January/February 2013

2013 January/February

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Working through Mosaic, 70 community members financed this 8.6-kilowatt solar project on top of West Oakland's People's Grocery, which will save the food-justice project $32,000 over the next 20 years.
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Solar for All

Until now, rooftop solar has only worked for those with hefty electric bills and sunny roofs.

By Paul Rauber

January 12, 2013

skier in Antarctica
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Heaven Is Made of Ice

Tribute and terror on skis in Antarctica

By Ben Shook

January 4, 2013

A caribou skeleton near Serpentine Hot Springs
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In Beringia

Searching the Arctic for a long-lost world of woolly mammoths and giant sloths, a traveler discovers a new one disappearing fast

By Edward Readicker-Henderson

January 10, 2013

Red Classic
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Gear for Outside, In

These at-home devices will help you preserve the strength you'll need to make a gear-laden scramble as soon as the snow melts

By Michael Frank

January 2, 2013

Illustration of a woman running on a trail
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Moose Romance

You come between a bull moose and his intended. Now what?

By Sallie Shatz

January 2, 2013