Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Videos: RCC Lunchtime Colloquia, November
We have had four great presentations this month by fellows and guests at the weekly RCC lunchtime colloquium. Here are the videos – we hope they are of interest! John Agbonifo (Osun State University, Nigeria): “Environmental Governance and Civil Society in Nigeria” Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen University, Germany): “(Post) Soviet Contemporary Environmental History: Ecological Globalization and…
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CfP: Linking Biological and Cultural Diversity in Europe
1st European Conference for the Implementation of the UNESCO-SCBD Joint Programme on Biological and Cultural Diversity Dates: 8-11 April 2014, Florence, Italy The Conference Scientific Committee welcomes submission of abstracts for presentations in technical and poster sessions. For more information please download the CfP here (PDF).
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Arctic Dreaming? History, Resource Development, and the Future of the Arctic Meltdown
By John Sandlos We have all heard the news stories: a warming climate is destined to melt huge sections of the multi-year polar sea ice, potentially unlocking the last great untapped reservoirs of oil and natural gas in the world. The media has been preoccupied with this prediction, in part because of the controversy surrounding…
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A Moment of your Time – A Verbatim Poem On Climate Change
This poem was created by Emily Hinshlewood. All of the lines in the poem were responses to her questions on climate change from people she met as she walked across Wales. Fog. Fug. Smog Cough. Smother. Choke The planet in nasty grey-blue smoke from factories with chimneys, from scratching out coal; big lumps of ice falling…
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Photo of the Week: Christof Mauch
A female fire crew from a Malibu penitentiary is on its way to work in the park of Adamson House in Malibu, California. Wildfires regularly rage through this part of California and the inmates are involved in brush clean-up, felling trees, weeding, and the clearing of roads. Firefighting is typically a male domain in the…
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The Battle To Define “Avatar Spirituality”
RCC alumnus Bron Taylor has been interviewed by RD10Q on his most recent book, Avatar and Nature Spirituality. Taylor’s book contains essays from leading scholars on the environmental dimensions of James Cameron’s hugely popular film. Asked about the “take-home” message, Taylor comments: In my own wrap up to the book I argue that, despite the…
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Making Tracks: Patrick Kupper
In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. Question the Obvious: On the Benefits of Transnational Research By Patrick Kupper For the past few years I have been working on the…
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Green Me Up, JJ
It’s hard work being an environmentally-conscious American citizen in the twenty-first century. How can one source green guns? Is it an environmentally-sound decision to have children? And how far is too far for Little League? Such questions can overwhelm the good-hearted, CSA-loving eco-warrior. Fortunately, Carson Fellow Jenny Price writes an occasional advice column addressing just…
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Photo of the Week: Francis Ludlow
These images show a piece of ancient Irish oak wood, in which the ring-widths can be counted and measured for size. Bigger size equals better growing conditions, and this piece of wood happens to span one of the most famous episodes of extreme climate globally in the past two millennia, occurring from c.536-550 AD. There…