November/December 2007

COOL SCHOOLS:

Go Big Green
A new generation looks beyond the Ivies and party schools to colleges that teach how to change the world. Better yet, some are already changing it.

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10 That Get It From tiny Warren Wilson College (850 students) to the University of California (214,000 and counting), here are Sierra's Big Ten. Talk of the Quad Go ahead—steal these great ideas for your own campus. Hot Jobs for a Warming Planet Want to save the earth and make a living too? Here's what it takes.

City Kids Unplugged
The students at John Muir Elementary don't know much about their school's iconic namesake, but they learn to share the bearded white guy's love of the wild.

Yeeehaaa!
Love 'em or hate 'em, off-road vehicles are reshaping our public lands.

Go Big Green
Additional resources and ideas for ecofriendly campuses in the Web-only version

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Editor's Note
The pleasure principle

Ways & Means
Proudly incompetent pols

One Small Step
Gray-water gardens

Interview: Chris Elliott
Into Hot Air — "Funny stupid" or just "stupid stupid?"

Innovators
Building a better yogurt company

Lay of the Land
Dick Cheney's secrets
Big Oil's BFFs

Profile
When you have trash, make a trash co-op

Good Going
Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina

Sierra Club Bulletin
China sees green
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