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...have never heard of the Monkey Wrench Gang-unless you read the 1975 novel by maverick writer and nature lover Edward Abbey, who introduced the world to a fictional collection of green misfits waging a guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and destroy dams, all to keep their beloved Southwestern desert pristine. Think of it as muscular environmentalism, a world apart from the wonky work on climate change that now defines the mainstream green movement...
...college student who singlehandedly disrupted a multi-million-dollar land auction that would have put hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in southern Utah in the hands of oil and gas companies. But DeChristopher didn't use sabotage or homemade bombs-just chutzpah. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...moderator, said. “The trick is to draw people away from the human experience to another foreign experience.” Montgomery stressed the connection between people and the rest of creation in her writing. “My goal is to make people care about the green sweet world,” she said. Harvard Museum of Natural History Executive Director Elisabeth A. Werby ’72 used the words of conservationist Wendell Berry—“the only thing we have to protect nature with is culture?...
...opener to perennial rival Dartmouth when it continues conference play at Penn (3-12, 0-1) and Princeton (6-9, 1-0) this weekend. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight in Philadelphia and tomorrow night at 6 p.m. in Princeton. In case the Crimson needed reminding, the Big Green reinforced the fierce, any-given-night competition that has characterized the Ivy League in recent years. While this weekend’s opponents are likely a season away from being named among the league’s elite, Harvard repeats its mantra of treating every game like a conference championship?...
...League foes Penn (4-10, 0-0) and Princeton (5-8, 0-0) at Lavietes Pavilion this weekend. The Crimson split its two game series with Dartmouth for the third season in a row. From the opening tip-off, Harvard could not keep pace with the Big Green, committing 17 costly turnovers and hitting just 17-for-27 from the charity stripe. “We’ve all just been talking about [how] it was a bad loss, but we have to keep fighting,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “We have...