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Call for Panelists: Antidotes to Toxicity
7th Annual JHU Sustainability Symposium | April 8, 2026
The Ecological Design Collective is seeking panelists for our…
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Michael Degani replied to the discussion What the hell man in the forum Green Building 8 hours ago
“Peirce’s definition of virtuality rests, in large measure, on the notion of ‘virtus’ (originally a kind of manly…
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Michael Degani started the discussion What the hell man in the forum Green Building 8 hours ago
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🪵✨ When Concrete Imitates Wood Creating wooden patterns on cement is where art meets engineering. While the concrete is still wet, it’s carefully leveled and pressed with textured molds that replicate natural wood grain. Skilled hands add finishing touches—knots, lines, … Continue reading
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Herbal Compass CSA: Navigating Healing Throughout the Calendar WheelAre you ready to reconnect, reawaken, and realign with your body’s innate wisdom—the deep intelligence that guides…
7th Annual JHU Sustainability Symposium | April 8, 2026 The Ecological Design Collective is seeking panelists for our session, “Antidotes…
The International Degrowth Network is starting to plan another Online Degrowth Movement Assembly, expected to take place online in late…
Dear Respected Faculty Members, Scholars, Creative Practitioners, We (Helen and Shams), on behalf of ‘Theory Theater Performance’ (TTP) Working Group,…
CfP: “Global Challenges of Food System Transformation: Bridging Dichotomies”, EADI Conference 29 June to 2 July 2026 (Antwerp, Belgium) We…
Please click here to learn more about a postdoctoral research opportunity at Cornell University. Cornell is seeking outstanding postdoctoral research…
The Frontiers of Climate and Biodiversity Governance Unprecedented heatwaves, floods, and accelerating ecosystem degradation underscore a growing scientific consensus: climate…
We are happy to announce the 2026 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school, which will take place 13-17 April 2025. The…
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The deadline (December 8) is approaching for a workshop on ‘EU climate neutrality and democratic resilience in turbulent times’ at…
Climate Wayfinding Facilitator Training With The All We Can Save Project | August 2–7, 2026, in New York’s Hudson Valley…
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Echoing the yearly theme of 2025-2026, this is a discussion space for exploring practices that counteract harm. Share approaches to non-toxic materials, regenerative systems, and…
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Our dismantling of nature’s intricate and fragile web is now an urgent threat to human health and wellbeing. This forum offers a space for collaboration…
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A place to compile notes, debates, plans and images of "green building" broadly construed.
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The Acoustic Ecologies group brings together EDC members interested in sounding environmental spaces. Together, we explore questions such as: what does it mean to think…
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Over the 2025-2026 year the EDC asks: What might it mean to search, recognize, celebrate, and create antidotes to toxicity?
 At the Ecological Design Collective, we understand ecological design as more than aesthetic or technical intervention. It is a form of world-building. It is a way of resisting toxicity through the design of spaces, systems, and solidarities that enable life to flourish. To design an antidote is to craft the conditions for health, wellbeing, and joy. It is to reimagine polluted places as sites of renewal. To see not only what is wrong, but what is possible. And to act with others who are likewise struggling to breathe, to heal, to build. For 2025-2026, we will explore the many ways that toxicity manifests and the diverse strategies from the scientific, to the creative, to the social, to the speculative, that communities are developing to confront and transcend it.
With roots in Baltimore and relations around the world, we’re building a place for researchers, designers, activists, artists, writers and others to conceive and develop alternative ecological futures. Sign up to join us, post and participate, and receive our newsletters.
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