The Water’s Not Fine: A Conversation with Anna Clark
The Flint water crisis is not over. Anna Clarkâs new book tells the history of how we got here and how lead is here to stay.
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What Canned Food Stands For: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
A historian implicates the canning industry in the rise of the industrial food system and our current public health crisis. And yet, she says, maligning canned food is not the answer.
In Search of a Democratic Agrarian Tradition: A Conversation with Pete Daniel and Jess Gilbert
What is the relationship between American agriculture and democracy? In this lively interview, Jess Gilbert and Pete Daniel get to the root of their disagreement over the role of the state and debate what effects the writing of agricultural history has on policy making.
Why We Need Experimental Poetry in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Lynn Keller
A new generation of experimental poets responds to the growing awareness of human impacts on the planet with work that challenges traditional nature poetry and poetic form.
Muslims Stand Up for Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Huda Alkaff
The founder of Wisconsin Green Muslims talks about her groupâs solar and water conservation work rooted in faith and justice, and its Greening Ramadan initiative for the Islamic holy month that begins this evening.
Rachel Carson Joins the Literary Canon: A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber
The acclaimed author and activist, who has edited the new Library of America edition of “Silent Spring,” reflects on how Carson changed her style of writing to become “defense attorney for the Earth.”
Indigenous Art as Creative Resistance: A Conversation with Dylan Miner
How can we use the arts to decolonize our relations to the land? An artist, activist, and scholar discusses the many forms of creative resistance we can use to imagine and enact new and better worlds.
Humor in Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Michael Branch
How do we expand the emotional range of environmental writing? One author argues that irreverence can be a potent form of subversion as we confront climate crisis.
What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan
What would it mean to see through the eyes of dogs? The tangled histories of humans and animals show us how personhood, criminality, and cruelty are constructed.
Indigenous Youth and the Changing Face of Settler Colonialism: A Conversation with Jaskiran Dhillon
An anthropologist and activist discusses her work with Indigenous youth and how social services and other state programs may be colonial intervention by another name.
