Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Day 7. Danube Excursion: Bratislava—Munich
by Lea Wiser Bratislava → Munich Spending a night on a boat and waking up to views over the glimmering river is not something that happens every day. After a long night, a hearty breakfast helped us to regain our energy for the last guided tour with Peter Pisut, who specializes in the historical…
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Day 6. Danube Excursion: Vienna—Bratislava
by Laura Kuen Vienna → Orth → GabÄÃkovo → Bratislava Traveling from Vienna to Bratislava, our day’s topics branched in quite different directions: water power and nature conservation. We first visited the Austrian National Park Donau-Auen in Orth and later the GabÄÃkovo Dams, Slovakia’s biggest hydroelectric plant. Conservation in the Donau-Auen The national park, which spans the distance…
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Day 5. Danube Excursion: Krems—Vienna
by Christoph Netz Krems → Vienna Research Channels, Sterlets, and the Danube Island of Vienna With another early start, it was lucky that the memorable apricot jam, a local specialty, provided a good incentive to get up in time for breakfast. Only five minutes behind schedule, we departed from Krems, with its beautiful historic center…
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Changing the Conversation with Ecofeminism: A Primer
Post by Jenny Seifert Changing a paradigm is no easy task—an understatement, no doubt. It probably seems just as easy as solving the world’s environmental problems. And shifting the paradigms that underlie those problems may seem like a doubly impossible task. Yet, the fate of humanity might hang on our ability to accomplish the impossible.…