Neste guia rápido sobre o impacto duradouro de Henry Ford na Amazônia, o diretor de Beyond Fordlândia compartilha histórias pouco conhecidas de violência, poluição e ativismo que descobriu durante as filmagens do novo documentário.
Ellie Kincaid and M Hamilton Wilson talk with Cleo Wölfle Hazard about his recent book, Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice.
Aligator Alcatraz is both a continuation of the past and a harbinger of a dark future. Alexandra White explores the history of carceral ecology from plantations to this modern detention center and argues that in this era of climate collapse, land becomes a natural prison.
Juntao Yang examines how Lukas Marxt renders the specter of toxicity visible and knowable in his experimental film, Among The Palms The Bomb (2024). The film, they argue, is a study of the technology of witnessing and a call for deep attunement to the land.
As global environmental issues have evolved, the principles guiding ethical outdoor recreation have not. Tomasz Falkowski urges us to rethink the traces we leave.
Laleh Ahmad speaks with Ramachandra Guha on his new book, Speaking with Nature (2024). They discuss the history of environmentalism in India and how it differs from the West, especially through key thinkers’ intertwining of social justice and nature.
In this exhibit, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch use archival materials and art to humanize the stories of migrant mining workers of southern Africa and reflect on the environments in which they live, work, die, and resist.
In this special episode, Edge Effects and the SustainUW Podcast team collaborate to discuss the history of Earth Day in the United States, bring a glimpse of Earth Fest celebrations on UW-Madison’s campus, and underline the importance of embracing environmental protection beyond just April 22.
Lydia Lapporte traces how the project of kelp recovery in the Pacific Ocean connects to the mission of decarceration. Relational companionship and abolition ecologies can be useful for both kelp and incarcerated people.
In reviewing Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects the colonial mistreatment and dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant “Others” to the pollution and objectification of rivers around the world.