"Let the Environment Guide our Development"
Johan Rockstrom works to redefine sustainability, and identifies nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
Johan Rockstrom works to redefine sustainability, and identifies nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants).
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.
Joachim Schuetz argues that sustainability should be interpreted as a quest for conscious adoption of a global systems identity.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Bruce Clarke is interviewed on his recent book, Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene.
This book explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world’s most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses.
Excerpt from An Environmental History of the Civil War.
Excerpt from the The Swamp of East Naples.