
SHELF LIFE—Bird Watching: Spring Migrations with Kenn Kaufman & Pete Myers
Join author and extreme birder Kenn Kaufman as he discusses his newest book, A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration, with Pete Myers, in a conversation …
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The Environmental Imagination
Climate change is real, and perhaps imaginations may be our best tool for understanding and keeping up with the changes.

The Kinship of Plants and People
In this webinar, recorded September 24, 2020, ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón discusses his new book, Iwígara: The Kinship of Plants and People, which includes the belief that all life-forms are interconnected …

A Historic House & Art Museum Goes Digital
Learn how the Hermitage Museum & Gardens is adapting to COVID-19 with the help of a Virginia Humanities CARES Act grant.

From Farm-Based Learning to the Virtual Landscape
Arcadia Food Inc. is using a CARES Act grant to provide good food, good health, and warm human connections to under resourced communities in northern Virginia.

Cycle of Life
Cyclists are taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers, and CO2 emissions are down. Is this a silver lining to the pandemic, or just a fad?

Leah ‘n Lulu’s Virtual Picnic
In this webinar, recorded May 28 2020, poet Leah Naomi Green (The More Extravagant Feast) and author Lulu Miller (Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the …

Back to the Land
Gardening provides the fresh air, exercise, food, and distraction that many people need right now. And “immunity gardens” are emerging to add more to that list.

Peanut Documentary to Air on Virginia Public Media
A Virginia Humanities funded documentary is scheduled to air on Virginia Public Media PBS stations on April 30 at 9PM. The film, Invisible Thread: The Story of Peanuts in Western Tidewater, …

Wearing Down The Appalachian Trail
Not all Americans have been welcomed to enjoy the great outdoors. A discussion on the racist past of America’s national parks, plus the overlooked history of the Appalachian Trail.

Video: Fat Cattle, Firewood, and Forage
The Metabolism of Military Forces in the American Revolution – Dave Hsiung explores the environmental contexts and consequences of the American Revolutionary War.

The Metabolism of History
By Nora Pehrson Drawing on chemistry, biology, geology, botany, and ecology, Dave Hsiung is studying the American Revolution and how Americans have interacted with and changed the land ever since. …