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A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.
The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.
Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.
Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.
Environmental pioneer Stewart Udall and his wife, Lee, ask their grandchildren to be “steadfast enemies of waste.”
Giles Slade’s new book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, is a fascinating intellectual history of how marketers demolished the American tradition of thrift.
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes is a wonderfully conversational explanation of everything one sees along the highway that isn’t natural
