National Geographic - USA (2020-04)

LEFT Workers sand, paint, and polish wind turbine blades at TPI Compos- ites’ manu facturing plant in Newton, Iowa. Renewable en ...

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THE ROAD TO 2070 67 ...

sources for farmers. Iowa is now second, after Kansas, in the portion of electricity it gets from renewables. In Newton, populat ...

a fixture of American life. Twenty-three million roamed the U.S. by 1930, as Route 66 was being paved. More than half of America ...

BY LAURA PARKER PAGE 70 AS CLIMATE CHANGE CREATES CHAOS WORLDWIDE, YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TAKING ACTION AND DEMANDING MORE FROM THEIR ...

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Their photos often appear side by side, like bookends framing the long campaign by young people to persuade adults to take signi ...

‘O UR GENERATION IS TURNING THE CLIMATE CRISIS INTO HUMANITY’S MOST UNIFYING MOMENT.’ Martinez was born in Colorado and raised i ...

After capturing the world’s attention at the United Nations in New York City last Septem- ber, the activist, now 17, spoke in De ...

‘I STR ONGLY BELIEVE IN A WASTE-FREE AND GREENER WORLD. JOIN US. TAKE ACTION. DO IT FOR YOUR OFFSPRING.’ On a school assignment ...

She has worked in Thai- land, Laos, Nepal, and elsewhere on the social impacts of deforestation, landscape restoration, and clim ...

‘SCH OOL STRIKES WORK IN THE WESTERN WORLD. IN THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD, THE PROBLEMS ARE DIFFERENT. IF THEY DON’T HAVE FOOD TO ...

what’s at stake. Tellingly, the population that will live with the consequences took to the streets last year to stage some of t ...

we have persuaded ourselves we’re living in a post-truth world, and these kids are saying, ‘We believe in facts. We believe in s ...

Mills, 19, led a petition drive that persuaded the local council in Lancaster, England, to declare a “climate emergency” after c ...

‘TH E YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS TO SEE HOW TO ACT IN CRISIS. ARE WE GOING TO SCREAM OUR HEADS OFF AND FREAK OUT? WHAT WE NEED IS ...

RABAB ALI FELIX FINKBEINER Ali, 11 (shown with her brother, Ali Monis, seven), has sued the Pakistani government, asserting that ...

‘POLITICIANS CARE ABOUT BEING REELECTED, AND THAT COMES WITH VOTING AND WITH MONEY. YOUNG ACTIVISTS DON’T HAVE MUCH MONEY, BUT W ...

FIFTY YEARS OF PROGRESS AND DAMAGE EARTH DAY 2070 IN WEALTHY COUNTRIES, THE AIR, WATER, AND LAND ARE CLEANER THAN 50 YEARS AGO. ...