Sulawesi: Where Continents Collide
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the above is a photo of the Scottish Highlands. In fact, it was taken in central Sulawesi.
The Jungle
Bad Gals/ Boys
Yayoi Kusama: An Artist for the Anthropocene
To step into an Infinity Mirror Room is to lose one’s finite self in infinite reflections. It is also to experience reality as Kusama sees it: the self as a part of the environment, not apart from it.
The Jungle
The Sacred Grove
Whatever Thoreauvian notions you might harbor about nature in the tropics, the truth is that the impact of human intervention is everywhere, and what you encounter is not quite natural.
The Jungle
How Do We Save All This?
Isn’t it time we started thinking about pristine ecosystems as providing a service, and if so, shouldn’t the owners of that resource be compensated for the service?
Material Culture
The Hydraulic Civilizations of Central Asia
It is a little known fact that Central Asia (which, typically, does not conjure up much in the popular imagination beyond oil and despots)…
Immaterial Culture
An Islamic Environmentalism
“A group of men set out to collect the fruits of a garden, but before doing so, they failed to acknowledge that their labors…
The City
A Watery Story
Are autocratic regimes necessary to push through the changes we need to save our planet?
International Relations
Pondering the Haze
How does a single nation handle a transnational problem?
The True Cost of Things
If You Want to Save the Planet, Don’t Buy So Much Stuff
Recycling doesn’t let us off the hook for our consumption choices.
The True Cost of Things
One Man’s Trash is Another’s Treasure
The global scrap trade conjures up ugly images of ragpickers and mountains of trash, but it’s actually one of globalisation’s great green successes.