"Selling the Space Age: NASA and Earth's Environment, 1958–1990"
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
Nicholas Babin´s review of the book Organic Sovereignties by Guntra A. Aistara.
Greear examines the contemporary trend toward de-industrialized and decentralized production and its implications for ecological sustainability. He suggests we can understand the potential positive ecological implications of such trends by reconceptualizing “incomplete information” in markets, which is often understood as a key way in which markets fail to solve or forestall environmental problems.
Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
Sarah Besky explores the interactions of workers, students, and city residents with environmental events, crumbling infrastructure, and wildlife in Darjeeling, with a focus on the role of the district as a site of extraction.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Vinciane Despret and Michel Meuret discuss how humans and animals are making their own contributions to a new cosmoecology, creating cosmoecological connections and contributing to what Ghassan Hage has called alter-politics.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Lisa Messeri concludes that outer space, far from being removed from Earthly matters, offers a different scale and perspective for examining technocultural relations.
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
After some years of absence, I found myself again active in the Australian conservation movement. A forest was to be razed, not far from where this is being written, for a relatively small yield of saw-planks…