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Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers
Excerpt from Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot and Tom May.
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Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.
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Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.
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What Living in Space Teaches Us about Living on Earth
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management.
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Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.