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Defining Sustainability INTRODUCTION: These essays were written in the summer of 2012 for a sustainability seminar when I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We attended weekly talks by interesting people, with whom we had a chance…
Beep Beep Beep Beep. The piercing siren of my alarm clock jars me awake. It’s still dark, and I stumble around my room trying to turn it off. I can’t believe it’s even morning yet. It doesn’t feel like morning. I…
This is a short story about our road trip to Zion National Park in the early summer of 2011. Cris, Dan, and I were living in a ram-shacked old house on Lathrop Street in Madison at the time. Cris and…