“The Poetics of Dunes”
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
Excerpt from Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot and Tom May.
Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.
Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?
Excerpt from Insectopolis: A Natural History by Peter Kuper.
Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.
Earth First! 30, no. 4 features a memorial on Judi Bari, and essays on militant feminism, multinationals in Chiapas rainforest, the Olympics in Vancouver, mining in Argentina, and green capitalism.