Vanity Fair's 3rd Annual Green Issue
Features
- MADONNARAMA!
- Madonna has struck pose after provocative pose since her 1982 debut. Is her latest incarnation, as activist and filmmaker, bringing her closer to the truth? Rich Cohen undergoes a multi-media bombardment--her new album, her directorial debut, and her documentary on the orphans of Malawi, where she adopted her third child--to prepare for a session with the icon herself. Photographs by Steven Meisel. Web special: A slideshow of the many modes of Madonna from the pages of Vanity Fair, beginning in 1986.
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- THE GREEN LIGHT
- The White House claims that subjecting detainees to coercive interrogations was an idea that came from the bottom up, from commanders on the ground. In fact, it came from the top down, pushed hard by the administration's most powerful lawyers. Talking to key players, Philippe Sands pieces together who approved what, and why they could face war-crimes prosecution.
- THE NEXT PRESIDENT'S FIRST TASK: A MANIFESTO
- Two hundred years ago, anti-abolitionists in England predicted the end of the slave trade would lead to economic ruin. Instead, it proved to be a boon. Today a similar argument is made against tackling global warming. Not only are energy solutions well within our reach, argues Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they will strengthen American capitalism.
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- THE ARCTIC OIL RUSH
- As a shrinking ice cap makes it easier to tap the Arctic's fossil-fuel reserves, Russia has planted its flag deep in the North Pole's ocean. The race for oil is on, with a vicious cycle in play. In Siberia, Alex Shoumatoff discovers woolly-mammoth skeletons and even more greenhouse gases emerging from the last great climate disaster. Photographs by Subhankar Banerjee.
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- OCEAN'S 9
- Art Streiber and Evgenia Peretz spotlight the activists of Oceana, who are defending 71 percent of the planet: its seas.
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- NATURAL PHENOMENON
- Architect Renzo Piano's most recent creation could be his masterpiece. Matt Tyrnauer and photographer Todd Eberle get an exclusive tour of the new California Academy of Sciences, seamlessly integrated into San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and topped with a sprawling "living roof."
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- THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION
- Last winter, the Bush administration was pressed to declare whether polar bears were endangered. As postponements delayed the decision, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne allowed a $2.6 billion oil-and-gas drilling-lease sale to go through that threatens the bears' last U.S. refuge. Michael Shnayerson investigates. Web special: A slideshow of Steven Kazlowski's polar bear photos.
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Past Green Issues...
May 2007
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