How to Paddle New York City
The greatest open space in New York City may not be on land, but out on the water: 160 square miles make up the coastal waterways of the New York City Water Trail. Tidal rivers, bays, and ocean beaches...
View ArticleNaomi Klein Is the Godmother of the Green New Deal
Three pages into her new book, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal ($27, Simon & Schuster), Naomi Klein baldly states the urgency of the climate crisis and why we need a massive,...
View ArticleThere Is A Lot Happening at DOI Right Now
I want you to consider three recent developments at the Department of the Interior, and ask what direction you think they point. 1. BLM’s New ‘Zealot’ I’m unsure of how to put this politely, so this...
View ArticleThe History of Beer Is the History of the World
According to Homer Simpson, beer is the cause of, and the solution to, all of life’s problems. Some scientists one-up Homer and claim that beer may be the origin of civilization. As any world-history...
View ArticleCalm Down About ATVs in Utah's National Parks
I’ve got a secret spot in Death Valley National Park that I visit when I need some time away from people. It’s 45 miles from the nearest paved road, and the trails that lead there are challenging...
View ArticleWho Owns the Wild: Grizzlies or Humans?
Somer Treat has run the trail where a grizzly bear killed her husband, Brad, nearly every day since his death in June 2016. Brad was mountain biking on a national-forest trail near Glacier National...
View ArticleHas Overtourism Killed Big Sur?
As noon fog settled over the iconic Bixby Bridge on California’s Highway 1 in Big Sur on July 4, about 100 people were celebrating Independence Day by taking subtle variations of the same photo. They...
View ArticleHow to Find Your Climate Candidates
So you, along with hundreds of thousands of other Americans and millions across the world, marched in a climate strike last month. Now what? While there’s evidence that the protests have swayed public...
View ArticleThere’s Nothing “Controversial” About Bike Lanes
Here in America, we take it for granted that the bicycle is a form of alternative transportation. For this reason, we also automatically accept that bike lanes and similar projects are, as the media...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Put Out Your Campfire
Humans cause nearly 85 percent of wildland fires in the United States, according to the Forest Service. One of the culprits? Campfires that aren’t completely out. Letting your post-s’mores logs burn...
View ArticleMy Failed Experiment to Produce No Food Waste
I’m staring at the sad remnants of a stir-fry: three shriveled pieces of bell pepper, a spoonful of sauce, and mouthful after mouthful of dry quinoa. I sigh, dump it into a bowl, and put it in the...
View ArticleThis YouTube Star Builds Elaborate Huts by Hand
John Plant might be the most popular YouTuber who has never spoken a word on camera. In the four years since the 36-year-old Australian started his channel, Primitive Technology, he’s attracted 9.8...
View ArticleThese New Books Contemplate the End of the World
Maybe it’s the weather making me fatalistic (definitely not the global politics! or the climate!), but right now it feels hard to picture the future. What will it look like if all the birds die off? Is...
View Article'Artifishal' Is the Movie for Our Unwilding Times
As a kid, I learned to fly-fish at a small limestone creek in central Pennsylvania. Its clear waters teemed with rainbow and brown trout, and no wonder—a few hundred yards away from its banks was a...
View ArticleHow to Cut Down on Carbon Emissions When Traveling
If you thought Sweden was all meatballs and Abba, you are sorely mistaken. In fact, one of Sweden’s largest sociocultural exports in 2019 is rather serious: flygskam, and it has taken Europe by storm....
View ArticleThe 4 Stages of Climate Grief
The sky was dark in the distance, a blue curtain of virga predicting an oncoming storm. Desert rocks glowed even redder in contrast. I was passing through—not enough time to wait or really do the...
View ArticleWhy Sasha DiGiulian Lobbies Congress in Her Free Time
When I was nine years old, my mom drove me to Boone, North Carolina, to a place called Hound Ears. We stayed in a little log cabin and woke up early the next day. Climbers from all over sat on crash...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About Sourdough Bread
Thanks to a growing interest in all things fermented, sourdough is more popular than ever—and for good reason. The perfect piece of sourdough is chewy and distinctively tangy, more complex in flavor...
View ArticleThe Price Tag for Climate Change Is in the Trillions
If you ask the average person in the U.S. about global warming, you’ll learn a lot about how they were raised, who they trust, and how they vote. It’s tempting to think of climate change as a cultural...
View ArticleWe Have Much Bigger Problems Than Plastic Straws
July 2019 was officially the hottest month ever recorded, but if you only paid attention to the political headlines last summer, you’d be forgiven for thinking the biggest environmental threat we face...
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