Edgy Stuff: August 2015 Recommendations
August 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
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Being With Bees
A beekeeper struggles to make sense of aggression from her typically docile insect charges.
Building Beaches: Beach Nourishment in the United States
A hard look at the soft engineering that goes into our beaches.
“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.
Edgy Stuff: July 2015 Recommendations
July 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
The Art of Offering: A Woodworker’s Lessons on Collaboration
What can art teach us about fieldwork? Sometimes the stories we tell belong to others.
“Somewhere That’s Green”: Little Shop of Horrors and the Man-Eating Lawns of Cairo
What a musical about a man-eating plant can tell us about Egypt’s disastrous desert development.
Green Conservatives: A Conversation with Brian Drake
Advocates of small government have a long and uncharted history within US environmentalism, argues Brian Drake in an interview about his recent book.
Edgy Stuff: June 2015 Recommendations
June 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Tapping the Past for California’s Water Future
California’s current drought offers an occasion for rethinking how our relationship to the past can help us confront crisis.
