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A Legal Eagle Lands: Peter Lehner, NRDC's New Executive Director
NRDC's new executive director Peter Lehner came to NRDC last November from the New York Attorney General's office, where he was the state's top environmental enforcer. He arrives at a pivotal moment, as Americans seem to be waking up to the reality of global warming. Peter talks with Emily Cousins about NRDC's new market transformation center, a changing energy future, and what individuals can do to steer the country in the right direction.
» Read Fieldwork: Peter Lehner from OnEarth's Summer 2007 issue
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Doing Good in the Second Life 'Metaverse'
Could Second Life, the buzz-generating virtual hangout for millions of digerati and their avatars, help improve that other place called Real Life? OnEarth's Laura Wright talks with Lisa Selin Davis, who wrote about "the metaverse" in OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue.
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Inside the Diesel Death Zone
Following up on journalist Wade Graham’s feature in OnEarth’s Spring 2007 issue, Daniel Hinerfeld reports from the port city of Long Beach, California, on the price harbor communities pay for our reliance on cheap consumer goods from overseas.
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A Conversation with Bill McKibben, Founder of 'Step It Up' Global Warming Campaign
Frustrated by political gridlock in Washington, writer Bill McKibben and some fellow Vermonters decided they had to do something to draw attention to the shrinking window of opportunity we have to curb global warming. So they began a seat-of-the-pants campaign that has caught fire and is now expected to produce, on April 14, 2007, the largest global warming demonstrations ever seen. OnEarth's George Black talks with him about how Step It Up 2007 is building a mass movement -- fast.
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» Global Warning: Get Up! Stand Up! from OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue
» Step It Up 2007Solve Global Warming!
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Deadly Sonar: The U.S. Navy's Assault on Whales and Science
Sonar, which protects U.S. warships from enemy submarines, also kills whales and other marine mammals. Scientists are trying to figure out why, but the navy, which funds most of their research, seems to have other ideas. Daniel Hinerfeld tells the story, and talks with policy analyst Michael Jasny about scientific integrity.
» Read Peter Canby's feature Deadly Sonar, from OnEarth's Spring 2007 issue
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Can a Montana Rancher Love a Grizzly?
NRDC Wild Bears Project director Louisa Willcox and Montana rancher Todd Graham talk about balancing the interests of residents and ranchers with Yellowstone’s endangered grizzly bear population.
» Read The Rancher and the Grizzly: A Love Story from OnEarth's Winter 2007 issue
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Interview with NRDC President Frances Beinecke
NRDC President Frances Beinecke speaks with NRDC communications director and OnEarth publisher Phil Gutis about her recent trip to the Prairie Festival in Salina, Kansas, to meet with local farmers, agricultural scientists and conservationists about how farmers in the heartland can help solve global warming.
» Read The Good Earth, from the magazine's Winter 2007 issue
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Poetry: Elton Glaser
Still winter, and on the local station
Two harvest tunes play out
Their peasant arguments in the dark
Chocolate of a cello, in the keyboard's
Rumble and pluck. So what
If the radio's late, four months
Behind the weather? I'm already
One season ahead, packing up
The corduroy and the watch cap,
The crow's foot jacket in black wool.
Already I'm sniffing the ravaged air
For an odor of new earth, vaguely vaginal,
Compost and loam where the seedlings
Sink their roots. Already I'm turning
Back from stars in their cold glow, and scouting
For sunslicks on the lawn, for the pout of tulips,
Long legs and a painted mouth.
If the trees, bent and bare, look like
A mind naked to its worst woes,
What's that to me? Moonmad before my time,
My mission's not to stammer down the streets
Like a salt truck, but to cast a spell
On the calendar, in risky chants, in syllables
Of slow elation, and call up on faith
The random primitives of spring, taking it all
As far as the eye can't see.
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Poetry: Eamon Grennan
What a small many-greyed grapple of agitation
the mockingbird is, jittery on a thin branch
covered in berries but leafless, keeping one eye
and then the other on me, shifting its position,
unsettled by what my next move might be.But at the opposite solstice this bird's songs
are the life of leaves in which he's an invisible singer,
sending melody after melody abroad, sweetening
space -- even after midnight -- with mimic music,
making the dark itself less dreadful, buildinga nest of notes to feel at home in, though it must
be hard with so much to say, so many tunes
swirling through the honeycomb of its bones,
edging out of the white furnace of every feather
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The Little Mouse That Got in the Way
Andrew Wetzler, director of the Endangered Species Project at NRDC, speaks with Daniel Hinerfeld about the misuse of genetic data in determining which animal populations warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. The Winter issue of OnEarth Magazine has an article by OnEarth contributing editor Sharon Levy called "The Little Mouse that Got in the Way," about a species of jumping mouse nearly doomed by bad genetic science when its western habitat came into the sights of developers. Wetzler also talks about the defeat of Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), the outgoing chair of the House Resources Committee, who had attempted to dismantle the Endangered Species Act.
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