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Contents: July/August 2011
Fleet feet in California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Photo by MARTIN SUNDBERG
The Pentagon enlists alternative energy—not because of climate change, but to save soldiers' lives.
EDWARD HUMES
Experience nature as your ancestors did: Lose the clunky shoes.
DANIEL DUANE
Gear to help you hit your stride.
STEVE CASIMIRO
How to design communities that don't require cars.
TOM VANDERBILT
A pedaling purist comes around to electric bikes.
LYNN RAPAPORT
Cellist Ben Sollee goes on tour ... by bike.
MATT SKENAZY
Can a week in the wilderness help war vets' stress?
REED McMANUS
DEPARTMENTS
Backhoe virtuoso
What our readers have to say
Protecting kids from heavy metal
º Ecofriendly ice cream
º Planet-cooling cookware
Mr. Green on low-carbon lawnmowers and washers
Hassan's Turtle Beach, Nothern Cypress
Turn a keyboard into a wallet
A father shows his son the ropes
The Burren, County Clare, Ireland
Scuba do-gooder
º Bee-killing pesticide
º How bad is a banana?
º The Yoda bat
º Up to Speed
Coal-country geothermal
Prefab-ulous
Alaska's outer limits
Bracing for the black swans
º Obsessive peakbagger
º Board election: Who won?
º Transportation wonks on a roll
What tangled webs