Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Cicadian Rhythms: How Suburbs Saved – and Threaten – the US’s 17-Year Cicadas
Post by Christopher Sellers With piercing red eyes and a song like the soundtrack from a 50’s science-fiction film, the 17-year cicadas have stormed up out of the soils of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. for their single month or so of adult life. Though their brief otherworldly chorus is, in human terms, ancient,…
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All Environmental Politics is Local: What Today’s Climate Activists Can Learn From Yesterday’s Antipollution Movement
Post by Christopher Sellers As we approach the forty-third Earth Day, American climate activism has finally gotten feisty. Hopes have arisen that its sway can approach that of the antipollution movement of the 1960s, out of which the first Earth Day sprang. A recent “Forward Climate” protest on February 17 drew an estimated 35–40,000 people…