Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Associative Environmentality: The Revival of Forest Commons in the Romanian Carpathians”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Monica Vasile.
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Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Monsanto’s Past and Our Future”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bart Elmore.
Multimedia | journal article
“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
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What Does It Mean to Study Environments in Ukraine Now?
An essay on Russian imperialism and the entanglement of the geologic and the military.
Multimedia | book, full-text
The Age of the Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy during the Great Acceleration
An edited volume on the soybean, one of the world’s most important commodities.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Dispatches from the South China Sea Navigating to Common Ground
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Ronald L. Trosper, author of Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ronald L. Trosper is interviewed on his recent book, Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands .
Multimedia | book, full-text
The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
Multimedia | book excerpt
The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable
Book excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Alan MacEachern’s The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Learn about how Prince Edward Island in Canada tackled the oil crisis of the 1970s by investing in renewable resources.
Multimedia | journal article
“Chicago’s Temple of Steel: South Works since 1882”
In this Springs article, historian J. R. McNeill considers Chicago’s steel industry both past and present, and the history of the land.