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Natasha Balwit-Cheung
Natasha Balwit-Cheung is a writer and researcher from Oregon and New Mexico. She has written for ARCHITECT, CityLab, The Atlantic, The New Farmer's Almanac, and others.
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Clean Living Under Planetary Circumstances
Systems are built piecemeal in response to immediate needs, only to reveal inadequacies later.…
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Notes, 2025-03-03
If you want to make a strong slingshot out of wood, you need to find a good forked branch to start with.…
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Sleeping Beauties
On kelp, soda ash, and long-forgotten scientific principles.…
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Small Agencies and their Accumulated Effects.
Worms, dirt, and “nature of the sites inhabited.”…
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Notes, 2024-02-05.
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the enduring appeal of Antarctic exploration.…
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Notes, 2023-07-24
I entered the Museo de Aguas de Alicante fifteen minutes before closing. Outside, the streets had emptied in the heat…
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Notes, 2023-02-20
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the interplay between the built world and the passage of time.…
2022-12-12
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the thermal stability of the soil beneath out feet and our capacity to harness it with ground source heat pumps.…
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Local Neon
The quiet crackling sound of a lamp turning on gives way to the hazy but articulated glow of neon, which…
2022-08-22
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on learning from the landscape of New Mexico, making Miyake’s pleats, and evaluating new technologies' role in climate justice.…