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Three Books: Jenny Price 85 on Understanding Environmentalism

What  is the Green New Deal? This star-studded essay collection think Klein, Bill McKibben, and the environmental justice giant Rev. William J. Barber clearly lays out the urgent whys, whats, and hows. It’s a super useful one-stop resource. And it puts the “radical” accusations to rest: Don’t most of us want a baked-in-green economy that’s infinitely more equitable than the one we have? These authors make the case that, ultimately, these big, ambitious policy proposals are just plain decency and good ol’ common sense.    By Rob Nixon I’ll end with this influential gem by Princeton’s own Rob Nixon and his coinage of the term “slow violence.” Nixon argues that environmental devastation that plays out more slowly say, how oil and gas companies slowly and surely lay waste globally to ecosystems, and especially to low-income communities that inhabit them is brutal violence all the same, even if far less visible than oil spills, bombings, and other more

The hidden life of an ecosystem engineer

The hidden life of an ecosystem engineer Morgan Kelly, High Meadows Environmental Institute June 1, 2021 10:15 a.m. For his senior thesis, Joe Kawalec of the Class of 2021, who graduated Princeton with a bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology with a certificate in environmental studies, studied the natural camouflage of downy woodpeckers to understand how it helps the small bird survive in its forest habitat. Photo by Morgan Kelly, High Meadows Environmental Institute The two years Princeton senior Joe Kawalec spent studying the natural camouflage of the ubiquitous downy woodpecker oddly enough began and ended the same way  tracing the outlines of birds.

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