Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Student Research: Working in the Eye of the Storm
By Jeroen Oomen (Doctoral Candidate) When the COP21 Paris climate agreement was announced in December 2015, much of the world reacted with relief, disbelief, or skepticism. For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol, after many monumental failures, the international community seemed to have managed to commit to decisive action on climate change. This was…
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Student Research: Gardeners
By Veronika Degmayr (Environmental Studies Certificate Program) Whether you’re an academic in the environmental field, an environmental activist, or just a person concerned about the state of our environment, you might at times wonder what good all that science, research, and activism is really doing. How far do published papers actually reach? Do we get to…
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Student Research: Orpheus in the Mud
By Adrian Franco, LMU and Environmental Studies Certificate Program Student It is tempting to explore how visual experiences of music festivals are symbols of joy and embeddedness in modern societies, drawing attention to what people do in their free time. When people think of the Woodstock documentary, or the images of Wacken used by South Korean…
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Student Research: Break Free 2016
“Ende Gelände†for the Fossil Fuel Industry By Alexander Gorski (Environmental Studies Certificate Program student) Over the first two weeks of May this year, a global network of organizations and individuals from six continents united for the Break Free 2016 campaign, taking action against the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels. From Brazil to…
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Student Research: Food Waste
by Sibylle Zavala (with Ramona Mayr and Thomas Müller), Environmental Studies Certificate Program students Our final project, and that of our fellow students, was pioneering work. As a biologist, an interculturalist, and an environmental planner, we formed a rather interdisciplinary group. We wondered what we could work on that would encompass sustainability across our three fields of…
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Student Research: Development of the Alpine Landscape in Film
By Katharina Bochter and Stefanie Schlosser, LMU and Environmental Studies Certificate Program Students Imagine 10,000 years ago. The entire area north of the Alps, the Alpine upland, was a vast desert. The glaciers of the last ice age were just melting, and there was nothing but grass and moss. Nothing but tundra. As it became warmer, new…
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Student Project: Krautgarten
by Adrian Franco, LMU and Environmental Studies Certificate Program Student Which spaces at our university provide the right kind of ground for gardening? How does urban farming work, and is it realistically achievable? How can we develop an understanding of the plants we eat by growing them ourselves? Fruitful discussions as part of the interdisciplinary Environmental…
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Call for Participants: User Perspectives in Library Planning
by Adrian Franco, LMU and Environmental Studies Certificate Program Student After a request made to Munich’s library directorate for information on the institution’s planned strategies for future challenges—especially management opinion on how such efforts could be harmonized with communication devices—I was kindly invited to bring fellow students and researchers together with the purpose of launching an interdisciplinary…
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Student Project: The Birth of Geoengineering
by Martin Meiske Congratulations to RCC doctoral program member Martin Meiske, who received the prize for the best poster at the 2015 ESEH conference in Versailles. In his poster he presented his dissertation project on “The Birth of Geoengineering: Large-scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the Anthropocene (1850–1950)â€â€”here, he tells us more about his…