Op-Ed: Uncertainty Looms Over Fracking Debate
While the recent panel discussion “Hydraulic Fracturing: Bridge to a Clean Energy Future?” fell far short of answering its title question, the conversation did reveal one essential truth about the...
View ArticleTAKE OUR POLL: Attitudes Toward Fracking
In an effort to gauge interest and knowledge, Sage Magazine has created a brief poll about public attitudes toward hydraulic fracturing –– frackitudes, if you will.
View ArticleInto the Lion’s Den
What's the former president of an oil company doing at an environmental school? Getting his point across, and maybe changing a few minds along the way.
View ArticleKnowing the Risks
Sage Magazine's Caitlin Feehan interviews environmental economist Sheila Olmstead to get the skinny on regulations, water quality, and the future of fracking.
View ArticleOil, Oil, Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink
In Texas, just because you own the ground beneath your feet doesn't mean you own the oil beneath the ground.
View ArticlePowerful Interests: A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber
The award-winning writer, scientist, and activist talks to Sage Magazine about fracking, water pollution, surviving cancer, and why human rights and the environment are inextricably linked.
View ArticleFracking Goes to Court: Will State or Local Government Determine America’s...
Do state governments have the right to decide where fracking wells go, or do the towns themselves get to call the shots?
View ArticleFlipping the switch: A coal plant retirement and a community’s response (Part I)
With the retirement of the Brayton Point coal plant, can this former coal town redefine itself as an offshore wind energy hub?
View ArticleFlipping the switch: A clean energy future for Brayton Point? (Part II)
With the retirement of the Brayton Point coal plant, can this former coal town redefine itself as an offshore wind energy hub?
View ArticleReformist // Revolutionary – Not a Dichotomy: A Reflection on Organizing...
Introduction I quickly walk over to the building that houses Greg’s insurance agency, as well as other suites – I am running late. The downtown area brings back a flood of memories: running to the...
View ArticleBoom: Fossil Fuel Collisions
Fracking | Accident The driver of the frackwater truck swerved because there was a little girl walking along the highway. She was walking eastward early that morning, not precisely on the shoulder,...
View ArticleHoly Land
I lived in a small community outside Wheeling, West Virginia for seven months in 2020. New Vrindaban – a spiritual community drawing on Vaisnava Hindu tradition, current population 100 people and 70...
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