Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Uses of Environmental History: Tom Griffiths
This is the fifth in a series of posts exploring the uses of environmental history. The series has been adapted from contributions to a roundtable forum published in the first issue of the new Journal for Ecological History, edited by Renmin University’s Center for Ecological History. By Tom Griffiths Photos courtesy of author A few years ago, when I was writing…
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Making Tracks: Karen Oslund
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. Imagining the Global Arctic By Karen Oslund In his What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, Alexander McCall Smith calls Auden “a…
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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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Making Tracks: Shane McCorristine
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. New Places By Shane McCorristine On my first day in Munich I got lost looking for the Rachel Carson Center. But I was…