To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
This book catalyzes the reflection about the aesthetic and spiritual dimension in the environmental humanities and offers transdisciplinary insights into the challenge of sustainability and ongoing changes in our society and environment.
Excerpt from Eco-Theology: Essays in Honor of Sigurd Bergmann. Professor Sigurd Bergmann is a former fellow at the Rachel Carson Center.
This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and environmental history from Canada’s diverse regions.
Markus Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson outline the history of valuation techniques using the Exxon Valdez disaster response and the valuation of whooping cranes as examples of how these tools can constrain policy, presenting an ethical dilemma for democracies by naturalizing, then ethicizing, existing patterns of domination.
In his paper, Simon P. James reconsiders Buddhist envrionmental ethics.
This short piece by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Lisa Sideris is a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum Big History and Great Transition.
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective takes an anthropological approach to Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast. It portrays a historically globalized region which has adapated creatively to major transformations and still remains a major actor within global networks.
In this issue of Earth First! Dave Foreman posits that the United States Forest Service has assaulted big wilderness areas in the 1920-30s.
Kevin Kelly presents his perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology, and religion.