Imaginings

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

  • City Environments around the Globe: Past Challenges, Future Visions

    City Environments around the Globe: Past Challenges, Future Visions

    Conference Report (10–12 February 2019, New York University, Abu Dhabi) The new collaboration between Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU Munich) and New York University (NYU) focuses on understanding urban environments over time and aims to explore urban issues and challenges via a comparative, transnational, and global framework. The second installment took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.…

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  • LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, SUMMER 2017

    LUNCHTIME COLLOQUIA, SUMMER 2017

    Ecocapitalism, energy transitions, militarized landscapes, sustainability in Ethiopia, 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 old) discussions! 20 April 2017 (All-Day Colloquium): Jennifer…

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  • Video: Marion Nestle Lecture

    Marion Nestle gave the plenary lecture at the European Society of Environmental History (ESEH) Conference 2013. In her talk, entitled “Politics in Action: The Environment of Food Choice”, she explained how and why food production and consumption have changed since 1980. She also offered some suggestions for improving our food systems. Below is the RCC’s…

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