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We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis
May 31 2024
This post was originally published on DeSmog.By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for ReclamationI grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination. Its culture inspired iconic works and political move
Q&A with Sunaura Taylor, author of Disabled Ecologies
May 30 2024
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship
Q&A with Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta
May 14 2024
Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a ca
A Global Plastics Treaty Beyond Straw Men
Nov 06 2023
By Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of CareThis month, international leaders and representatives are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to establish an international agreement on how to address pl
The Fire That Burns
May 30 2023
"For me, it is about the pain of living inequality; it is about a fire inside to build and create a more just world collectively."
Rethinking mineral extraction in the Anthropocene
May 06 2022
By Sebastián Ureta & Patricio Flores, co-authors of Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice“We are walking, talking minerals” —V. I. Vernadsky[1]Mineral extraction has a bad reputation nowadays. Decades of relentless extraction of minerals throughout the world