Who Led the First Ascent of Denali?

Who Led the First Ascent of Denali?

This portrait of Stuck appeared at the beginning of his book 10,000 Miles with a Dog Sled. Appalachia journal, Summer/Fall 2012 Hudson Stuck, Archdeacon of the Yukon For many years, no one knew who he was because of the controversies surrounding the ascent of the...
Mindful of Energy

Mindful of Energy

Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez is based at the Unviersity of Colorado and also directs the Climate, Mind and Behavior Program at the Garrison Institute Nature Climate Change, January 27, 2012 University of Colorado energy-behaviour researcher Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez — who in...

Emergency Preparedness, a 9/11 Remembrance

Appalachia journal, Winter/Spring 2012 From the time Elizabeth and Annie were little, my husband Nat and I took them into the mountains, from Tennessee to New Hampshire. They trudged miles carrying loads. We taught them how to light a stove, collect water, wait out...
Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

Fears for America’s Parched Southwest

Nature Climate Change Volume 1 Issue 8 Nature Climate Change, November 2011 The amazing giant saguaro cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States does what its human neighbours cannot. It survives on 8 to 15 inches of annual rainfall. The...