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The race to protect the food of the future – why seed banks alone are not the answer
Mar 23 2022
By Helen Anne Curry, author of Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of ExtinctionThis post was originally published on The Conversation.Last summer I grew three varieties of corn in my tiny garden. I knew from the start that my harvest, if any, would be meagre. The plants
How Bolivians Fought For — and Won — Water Access for All
Mar 22 2022
By Sarah Hines, author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern BoliviaIn January 2006, Evo Morales Ayma became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected in the wake of a five-year period of popular rebellion that began with mass protests against water priv
Q&A with Ryan Edwards, author of A Carceral Ecology
Mar 21 2022
Ryan C. Edwards received a PhD in History from Cornell University and has taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Princeton University, and Cayuga Correctional Facility in Upstate New York.Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to
Q&A with Peter Alagona, author of The Accidental Ecosystem
Mar 03 2022
For World Wildlife Day, Peter Alagona discusses his new book, The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities. Peter AlagonaThe Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpecte
The Pyrocene: Baptism By Fire
Jul 29 2021
By Stephen Pyne, author of The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens NextThis article was originally published in The Arizona Republic, and is reposted here with permission.For the third year running I’ve watched the plumes of megafires from my office window. 2019: Woodbu