Tag: Sustainability
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Finding Harmony with Japan’s Waves
in EssaysErica Cherepko illustrates ways in which Japan’s longstanding, community-based marine conservation utilizes “satoumi” to blend tradition and innovation, protecting coastal ecosystems.
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Solarpunk Narrates Futures Beyond Climate Despair
in EssaysLaleh Ahmad argues that the solarpunk genre offers imaginable, realistic green futures based on renewable energy and communal self-reliance, rooted in justice and care.
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Young, Queer Farmers Are Here to Change U.S. Agriculture
in EssaysToday’s queer youth are more interested in farming than ever. Eliza Pessereau surveyed members of the Queer Farmer Listserv to understand their challenges and motivations for going “back to the land.”
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Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming
in EssaysDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, video games offered Nat Mesnard and many others an escape from isolation. But the false promise of endless productivity in factory building games like Satisfactory ensnared them in a myth of capitalist “progress.”
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A Century of Cannabis: A Conversation with Nick Johnson
in PodcastsOne historian exposes shadowy corners of cannabis’s history and offers prescriptions for achieving a bright, sustainable future for the world’s widest-ranging crop.
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Talking Transformation in Beijing
in FieldnotesA conference in China brings graduate students from around the world together to discuss environmental transformation.