The Magazine of The Sierra Club
Warren Buffett's Coal Problem
To run his coal trains, the billionaire investor needs to seize land from a bunch of Montana cowboys.
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coal
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Escape to a South African Lodge
!Xaus Lodge, Kgalagadi (Kalahari) Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
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travel
Manatee Heaven in King's Bay, Florida
Despite their size, the manatees swim with a still, eerie grace
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oceans
7 of the World's Strangest Flowers
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wildflowers
Conflict Avoidance
Wind power is inexhaustable, clean, and virtually free—but still not perfect.
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birds
Corporate Climbers
Trading granite walls for giant turbines, mountaineers cash in on their rope skills to keep America's wind farms humming
Look to the Fishes
Biomimicry provides design for cheaper, smaller turbines
Anywhere It Blows
Wind is no longer the energy source of the future. It's ready today.
Lucy Lawless: Actor and Activist
Best known for her past role as Xena the Warrior Princess, her fight scenes are now about preserving the planet
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activism
Solar for All
Until now, rooftop solar has only worked for those with hefty electric bills and sunny roofs.
In Beringia
Searching the Arctic for a long-lost world of woolly mammoths and giant sloths, a traveler discovers a new one disappearing fast
Heaven Is Made of Ice
Tribute and terror on skis in Antarctica
