In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose...

How we interact with the environment is shaped by our culture and belief systems. We label our world and map the landscape through complex cognitive processes. In the field of archaeology those same processes are hidden through time and the difficulty of reading the material culture--that which was left behind. The current paradigm within land management agencies treats archaeological sites as separate, distinct entities and rarely takes into account...

Many wilderness therapy programs simulate indigenous life skills, practices, and traditions. Examples of these simulated indigenous knowledge settings are: use of ceremonies, rites of passage, "primitive" survival skills and learning based on the natural world. I believe wilderness therapy programs could offer a more effective context for growth and change through better knowledge and utilization of indigenous knowledge modalities. By acknowledging...