I Still Do a Lot of Good
by Nina Wormbs
5 minutes
Economic thinking permeates our modern societies. It is so pervasive that we do not reflect on the fact that it rules much of what we do. But we might...Human Overpopulation: The Elephant in the Greenhouse
by Helen Tiffin
14 minutes
Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have dis...
Why I Sleep Outside
by Elin Kelsey
7 minutes
I can’t quite remember when I first pulled a camping mat and sleeping bag under my covered back deck and hunkered down for the night. That makeshift a...Ecological Civilization
19 minutes
Capitalism and communism have been fighting each other for more than a century and a half, until now the fight seems to have exhausted itself. A third...Deadly Affairs: An Art Exhibition about Toxicity
14 minutes
Sometime in 2018 I joined a tour of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Guided by art historian Ingrid Greenfield, it highlighted the role of trade betwee...
What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental History
by Paul Sutter
6 minutes
In many environmental histories, diseases serve to make one of the field’s foundational claims: that nonhuman forces matter in the shaping of human ev...In Praise of Weeds: Sympoiesis at St. James’s Piccadilly
by Kate Rigby
6 minutes
At 7:54 p.m. on 14 October 1940, the church of St. James’s Piccadilly, in the heart of London, was hit by high explosive and incendiary bombs. By the ...
Under Another Sky
2 minutes
The Indian village of Piplantri celebrates the birth of every newborn girl by planting 111 trees. In her new film, Under Another Sky, RCC alu...Lockdown and Locked In: Houseplants and Covid-19
12 minutes
Just before the official lockdown was announced in Scotland, I moved all of my office plants home. There was no space for them in my room, but I rearr...Masking Our Uncertainties: “The Way of the Masks”
by Rita Brara
8 minutes
An overwhelming sense of uncertainty fogs the Covid-19 pandemic and cityscapes in India as elsewhere in a planetary reminder of our common environment...Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
6 minutes
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation....How Local is Slow Food?
13 minutes
At the heart of the sustainable food movement are a series of dichotomies: local/global, organic/conventional, slow/fast, artisanal/industrial. These ...