Killing Birds
The recent collection of a rare bird re-ignites the debate among scientists and broader publics about the value of lethal techniques for studying wildlife.
Category: Essays
Drip Torch Weddings and Environmental Rituals
Devising a fire ritual for a friend’s wedding inspires one author to consider how environmental rituals connect sacred and ordinary parts of our lives.
Working the Edge; or, How We Built This Thing
One year since launch, our founding managing editor looks back on building Edge Effects.
Planning Environmental Pedagogy: A How-To
Careful lesson planning enables students to create their own solutions to today’s environmental challenges.
Being With Bees
A beekeeper struggles to make sense of aggression from her typically docile insect charges.
Building Beaches: Beach Nourishment in the United States
A hard look at the soft engineering that goes into our beaches.
The Art of Offering: A Woodworker’s Lessons on Collaboration
What can art teach us about fieldwork? Sometimes the stories we tell belong to others.
“Somewhere That’s Green”: Little Shop of Horrors and the Man-Eating Lawns of Cairo
What a musical about a man-eating plant can tell us about Egypt’s disastrous desert development.
Tapping the Past for California’s Water Future
California’s current drought offers an occasion for rethinking how our relationship to the past can help us confront crisis.
Death, Burial, and Citizenship
Places of burial allow for public recognition of the dead, but also invoke specific forms of official memory, offering a frame for imagining citizenship.
