Green infrastructure, defined by the American Society of Landscape Architects as using nature as an infrastructural system, is increasingly incorporated into new developments as a means to mitigate and adapt to climate change...
Cities are greening in response to rising issues related to climate change by creating new parks and green spaces. With this greening comes the concern of ‘green gentrification’ described by Alessandro Rigolon and Jon Christensen...
The “May the River Be With You” podcast series, six episodes to date, was developed over 2019-20 by staff at the Quapaw Canoe Company with support from the Mississippi River Network.
The Mississippi River in what is now the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, has been home to people for millennia. Many Dakota people, who live here and are also located across the Northern Plains, consider this part of the Mississippi, more specifically where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers meet, to be Bdote, the center of their universe.
Tara Houska is Couchiching First Nation Ojibwe, a tribal attorney, founder of frontlines collective Ginew, and former Native advisor to Bernie Sanders. She writes movingly in this short essay about the need to listen to Indigenous people, and to the earth, in this time of climate crisis.
“Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century” is an edited collection of essays that appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The contributors are scholars of Indigenous thinking from diverse academic disciplines and professional backgrounds.
A great deal of the public debate about our changing climate has been centered in science and policy: How do we know the climate is changing, what is responsible (and how do we know that), and what should be done about this situation?
This piece, published in 2018, is still pertinent, because, as more people become aware of the immensity and the immediacy of the climate crisis, “Where do you find hope?” is still a question that people deeply engaged in confronting climate change are asked
Rivers are known as dynamic systems of biological, physical, and social components. But the changing climate will change these “systems of systems” in ways that are difficult to ascertain with precision.
The article’s title, “Designing Indian Country,” is provocative. Where is “Indian Country”? And if we think of “Indian Country” as the patchwork of reservation lands across the country (hint: it’s much bigger than that), then what are the “design” issues in these spaces?...