Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part IV
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part III
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part II
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part I
Plastic Trouble is the story of Amiya, a young Himalayan brown bear exposed to plastic waste in the mountains she calls home. Come along on this four-part journey as Amiya wakes up from hibernation to face new, unexpected obstacles and meet new friends in the process.
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Plastic Passport
Hazardous Hope Part 4 By Simone Müller (*Featured image: Photo by Gerry & Bonni [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons) On our way out of office? In leadership counseling, they tell you about three key considerations for deciding if you should fire someone: 1) Did the person receive adequate feedback? 2) Did the person…
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New Hope for Plastic Waste Pollution?
Hazardous Hope Part 3 By Jonas Stuck In 2016, a new actor entered the main stage and brought new optimism into the fight against plastic waste pollution. Let me introduce Ideonella sakaiensis. A group of researchers from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio University discovered this bacterium outside a plastic bottle recycling factory in…
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Hazardous Hope—The Debate
“An Academic Play in One Act†by Simone M. Müller, Ayushi Dhawan, Maximilian Feichtner, and Jonas Stuck [Four scholars stare at their computers. They enter the virtual stage through Skype. It’s a global conversation crossing 3,5 continents, 4 countries, and 3 time zones: it’s the middle of the night in one place, early morning in…
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Mumbai Deluge 2017: Nowadays Rain Gods Have a New Tool—Plastic Bags!
by Ayushi Dhawan We often do not think twice before buying a plastic bag at a supermarket or a shopping mall. It’s bought because it’s needed and discarded after being used for a short while. How harmful can these everyday practices be to our environment? Mumbai’s recent floods definitely have a story to tell in…
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Worldview: One Piece at a Time
Guest post by Judith Selby and Richard Lang Judith Selby and Richard Lang are artists who collaborate in an ongoing project to collect plastic along Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore. They also recount their adventures in Plastic Forever, the blog they jointly manage. This is a  follow-up post to last week’s Snaphot on Seeing the Woods.…