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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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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…
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“Nachhaltig Schenken”: Tips on Sustainable Presents
On 9 September 2013, Kmart (an American chain of discount stores) aired its first Christmas advert, giving shoppers a mere 106 days to make their Christmas purchases. It starts earlier every year, and it’s not just businesses who ask us to shop. During the recession in the UK, politicians took to the air to encourage…
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Material Matters: A Report on the 8th Biennial ASLE-UKI Conference
By Nicole Seymour Thanks to the Rachel Carson Center, I was able to attend the ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland chapter) conference last month at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England. As a regular attendee of the main ASLE conference—which brings hordes of fleece-and-sandal-wearing professors to US…
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New Design for Seeing the Woods
We’ve updated our blog design to link it more closely with our other social media platforms. We hope you like the new look! If you have any thoughts, please let us know in the comments.
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After The Fire, The Flowers Bloom
Reposted from Wild Mountain Echoes by kind permission of Christine Hass. Christine is a professional ecologist interested in mammal social behavior, including the role of sound in social communication. She also enjoys recording natural soundscapes, many of which feature in her blog posts. *** It seems as if every mountain range in the southwest has…
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Anthropocene: New Temporalities, New Spatialities
Post by Helen Pallett It is perhaps self-evident that the advent of the Anthropocene, or at least its announcement, urges us to think deeply about time. Thinking the Anthropocene is simultaneously to situate human society in the context of deep geological time, to draw attention to the rapid changes wrought on earth processes in the…