Ellie Irons White clover blooms in two disparate habitats in Troy, New York: a brownfield on a former junkyard (left) and a residential lawn subject to frequent mowing (right). When the phrases âannoying weedâ and âurban evolutionâ ran in a…
Category: Ecology of Bad Ideas
biPolar Bioart: USDA APHIS FDA BRS notification request
Adam Zaretsky Intro: Meet the Bipolar Flower, Bipolar (manic-depressive), Double Dipped, Zinc Fingered (ZF), GMO Arabidopsis thaliana plants. These are plants who have been âwhole genome frackedâ in a bipolar duet of two artificial transcription factors (activating and repressing) competing…
Roots and Stems: grassland political ecologies, past and future
Sarah Kanouse A phalanx of windmills guards the border between Colorado and Nebraska. Visible for miles on the treeless high plains, the giant turbines appear to inch closer as I approach the state line at eighty miles an hour. The…
A Great Green Desert: Into The Pit
Ryan Griffis If you drive through the flat territories of Illinois, Indiana, or Iowa â US states that form the center of a region known as the âcorn beltâ â you are almost certainly going to be surrounded by vast…
Symptom: NetworkÂ
Ken Ehrlich A network is a break is a fissure a metaphor an analogy a misunderstood sign a desperate attempt a domain a reminder a sense of touch a feeling. A network is a broom closet a despairing glance a…
they didnât bring enough water
Lindsey French and Willy Smart Cautionary Signage in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. 7 January 2016. Water becomes more saline as it approaches the Salton Sea. It is a lake with no outlet and no input either, other than what is…