2025 Year In Review
Edge Effects editors reflect on 2025 and recommend their favorite articles, podcasts, and exhibits from the year …
Faculty Favorites: (Re)Imagine Environmental Futures with These Books, Films, and Exhibits
A gift for navigating our present: Academic faculty recommend new and old books, films, and exhibits that critically reflect on environmental futures and futurity …
Play Nature in These Six (More) Board Games
Nate Carlin is back to review six (more) nature-themed board games: the worlds they construct and the ecological stories they tell …
Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction
Edge Effects asks scholars to recommend creative works that explore aesthetic resistance to environmental precarity, or celebrate cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives and knowledge centered in care, kinship, and storytelling …
Ten Environmental Children’s Books For Ten Years of Edge Effects
Books about nature and the environment are a wonderful way to help young readers appreciate our planet. For Edge Effects’s tenth birthday, Megan Schliesman and the CCBC recommend ten environmental children’s books for middle grade readers …
Faculty Favorites: Environmental Care
Edge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on care with the environment. These books also offer varied entries to multispecies and pluriversal topics in the classroom …
Eight Environmental Podcasts to Follow in 2024
Running out of podcasts? Fret not. Edge Effects editors have a list of environmental podcasts that they think you should listen to. This list encompasses a wide range of topics related to environmental and social change, including climate activism, corporate greenwashing, mining conflicts, and more …
Faculty Favorites: Ecologies & Politics of Borders
Edge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on the complexities of borders. This list also includes ideas on how to frame and teach the topic of borders in the classroom …
Faculty Favorites: What to Read (and Watch) on Race & Place
Edge Effects invited scholars from a range of fields to share with us environmental books and texts on the topic of “Race and Place” that they are most excited to teach in the new academic year …
Faculty Favorites: Savor These Books on Food and Agriculture
Seven scholars from a variety of disciplines recommend readings about land, labor, animals, and people in the food system …
2022 Year In Review
Edge Effects editors reflects on some favorite essays and podcasts we published in 2022 as the year draws to a close …
Faculty Favorites: Readings For an Anticolonial Environmental Syllabus
Traveling from the Pacific Islands to Lake Superior, six instructors share recommendations for thinking through the complex relationships between colonialism and environmental change …
