Multimedia | film profile
Eye of the Future
This drama shows how five children of United Nations ambassadors are called upon by Earth to create a sustainable future and find solutions to prevent further damage.
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Multimedia | journal article
"Resilience"
Vardy and Smith’s article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities argues that “resilience signals the pernicious return of structural-functionalism precisely at the moment when much more nuanced, thoughtful, and critical attention should be given to the relationships and differences between and within human and nonhuman populations.”
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Jackson, Tim, "An Economic Reality Check"
Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
Arcadia
Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal
In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.
Multimedia | film profile
Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
Exhibition chapter
The Story of Geology | Ghosh in Munich
Sonji Shah’s “The Story of Geology” is a clever take on the “lithic imaginary” in Bjornerud, Jemisin, and Macfarlane, showing how underground worlds can excite new thoughts on what it means to belong to the earth. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the reflective essay category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
Multimedia | book, full-text
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene: On Science, Belief, and the Humanities
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled “relativism.”
Perspectives Article
The Journey of Sand: How the Yellow River Has Shaped Lankao County
This paper traces the journey of sand carried by China’s Yellow River to Lankao County, one of the locales most affected by sandification.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Approaches to Sustainable Happiness”
Greta Gaard on “Approaches to Sustainable Happiness.”
Arcadia
Saudi Dreams: Icebergs in Iowa
The First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization, held at Iowa State University in October 1977, contributed to the formation of nascent hydrologics in the late 1970s.