As I stopped on the bike to look at the hills, I was confronted by at least 100 crows. They were on the ground by the dozens, and dozens more…
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the earth
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Imagine flooding a desert half the size of the Sahara. Using 238 trillion gallons of desalinated ocean water to do the job. Creating millions of 1-acre-square micro-reservoirs to grow enough…
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One of the most perniciously wrongheaded scientists of our decisive age is physicist and popularizer Michio Kaku. He’s a ubiquitous voice of “techno-optimism” on science shows, and he points in…
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Listening deeply to the earth from one day to the next, I could feel the change from one season to the next. The subtle shift from the zenith of spring…
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Backpacking in the Hetch Hetchy wilderness, you feel both its vastness and sublimity, and a heartbreaking truncation. Magnificent waterfalls plunge over the cliffs, only to fall into a huge reservoir.…