Edgy Stuff: May 2016 Recommendations
May 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board …
5 Ways to Ford the Dam(n)ed Mississippi River
CHE’s upcoming place-based workshop elicits questions—and several suggestions—about how to navigate a river and its watershed …
An Ode to Madison’s Lake Monster
A story about sea serpents, water spirits, and how Madison’s lake monster lore invites an ethic of coexistence …
Damming God? Making Sense of the Plan to Fix Niagara Falls
Recent news of restoration work at Niagara Falls provides an opportunity to reflect on how symbolic American landscapes become meaningful despite constant change …
Brooklyn’s Empire Stores and the Future of the Waterfront
Trash uncovered beneath an 1860s Brooklyn warehouse encourages us to reconsider our contemporary relationship to urban waterfronts …
The Flint Water Crisis: A Special Edition Environment and Health Roundtable
The Flint water crisis sounds a call not just to address the immediate emergency, but to consider the larger legacies to which it points. We’ve assembled a roundtable of noted scholars to contemplate this history, whose understanding, they suggest, is crucial to any broader solution …
One Community and its River: An Artist Roundtable
Artists reflect on their collaborative installation and performance on the banks of the Chester River …
Everyday Paths of Water in the City
How do people encounter water every day in São Paulo, and how can those encounters suggest opportunities for dealing with water’s scarcity? …
Building Beaches: Beach Nourishment in the United States
A hard look at the soft engineering that goes into our beaches …
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 …
Land, Water, and Climate Change in Five Interactive Maps
Five new visualization tools help us explore how climate change might affect the places where land and water meet …
Davis Island: A Confederate Shrine, Submerged
A visit to Jefferson Davis’s former property in Mississippi shows that, in the battles over how we remember the Civil War, the combatants are not always human …
