Finding the Words: An Account of E is for Environment, CHE’s 2016 Graduate Student Symposium
A meeting of minds at CHE’s 2016 graduate student symposium broadens the environmental vocabulary.
Category: Fieldnotes
Exploitation and Conservation Among the Ancient Maya
Environmental exploitation has been linked to the collapse of the Mayan society, but the Maya may in fact have been environmental stewards.
Notes from the Great Transition
Training people to help create communities that are better suited to a changing environment is important work—but quite a challenge when it’s not at all clear what that future will look like.
Why Are Snowflakes Individually Unique?
A scientific explanation for a piece of folk meteorology.
Land Use Legacies: What We Do in Life Echoes in Eternity
The ecological legacy of our ancestors is deeply engraved in the environment today—a fact that reminds us of our shared responsibility to our descendants.
Rewilding the Badger Army Ammunition Plant
Volunteers and stakeholders bring prairie ecosystems back to life on the grounds of what was once the world’s largest munitions facility.
The Stories and Languages of Home: A Conversation with Robin W. Kimmerer
Dr. Robin W. Kimmerer speaks about indigenous knowledges, traditional science, and the stories and words that connect us to our nonhuman homes.
Pictures Make History: West German Environmentalism from 1950 to 1990
Drawing helps an environmental historian make sense of changing ideas of nature in West Germany.
One Community and its River: An Artist Roundtable
Artists reflect on their collaborative installation and performance on the banks of the Chester River.
Tales from Planet Earth Returns to Explore Belief, Environment, and Social Justice
With the Tales from Planet Earth film festival only days away, its organizers explore the festival theme “belief” by highlighting what audiences can anticipate.
