Recycling Cultures in India: Studying Electronic and Textile Waste
19 minutes
At our home in Delhi’s National Capital Region (NCR) in India, I often wake up in the morning to the calls of street vendors. Many of them are experts...
(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Conversation with Davide Orsini
by Davide Orsini and Uwe Lübken
20 minutes
Launched in March 2025, Davide’s Volkswagen Foundation Change! project seeks to foster research collaborations between academic and nonacademic partne...Seeing with a Forager’s Eye: A Conversation with Martin Saxer
by Martin Saxer and Christof Mauch
17 minutes
Martin Saxer leads the research project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism,” based at the Rachel Carson Center (RCC). When this project began, he rem...
Weathered History: Galveston and Extreme Events
17 minutes
Texas had seen rain before, plenty. It had flooded before, many times. But on 25 August 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped a volume of water never before c...
An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma
14 minutes
About 210 km east of Los Angeles, along the boundary of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, stands a national park dedicated to the American Southwest’s ...Human Overpopulation: The Elephant in the Greenhouse
by Helen Tiffin
14 minutes
When it comes to the environmental crisis, human overpopulation remains a topic discreetly avoided in public debate. But, as Reverend Martin Luther Ki...Can Brussels and Beijing Get It Right? Twenty-First Century Ecological Geopolitics
17 minutes
An explosive geopolitical landscape is confronting the world. It centers around Sino-American hyper-competition. The US-China rift, in fact, has becom...