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Crisis / Orangutans

A case study excerpted from Animal Crisis

September 14, 2022 • by Lori Gruen and Alice Crary

From 2000 to 2015, 150,000 orangutans on Borneo died as their forest homes were destroyed and they became exposed to humans. And orangutans aren’t the only creatures to suffer from this massive destruction....

New York City

Good Jewish Boys Gone Bad

Did the sexual monstrosity of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein have cultural roots?

August 31, 2022 • by Mitchell Abidor

Harvey Weinstein—like Jeffrey Epstein—was the product not of a liberated sexuality gone haywire but of a liberated sexuality that passed them by when it mattered most. ...

New York City

Reimagining Nature—The High Line Experiment

How plant design preserved the High Line for a city craving natural space

August 17, 2022 • by Yasmin Arquiza

Meandering around the gardens, it is easy to imagine the trees, shrubs, and ferns just sprouting between the rusty tracks. In reality, it takes a lot of effort from the gardening team, working behind the scenes, to maintain the pastoral ambience. ...

Reimagining Nature—The High Line Experiment

Climate & Ecology

Fuel for Thought: Climate Change as Class War

The climate crisis has its material foundations in the capitalist system of production; Syracuse University geographer Matthew Huber proposes that tackling the problem requires changing how production is organized

June 7, 2022 • by Vince Carducci

Huber is essentially correct that the climate crisis is for all intents and purposes a class war, that of the transnational national capitalist class against the rest of us...

Fuel for Thought: Climate Change as Class War

Climate & Ecology

Eco-anxiety Is a Threat to Global Mental Health—and to the Planet

If we are so overwhelmed that we turn away from climate change, it will defeat us

June 2, 2022 • by Lindsay Myers

I see the climate clock on Union Square almost every day: on my way to the grocery store, when I stop by the farmer’s market, and even on my morning quest for caffeine before I am ready to face the day much less impending climate catastrophe. In bright orange neon ...

Eco-anxiety Is a Threat to Global Mental Health—and to the Planet

Migration

The Rise of Humanitarian Corridors

How a lay Catholic community mobilized a transnational response to wartime refugee crises

April 18, 2022 • by Patrick Gilger, S.J.

The type of global public religion that the Sant’ Egidio community offers no silver bullet for those who are internally displaced or pushed across borders. And yet, secularism and secularists cannot combat these crises alone. Although a magical solution is not at hand, a certain form of help is. The ...

Migration

The Measurement of Loss

What do I take with me? How much can I carry when on foot?

March 22, 2022 • by Andreas Kossert

The flight of the refugee is not, as I understand it, migration. Although the boundary can be fluid, not all those who risk their lives to cross the Mediterranean, for example, are refugees. The two must be differentiated to protect the refugee against the threat of terminological arbitrariness....

Urban Environments

Disney City, USA

Beware Disney’s new residential communities

February 28, 2022 • by Pat Garofalo

Disney last week announced a new plan to build entire residential communities, a major move into real estate that’s disconnected from its current theme parks and their surroundings. It’s calling the initiative “Storyliving.” The first of these neighborhoods will be in Rancho Mirage, California, and is supposed to include homes, a ...

Migration

At the Border

Going into Poland’s forests to help migrants gave me a sense of peace but the journey is far from over

December 17, 2021 • by Pawel Knut and Franciszka Sady

Before leaving for Podlachia I naively assumed that my trip would have a beginning and an end, that I would gain a better understanding of the ongoing crisis and the role people such as myself could play in it. I seem to have reached some geographical and symbolic end. However, ...

Migration

Are White People Really in Decline?

No, but when the mainstream media reports changing racial demographics as a contest for social domination, they validate white supremacists’ worst fears

September 15, 2021 • by Karen Gaffney

_____ When the United States Census Bureau released its 2020 census on August 12, 2021, the news media highlighted two important trends in race and ethnicity: a drop in the number of white people and a rise in the number of people who identify with more than one racial group. Both facts represent ...

Climate & Ecology

A Near-Future Novel for Our Gorgeous and Beleaguered Present

Alexandra Kleeman chats with Helen Schulman about her new book, Something New Under the Sun

September 10, 2021 • by Alexandra Kleeman and Helen Schulman

_____ Upon the publication of her new novel, Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth, 2021), New School faculty Alexandra Kleeman sat down with Helen Schulman, faculty and fiction chair at the Creative Writing program, to talk about Los Angeles, the climate crisis, and writing about the very near future. The interview was presented by the Creative Writing ...

A Near-Future Novel for Our Gorgeous and Beleaguered Present

Climate & Ecology

A Patch of Moonlight

Darwin’s warning

August 25, 2021 • by Ruth Padel

_____ Rustles of the night in the Nilgiri Hills. I sit behind the low wall of a veranda beside Priya who invited me here, her husband Jean Philippe, and her brother Peter. They are scientists and naturalists. This is what they do every night. I am very lucky to be their ...

Habitats

Crisis / Orangutans

A case study excerpted from Animal Crisis

Good Jewish Boys Gone Bad

Did the sexual monstrosity of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein have cultural roots?

Reimagining Nature—The High Line Experiment

How plant design preserved the High Line for a city craving natural space

Fuel for Thought: Climate Change as Class War

The climate crisis has its material foundations in the capitalist system of production; Syracuse University geographer Matthew Huber proposes that tackling the problem requires changing how production is organized

Eco-anxiety Is a Threat to Global Mental Health—and to the Planet

If we are so overwhelmed that we turn away from climate change, it will defeat us

The Rise of Humanitarian Corridors

How a lay Catholic community mobilized a transnational response to wartime refugee crises

The Measurement of Loss

What do I take with me? How much can I carry when on foot?

Disney City, USA

Beware Disney’s new residential communities

At the Border

Going into Poland’s forests to help migrants gave me a sense of peace but the journey is far from over

Are White People Really in Decline?

No, but when the mainstream media reports changing racial demographics as a contest for social domination, they validate white supremacists’ worst fears

A Near-Future Novel for Our Gorgeous and Beleaguered Present

Alexandra Kleeman chats with Helen Schulman about her new book, Something New Under the Sun

A Patch of Moonlight

Darwin’s warning

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