“Can Forest Gardens Save the Rainforest, Ulrike Prinz?”
This podcast discusses linalool extraction from rosewood in the rainforest.
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“Growing Up amid Environmental Change: A Conversation with Jan David Hauck”
Jan David Hauck and Pooja Nayak discuss how changing environments change our language and morals.
Summary and Concluding Remarks
Camilla Brattland and Dorothee Schreiber emphasize that, despite varying stances on salmon farming, Indigenous communities share a commitment to protecting wild salmon, asserting their rights and perspectives, and promoting collaborative decision-making locally and globally.
More Than Territory: The Cultural and Ecological Importance of Indigenous People’s Ties to the Andean-Amazonian Conservation Area Cordillera Escalera
“Gerbils Without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science (1932–1939)”
Drawing upon archival records in Namibia, South Africa, Portugal, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this article argues that concerns over the spread of plague across land borders led to the development of a nascent invasive species framework which indicted border-crossing “migrant” South African gerbils for the international spread of the disease.
“Step Away”
Kata Beilin’s short story narrates of a scholar’s Amazonian journey, which awakens her from ambition’s illusion to the deeper truth of the interbeing in the forest.
Maya Land: Listening to the Bees
A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
Reconciling Theory and Practice: Transdisciplinary Insights from an Indigenous Case Study
In this essay, Angela Kreutz explores a transdisciplinary approach through a case study.
Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada
In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.