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Rethinking Water, Place & Community.
Joined February 2019
We are excited to announce #OpenRivers Issue 27 | Prospect! This collection shows us how art, connection, and creativity can influence our environmental prospects. Read more at @JoneeKBrigham @ShelleyCBuck @Owamniyomni @umnlib @IASatUofM @BlueGap5
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Laura Rockhold, a Minnesota poet and visual artist, writes about how her experiences with Dakota leaders, culture, and language have shaped her artistic connection with Bdóte, the sacred meeting place of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. #umnproud.
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By Laura Rockhold. Over recent years I have been on a journey, one that has deepened my understanding of, and engagement with, the Indigenous names of the place I call home: Minnesota. As a writer,…
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Vivek Ji shares the experience of his recent Narmada Parikrama, a storied pilgrimage around the Narmada River. He contrasts the river's spiritual and historical significance with the damage to the ancient basin from dams, deforestation, and climate change.
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By Vivek Ji. The waters of the Narmada River flow as though carrying a divine grace, ancient wisdom, and a sense of spirituality. This mystical river, known for its sanctity in India, has witnessed…
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Reviewing "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis," Marceleen Mosher praises the work's breadth of voices, especially its perspectives from outside academic spaces. It's a "prescient read for all," she writes. #umnproud
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By Marceleen Mosher. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, is an anthology for anyone looking …
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In #OpenRivers, Saloni Shokeen uses the Ganga River's dual identity as a holy river and a polluted site to explain eco-anxiety: the feeling when pollution and climate change turn comforting places strange and uncanny. Read more at: #ganga #ecoanxiety.
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By Saloni Shokeen. The River Ganga, arising from the Western Himalayas and flowing through India and Bangladesh, covers an immense distance of 2,525 kilometers in totality.[1] The river is a pivota…
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Today is #GivingTuesday! Open Rivers works with authors to develop stories on water and environmental injustices. We are #umnproud to publish them all and ensure #OpenRivers remains free and open access. Will you help us reach our goal today? Give now at
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Looking for something to read over the long weekend that will leave you hopeful for the future of our environment? Download the PDFs for #OpenRivers Issue 27 | Prospect now available at #artistsbooks #earthsystemsjourney #owamniyomni #environmentalarts
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From StoryMaps to drone essays, scholars from @uiowa share creative pieces that connect story with water quality data in #OpenRivers and on the Blue Green Action Platform. Read more at: #Iowawaterquality #nitratepollution #dataandstory @IowaEnglish.
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By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge. As we contend with the environmental degradation of our waters and the fragmenting of…
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In #OpenRivers, @JoneeKBrigham brings art and science together through a camp at Big Stone Lake that makes the invisible infrastructures visible and helps people connect with the waters of their place. Read more at .#environmentaleducation #artandscience.
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By Jonee Kulman Brigham. Earth Systems Journey is foremost a form of participatory public art and secondly an environmental education curriculum model. Big Stone Lake Stories is one of over a dozen…
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In #OpenRivers, Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson show us how humanist work and visual art like #artistsbooks can move us toward seeing rivers as creative and co-creators of our ecologies, histories, and futures. Read more at @LawrenceUni #KlamathRiver.
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By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson. We explore how activists, artists, scholars, and rivers might co-create riverine engagements that interrupt the extractive capitalist, heteropatriarchal, and water…
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"Owámniyomni: Still We Gather" discusses how Owámniyomni is being transformed back to an Indigenous place through the leadership of @Owamniyomni. Read more at: #OpenRivers #nationalamericanindianheritagemonth #mississippiriver @UMNEnglish @LandH2OPlaceUMN.
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By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager. Mni Wičoni. Water is life. For many of us, water truly is synonymous with life—and not only because human life as we understand it necessitates wat…
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The deadline to apply for the Open Rivers Graduate Student Committee has been extended to Monday, September 16, 2024! Join us to explore public scholarship and develop skills for publishing. Learn more at @IowaWaterCenter @MinnesotaWater @PPEHLab
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Grad students: join the #OpenRivers Grad Student Committee! Work with our team and connect with other students who care about our water futures. Applications due 9/9/2024. More info at . @MinnesotaWater @uwche @IowaWaterCenter @PPEHLab @envhum_umn
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RT @NiCHE_Canada: Call for Submissions: Sustainable Publishing Special Issue.Deadline: 15 October 2024.Organized by The Goose Journal, @Ima….
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This journal issue seeks to explore concepts and models of sustainable publishing within and beyond Canadian academia.
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How do we demonstrate commitment to water? In #OpenRivers, folks share their practices and compel us to consider our own commitments to water. Read more at @1_Mississippi @angiehongwater @BrittGangeness @BoyceUpholt @saflumn @CoosaRiverkeepr @gregseitz.
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By Boyce Upholt, Katie Hart Potapoff, Michael Anderson, Britt Gangeness, Angie Hong, Coosa Riverkeeper, Greg Seitz, and Andy Erickson. Water is part of our everyday lives. We depend on clean water …
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In #OpenRivers, Caroline Doenmez reviews "In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development," an anthology that records Indigenous dissent and commitment to place amidst dam construction in Manitoba. #keeyaskdam @MSUanthropology.
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By Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez. Manitoba, although known as one of Canada’s prairie provinces, is arguably more defined by its waterways. One story tells that the very name “Manitoba” was born fro…
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Looking for some quality reading before the weekend? Check out #OpenRivers Issue 26 | Commitment! PDFs are now available!. Read more at #publicscholarship #commitment #environmentalchange #LakeSuperior #SDGs #stlouisrivermn #indigenousplacenames.
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Rethinking Water, Place & Community
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What can we learn from the #riverconservation efforts on the #WillametteRiver? In #OpenRivers, Chris O'Brien of @FreshwaterSoc shares insights from a #freshwatersillustrated documentary, UPRIVER. Learn more at #cleanwater @Waterkeeper @MinnesotaWater.
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By Chris O’Brien. As part of the longstanding Moos Family Speaker Series on Water Resources, Freshwater and the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences presented a screening of…
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What is the indigenous name for the Baptism River? The Onion River? In #OpenRivers, Erik Redix restores the Ojibwe place-names to rivers on Lake Superior's North Shore. @LandH2OPlaceUMN @NiCHE_Canada @wearewatermn @Yellowhead_ #indigenousplacenames.
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By Erik Martin Redix. The drive along the North Shore of Lake Superior between Duluth and the international border on Highway 61 is an iconic Minnesota experience. At just over three hours long, th…
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In #OpenRivers, Emily Levang explores the possibilities of a #rightsofnature paradigm to shape human relationships with the St. Louis River estuary in Duluth, MN. @garnglobal @HR_Lab_UMN @RightsOfNature #StLouisRiverAOC #rightsofwater.
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By Emily Levang. What if we related to water as our kin? I went to the St. Louis River estuary in early January together with my friend Cristin, who shares a dedication to care for this ecosystem. …
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