Eight Online Environmental Archives to Bookmark
These digital environmental archives offer a range of approaches to environmental histories, cultural practices, and ecological changes.
Reflections on the Plantationocene: A Conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing
Plantations discipline both plants and people. Two scholars reckon with the Plantationocene to develop a shared vision of multispecies justice.
Making Kin with Serpents in Myanmar’s Snake Temples
Buddhist beliefs and Burmese pythons create a multispecies world in the Snake Temples of Myanmar.
Decolonizing Infrastructure in India and the US: A Conversation with Malini Ranganathan
Two urban geographers discuss decolonization in theory and practice, the politics of water and infrastructure, and the social sides of environmental science.
Excavating Haitian Histories
Haitian political history, Taíno artifacts, colonial plantations, and even cholera bacteria leave their marks on the land in Kwynn Johnson’s 30-foot panoramic drawing of Cap Haitien.
What Counts as Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita
The award-winning author and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing discusses storytelling during environmental crisis, legacies of Japanese incarceration, and why ethnographies are environmental writing.
Recommended Readings for a Radical Life
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, and other activists and educators recommend books that challenge the divisions of life drawn by settler colonialism, racial slavery, and the natural sciences.
There’s No Sheriff on This Planet: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
The acclaimed writer of the bestselling Mars trilogy and Red Moon models possible futures in his science fiction for a biosphere of eight billion people, seeking new solutions for global emergencies.
Finally, a Funny Environmental Film
And it might just be the quirky, queered, Icelandic feminist ecowarrior movie you’ve been waiting for.
MetroCard Mosaics Celebrate Migration
In “A Manifesto about Migration, Freedom, and Diversity,” one artist creates mosaics of New York’s migratory birds from recycled MetroCards.