Stories about "Green Belt"
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Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land
Friday, April 19, 2024 4:30 pm
Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."
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From behind the Iron Curtain, the German Green Belt is a unique nature preserve
Thursday, April 25, 2019 9:07 am
Germany's Green Belt project celebrates resurgent nature along the former East-West border — but also leaves some people behind, says Bates’ Sonja Pieck.