One Community and its River: An Artist Roundtable
Artists reflect on their collaborative installation and performance on the banks of the Chester River.
Category: Fieldnotes
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.
From Jack-O’-Lantern to Pumpkin Pie: The Surprising History of a Favorite Fall Icon
Historian Cindy Ott explains the unique political, economic, and symbolic roles the pumpkin has played in American culture.
Rhythm by the Riverside: An Interview with Cassie Meador
In this interview, dancer and choreographer Cassie Meador discusses her work with Dance Exchange, and especially their innovative Moving Field Guide program.
Working the Edge; or, How We Built This Thing
One year since launch, our founding managing editor looks back on building Edge Effects.
Edge Effects, One Year On
Edge Effects celebrates its first year as CHE’s dedicated blog for lively, interdisciplinary conversation about culture, history, and the environment.
Postcards from the Field: Part 2
A second batch of postcards showcases the summer travels, fieldwork, and adventures of CHE graduate students.
Postcards from the Field: Part 1
What’s in the mail? The first of two batches of “postcards” featuring stories from CHE grads about their summer travels and fieldwork.
“Nature led the way”: The legacy of city planner John Nolen
A new biography of one of the founders of city planning in the US connects urban reform efforts from the early twentieth century with today’s environmental issues.
Measuring the Anthropocene
In the Anthropocene, or “age of humans,” maps open up important but complicated spaces of dialogue about the “human imprint” on earth systems.
