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Bike Commuting, Part Two
Meet Scott Sing, a radical bike commuter, who regularly pedals 60 miles a day to and from work. Then join Daniel Hinerfeld on his wimpy 3-mile bike commute, which is all downhill to work.
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Bike Commuting: Part One
Andy Bowers, a senior editor at Slate Magazine and a producer on NPR's Day-to-Day, talks with Daniel Hinerfeld about why he loves commuting by bike in the car capital of the world. (Extra treat: check out Andy's Slate article about biking in L.A.)
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Interview with Andrew Revkin
OnEarth senior editor Laura Wright talks to Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, about his adventures at the North Pole and his decision to make the leap from writing news for adults to writing a book for younger readers.
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Poetry: Roberta Swann
Roberta Swann has published poetry and fiction in many journals, including the Kenyon Review, the North American Review, and Ploughshares. With John Lewis and Gary Giddins she founded The American Jazz Orchestra and now works as a fashion consultant.
Summer Reading
I'm reading. A gold-tipped insect lands on the page, following each word.I wonder if (a) he's a fan of Proust,
(b) sees each letter as another insect, and
(c) am I obligated to keep reading
this unfortunate choice
on such a humid day?I study him.
His Groucho eyebrows grab me.
I rise gingerly, carry him in stateinside the open book
while I select another
from a shrinking stack.And settle back.
The insect hops on, but takes off
by page 2, unwilling to waste time
on best-sellers, I guess. Or maybe
I'm overthinking this, and he was just in it
for the madeleine.-- Roberta Swann
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Interview with Brian Swann
Brian Swann has published more than 50 books, the latest of which are Autumn Road (Ohio State University Press, 2005), Snow House (Pleiades Press/Louisiana State University Press, 2005) and Algonquin Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquin Literatures of North America (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). He is poetry editor of OnEarth.
The Nature Poet Contemplates a Windfarm
Brecht once wrote a poem about the violent leafing of trees,
irreversible, before the city took over; about how there now
seem to be storms still, high above, but all they touch
is our aerials. As I look through washed air across
to the ridge that always sat down with me at dinner,
gray in winter, green in summer, it suddenly takes off
and moves around, a stately swoosh swoosh swoosh from higher
than Lady Liberty. There it goes, driving down the odd slow crowor heron and real estate values. It's come to save us all
on a green hill that's not far away but right here
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From the Editor, Summer 2006
OnEarth's editor-in-chief, Doug Barasch, introduces the magazine's June issue and its first podcast.
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