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Earth Week
April 21, 2023
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Heather Souvaine Horn
The Real Reason Gas Stoves Are Controversial Now
Municipalities have been banning gas hookups for years. There’s a reason the backlash only went national very recently.
April 20, 2023
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Liza Featherstone
Nixon Was the Weirdest Environmentalist
Richard Nixon, the original culture warrior, helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.
April 19, 2023
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Doug Gordon
We Can Have It All: Shorter Commutes, Less Traffic. Why Aren’t We Doing It?
Western car culture, while promising the opposite, deprives us of our most precious commodity: time.
April 18, 2023
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Kate Aronoff
Is Jimmy Carter Where Environmentalism Went Wrong?
Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.
April 17, 2023
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Earth Week in the Culture-War Era
How did basic planetary health get this controversial?
April 17, 2023
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Jan Dutkiewicz
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Gabriel N. Rosenberg
Why Right-Wingers Are So Afraid of Men Eating Vegetables
The meat culture war may seem goofy. It’s deadly serious.
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