the knowledge and courage to act

by Michael K. Stone – June 16, 2017

It was 1992. Laurette Rogers, a fourth-grade teacher in San Anselmo, California, had shown her students a film about rainforest destruction. Distressed, they asked what they could do about it. “I just couldn’t give a pat answer about writing letters and making…
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Voices

Lori Marino
A neuroscientist and behavioral biologists explains why scientists make the best advocates.
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Ken Ward
The direct action activist, who faces a felony conviction for cutting a valve on the TransCanada pipeline, write about why he has no regrets.
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Current Issue

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The Butterfly Effect

How nature restoration programs in Oregon’s prisons are helping inmates find a new purpose in life.
By Nancy Hill

Forecast: Uncertain

Myanmar is being battered by the worst impacts of global warming. Does it have the capacity to adapt?
By Kendra Pierre Louis

Hope for a New Trade Agenda

Holding NAFTA negotiators accountable for policies that truly benefit working people and the planet.
By Aaron Lehmer-Chang

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