A study led by MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy researchers shows that there is enough land to support efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius while addressing competing needs for long-term food security and ecosystem health. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of...
Transgressive learning is a term associated with sustainability. Wals (2021), for example, discusses thePower of Transgressive Learningin an excellent post. My own interest in the term, however, came from reflecting on educational work I am currently involved in on spatial fluency and agency in l...
After referring to existing literature, six main keywords were chosen for the searching process, namely COVID-19, coronavirus, temperature, humidity, solar radiation and population density. The current study also utilised the boolean operators (OR, AND, AND NOT) and phrase searching. Scopus was ...
When I heard the phrase ‘gift shop’ attached, I expected tchotchkes. Nothing prepared me for the sheer number of gifts available for sale here. As it turned out, the first floor was only the beginning. I went upstairs through a narrow stairwell, the woman at the counter had told me th...
The West is a region shaped by movement. Manifest Destiny’s call for westward expansion and popular rejoinders like “Go West, young man” have created lasting associations with the frontier, adventure, and national growth. To borrow Jodi Byrd’s phrase, this “transit of empire” also witnes...
This became a repeated catch phrase, but the crew soon let it go. We had four days to get to Homps, reachable in a day and a half if we pushed it. Time was not an issue. Albeit frustrating, the delay had given us a chance to meet with other crews, many displaying their national...