Tag: Environmentalism
What social change movements can learn from fly fishing: The value...
Brett Crawford, Grand Valley State University ; Erica Coslor, The University of Melbourne, and Madeline Toubiana, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today’s idea of a nature-positive...
Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University
Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma...
The lessons ‘Moby-Dick’ has for a warming world of rising waters
Aaron Sachs, Cornell University
As an environmental historian and scholar of the 19th century, I spend a lot of...
‘What’s Going On’ at 50 – Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is...
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
Motown wasn’t really known for its politically conscious music. Then came “What’s Going On.”
What ‘Walden’ can tell us about social distancing and focusing on...
Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut
Seeking to bend the coronavirus curve, governors and mayors have told millions of Americans to stay home. If you’re...
Why ‘acting locally’ is impossible in an interconnected world
Jennifer M. Bernstein, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the...
Thoreau’s great insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an attitude, not...
Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut
When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that “In Wildness is...
Grand Canyon National Park turns 100: How a place once called...
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
Few sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim...
EXPLORING NATURE
Get chronic UTIs? Future treatments may add more bacteria to your...
Sarguru Subash, Texas A&M University
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world suffer from urinary tract...
