Dwelling with Place: Lorine Niedecker’s Ecopoetics
How can poetry, particularly the “ecopoetics” of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, help us dwell with our nonhuman places?
Rewilding and Reptiles: A Conversation With Naturalist Harry Greene
World-renowned herpetologist and naturalist Harry Greene discusses humanity’s “deep history” with snakes, empathy and embodiment in animal research, Pleistocene rewilding, natural history in education, and more.
Edgy Stuff: April 2015 Recommendations
April 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board . . . and a couple farewells.
Praying for Forgiveness: Religious Ethics of Sustainability in Muslim Indonesia
In the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, environmental ethics and social critique derive from longstanding Islamic practices such as “praying for forgiveness.”
Down the Peter Rabbit Hole: Literary Adventures for Little Ones
CHE affiliates in Zoology, History, and English recommend children’s literature for readers of all ages interested in the non-human world.
Placing the Golden Spike: Uneasy Temporality in the Anthropocene
A new exhibit at the UW-Milwaukee Institute for Visual Arts offers a range of imaginative visualizations for the crisis of the Anthropocene.
Why Our Students Should Debate Climate Change
Teaching the history of science in an age of climate denialism produces surprising questions about nature, knowledge, and democracy.
The Arrowhead on the Internet: A Conversation with National Park Service Cartographer Mamata Akella
Cartographer Mamata Akella discusses her work with NPMap, a project to create web mapping tools for the national parks.
Our Climatic Fate? Oreskes and Conway’s “Collapse of Western Civilization”
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s tale of our catastrophic future is a provocative hybrid of scholarship and science fiction that’s great for the classroom.
Materialized Dreams: Boom and Bust in the Cultural Landscape of West Texas
The hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) boom and an imminent bust in the face of a worldwide oil glut are just the most recent swings in a long history of economic and ecological instability in the mineral-rich Permian basin.