Environment Forum

The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD...

Media and video art practice of the last twenty years coincided with the harrowing expansion of climate degradation. While the effects of climate change had been anticipated before 2000, they took shape ubiquitously and lethally post-2000, bringing new...

Emily Raboteau is a novelist, essayist, memoirist, and street photographer whose work is at the intersection of race, environmental justice, parenthood, and social change. Her last book, Searching for Zion won an American Book Award. She is a regular...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM SPEAKER: JENNIFER WENZEL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY In this talk, Jennifer Wenzel suggests that the impasse of the present is determined not only by petro-magic—fairy-tale promises of wealth without work—but also by a failure of the...

In the United States, the right of assembly is “expressed” less in written texts than in landscape architecture. This lecture looks at the parks and meadows of Frederick Law Olmsted in relation to the right of assembly, most recently as practiced in...