Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Snapshot: Distant Transformations
by Maya Schmitt and Katrin Kleemann Close to Las Negras, southeast Spain, is a site of historical and geological significance. Our exploration through an old “Seifenlagerstätte†(placer deposit) stretch had us intrigued by its thousands of garnet minerals. These were spread out, attached or enclosed in rock showing different states of geology. For instance, enclosed…
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Snapshot: Food Markets, Yunnan, China
Locals in Dali, China, shop for food, carrying goods in baskets on their backs. Locally-grown rice, wheat, vegetables, and tobacco are brought weekly to the Monday market in the village of Shaping.Â
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Snapshot: Earthquake simulation at the Museum Mensch und Natur
What do you have to do when you experience an earthquake? Perhaps you might seek shelter under a table or under a doorframe. If you are a geologist, however, you also need to collect data and measure what you are experiencing. In case you were wondering, yes, there is an app for that! When a…
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Snapshot: Climate March München
Carson Fellows gathered on Sunday 29 November for the Munich Climate March. The biggest climate demonstration in Munich, organized by Fossil Free München and partners (including Bürgerlobby Klimaschutz, BenE München, Clean Energy Project, LBV München, Plant for the Planet, sneep e.V., and WissenLeben e.V.) was held ahead of the COP21 climate conference to take place in Paris, 7–8 December…
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Snapshot: Student Film Screening
Environmental Studies Certificate Program students Stefanie Schlosser and Katharina Bochter had the exciting opportunity to screen their film on invasive plant species in the Alps—made for their final project—at the Park Kino cinema in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria.
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Snapshot: Trip to Herrmannsdorfer Farms
Environmental Studies Certificate Program students, with RCC staff and fellows, were lucky enough to take a tour of Herrmannsdorfer, a network of around 70 organic farmers and manufacturers in the Munich region.
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Snapshot: RCC Staff Excursion to Ingolstadt
RCC staff visiting Ingolstadt on their annual excursion. As well as enjoying a tour of the Bavarian Army Museum’s exhibition on Napoleon Bonaparte we made the most of the sunny early autumn weather with a stroll around the fortified city. We were lucky to have historian and RCC co-director Helmuth Trischler, and RCC Research Associate and Ingolstadt local Martin Spenger,…
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Snapshot: Public Recycling in Versailles
Research Associate Susanne Darabas dividing waste into public recycling bins in Versailles, during a visit to the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) conference 2015. Photograph: Stephanie Hood.
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Snapshot: Farmers’ Protest in Munich
By Katharina Müller Around 3,000 despairing farmers rally at Munich’s Odeonsplatz against the milk price drop. A farmer needs at least 40 cents per liter in order to operate sustainably, receiving an average of 26 cents: this threatens the existence of around 80,000 farms in Germany. The German Association of Dairy Cattle Holders (Bundesverband Deutscher Milchviehhalter) sees the problem in the…