Book Review: Casey Huegel’s wonderfully detailed Cleaning up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest

Cover of Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey Huegel

Too often, environmental writers fail to capture the complexities that make their genre so interesting. Instead, they tell tales of good versus evil, of right against wrong. While parts of many stories …

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Building Reuse: Why your old house may be more environmental than you think

I live in an old house. So old that it tilts off to one side and you can feel a winter breeze coming up through the floorboards. When we had …

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Book Review: Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics

Cover of Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics by Darren Frederick Speece

A decade ago, not long after moving to Oregon, I traveled to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park where I entered an old-growth coast redwood forest for the first time. To …

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