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“Recycling Cultures in India: Studying Electronic and Textile Waste”
Recyclable waste in India is dealt with in traditional ways and could serve as a model for sustainable waste management in the Global North.
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“Der Bartgeier”
This poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the largest bird of the Alps, the bone-eating bearded vulture (Bartgeier).
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“The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism”
In an increasingly inhumane world, this article argues that socioecological justice can only be achieved by embracing human nature.
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“How We Got Here”
A brief history of the universe from the big bang to the Anthropocene, as related by someone older and wiser than all of it. A fable for clever beasts. A bedtime story for a species.
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“Growing Up amid Environmental Change: A Conversation with Jan David Hauck”
Jan David Hauck and Pooja Nayak discuss how changing environments change our language and morals.
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“Making Bourdélots and Tasting Terroir”
An exploration of the apple-growing culture and landscape of the island of Jersey through one of its little-known dishes.
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“One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure: A Conversation with Kim Curtis”
Sometimes the link between environmental issues and creative action is a matter of personal expression. In “One Woman’s Waste Is Another Woman’s Treasure,” Regina M. Bichler, a waste and sustainability researcher, interviews the artist Kim Curtis on using environmental struggles and successes as artistic inspiration. Their conversation spans Curtis’s multimedia artworks, political strategies for minimizing environmental harms, and the roles that individuals must play in crafting ecological futures.
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“Thank God for the Coal Rollers”
Historian Timothy LeCain is interested in the bridge between humans and materiality. Last year, while driving his SUV home through the mountains of Montana, a large truck pulled in front of him and released a cloud of dense, noxious smoke. Like many cyclists, hybrid car drivers, and “No Kings” protestors, LeCain had been “coal rolled.” His tongue-in-cheek essay, “Thank God for the Coal Rollers,” explores the practice’s culture, intended victims, and even the unintended good it might enact.
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“Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places: On Inheritance at the Water’s Edge”
In “Mapped Futures, Vanishing Places,” literary scholar Kumiko Kiuchi portrays the simple act of walking as an opportunity to inherit shared memory. Her writing takes off from Tokyo’s artificial waterfront into a creative space stretching from past generations into imagined futures, reminding us to remain “attentive to what cannot be fully possessed or understood.”