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A community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration
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Jessie Croteau replied to the discussion EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly? in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity 9 minutes ago
EDC Project Award Proposal: Feeling Tingly?
Davis also describes plastic as rooted in a view of the world as infinitely malleable to human desire, a point at which…
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Jessie Croteau replied to the discussion EDC Project Proposal: Kill your lawn; get paid! in the forum Antidotes to Toxicity 18 minutes ago
EDC Project Proposal: Kill your lawn; get paid!
I love this idea! For those who still want to be deeply involved with their “lawn,” I wonder whether cultivating endemic…
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Siyu Xie posted a new event. 15 hours ago
Earthcare InfrastructuresHampering Toxicity’s Reign: Grounded Care Practices and Radical Imagination against a Self-Destructive Culture Our world[…]
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Alyssa Dennis posted a new event. 19 hours ago
Herbal Sanctuary Plant Walk: FREEThis is an in-person medicinal plant tour held at our 0.7 acre herbal sanctuary located in Northeast Baltimore[…]
<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…
View forum - Jones Falls Futures
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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,…
View forum - Opportunities
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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.…
View forum - Environmental Humanities
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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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