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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Elizabeth Kolbert
The Human Factor
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November 24, 2010: Looking back on his 60-year career, the pioneering biologist talks about ants, mass extinction, and the perverse ways in which Homo sapiens has created a "Star Wars civilization."
The Big Fix
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August 28, 2008: Solving the global climate crisis requires bold political action. Fast. As in right after the November elections.
In Search of a Happy Ending
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September 1, 2007: Inspired by Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary, The 11th Hour, we asked a few great minds to get past the gloom and doom and tell us how to save the world.
Is Spring Still Silent?
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March 1, 2007: At the approach to Rachel Carson's 100th birthday, Elizabeth Kolbert reviews Courage for the Earth and Silent Spring.
Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at the New Yorker and author of Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She is writing a book about extinction.