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The Garden Conversations

Jamie Kalven | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wendell Berry, Leed, Invisibile Institute, University of Chicago, South Side of Chicago, Sustainability, Community Gardens, Wallace Stegner, Green Politics, Chicago News
Jamie Kalven

For the last few weeks, I've been talking with gardeners at an imperiled community garden on the South Side of Chicago. Last spring, the University of Chicago informed us it wants its land back.

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Unfinished Business in Our National Parks

Will Rogers | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Pbs, National Park Service, Inholdings, Ken Burns, National Parks, Acadia-National-Park, Golden Gate National Park, Point Reyes, Wallace Stegner, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Green News
Will Rogers

"America's best idea" still isn't complete. If we don't grow the system, we risk loving to death the parks that we have.

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Why We Need a Bold Vision for Preserving Our Wilderness

Robert Redford | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil Drilling, Wilderness, Clean Energy, Wallace Stegner, Ken Salazar, Wilderness Protection, Utah, Robert Redford Utah, Green News
Robert Redford

Places I viewed as symbols of this so-called Promised Land have disappeared into clear cuts, drilling fields, and open-pit mines. What do our children inherit from this irretrievable loss? Pictures of how it used to be?

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