Posts under tag: environment
Climate Change through an Intersectional Lens
The USDA Forest Service has just published a new General Technical Report, Climate Change through an Intersectional Lens: Gendered Vulnerability and Resilience in Indigenous Communities in the United States, with Environmental Studies PhD candidate Kirsten Vinyeta as the lead author. (more…)
Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities
Climate change has traditionally been considered as an issue of the physical sciences, but a team of UO scholars have just turned that idea inside-out. (more…)
Reflections on Water ELP Makes Deep Connections
The McKenzie River is the lifeblood of Eugene, OR. Running 90 miles from its headwaters in Clear Lake in the Cascades, it courses through a watershed sculpted by lava flows, meanders through the lush northern rainforest, crashes down waterfalls, squeezes through hydroelectric dams, and finally filters into our homes through our tap water faucets. (more…)