Drip Torch Weddings and Environmental Rituals
Devising a fire ritual for a friend’s wedding inspires one author to consider how environmental rituals connect sacred and ordinary parts of our lives.
Tagged: Wisconsin
“Nature led the way”: The legacy of city planner John Nolen
A new biography of one of the founders of city planning in the US connects urban reform efforts from the early twentieth century with today’s environmental issues.
Dwelling with Place: Lorine Niedecker’s Ecopoetics
How can poetry, particularly the “ecopoetics” of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, help us dwell with our nonhuman places?
The Arboretum Edge
A gallery of photographs that meditate on the lesser-known corners of the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Shifting Gears: Rethinking Bicycling in Wisconsin
From “improved” velocipedes on skis to a Good Roads Movement, the history of bicycling is more surprising and wide-reaching than one might expect.
Knowledge in Translation: Speaking Across Disciplines at the CHE Graduate Student Symposium
Students, faculty, and associates from the CHE community and beyond gathered on February 4th, 2015 for the eighth annual Graduate Student Symposium.
An Eye for Winter: In Praise of Local Beauty
What is there to love about winter in a frigid place like Wisconsin? Lots, if you’re willing to look.
Whatever. . . Never Mind, or Old Torvald Skaalen Died on Saturday
A story at the intersection of truth, lies, memory, and imagination set in the Norwegian-American cultural landscape of Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Reflections on Extraction 2: Whose Risks, Whose Choices?
In a second set of reflections on “Landscapes of Extraction,” CHE members explore how communities negotiate the trade-offs of mining: private gain versus public well-being, individual enterprise versus regulatory caution, and economic necessity versus environmental risk.
Reflections on Extraction 1: Mining the Invisible
Reflecting on “Landscapes of Extraction,” CHE members explore the challenges of remembering and preserving the buried histories of mining landscapes.
