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SAGEMAGAZINEvolume III, issue I John, Barack, and Hillary fight for the wheel of the flaming VW beetle. Kate Boicourt Tara Moberg Tara Benson Gabler The road well-traveled . The road toward cleaner air and a healthier environment. Where two roads diverge . As a first year student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Zack Parisa had a vision. He related it to friends on occasion, but mostly this vision sat filed away among other ideas in the back of his mind. This spring, he decided it was now or never. Inspired by the Conference of Governors on Climate Change (held at Yale April 17-18, 2008), Zack picked off the cobwebs and revived the dream. The vision was a collaborative climate change-themed art installation, centered around the concept that Americans face a pivotal choice. They can continue down the road they have been traveling, or they can forge a new path. At this place where two roads diverge, politicians and citizens have the power to choose the ultimate outcome. Over the span of a week and culminating in one final evening's construction, students came together to build two physical roads reflecting their ideas of "best" and "worst" climate change scenarios. The sculpture John Nixon Students gather together to raise the sculpture in the dark on the evening now sits on the lawn outside of Sage Hall, Yale University. before the conference. Cover image by Leigha Abergel "Before and Again" MAGAZINE SAGE volume III, issue I Contents Departments Features 6 Out & Around Green Gyms & Green Homes 12 Inheriting Bhopal Photo Essay 8 Materials Poison Plastics Andrea Joyce 9 Innovations Chicken Feathers 22 Conservation For Sale Costa Rica Georgia Basso 16 Food For Thought Raw Foods 26 The Hard Facts Behind Soft Drinks Photo Essay 34 The Cabbage Fake News Seve Ponce de Leon 36 Listed 28 Recycling Ritual and Reality Meghna Agarwala and Sara Enders 38 Last Page Raining Avocados Art & Prose Short Features 20 Artist Portfolio Elizabeth Rose 10 Rediscovering Karukinka Conservation at 32 Spider Plant Mitchell Akiyama the Edge of the World John-Frederick Thye 19 Green Cemeteries When it comes to dying, 33 Heart-Leafed Philodendron Mitchell Akiyama black may be the new green 37 Poetry Daniel D'Angelo Diane McDilda Funding for SAGE Magazine was generously provided by the Office of the Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. SAGE Magazine is produced by a local, unionized printer. Please address all article queries, advertising inquiries and letters to the editors to: [email protected] sagemagazine.org SAGE Magazine • 205 Prospect Street • New Haven, CT 06511 SAGE 3 FROM THE EDITORS sage, n. and a. 1. A plant of the genus Salvia, N.O. ou hold in your hands tender Labiatæ; esp. S. officinalis, an flowers plucked from the branches aromatic culinary herb. Hence, the Yof the plant Salvia magazinus. leaves of this plant used in Notice the semi-gloss leaves and brilliant Cookery. adaptive coloration. Inhale the pungent aroma wafting from the pages. Smear 2. A man of profound your naked thighs with its pollen. wisdom; esp. one of those The unique chemical composition persons of ancient history or can produce results that are literally legend who were traditionally psychedelic. famous as the wisest of mankind; hence, one whose S. magazinus thrives beneath the full exceptional wisdom entitles him to sun, but even planted in barren soil and a degree of veneration like that which whipped with hard cold winds, it remains was accorded resilient. Some argue its origins are in Asia to these. Minor, while others trace its deep roots to Mediterranean soils. 3. Of advice, Whatever its provenance, conduct, etc.: it continues evolving, adapting Characterized by and sprouting anew in its New World profound wisdom; habitat. based on sound judgement. The name Salvia comes from the latin -Oxford English Dictionary salvere, which means "to heal." An ancient proverb The Romans revered the plant, using it for toothpaste (see the famous Roman asks: "Why proverb "toothiness is close to godliness") and harvesting it should with a special knife. They also used it for its proven medicinal properties. a man (This magazine has been die if he has approved by the surgeon general for healing Sage planted in his minor cuts and scrapes--as well garden?" as some sucking chest wounds. Ask your doctor.) Love, Editorialis chieficus 4 SAGE CONTRIBUTORS & CREDITS EditoRS-IN-CHIEF LEIGHA ABERGEL is a Master in SARA ENDERS lives in a Simon Tudiver Environmental Studies candidate at little yellow house, Kate Boicourt York University in Toronto, Canada. With a vase full of lillies and Conservation and animal issues are thoughts of sage grouse, ART EditoR the focus of her studies. She is an And a yard of stray cats and Kate Boicourt avid naturalist often documenting a bike that she flies on, environmental scenes through And a realio love of the curving horizon. DESIGN AND Layout photography, drawing and painting. Joshua Berman Besides taking photos of giant carrots... Kate Boicourt MEGHNA AGARWALA is studying at the KARIN KlieweR works at the Centre for Laura Frye-Levine Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Sustainable Transportation in Winnipeg, Simon Tudiver Studies. She became a fan of waste MB and has just completed her first year writing this article and hopes that of graduate studies in City Planning. In Assistant & CONTRIBUTING someday someone might want to her spare time, she rides her bike, makes EditoRS mine the plastic in the oceans. good food, and has creative adventures. Peter Christensen Her collaborator, TamaRA Vaags Eva Gladek Mitchell Akiyama lives in Montreal is a closet photographer who loves Max Joel where he writes about cities, plants, capturing stories and personalities Jake Munger sound, and seeing. He is also a through her images. She hopes to Stephanie Niall musician and composer. Mitchell take her story-telling international and Micha Rahder currently teaches film and media explore the world’s cultures. She loves Trisha Shrum at Dawson College and is about to a good curry and the Manitoba sky. begin his PhD in Communications EDITORS EMERITAE and Art History at McGill University. Elizabeth ROSE is from Springfield, Joshua Berman Illinois. She received her B.A Cum Laude Laura Frye-Levine GEORGIA BASSO is a 2008 Master of in Fine Arts with a minor in Wilderness Jed Holtzman Environmental Science Candidate Studies from the University of Montana. at the Yale School of Forestry and Her work strongly reflects her interest ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Environmental Studies. Prior to in the environment, in landscape, and Joshua Berman her arrival at Yale, Georgia worked in folk culture, particularly of Eastern Jed Holtzman as an environmental scientist in Europe. She has won many awards and California, Nevada, Arizona, and exhibits her work in various venues. Website & OutReach New York. Georgia enjoys exploring Meghna Agarwala landscapes through art and writing. JOHN-FrEDERICK (J.F.) Thye is a 2010 joint degree candidate for the Master WITH SPECIAL THANKS SONIA COOKE is a Los Angeleno who of Environmental Management/ to OUR ADVISORS was brainwashed by the movie Fern MBA at Yale University. Graduated Jane Coppock Gully into thinking she wanted to spend from Cornell University in Civil and Paul Draghi her life saving the planet. A sucker for Environmental Engineering, Fred Strebeigh charismatic megafauna, Sonia hopes J.F. has since worked in commercial to make a career helping animals, or wind farm development. His passion SAGE OFFICE space couRTESY OF at least writing about the people who for conservation developed during Tom Tuscano help them. She will graduate from Yale a 3-year sail around the globe in with a B.A. in Environmental Studies which he supported research and next month, and plans to celebrate outreach in remote international by eating lots of raw donut holes. marine conservation hotspots. SAGE 5 OUT & AROUND A step (machine) in the right direction STEPHANIE NIALL FebRuaRY 27, 2007, Hong Kong's California Fitness: Above the rows upon rows of exercise machines in the main fitness room, lit by the harsh fluorescent lights and braced against the air conditioned breeze, hangs a sign that reads "Powered by YOU." And so it is—well, sort of. A little over a year ago, Hong Kong's California Fitness announced an innovative concept in gym design: in a trial run, 13 of its exercise machines were specially modified to enable them to generate energy when in use. This energy was then either used to power a specific light located above the machine or stored in a battery for later use. According to Steve Clinefelter, President of California Fitness, a person using one of these machines is able to produce 50 watts of electricity when exercising at a moderate pace. An energy-saving compact fluorescent Heinemann A. light requires only 8-20 watts, so this amount of electricity would easily produce enough light to enable exercisers to eye themselves in an adjacent mirror, providing an additional incentive to keep those calories burning. but given that the International Energy Agency The presence of the "green machines," for Finally, the environmentally-enlightened world calculated that the United States consumed example, may have additional profit-related exclaimed, all that human energy channeled 3,720,342 GWh in 2005, people will have benefits aside from merely reducing electricity into treadmills, ellipticals and step machines in to peddle much harder before any real dent bills—including increased publicity. It does cast the exercise equivalent of an assembly line is is made. doubt, however, as to whether this venture is now being captured and used as a renewable Even though California Fitness's project is yet commercially viable on a larger scale.

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