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JHU Sustainability SymposiumThe 7th Annual Johns Hopkins Sustainability Symposium on Research, Practice, and Education, hosted by the JHU[…]
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Julianne Chan started the discussion April 8th, 2026: Our Third River Reimagining Workshop! in the forum Jones Falls Futures 17 hours ago
April 8th, 2026: Our Third River Reimagining Workshop!
Hi everyone!
Please join us on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am at Morgan State University for a River Reimagining Workshop…
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Workshop #3: River Reimagining Workshop: Imagining alternative futures for the Jones Falls River
Ready to dream? River Reimagining Workshop: Imagining alternative futures for the Jones Falls River You’re invited to participate in our series of River Reimagining Workshops, along with collaborators from Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning. WORKSHOP #3: FOR … Continue reading
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Nature and the Healing Arts: Poetry and Prose from the Mid-Atlantic EcosystemJoin us for a two-day virtual celebration of Earth Day that brings together science, literature, and ecological[…]
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Siyu Xie started the discussion Earth Month Bash!: Earth Fest & Picnic for the Planet 2026 in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity 3 days ago
<font color=”#2a2a2a”>Are you excited about becoming an ambassador for climate storytelling in your community? Join Climate Stories Project and participants…
Future of Us is a nonprofit coalition-led civic initiative that is inviting the public to join us in reimagining what…
How do you overcome a by-design sense of paralysis and barriers to disentangle from the system of oppression? I invite…
Are you an artist inspired by nature?👀 Do you have art to display and share with the world? Carrie Murray…
Space is limited~ for size, and to balance local and global participation. Please only RSVP if you can truly make…
El Cambalache’s Department of Decolonial Economics is offering an opportunity to engage in collective, decolonial, and non-capitalist research practice. This…
The Crow’s Nest has expanded our youth call to include college students, and moved the due date to April 8th!…
Flooded Pine Press (a micro-publishing operation run by EDC members Holden Turner and Brianna Cunliffe) seek poetry submissions for our…
Applications are open to the upcoming cohort of The Climatebase Fellowship. Recognized by Forbes as one of the “Top Professional…
The Ecological Design Collective is a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. While our work centers on grounded, in-person…
- Antidotes to Toxicity
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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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A space to reimagine the present and future of the river at the heart of Baltimore. What could the Jones Falls be like in 2076,…
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Our Opportunities forum is a platform to share projects for collaboration, job postings, volunteer positions, calls for art and publication submissions, and other relevant listings.…
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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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