Tag: Law and Policy
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
in EssaysDarkness is vanishing, and that’s a problem. Historian Kenneth Weisbrode and poet Heather H. Yeung explain how and why we seek out the dark.
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What Justice We Can Achieve: Five Questions for Dan Lewerenz
in PodcastsThe Native American Rights Fund works toward multiple forms of justice: legal, environmental, and social. Staff attorney Dan Lewerenz explains how.
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What One Court Case Could Mean for Tribal Sovereignty: A Conversation with Rebecca Nagle
in PodcastsRebecca Nagle’s podcast, This Land, examines tribal sovereignty and how the future of Muscogee (Creek) Nation may hinge on a case before the Supreme Court.
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Managing the Rights of Nature for Te Awa Tupua
in EssaysThe settlement over the Whanganui River, Te Awa Tupua, in Aotearoa New Zealand has been hailed as a victory for the “rights of nature.” But context matters.
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Managing the Globe after Empire
in ReviewsNew books by Perrin Selcer and Quinn Slobodian show how ideas about the global environment and global economy took shape in response to the end of empire.
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Imagining a Green New Deal Through Climate Fiction
in ReviewsIs the Green New Deal real or science fiction? Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel New York 2140 imagines a flooded world where climate action is unavoidable.
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Surviving Carmageddon in Manila
in EssaysTo address the traffic crisis in the world’s fourth-largest city, officials seek to modernize urban transportation by phasing out the city’s iconic jeepney, a uniquely Filipino mode of transport repurposed from a bygone colonial era.
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Animal Law for Social Justice: A Conversation with Pamela Hart and Megan Senatori
in PodcastsProtecting animals can mean protecting people, too. Two attorneys weigh in on the state of animal law and discuss their nonprofit organization that shelters pets of those escaping domestic abuse.
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There’s Nothing “Natural” About Binary Gender
in CommentaryIn light of the US government’s controversial proposal to define gender as a “biological fact,” a trans scholar and artist critiques the use of “nature” to limit the messy, multidimensional reality of gender identity and expression.
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Banking on Seeds for Our Future
in EssaysThe USDA’s National Plant Germplasm System is arguably the most important seed bank for our food supply. An agroecologist explains why it is in desperate need of attention.