“A Political Ecology of Desire and Illicit Trade”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.
Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Kate Rigby.
A book on the extinct quagga, a pony-sized zebra that inhabited southern Africa.
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Sara Rich is interviewed on her recent book, Mushroom.
In this Springs article, historian Tom Griffiths considers Australia’s devastating 2019 and 2020 bushfires and the cultural and worldwide impact they had.
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
In this Springs article, Elin Kelsey reflects on how she first started to sleep outside, and how it brought her closer to her environment.
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.