Arroyo, Vicki, "Let's Prepare For Our New Climate"
Vicki Arroyo uses environmental law and her background in biology and ecology to help prepare for global climate change.
Anthropocene
"SAD in the Anthropocene: Brenda Hillman’s Ecopoetics of Affect"
Laurel Peacock on Brenda Hillman’s ecopoetic practice and how we can shift our understanding of our affective relationship to the environment.
Anthropocene: Exploring the Future of the Age of Humans
About this issue
What does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? What are our responsibilities in a world where the boundaries between nature and culture are no longer clear? How do we visualize and teach the challenges of the future? The articles in this issue of RCC Perspectives reflect upon the ethics, aesthetics, and didactics of an “Age of Humans.”
Content
City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
"Kielder: The Story of a Man-made Landscape"
David Moon and Leona Skelton who carried out the Oral History project about the man-made environment of Kielder discuss some of their findings.
"The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness"
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
NIES/SIGTUNA, Stockholm/Uppsala, Sweden
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
Encyclopedia article: Arndt, Melanie, "Umweltgeschichte"
An overview, in German, of the discipline of environmental history.
Paul Crutzen popularizes the concept of the Anthropocene
The theory states that humanity is a major geological and geobiological factor on Earth.
Themes:
Reinhold Leinfelder on “The Anthropocene”
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.