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“Earthworm”
The earthworm becomes a muse in creativity and writing as Sumana Roy’s poem takes on the perspective of the invertebrate.
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“Old Myths, New Bottles: Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition.”
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.
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“Why I Sleep Outside”
In this Springs article, Elin Kelsey reflects on how she first started to sleep outside, and how it brought her closer to her environment.
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“‘We Have Always Known’: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt”
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.
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“Five Ways of Seeing the Steinsee”
In this Springs article, English literature and blue humanities scholar Steve Mentz reflects on his time as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, and the bond he developed with the Steinsee.
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“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
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“The Poor Woods of Northern Nigeria”
A writer and literary scholar, Sule Emmanuel Egya weaves together a personal love letter to trees with accounts of having witnessed extractive wood logging in Gombe, Nigeria. To what extent can the Gombe State tree planting policy attempt to salvage such hostility toward trees?
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“The Return of Nature: Decolonial Reinhabitation and Self-Indigenisation in Kodagu, India”
In this article, former Carson Landhaus Fellow Subarna De contextualises the ecological and cultural practices of the Kodagu coffee plantations of Southern India within the post-/decolonial framework of bioregional reinhabitation.
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“Representations, Traces, Vital Agents: Why Images Matter to Environmental History”
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
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“What’s in a Name? More-Than-Human Approaches and Environmental History”
A reflection on more-than-human perspectives in environmental history.