Amy Vedder and Bill Weber founded the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda some twenty five years ago. They explain how they envision eco-tourism preserving the gorilla habitat.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Wine journalist Alice Feiring opposes the dominant, market-driven, one palate fashion of the wine industry.
"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.
Don't ask Anna Dietrich if she invented a car that can fly. No one can do that she says. She did, however, invent a plane that can drive.
In 2010, explorer Sarah Marquis set out on a solo walk from Siberia to Australia. Over the course of three years and 10,000 miles, she braved subzero temperatures and sandstorms, and was harassed by drunk nomads and drug dealers. She writes about the adventure in a new book called "Wild By Nature."
British writer Alan Garner shares his memories of his friend and running partner, Alan Turing.
Andrew Carroll is the founder of the Legacy Project which collects and publishes letters from combatants and their families and friends, and others who have been touched by the experience of war.
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