January-February 2009 Issue

The Low-Carbon Diet
September 07, 2011 — Change your lightbulbs? Or your car? If you want to fight global warming, it’s time to consider a different diet.
Paper Chase
September 07, 2011 — Despite living in a digital age, our mailboxes are still inundated with catalogs, many of them made from trees logged in Canada’s boreal forest. To see what’s at stake for birds, our writer ventures north.
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