Practicing (?) Environmental Justice
What is environmental justice? Is it a movement? Is it an outcome? What follows is my thought process on how environmental justice fits (or doesn’t) into bottom-up and top-down spaces; and how young people should seek to understand it. (...)
River Semester Map and Daily Blog
From August 28 - December 9, 2023, the River Semester travelled downstream with stops at river hubs along the way. Follow their progress as they travel downstream. (...)
Reflections on Confluence 2
From May 25th to May 28th, 2023, the Mississippi River Open School gathered in the Twin Cities for Confluence 2. These four reflections are a multi-faceted portrait of the Confluence. (...)
Mutual Earthly Delights
At the core of a just transition must be a cultural shift to respect water, earth, and all non-human beings. To recognize our delicate position within creation and honor and respect its limits. (...)
Infrastructuring Inequality: Investigations of a Proposed Nickel Mine in Northern Minnesota
Educating the public and students about a controversial underground nickel mine in Tamarack, Minnesota to fuel the transition to electric vehicle (EV) drivership. (...)
Spirituality and Ecology: (Re)Membering Black Women’s Legacies
I no longer have to be cut off from my being. I no longer have to be cut off from the earth. (...)
A Big River Continuum
From the Iron Range in Minnesota’s Northern reaches to industrial farming in the South, to the strength and vibrancy of its Native reservations, it’s impossible to write about rural Minnesota as a singular place. While urban areas concentrate complexity, rural Minnesota exhibits it over expansive distances. Many of the issues that have made the Twin Cities the recent focus of national attention are echoed in the state's rural struggles. These include explosive fights over social and racial justi (...)
On the Recuperative Mismanagement of a Cosmopolitan Fish
To close the opening week of The Shape of a Practice, artists created a convivial meal-at-a-distance with so-called invasive species. From a kitchen in Carbondale, Illinois, artist Sarah Lewison, alongside storyteller and soul food authority Swan Parsons, prepare a meal of Asian carp, opening up questions related to an eco-logic of planetary care and our relationships to habitat. From Berlin and Chicago, artist and biologist Andrew Yang, biologist Florian Rutland and artist Alexandra Toland prep (...)
