No. 3 (2023)
The third issue of Springs includes peer-reviewed essays on heat and hurricanes, an interview on plants in urban environments, and reflections on transactional thinking about the environment. Paula Ungar’s reflective essay considers Alexander von Humboldt’s observations and a more deeply rooted wisdom. Tom Princen’s “Weathered History: Galveston and Extreme Events” explores the effects of hurricanes and land subsidence on the region of Galveston, Texas. Nina Wormbs reports on reasoning in the face of climate change. In “Roots through Asphalt,” Sonja Dümpelmann and Pauline Kargruber discuss the multifaceted history of plants and trees in urban spaces. Steve Mentz takes the reader with him as he revisits the lake by the Rachel Carson Center’s Landhaus. Melanie Arndt’s “The Heat Is On!” explores turn of the twentieth-century technologies that created central heating, its societal impacts, and its limits. Helen Tiffin’s opinion essay makes the case for inhabitants of the Global North to limit human reproduction. In “The Slow Death of an Ethiopian Lake,” Hayal Desta demonstrates the effects of water-grabbing with a focus on the international flower industry. Paul Sutter establishes the term “Knowledge Anthropocene” to describe an intellectual enterprise that has changed our understanding of earth systems and our role within them.
