May/June 2015
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Out of the Landfill and Into the Future By Candice Yacono
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LEED-ing the Way By Anne Walls
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Where Legends Meet Nature By Paromita Pain
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Wiser Power Plants By Jason Chiang
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Power Walking By Carrie Loewenthal Massey
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Leveraging Data to Save Energy By Kimberly Gyatso
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Serving the Planet By James L. Perry and Wesley Teter
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Q&A With Jennifer L. Turner By Steve Fox
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Publisher Walter T. Douglas
Editor in Chief David Mees
Editor Deepanjali Kakati Associate Editor Suparna Mukherji Hindi Editor Giriraj Agarwal Urdu Editor Syed Sulaiman Akhtar Copy Editor Shah Md. Tahsin Usmani Editorial Assistant Yugesh Mathur
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The Changing World of Energy By Georgette Jasen
News Scape
Art and Environmental Action By Michael Gallant
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Upcycling
Clean Energy
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Art
The Green Internet By Steve Fox
Courtesy Looptworks
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Travel
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Renewable Energy
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Reviewing Editor Branden L. Young
Art Director Hemant Bhatnagar Deputy Art Directors Qasim Raza, Shah Faisal Khan Production/Circulation Manager Alok Kaushik Printing Assistant Manish Gandhi Web Manager Chetna Khera
Front cover: At Google’s Mayes County, Oklahoma, data center, hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the server racks into a cooling unit to be recirculated. Photograph by Connie Zhou/Google
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