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Josh Cinner, Anna Tsing, and the Meadowlands

Three different takes on thinking about people and nature: 1) A profile of our colleague Josh Cinner in Science (a conservation social scientist): Now a senior research fellow at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville, Australia, Cinner studies how coral … Continue reading

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Remnants of the Biosphere

BLDGBLOG, written by Geoff Manaugh, just published this blog on Remants of the Biosphere. Photographer Noah Sheldon got in touch the other week with a beautiful series of photos documenting the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment … Continue reading

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Global building boom implodes

From BLDGBLOG: The Boom is Over: Amongst many, many signs that the building boom has come to an end, from gridlocks of cars abandoned at the Dubai airport by fleeing workers to massive holes in the urban surface of Chicago, … Continue reading

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Kim Stanley Robinson on nature, architecture, and society

Geoff Manaugh recently interviewed ecological science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about ecology, architecture and socieities on BLDGBLOG.  Manaugh writes: Robinson’s books are not only filled with descriptions of landscapes – whole planets, in fact, noted, sensed, and textured down … Continue reading

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Climate Change Escapism

In Spain Greenpeace has published a short photo book Photoclima that uses estimates from IPPC and photomontages to show six landscapes of Spain a changed climate. The book is bilingual in Spanish and English. By Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez. … Continue reading

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