Planning Environmental Pedagogy: A How-To
Careful lesson planning enables students to create their own solutions to today’s environmental challenges.
Category: Essays
Being With Bees
A beekeeper struggles to make sense of aggression from her typically docile insect charges.
Building Beaches: Beach Nourishment in the United States
A hard look at the soft engineering that goes into our beaches.
The Art of Offering: A Woodworker’s Lessons on Collaboration
What can art teach us about fieldwork? Sometimes the stories we tell belong to others.
“Somewhere That’s Green”: Little Shop of Horrors and the Man-Eating Lawns of Cairo
What a musical about a man-eating plant can tell us about Egypt’s disastrous desert development.
Tapping the Past for California’s Water Future
California’s current drought offers an occasion for rethinking how our relationship to the past can help us confront crisis.
Death, Burial, and Citizenship
Places of burial allow for public recognition of the dead, but also invoke specific forms of official memory, offering a frame for imagining citizenship.
Inheriting the Hill Station
In the former colonial hill station of Darjeeling, claims of belonging reveal the paradoxes of living in a place built for someone else.
Leopard In A Box
What can a taxidermied leopard teach us about commemorating animals in an age of extinction?
Dwelling with Place: Lorine Niedecker’s Ecopoetics
How can poetry, particularly the “ecopoetics” of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, help us dwell with our nonhuman places?
