Tag: environmentalism
Posted on March 30, 2020
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*Featured image: Australian bushfires from space, 2019 (CC BY SA 3.0) By Anna Pilz and Kate Wright In early January 2020, we began discussing the possibility of curating a collection of creative and intellectual work about the bushfire crisis devastating unceded Aboriginal countries in… Continue Reading “Matter of Degrees”
Posted on June 18, 2019
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The Uses of Environmental Humanities series explores diverse and creative ways of thinking with the Environmental Humanities in responding to socio-environmental challenges. Contributors address the influence of the Environmental Humanities and ways in which we might use this field of study, offering insights into… Continue Reading “USES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES: SULE EMMANUEL EGYA”
Posted on August 27, 2018
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Oceans, tourism development, geopolitics, Anthropocene, and much more during the 2018 summer semester at the Rachel Carson Center. Would you like to keep up to date with our latest Lunchtime Colloquia? Then follow us by subscribing to our Rachel Carson Center Youtube Channel for new (and… Continue Reading “LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, SUMMER 2018”
Category: Center Activities, Lunchtime Colloquium, VideosTags: anthropocene, ecological thinking, ecotourism, Energy transitions, environment, Environment and Society, environmentalism, farming, geopolitics, oceans, plants, science, sea, tourism, water, water contamination, wetlands
Posted on November 14, 2017
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Workshop Report (LMU-ChAN Satellite Conference, 3–5 November 2017, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany) by Travis Klingberg (All sketches by Libby Robin) Flood-proof cities. The social costs of waste incineration. Water level changes in the Pearl River Delta. The environmental impact of nineteenth-century Chinese immigration… Continue Reading “Asia and the Pacific: Environments—Cultures—Histories”
Category: Conference ReportsTags: Asia, China, colonization, ecosystems, environmental policy, environmentalism, immigration, incineration, philosophy, rivers, waste, zero waste
Posted on April 1, 2017
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Chinese water management, new materialism, Anthropocene, eco-acoustics and much more during the 2016/2017 winter semester at the Rachel Carson Center. Would you like to keep up to date with our latest Lunchtime Colloquia? Then follow us by subscribing to our Rachel Carson Center Youtube Channel for new… Continue Reading “LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, WINTER SEMESTER 2016/2017”
Category: Center Activities, Lunchtime Colloquium, VideosTags: anthropocene, anthropology, biodiversity, China, Ecoacoustics, environment, environmental history, environmentalism, housing, new materialism, sustainability, turtles
Posted on July 30, 2016
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Socialist industrialization, eco-linguistic, agro-food globalization and much more during the 2016 summer semester at the Rachel Carson Center. Would you like to keep up to date with our latest Lunchtime Colloquia? Then follow us by subscribing to our Rachel Carson Center Youtube Channel for new (and… Continue Reading “LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, SUMMER 2016”
Category: Center Activities, Lunchtime Colloquium, VideosTags: activism, conservation, culture, disasters, ecology, ecosystems, Energy transitions, environmentalism, global warming, globalization, india, industrialization, linguistic, science, socialism
Posted on October 30, 2013
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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,… Continue Reading “Green Me Up, JJ”