Finding Home

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June 27, 2010

There's a word for the grief and anger people feel when their environment is ravaged — solastalgia. It's what Gulf Coast residents may be feeling right now, as they watch oil wash up onto their beaches.

In this hour, the psychology of our attachment to the places we love. Why we suffer when forests are cut down, air is polluted, rivers and oceans fouled... the link between the environment and human happiness.

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Do you feel grief and longing when a place you love has been damaged? Then you may have "solastalgia" ...

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What's the best way to fight the homogenization of America?

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Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."

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He grew up in Sissinghurst Castle, one of the most beautiful places in England. When he returned as an adult he was astonished and saddened to see ...

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