Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology
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The house is Villa Meridiana. You get there by going up a little side street that skirts Via Alessandro Volta, just outside the center of town. It’s u...15 minutes
The house is Villa Meridiana. You get there by going up a little side street that skirts Via Alessandro Volta, just outside the center of town. It’s u...14 minutes
Heritage preservation is the strategy of conserving the cultural and environmental history of a certain time and place, and it also has political, spi...by Amelia Fiske and Jonas Fischer
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Participants on a “toxic tour” of oil operations encounter crude oil for the first time and experience what it means to live amid oil extraction in th...by Paula Ungar
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I am trying to focus on my writing, I really am. But my phone buzzes again. This time, the message is difficult to ignore. I see a photograph of my be...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...by Nina Wormbs
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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...by Sonja Dümpelmann and Pauline Kargruber
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Sonja Dümpelmann is a landscape historian who is currently working on how grass species have transformed the world, and the history and political impl...by Steve Mentz
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The true eye of the earth is water. Gaston Bachelard I. The Last Shortest Day On my last day as a Landhaus fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, with th...21 minutes
It was an unusually hot day in Dresden in July 1903. The glinting Elbe was drifting past Bruehl’s Terrace, famous throughout the world as the “Balcony...by Helen Tiffin
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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...by Hayal Desta
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I first had the opportunity to visit Lake Ziway when I studied biology as an undergraduate at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in the mid-1990s. Loca...18 minutes
In the final chapter of Man and Nature, his landmark 1864 study of an earth transformed by human action, George Perkins Marsh looked ahead to a series...