Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Bookshelf: The Troubled History of Environmentalism
By Bob Wilson The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation by Adam Rome The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 by Michael Bess Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images by Finis Dunaway Why have Americans been unable or…
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Making Tracks: Jenny Price
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. “And you ask yourself, well . . . How did I get here?” —Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime by Jenny Price When my…
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Worldview: Environmental Conflicts and Interdisciplinarity in Argentina
by MarÃa Valeria Berros Environmental issues are highly debated in today’s Argentina, and are researched across a range of disciplines—political science, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and law—as problems linking nature protection, development, and poverty. Analysis has begun to focus on disciplines where the ecological question is fundamentally relevant, such as public debate, risk, and social…
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Living with Zombie Mines
Post by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling Mention the words “zombie mine†and you risk conjuring images of grotesque undead figures lurking in dark abandoned tunnels, more the stuff of movie or video game fantasies than anything to do with mining in the real world. And yet, the idea behind the zombie – that of…
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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…