Bicycling Renaissance: a Bike Boom of Old (With Lessons for the New)
An interview with Dr. Evan Friss about the 1890s bicycling revolution in the United States.
Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Scott Kirsch
A conversation with geographer Scott Kirsch about what we mean when we talk about technology, and how we can understand the relationship between language and environmental and historical change.
Brooklyn’s Empire Stores and the Future of the Waterfront
Trash uncovered beneath an 1860s Brooklyn warehouse encourages us to reconsider our contemporary relationship to urban waterfronts.
Reader Survey 2016
The Editorial Board presents a survey so our readers can weigh in on Edge Effects.
The Missile
A sonnet about an unexpected winter visitor.
E is for Environment
The organizers of CHE’s grad student symposium talk about defining “environment” and the possibilities for collaboration at this weekend’s event.
Edgy Stuff: February 2016 Recommendations
A special edition of our February 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board, honoring Black History Month.
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.
Alan Bennett: An Ecological Storyteller
An ecologist channels a lifetime of studying birds into intricate wood carvings.
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.