Archive for the "Environmental Writing" Category

Exploring time and place with Howard Mansfield

By Hanna Wheeler Author Howard Mansfield sifts through the commonplace and the forgotten to discover stories that tell us about ourselves and our relationship to the world. He shows us artifacts— a stone wall, a refurbished ax, a railroad timetable— and translates for us the historical, architectural, and philosophical notions contain therein. His most recent [...]

Into the woods: Whole Terrain interviews David Sobel

By Hanna Wheeler David Sobel keeps a thick folder of inspirational projects in place in schools around the country. As an educational writer, Senior faculty in the Antioch University New England Education Department and director for the Center for Place-based Eduction, Sobel is regularly asked to describe the state of place-based education. The folder is [...]

Connecting to our landscape through art: Whole Terrain interviews Erika Osborne

By Hanna Wheeler Scrawny, twisted juniper and pinon characterize environmental artist Erika Osborne‘s arid, mountain-west home. “Because there aren’t a lot of trees, you notice individuals,” she said. “They have this character to them that’s a product of the environment and the weather. I started looking at them as individuals and making portraits of them.” [...]

Greenproof your life: Whole Terrain interviews Alexandra Zissu

Whole Terrain interviews Alexandra Zissu, author of “The Complete Organic Pregnancy” and “The Conscious Kitchen”

Peter Davenport searches for jellyfish in Walden.

Peter Davenport was featured in the Boston Globe, Mystery blooms on Walden Pond: Scientist puzzled over tiny freshwater jellyfish (Sept. 10, 2010). As an Interpretive Ranger with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Peter paddled Walden Pond with Tony LaCasse of the New England Aquarium in search of tiny jellyfish. Click here to read [...]