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"The Textbook Definition of Community" - Green Sun Rising Solar's experience in Cartwright NL.
When Tony Petkovic first visited Cartwright in March 2024, “there wasn't a lot of greenery. All the leaves were gone. The water was all frozen over. It seemed a lot more frigid and not as many people were around.” When he returned in September 2025, things couldn’t have been more different.Continue readingPetro-poets: workers as theorists in our uncertain times: A conversation with Melanie Dennis Unrau
Back when Iron & Earth was first founded in 2016, climate organizer and poet Melanie Unrau was starting her PhD dissertation. She wanted to explore the history of oil worker poetry in Canada, to study the rich ways in which workers express their entanglement in an industry with a dangerous and destructive reputation.Continue reading