September/October 2009

2009 September/October

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Sierra's third annual list of America's greenest colleges and universities
Cool Schools 2009

Honor Roll: Top 20 Cool Schools 2009

Sierra's third annual list of America's greenest colleges and universities

By Avital Andrews

September 27, 2009

Graduating trainees at Solar Richmond, a green-collar job program in California's Bay Area, celebrate a successful installation.
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All Worked Up

The new issue in environmental justice: paychecks

By Katherine Glover

September 1, 2009

A long way from home, New York City high school students take to the streets of Luquillo for the fourth annual Leatherback Turtle Festival.
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March for Survival

NYC Students Seek Kinship With Puerto Rico's Endangered Leatherbacks

September 1, 2009

A mountain goat oversees Hidden Lake and the disappearing glaciers of Glacier National Park
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Parks as Arks

America has had the foresight to set aside many of its wild and beautiful places. With climate change upon us, scientists may need to use these sanctuaries as laboratories in which to play Noah, if not god.

By Joan Hamilton

September 1, 2009

buffalo soldier
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Gloryland

From a park ranger's new novel about historic Yosemite's buffalo soldiers

September 1, 2009