The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
A book on the relevance of the the land ethic of Aldo Leopold.
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Episode 2: “Salvage”
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins follows one of the many stories of salvage and recovery after the devastating 2021 wildfire in Lytton, Canada—the story of the Lytton Chinese History Museum and its founder.
Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation
This book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region.
Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History
Full text of Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History.
Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines
In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.
Green Development of Greenwashing? Environmental Humanities of Finland
An edited volume examining and challenging the reputed “greenness” of Finland.
“The Marling Festival: Environmental Metaphor in Eighteenth-Century England”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Aneurin Merrill-Glover.
Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900–1940
Book excerpt from Turning to Nature in Germany by John Alexander Williams.
“I Still Do a Lot of Good”
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
“Ecological Civilization”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Donald Worster delves into the material events behind cultural imaginaries in China, while asking for an ecological civilization. “Can humans learn, by subordinating their appetites to their brains, how to live on this earth intelligently and ethically?”