About the Journal
Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review is an open-access online publication for peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction, and artistic contributions that showcase the work of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and its community across the world. In the spirit of Rachel Carson, it publishes sharp writing with an impact. Surveying the interrelationship between environmental and social changes from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives, it is a place to share rigorous research, test out fresh ideas, question old ones, and to advance public and scholarly debates in the environmental humanities and beyond.
Published biannually, Springs features a range of content, from text and photography to audio and video. It also brings together writing from other Rachel Carson Center publications. The Springs archive curates articles that were originally published in the open-access online and print journal RCC Perspectives (2010–2020), in the Rachel Carson Center blog Seeing the Woods (2012–2021), and in the peer-reviewed online journal Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History.
Springs launched in 2022 as part of a Kolleg-Project funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (Käte Hamburger Kolleg). The project is run by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC).
How do I contribute to Springs?
Currently, submissions to Springs are by invitation only. For open calls check the RCC's other publishing platform Arcadia. Anyone may submit to Arcadia; please visit this page to read the guidelines.
Unless otherwise stated, Springs articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
With any questions, please email the editorial team at editors@rcc.lmu.de.
Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review – ISSN 2751-9317
Current Issue
The sixth issue of Springs meditates on questions of heritage, place, and responsibility. How many generations does it take to make a meal? How do we show we care—for humans and for nonhumans alike? When we look up, is it a starry night or a sea of fog? At home in Utah, Christopher Cokinos reflects upon a life of lunar research and encourages us to ponder the Moon’s role in our lives, histories, and futures. From the Middle East to the Balkans, Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova explores the diverse history of tarhana’s microbial cultures and distinct culinary flavors while foregrounding its importance to a sustainable future of food. When Stephen Milder talks about a German advertising slogan, he reveals how today’s perception of environmental problems differs from the 1960s. In the Azorean town of Furnas, L. Sasha Gora guides us through a place where the fumaroles simmer an ancient stew, and she asks us to consider the relationship between environments, ingredients, and energy. As she looks at human attachment to individual companion species, Kieko Matteson pens her discord with birds in captivity and considers what could take the place of cages. To better understand work in and on heat in the age of climate change, Daniel Dumas sits down with Elspeth Oppermann to discuss her novel, and personal, approach to the field.
