November/December 2012

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Vermont's 300-mile Catamount Trail
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My Big Backyard

Skiing the wild and wildly familiar on Vermont's 300-mile Catamount Trail

By Leath Tonino

November 18, 2012

Mining firms must maintain a 100-foot protective zone around such burial grounds. The nearby Jarrell Cemetery, where Cook's great-grandfather is buried, is surrounded on all sides by a mining operation—a tree-studded atoll rising from a moonscape sea. | A
The Cost of Coal

The Cost of Coal, Extraction: West Virginia

Mountaintop-removal mines in Appalachia has wiped whole towns from the map.

By Steve Hawk

November 13, 2012

The Marathon Petroleum oil refinery in southwest Detroit, which abuts River Rouge. As part of a $2.2 billion expansion that will enable it to process tar sands oil from Canada, Marathon has been buying homes adjacent to the plant. | Ami Vitale/Panos Pictu
The Cost of Coal

The Cost of Coal, Combustion: Michigan

River Rouge, Michigan, is in sniffing distance of a coal-fired power plant, an oil refinery, a sewage-treatment plant, a steel mill, and other industrial polluters.

By Steve Hawk

November 13, 2012

Aaliya, Ayona, and Zayda Hernandez near their home on the Moapa Band of Paiutes Reservation, about an hour north of Las Vegas. Since 1965, coal ash from the Reid Gardner Generating station has been dumped into uncovered ''ponds'' less than a half-mile fro
The Cost of Coal

The Cost of Coal, Disposal: Nevada

The coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station dumps its combustion waste into uncovered "ponds" beside the Moapa Band of Paiutes Reservation

By Steve Hawk

November 13, 2012

Electric Cars
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Plugged In

Electric cars get ready to take over the road, quietly and powerfully

By Reed McManus

November 4, 2012

The view from Brooklyn Grange's rooftop garden.
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Up on the Farm

Two models for rooftop agriculture vie to feed the Big Apple

By David Ferris

November 1, 2012