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The Great Lakes and the Rights of Water

The Great Lakes and the Rights of Water

[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] The inevitable environmental catastrophe Line 5 poses forces us to imagine a world...

Building Solidarity Along the Entirety of Line 5

Building Solidarity Along the Entirety of Line 5

[Note: this essay is part of a series of six essays on How to Know about Line 5. You can read the series introduction and find links to the other essays as they are posted here.] As someone who has just newly enlisted in the movement to help save the environment and...

(Shameless) Summer Reading Suggestion

(Shameless) Summer Reading Suggestion

I don't ordinarily do this sort of thing here at the blog, so I'll beg forgiveness for a little self-promotion. But if you're looking for a good beach read for the summer, might I recommend Herman Melville's Moby-Dick? I've just edited a brand new edition and it's out...

On Wildfires, Enbridge, and Line 5

On Wildfires, Enbridge, and Line 5

The next essay in our ongoing series How to Know About Line 5 will drop soon (I hope you've read the first four!). In the meantime, as I look out at the haze and smoke and read the news that the Michigan air quality today is probably the worst it’s been since the...

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Pipeline Safety Trust

A nonprofit public charity promoting pipeline safety through education and advocacy..

CENHS Podcast

From Rice University’s Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences

Petrocultures

Univeristy of Alberta’s research group on the social and politcal implications of oil and energy use.

Resilience

A journal of the environmental humanities.

ASLE

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

Inside Climate News

Covering climate change, energy, and the environment.