Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm
Traces the elm’s transformation from a fast-growing weed into a regional and national icon.
Traces the elm’s transformation from a fast-growing weed into a regional and national icon.
Taking a historical, cross-cultural, and trans-disciplinary perspective, this e-book includes some of the most recent references in the scholarly and policy literature on food, agriculture, environment, and livelihoods. The photos and the embedded video clips, animations, and audio recordings show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fishers, food workers, urban farmers, and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, highlighting the importance of locally controlled food systems to sustain people and nature in a diversity of rural and urban contexts.
A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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.
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
Patrick Murphy argues for a new conception of human agency based on culturopoeia and an application of an ecofeminist dialogic method for analysing human-nature relationships.
Michael Lockwood synthesizes insights from philosophy, psychology, and economics towards an understanding of how humans value nature.
Why do people want to eat locally? This essay considers the drive for local food as a consumer movement in the United States, suggesting that we can look at the past to learn valuable lessons for challenges we face today.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Jim Flynn dedicates his editorial to discussing how to think global. Moreover, Mitch Friedman crushes myths regarding civil disobedience and Ron Huber brings good news from the coast of Maine, where the state government finally decided to throw in the towel on a proposed mega-woodchip port.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Alan Featherstone gives an update on the protest of Australian activists against the logging of old growth in Karr, Anne Petermann discusses culture diversity and racism within the EF! movement, and Fernando Reals holds the US Navy responsible for eco-cide, imperialism, colonialism, and militarization in Puerto Rico.