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America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
Part one of this article. WE NEED A COMPELLING VISION for a new future, a vision of a better country — America the Possible — that is still within our power Continue reading
Making Other Arrangements
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America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I
Part one of two. Part two was published in the May/June 2012 issue. LIKE YOU AND OTHER AMERICANS, I love my country, its wonderful people, its boundless energy, its creativity in Continue reading
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Urban Honey
In the face of climate change and energy challenges, what creative ways are you finding to forge healthy and durable lives and communities? Send submissions — five hundred words or fewer Continue reading
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Beautiful Ruination
From the point of view of its dead, Braddock is a pretty nice town. The steeply terraced Monongahela Cemetery sits atop a hill from which the Pennsylvania mill town becomes a Continue reading
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Hell Yeah, We Want Windmills
ON A WARM SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON, I pulled off the interstate in Charleston, West Virginia, under a billboard that read, in stark black letters: YES, COAL. clean, carbon neutral coal I drove Continue reading