This volume provides a renewed vision of the issue of collective properties, an issue previously distorted by passions, and now mostly forgotten.

A collection of essays by leading scientists, technologists, and thinkers that examine the nature of current technological changes, their environmental implications, and possible strategies for the transition to a sustainable future.

By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.

Anthony Carrigan, Carson Fellow from January to June 2012, talks about his research concerning social disasters such as wars and ongoing chronic poverty that can develop from colonization.