Imaginings

stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world

  • Barry Commoner and the Bridge between the Lab and the Ghetto

    Post by Robert Gioielli With Barry Commoner’s death last week, the American environmental movement lost one of its most underappreciated leaders and voices. This may seem like an overstatement, considering the robust obituaries offered up in the days after his passing, but Commoner is not as well known as he should be. He is deserving…

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  • Fifty Years of Silent Spring

    Post by Arielle Helmick Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published fifty years ago today. Having taken her name, we at the RCC would like to take a look back at Carson’s legacy, in terms of what she has meant for the Center, as well as what positive environmental change has happened in the last fifty…

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  • Introducing…Seeing the Forest!

    Social media is a new and promising frontier for the environmental humanities. Already, numerous scholars, associations, research centers and the like are experimenting with social media’s potential. We at the Rachel Carson Center have also ventured into this frontier, and we are excited to introduce our latest contribution to the growing online community: our blog,…

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