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Climate
The Environmentalism Gettysburg Doesn't Talk About
Rural Pennsylvania complicates the environmental map I thought I understood.
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HJERNELANDET
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the country inside my head.
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I'm Hannah Tran: writer, designer, environmentalist, hockey player, and habitual inventor of countries. This is where I make maps of the contradictions I notice.
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