Ideas
Project editor: Christine Mehta Project Managers: Christine Mehta and Rami Abou-Sabe Ideas editor: Brian Bergstein
Design: Heather Hopp-Bruce Digital editor: Rami Abou-Sabe
Audience engagement editor: Karissa Korman Copy editor: Barbara Wallraff
This special edition of Globe Ideas goes to mountaintops, rivers, urban parks, and open fields to unearth surprising stories about what nature means today.
The wildness of sanctuary
By Akiko Busch
Three centuries ago, it would have been absurd to link the words wildlife and sanctuary.
When I see a wind turbine on the horizon, I see something beautiful.
Welcome renewable energy to our wild lands
By Bill McKibben
Rivers and mountains are both gods made of time.
Turning outdoor recreation into ‘re-creation’
An interview with Robert Macfarlane
by Christine Mehta
America’s wild lands are home to vast networks of paved and dirt roads. Now Trump is trying to expand their reach.
A road runs through it
By Ben Goldfarb
Two days on New England’s highest summit — ‘the view can’t be beat.’
The wilds of Mount Washington
By Mark Ostow
I couldn’t stop checking on the swan. Its mate was nowhere to be seen.
Silly goose, a cartoon
By Beth Wolfensberger-Singer
Did your parents take you camping in the wilderness?
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Yes, it’s a lot of work. And it’s worth it.
Why I cut my lawn with an old-fashioned scythe
By Daegan Miller an Baez
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Wilderness, a poem
By Joan Baez
As a Black woman, I have had to go hunting for the stories and traditions that connect me to nature.
I belong in wilderness
By Mardi Fuller
Somehow, she vanished in Sinks Canyon.
What happened to Amy?
By Heather Hopp-Bruce
In wilderness I don’t have to control the impulse to pick up my smartphone. How much longer will that last?
How tech
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By Marissa Ortega-Welch
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In Maine, one model for our national parks
By Miles Howard
Acadia’s enchanting trails showed me that opening up more spaces to more people is key to managing overcrowded national parks.
Two days on New England’s highest summit — ‘the view can’t be beat.’
The wilds of Mount Washington
By Mark Ostow
Acadia’s enchanting trails showed me that opening up more spaces to more people is key to managing overcrowded national parks.
In Maine, one model for our national parks
By Miles Howard