Faculty Favorites: Books to Add to Your Shelf This Spring
Five professors recommend an eclectic set of environmentally focused books about animals, shopping malls, feral children, and more.
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2017 Year In Review
Climate change, indigenous knowledge, environmental justice. Edge Effects contributors addressed critical issues in a year of social and environmental upheaval.
The Case for Ecological Reparations: A Conversation with Jason W. Moore
Making things right in the face of climate change demands that colonialism, race, and gender take center stage in the story of capitalism.
The Fragile Society We’ve Built from Rocks: A Conversation With Gregory Cushman
Fertilizers, computers, gasoline, and other parts of our everyday lives come from irreplaceable deposits found in the Earth. But how long will they last?
Cottonwoods in Concrete: A Call for Collaborative Survival among Ruins
A forest sprouting from a levee in eastern Washington offers a model for flood management, if only we notice it.
The Best of End Times: A Conversation with Anna Tsing
The author of “The Mushroom at the End of the World” is back with another exploration of how humans and non-humans will make their lives in the ruins of modernity.
The Wild Bunch: A Conversation with Curt Meine and Gavin Van Horn
An important new essay collection avoids the old arguments about wilderness and instead offers 26 meditations on living well in our places.
Seeds as Time Capsules
When Courtney Fullilove looks inside a seed, she sees Mennonite farmers, Comanche agriculture, and Echinacea patents. Her new book, “The Profit of the Earth,” shows that the genes of a seed can narrate the history of American empire.
NASA and the Explosive 1960s: A Conversation with Neil Maher
The author of the new book “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius” shows how NASA shaped, and was shaped by, 1960s environmentalism, feminism, conservatism, counterculture, antiwar protests, and the black freedom struggle.
Politics for a Maimed World: A Conversation with Jedediah Purdy
The acclaimed cultural critic and author of “After Nature” set off to explore the uncharted depths of the Anthropocene. But he found Thoreau there waiting for him.
