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grist.org /5 days ago

The world is crumbling in ‘The History of Concrete’

John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.

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nybooks.com /1 week ago

The Sheer Size of It All

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs chronicle the gigantic scale of the scarred landscapes created by twentieth-century extractive industries.

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yaleclimateconnections.org /1 month ago

The next water crisis is beneath our feet

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conservativedailynews.com /3 days ago

Erosion

by Michael Ramirez at CDN - Click to read the rest HERE-> Erosion first posted at Conservative Daily News

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vtdigger.org /3 weeks ago

New book traces Twin States’ cultural split to the soil itself

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marginalrevolution.com /6 days ago

*This Beautiful Country*

The author is Edward Cutler and the subtitle is How Italy’s Nature Shaped its Culture and Civilisation.  This is an excellent book on how “the Italy you know” has been shaped by it...

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planetizen.com /1 month ago

Instead of water, sediment from droughts and wildfire is choking U.S. dams

Instead of water, sediment from droughts and wildfire is choking U.S. dams Zachary Whalen Thu, 09/10/2026 - 06:00 Primary Image Pri...

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com /1 month ago

Ohio farmer turns erosion-hit 700-acre farm into an 8,000-acre model

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marginalrevolution.com /3 weeks ago

*Shade*

The author is Sam Bloch, and the subtitle is The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource.  An interesting book on a neglected topic, here is one excerpt: Shade is not part of L.A.’...

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ancientpages.com /1 month ago

Why Troy Matters: Ancient Ruins Reflect Modern Realities

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Periods of prosperity can contain the roots of future collapse. In ancient Troy, ambition led to environmental strain long before modern industry. W...

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taipeitimes.com /1 month ago

World’s soils deteriorating: UN report

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archdaily.com /2 weeks ago

Unearthing the Ground: Architecture and the Politics of Waste

In 1948, Robert Moses established the Fresh Kills Landfill on the western shore of Staten Island. The site, chosen for its remote marshland and cheap land value, was meant to be te...

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planetizen.com /1 month ago

What the fall of earth's largest pre-industrial city can teach us about urban sprawl

What the fall of earth's largest pre-industrial city can teach us about urban sprawl Zachary Whalen Fri, 09/18/2026 - 05:00 7 minutes

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kirkusreviews.com /2 weeks ago

CALIFORNIA INSIDE OUT

Award-winning naturalist, poet, and painter Kaufmann (The California Field Atlas, 2017, etc.) invites readers to redefine stewardship of the earth, by uniting “ecological science,...

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bioengineer.org /3 weeks ago

Desert Roots Rewire Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Through Microbes and Minerals

Beneath every plant, the narrow sleeve of soil hugging its roots—the rhizosphere—is one of the most chemically active zones on Earth. Roots leak sugars, organic acids and other com...

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marginalrevolution.com /1 week ago

*Lost Worlds*

The author is Patrick Wyman, and the subtitle is How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World.  An excellent book, it is a survey of (mostly) pre-Sumerian times, what w...

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thenation.com /1 month ago

How Civilizations Fall—With Patrick Wyman

Matt DaSilva, Aaron Regunberg, Jonathan Smucker Patrick Wyman joins Fighting Fascism to explore what ancient societies can teach us about social collapse, human agency, and conf...

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reactormag.com /4 days ago

Electric Mountains, Collective Care, and Why We Didn’t Dam the Grand Canyon: Deb Chachra’s How Infrastructure Works

A fascinating work that envisions infrastructure as a mode of communal caretaking The post Electric Mountains, Collective Care, and Why We Didn’t Dam the Grand Canyon: Deb Chachra’...

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dramarnathgiri.blogspot.com /1 week ago

Healthy soil is not just loose dirt. It has aggregates, pores, organic matter, roots, air and water pathways working tog...

HOW SOIL STRUCTURE DETERIORATESHealthy soil is not just loose dirt.It has aggregates, pores, organic matter, roots, air and water pathways working together.When these are repeatedl...

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dailygood.org /1 month ago

Wendell Berry’s life on Earth

Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across...

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scientificamerican.com /1 month ago

What archaeology reveals about the rise of all-powerful rulers

Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

Mountains Are Coming Undone

The burning of fossil fuels is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.

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openculture.com /1 month ago

Rage Against the Machines: From the Luddites to the AI Data Center Backlash

One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a canal under construction in nineteen-sixties China. Noticing the sheer number of human laborer...

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World

John Wilson’s whimsical first documentary feature reveals the social essence, and the political stakes, of the ubiquitous stuff of construction.

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