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NEWS ABOUT: Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

Gimmicky Green Authors
Wouldn't Impress Thoreau

Writers often more into self promotion than self denial

Dec 28, 08 5:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Modern-day Henry David Thoreaus don't need to move to the woods for life to land a book deal. The push for green living has given us, unfortunately, no small number of gimmicky books on the subject, laments Michael Agger in Mother Jones. Temporarily living without plastic, eating only locally grown... More »

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energy • green • green revolution • Henry David Thoreau • Walden Pond • self-improvement • ascetic

Global Warming Changes Thoreau's Walden

27% of species have disappeared from Mass. pond author made famous

Oct 28, 08 3:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - While living at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau collected detailed data on the plant species native to Concord, Mass. Scientists studying climate change have compared those records to present-day biodiversity—and found chilling evidence of global warming’s effects, the Boston Globe reports. 27% of the species Thoreau documented are... More »

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climate change • global warming • plants • global temperature • biodiversity • pollen • Henry David Thoreau • Walden Pond

 Developers Plan Feast on 
 Thoreau's 'Silver Platter' 

Prospect of vast swath of homes on Maine lake has locals up in arms

Oct 1, 08 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - It was once Thoreau’s “gleaming silver platter,” and now developers want to eat off it. A Seattle developer wants to put 1,000 hotel rooms and condos around Maine’s Moosehead Lake, Bloomberg reports. The proposed construction on mostly private land abutting a huge tract of forest... More »

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conservation • Maine • development • Henry David Thoreau • Moosehead Lake

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