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John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs chronicle the gigantic scale of the scarred landscapes created by twentieth-century extractive industries.
by Michael Ramirez at CDN - Click to read the rest HERE-> Erosion first posted at Conservative Daily News
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...
Instead of water, sediment from droughts and wildfire is choking U.S. dams Zachary Whalen Thu, 09/10/2026 - 06:00 Primary Image Pri...
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.’...
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...
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...
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
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged
The burning of fossil fuels is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.
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...
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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