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Nature Better nature through technology.

Conservation, land use, wildfire and climate, and the politics and economics of development, assembled into one category: the case that intensifying human activity on less land is how wild nature gets room to recover.

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    Navigating NEPA

    387 appellate NEPA cases and 1,800 opinions, filterable by state, project type and plaintiff, with the full dataset downloadable.

Nature work

Research, analysis and everything on the record across wildfires, climate change, decoupling and more.

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Analysis

Unleashing Africa

How the US Can Light Up the Futures of the 1.4 Billion People Living Without Electricity

· Madeleine Gleave, Todd Moss

Analysis

The Low-Energy Club

Sierra Club Report Calls for Universal Electricity Access at 0.15 Percent California Levels

· Alex Trembath

Analysis

American Pastoral

How Romantic Elites Became the Eco-Puritan Left

· Claude S. Fischer

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Who leads this work

Ted Nordhaus Founder and President Email Latest: The Original Environmental Economist: RIP Uncle Bill
Vijaya Ramachandran Director, Energy and Development Email Latest: It's Time for the World Bank to Scrap Its Climate Finance Targets