april-2012

The 2012
Green Issue
SIDEWALKS THAT GENERATE electricity?
Check. Cow-free beef? Yep. Buildings
that eat smog? That too. For this month’s
Hemispheres, and to commemorate Earth
Day on April 22, we’ve collected some of
the more ingenious responses to the “go
green” mandate in our feature “Plan G.”
Continuing the theme, we also take an
inside look at the amazing new—and more
energy-effi cient—Boeing 787 Dreamliner;
meet a salty ship-rigger who saved a
drought-stricken Australian town; and
head to Houston (which is far greener than
you’d think) for Three Perfect Days. And
as always, don’t forget to download our
free app at the iTunes store for additional
stories, photos and video. —The Editors
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Contributors
DAVID PAGE,
a California-based writer
and editor, has spent
years bouncing over
the back roads of Death
Valley researching
portions of his awardwinning
Explorer’s Guide
to Yosemite and the
Southern Sierra Nevada.
But it wasn’t until he
got behind the wheel
of a new Jeep Rubicon
(“Sand Stormer,” page
30) that he fi nally came
to appreciate the value
of a 368-watt sevenspeaker
sound system
and air conditioning.
10 APRIL 2012 • HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
JILL HUNTER,
a photographer based
in Houston, relished
the chance to shoot
some of her hometown
haunts for this month’s
cover feature (“Three
Perfect Days: Houston,”
page 86), as well as
explore a handful of new
spots. “The city is full of
strange, wonderful art,”
says Hunter, who singles
out the Orange Show
as a favorite discovery.
“How often do you get
to wander through a
place that’s completely
devoted to the orange?”
ANISH MAJUMDAR
is a journalist of Bengali
descent and founder of
DashAmerican.com,
a blog focused on the
cross-cultural experience.
Having traveled
to Kerala, India, for this
month’s Food & Drink
(“Of Rice and Men,”
page 34), he notes that
few other places are
able to simultaneously
overwhelm and intoxicate
the taste buds—
which made his journey
home to spice-shy
Rochester, N.Y., that
much harder.
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