Elizabeth Hightower Allen

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The Best River Towns in America: Nashville, Tennessee

To help select America's most progressive, adventurous, and livable river towns, we turned to a trusted source: You. Over the past few months, 20,000 readers in 10 finalist towns engaged in a mostly...

Isla Pargo, Panama

Fishing in Panama

Redefine roughing it when you fish at Panama's Islas Secas.

Physicist Dan Kammen

The Scientist

Dan Kammen, founding director of the University of California at Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, on climate change and energy policy

Skrivena Luka

Twilight Zone

Happily lost on a Croatian island haunted by vampires.

Josh Fox

The Accidental Detective

When film director Josh Fox got letters from energy companies offering him almost $100,000 to drill for natural gas on his land, he became a natural-gas detective.

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