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Charles C. Mann on Peak Oil
The idea that we’ll soon run out of fossil fuel is both popular and frightening. But is it accurate? Orion editor Andrew Blechman speaks with Charles C. Mann, who argues that the Continue reading
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Slide Show: Inside Phoenix’s Water System
The city of Phoenix, situated in one of the driest parts of the United States, is kept free from thirst via an intricate infrastructure of rivers, canals, turbines, pumps, and switchboards. Continue reading
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Audio Slide Show: The Future of Infrastructure
Designed but not yet built, the infrastructure of the future is both fanciful and utilitarian. Take a narrated tour of some of the most ambitious proposals for an ecologically intelligent built Continue reading
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Jennifer Oladipo on the Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Orion editor Scott Gast speaks with Jennifer Oladipo, a one-time Red Cross volunteer, about how, amid one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, people in the Gulf Coast found Continue reading
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Thor Hanson Reads “7 Seeds to Start Your Day”
From cotton to coffee, and wheat to strawberries, the seeds of plants are also, in some ways, the seeds of civilization. Listen to author Thor Hanson read his Enumeration from the Continue reading