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Mauro Morandi’s Thirty-Three Years of Solitude on Budelli Island
For over three decades, Mauro Morandi lived a life that most people can only imagine or fear. On Budelli Island, a tiny speck of land in Italy’s Maddalena Archipelago, Morandi found something modern society rarely offers: silence. From 1989 to 2021, he was the island’s sole resident, a self-appointed caretaker who traded conversation for contemplation,…
North Face Co-Founder Bought 2.2m Acres Just to Protect It
Most billionaires leave their mark in concrete and steel towers bearing their names, resorts cut into mountaintops, skylines altered in their image. Doug Tompkins left his mark on wind and water. He spent his fortune not on building, but on keeping things exactly as they were, buying 2.2 million acres of wilderness simply so no…