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A Fired Yosemite Locksmith Messages Trump from the Summit of El Capitan

By Brad Wieners |The New Yorker Verified

Before a visit to Yosemite National Park, it never hurts to reacquaint yourself with the hazards that can accompany its wild beauty: rockfalls, the swift currents of the Merced River, an encounter with a bear. (Never throw food at one.) A lesser, more recent concern: getting trapped in a park toilet. Locks that jam, handles that break off, doors that stick owing to swings in temperature—these lavatory failures afforded the Yosemite Valley’s go-to locksmith, Nate Vince, a measure of job security.

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What Climate People Can Learn from Conservation

By Brad Wieners |Patagonia

It’s upsetting, if unsurprising, to read that several of the significant early figures in conservation, especially in the United States, were also adherents of eugenics and argued for sterilizing and killing fellow humans that they deemed inferior. It’s tempting to say this horrible overlap is all in the past, but is it? It isn’t, unfortunately.

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The Dumb, Beautiful, Singular Chaos Of Close Male Friendship

By Brad Wieners |Fatherly Verified

“This is exactly what you wanted to avoid, right?” Sensing my aggravation, Marc had come to my side as I fumbled to assemble my tent in the dark. Then he’d finished my thought. “Right,” I said. As he’d picked this trail, and we’d agreed it should be challenging, but not too challenging, for my older boy’s first real backpacking trip, I felt I had a right to be pissed. Hearing in his voice that he felt responsible, I didn’t see the need to get into it.

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How To Make Friends And Keep Them

By Brad Wieners, Ryan Britt Verified, Mike Diago, Isobel Whitcomb |Fatherly Verified

Male friendship is in crisis. Got your attention? Good. Because if you’re a man, you probably immediately knew there’s truth there. American men who view themselves as having “no close friends” have quintupled over the last 30 years, and only 15% of men consider themselves as having 10 or more close friends (compared to 40% in 1990). There are consequences to this decline. Men with friends are fitter, are happier, live longer, make more money, and are less anxious.

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10 Simple Rules for Lightening Your Carbon Footprint in a Big Way

By Brad Wieners, Lisa Jhung |Men's Health Verified

FOR MY birthday last year, I made some climate resolutions. Kept them, mostly. It didn’t suck. Never been a great one for resolutions, but last year on my birthday I decided to make some anyway. Might have been the pandemic. Might? Definitely was the pandemic. Had me in a mood for list-making: family and friends to visit once things opened up; places to see before I kick; things I can do to ease my teen sons’ future as “smoke days” force them indoors.

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On Climate, Code Word Is Samurai

By Brad Wieners |Substack

Coach Paul Assaiante (silver, glasses) with his 2004 national champions, a team that was part of the longest unbeaten streak in college sports history. “Most coaches at the first practice of the season ask you what your goals are. I don’t care about your goals,” Assaiante writes. “I want to know what you’re afraid of. What will hold us back? Let’s confront your fears.” Photo: Dick Druckman, courtesy of coach.

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A Hole Is to Plug

By Brad Wieners |Substack

Might seem like a few bags of Quikrete® could do the trick, but bore holes like this one, from the 1920s, run deep, making them challenging to cap. Despite the mineral crust, they continue to leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas. When the Well Done Foundation finishes with them, they’re sealed off for good, and, to look around, you wouldn’t know they’d ever been there.

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Loving Life

By Brad Wieners

On not letting perfect be the enemy of good climate resolve [ You're reading (or I hope you will) a post from my new newsletter, My Polar Disorder. to receive more like this directly to your email in-box.] Never been a great one for New Year's resolutions.

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Stitch in Time - Patagonia

By Brad Wieners |Patagonia

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For Writers (Stuck) in Residence

By Brad Wieners |Medium

Some COVID relief funds and grants for journalists who’d rather be on expedition Climbing-in-place. Photo credit: Jeremiah Watt. The other day, after talking with a couple of freelance writer friends — both gratefully COVID-free, but scared there won’t be any work — I reached out to Katie Ives of Alpinist. Katie’s a reliable benefactor to writers who climb, and vice versa.

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Go Jump in a Lake

By Brad Wieners |Medium

Some uncalled for, unauthorized Rx for COVID-19 anxiety Social distancing on two wheels. Photo credit: Heidi Volpe. It’s the vanity of modern managers to have answers for everything, and when my colleagues started asking me about COVID-19 — then a breaking news crisis in China, now officially a global pandemic — I tried to have some. Many on our team are former journalists, and many of our friends still commit journalism, so we’d been following the outbreak and never doubted it was a big deal.

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Boys & Sex Author Peggy Orenstein Implores You to Have The Talk

By Brad Wieners |Men's Health Verified

You need to have “the talk,” and you need to have it before they go, my wife, Mary, implored. We’d recently moved west and our two sons, 14 and 12, were due to fly back to their hometown for a visit. Once there, they’d spend a month with their childhood friends, by far the longest they’d ever gone without our heli-parenting. The older boy had hit puberty, adding a foot in height and amusing us with voice breaks.

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Boys & Sex Author Peggy Orenstein Implores You to Have The Talk

By Brad Wieners |Men's Health Verified

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The 54 Books of the New Adventure Library

By Kathryn Aalto, Brad Wieners, Abe Streep, Miles Harvey |Outside Magazine Verified

Desert Solitaire. Alive. Kon-Tiki. Touching the Void. The Perfect Storm. Wild. The shelves of any adventurous book lover are undoubtedly stuffed with these and other standard-bearers of outdoor literature: tales of adrenaline-fueled journeys, of seeking solitude in pristine wilderness, of the eternal struggle between man and wild. Outside has crowned hundreds of books as essential reading in canons past.

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The New Adventure Canon

By Abe Streep, Brad Wieners, Kathryn Aalto, Megan Michelson Verified |Outside Magazine Verified

Every single best-of book list in the past 40 years Abe Streep May 29, 2015 The Best Adventure Books, Movies, and Viral Moments of the 2000s The best stories aren't just on paper anymore. Our (totally subjective) ranking assembles the millenium's 33 best new classics. Brad Wieners Jan 1, 2003 Books Every Explorer Needs to Read Occupy your off-season with the successes, failures, and bemusements of fellow adventurers. Plus: author picks and ten underappreciated books.

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Trump: “No one loves Mother Earth more than me.”

By Brad Wieners |Medium

Trump: “No one loves Mother Earth more than me.” An Earth Day Fable What everyone remembers best, of course, is when Donald J. Trump single-handedly rescued that youngster in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The ever-agile commander in chief using shrink-wrapped paper towels as water wings to keep four-year-old Elìan from slipping beneath the waves? Amazing, even now. Then he pledged an immediate $5.7 billion in aid for reconstruction.

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Ohio Weighs a Nuclear Plant Bailout at FirstEnergy's Urging. Will It Boost Renewables, Too?

By Dan Gearino Verified, Brad Wieners, David Hasemyer Verified |Inside Climate News Verified

A plan to have Ohio taxpayers bail out the state's two struggling nuclear power plants was a non-starter in the legislature just a few months ago. Now, it's a high priority. What happened? New state lawmakers, many of whom owe their elections in large part to a powerful backer with a vested interest in fossil fuels and nuclear power. FirstEnergy, the Akron-based utility that long owned the Ohio nuclear plants, spent heavily in Republican legislative primaries.

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A Blueprint for Cooling Earth

By Brad Wieners |Patagonia

Mars can wait. A sunset view of part of Massy’s farm, Severn Park, is a reminder that earthen beauty is a fringe benefit of regenerative agricultural practices.

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The Slippery North Slope

By Kevin Fedarko, James Glave, Brad Wieners, Martin Curry |Outside Magazine Verified

YASUR VOLCANO IS ANGRIER during Vanuatu's wet season, which begins this month. The waters off Hawaii's Big Island are cooler now, making for even showier explosions when Kilauea's 2,000-degree lava flows hit the shoreline. And it's the perfect time to visit the magma-oozing, sulfur-belching cauldrons of Central and South America. Thus, we've unilaterally dubbed November International Volcano Month.

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How Cult Artist Rammellzee Changed the Game by Demolishing Traditions

By Brad Wieners |Red Bull Verified

“Atomic Note Tag Minus 12%” © Pierre Guillien Open any English dictionary and it's right there in the front: the straight dope on a centuries-old battle for the truth. Not finding it? Well, then, “read it backwards,” Rammellzee, the hip-hop pioneer and visual artist, insists. Then, perhaps, you’ll see what he’s getting at: The Indo-Germanic language tree is a technology of war. The medieval monks knew this, as did the 1970s graffiti writers of New York.

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Before Henry Worsley, There Was Børge Ousland

By Brad Wieners |Outside Magazine Verified

David Grann’s New Yorker story about a doomed Antarctic adventurer was a spellbinding read. But as he—and Outside—seem to forget, other people had already done what Worsley was trying to pull off. Sixty-two days into a planned thousand-mile journey across Antarctica, Henry Worsley, 55, a retired British Army officer, is near exhaustion. It’s January 2016 and he’s trying to complete an expedition that Sir Ernest Shackleton didn’t get to a century earlier. It’s been tough going.

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John Perry Barlow's Tips for Being a Better Adult Are Perfect

By Brad Wieners |Men's Health Verified

Along with an account of writing the Dead song “Cassidy,” a number of those who already miss him have been sharing a set of rules he set down at age 30. They’ve circulated before, but they’re worth posting again, they're so spot-on. Mind you, those who got to know Barlow understood that they could make him a hypocrite—the point wasn't that he lived up to them 100 percent of the time. But he had a code for himself that he aspired to. And it made him and others better for it.

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Best Rowing Machine - Best Row Machine Workout

By Brad Wieners |Men's Health Verified

If you dread the tedium of cardio, you, like the Crossfit legions, have no doubt discovered the ruthless efficiency and flared nostril agony of the Concept 2 Indoor Rower ($945, buy it here). If you're tracking calories, rowing should be your go-to workout for getting the cardio you need in minimally effective doses. In fact, my former rowing coach’s rule of thumb was that you'd need to pedal twice as long on a stationary bike to complete the same work on the erg.

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How Federal Giveaways to Big Coal Leave Ranchers and Taxpayers Out in the Cold

By Neela Banerjee, Robert McClure, David Hasemyer Verified, Brad Wieners |Inside Climate News Verified

This story was also published on WyoFile. On the morning after the autumn's first snow, L.J. Turner looked out over a creek near his house that reliably watered his family's livestock for more than 70 years. A third-generation Wyoming rancher, Turner remembered hunting rabbits there amid lush marsh grasses and high cottonwood trees when he was a boy in the 1950s. Then the nation's three largest coal mines began to dig in downhill from his 10,000-acre ranch.

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Killing Clean - United States of Climate Change

By Brad Wieners |The Weather Channel Verified

On March 30, Bill Seitz, a charismatic Republican, took to the floor of the Ohio House to make a case for gutting a 2008 law designed to speed the adoption of solar and wind as significant sources of electricity in the state.

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How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine

By Neela Banerjee, Brad Wieners, David Hasemyer Verified, Marianne Lavelle Verified |Inside Climate News Verified

Sign up to receive our latest reporting on climate change, energy and environmental justice, sent directly to your inbox. . The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, launched a billboard campaign in 2012 to compare believers in global warming to "murderers and madmen" such as the Unabomber, Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden.

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This Sleek and Stylish Mod Watch By Todd Snyder Is the Perfect Gift

By Brad Wieners |Men's Health Verified

7 Style Hacks Every Guy Should Know: As a longtime loather of all things preppy, I have mellowed enough to recognize that at its foundation, this style has an elegant functionality that I appreciate, and that Snyder has. He hits you with understated items that are neither too pretty (or preppy) nor trying too hard to prove its rugged lineage. Take the bullseye face on the Mod Watch ($138, Buy It Here) that he apparently found in a Timex archive.

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Dementia, Personality Disorders And Moods Swings

By Brad Wieners |AARP

Photo illustration by Holly Andres Deven Black showed patterns of strange behavior in 2013, including unusual financial transactions. Part 1: The reckoning JILL BLACK WAS tidying up around the house when she came upon a bunch of receipts that her husband, Deven, had stashed in his backpack — slips from MoneyGram, Western Union and other wire-transfer services near the couple’s suburban New York home. They showed cash transfers to people Jill had never heard of.

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Instrument of Power: How Fossil Fuel Donors Shaped the Anti-Climate Agenda of a Powerful Congressional Committee

By Marianne Lavelle Verified, David Hasemyer Verified, Neela Banerjee, Brad Wieners |Inside Climate News Verified

A version of this story was co-published with The Rivard Report, a nonprofit news organization in San Antonio, Texas. FREDERICKSBURG, Texas—It's midway through fall, and cold has yet to settle over the Eckhardt family orchard. So, Diane Eckhardt waits with rising apprehension. Cold is the switch that triggers the growing sequence that by summer has limbs sagging with ripe, juicy peaches.

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Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking's Risks to Drinking Water

By Neela Banerjee, David Hasemyer Verified, Brad Wieners, Pruitt's EPA Is |Inside Climate News Verified

This story was co-published with WHYY and West Virginia Public Broadcasting. A version was published in The Dallas Morning News. Audio story by Susan Phillips of WHYY. Most mornings, when his 7-year-old son Ryan gets up for school at 6:55, Bryan Latkanich is still awake from the night before, looking online for another home in some part of Pennsylvania with good schools and good water.

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How Fossil Fuel Allies Are Tearing Apart Ohio's Embrace of Clean Energy

By Brad Wieners, David Hasemyer Verified, As Solar, Leslie Kaufman Verified |Inside Climate News Verified

This ICN story was also published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. COLUMBUS, Ohio—On March 30, Bill Seitz, a charismatic Republican, took to the floor of the Ohio House to make a case for gutting a 2008 law designed to speed the adoption of solar and wind as significant sources of electricity in the state.

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A Billionaire’s Shocking System for Getting What You Want

By Brad Wieners, Ben Baker, Joel Arbaje Verified |Men's Health Verified

he problem with most people,” Ray Dalio says, “and this is one of the biggest problems of mankind, is that people get attached to the opinions in their head, and don’t properly stress test them so they make needless bad decisions.” If, instead of knowing you’re right, as Dalio himself used to, you ask yourself, “How do I know I’m right?” and consult with the smartest people you can find who disagree with you, as Dalio later did, well then, “you’ll learn a lot, which is exciting, but also get...

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My Sunday Routine – Brad Wieners – Medium

By Brad Wieners |Medium

Earlier I confessed to my love Mary that I avoid the Sunday Routine column in the New York Times (she had just given a cold reading of a few entries from Henry Threadgill’s turn in a hilariously pompous voice), not only because the form makes everyone sound like a pretentious jackass, but also because it works on me too well: it induces the status envy the Times is so good at.

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To Live and Die in AK

By Brad Wieners |Outside Magazine Verified

FIRST OFF—YEAH, it’s weird that Liam Neeson, who lost his wife, Natasha Richardson, to a ski accident in 2009, would elect to star in a movie as a man devastated by the loss of the woman he loves. In fairness, though, The Grey, a big-budget, Hollywood-does-Wrangell wilderness-survival epic that opens this month, is no meditation on life imitating art imitating mourning.

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Choke Hold: The Fossil Fuel Industry's Fight Against Climate Policy, Science & Clean Energy

By David Hasemyer Verified, Brad Wieners, Neela Banerjee, Marianne Lavelle Verified |Inside Climate News Verified

This seven-part investigation chronicles the fossil fuel industry's fight against climate policy, science and clean energy—and the ordinary Americans who happen to be in its way. Each story examines one way the industry guards its interests: through legal battles, regulatory policy, persistent misinformation, lucrative tax breaks and subsidies, and by undermining clean energy.

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An island moneymaker that knows everybody’s secrets

By Brad Wieners |Columbia Journalism Review Verified

“Who remembers Hate Month?” Marianne Stanton asks in her March 9 “Here and There” column for the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror, aka the Inky, the island’s 196-year-old weekly paper of record. Those who do, she says, can count themselves true Nantucketers. For Johnny-come-lately “washashores,” she explains, “Hate Month refers to March, and let me be specific.

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Gentrifying Valencia

By Brad Wieners |foundsf.org

Artists' Television Access, home to Other Cinema, equipment and production facilities for rent, and a fluctuating collective of Mission-based video and film artists... A wide-ranging conversation in February 2015 with ATA original, experimental filmmaker, and Other Cinema curator Craig Baldwin, on the Mission District's decades-long gentrification and much more. High tone and patronized by an affluent clientele, Esperanto and Val 21 can't help but be seen as gentrification, exhibits A and B.

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Solving for hypocrisy while writing about beer against climate change

By Brad Wieners |Medium

To report a feature for our weekly recently, I flew twice from New York to the American West, first to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and then two weeks later to Kansas City and Jackson Hole.

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An Oral History of Burning Man

By Brad Wieners |Outside Magazine Verified

"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words. And indeed in thought." —T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Evolution of the man: 1989. Evolution of the man: 1990. Evolution of the man: 1993. Evolution of the man: 1997. Evolution of the man: 2003. Evolution of the man: 2011. It took some convincing to get me to Burning Man, even though—or because—friends couldn’t shut up about it.

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Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer

By Patrick Symmes, Don’t Cry, Bill Vaughn, Brad Wieners |Outside Magazine Verified

Hey, we’re with you. Given half a chance, we’d much rather hit the road than the armchair. Nothing can replace the intensity of authentic experience. Yet experience needs shape and wisdom and behind every great adventure are the stories that inspired it. We read before we go; and after we arrive, free and clear in far-flung terrain and edgy places, we invariably find echoes of the voices that led us there.

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Five Best Ideas of the Day

By Adam Pasick Verified, Brad Wieners, Sui-Lee Wee Verified, Krishna Das Verified, Meenakshi Sharma |aspen.us

China is building islands to lock up the South China sea, how to save migrants at the world's deadliest border and more.

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Leaked: The Oil Lobby's Conspiracy to Kill off California's Climate Law

By Brad Wieners |businessweek.com

You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of his neighbor, Sarge the Army Jeep, Fillmore greets each new day with Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock rendition of A Star Spangled Banner—“respect the classics, man”—and is quick with a conspiracy theory about why biofuels never stood a chance at America’s gas pumps.

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No Way Is Matt Power Gone

By Brad Wieners |businessweek.com

Here they are: the K2 cigarettes Matt brought back from Islamabad as a souvenir and a thank-you for sending him to Pakistan on no notice. They’re on my bookshelf at home, sitting next to some travelogues—Shackleton’s South, Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, Bonatti’s The Mountains of My Life—books I’m certain he’d approve of, or at least have an opinion about. Holding the cigarettes now, I can see Matt’s expectant face. He’d tossed the pack softly in my direction.

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Kon-Tiki Brings Thor Heyerdahl's Legendary Voyage to the Big Screen

By Brad Wieners |Outside Magazine Verified

“Just occasionally you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but when you are right in the midst of it you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.” So begins Thor Heyerdahl’s The Kon-Tiki Expedition, his account of putting to sea on a balsa-log raft in 1947 to test his theory that ancient Peruvians were the first to populate Polynesia.

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Essential Books for the Well-Read Explorer

Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors. Sign up today. Hey, we’re with you. Given half a chance, we’d much rather hit the road than the armchair. Nothing can replace the intensity of authentic experience. Yet experience needs shape and wisdom and behind every great adventure are the stories that inspired it.

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