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Ben Seal

Ben Seal is a freelance journalist based in Philadelphia who writes about our relationships with one another and the world around us. More of his work is available on his website.

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Joseph Russell Smith
Plants & Animals

He Spoke for the Trees (and Also the Soil)

A champion of agroforestry, J. Russell Smith argued for the restoration of forests as key to sustainable agriculture in his seminal work Tree Crops.

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