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“Why I Sleep Outside”
In this Springs article, Elin Kelsey reflects on how she first started to sleep outside, and how it brought her closer to her environment.
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“‘We Have Always Known’: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt”
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.
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“Five Ways of Seeing the Steinsee”
In this Springs article, English literature and blue humanities scholar Steve Mentz reflects on his time as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, and the bond he developed with the Steinsee.
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“Seeing with a Forager’s Eye: A Conversation with Martin Saxer”
Martin Saxer introduces his project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism” detailing how his team works and what foraging means to them.
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“Beavering”
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
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“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.
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“Avian Escapees and Budgie Snugglers”
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?