This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants).
John O’Neill discusses the problems in conservation policy based upon the identification of ecological value with a particular conception of beauty and wilderness.
In this essay, Freya Mathews argues that the moral point of view involves a feeling for the inner reality of others and explains the consequences of this idea for other-than-human life forms and systems.
Darwin’s Nightmare is a story about people in the North and South, about globalization, and about fish.
In this paper, arguments for ecosystems service valuation are critically appraised and the case for a model leading to value pluralism is presented.
In this paper, the author argues that species may also be native or non-native to human communities and that, by way of an analogy with varieties of domesticated and cultivated species, that this sense of nativity is grounded by the cultural relationships human communities have with species.
This article looks at the proposed global biodiversity census, which aims to take inventory of every species on earth as a response to anthropogenic species extinction.
Deep Blue is an underwater exploration into the secret lives of sea creatures.
Dirt! The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond.
