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“Seeing with a Forager’s Eye: A Conversation with Martin Saxer”
Martin Saxer introduces his project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism” detailing how his team works and what foraging means to them.
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
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“Not Every Kid Is WEIRD: A Conversation with Francesca Mezzenzana”
One of our editors, Brady Fauth, sits down with anthropologist Francesca Mezzenzana to discuss her developing research into children’s human–nonhuman relationships across cultures.
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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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“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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“I Still Do a Lot of Good”
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
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“‘Everybody Talks About the Weather’”
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
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“Stew of the Earth”
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
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“Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology”
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.