No Impact Man
Colin Beavan’s year-long attempt to live ‘off the grid’ in the heart of New York City brings the environment, and his relationships, to the forefront.
Colin Beavan’s year-long attempt to live ‘off the grid’ in the heart of New York City brings the environment, and his relationships, to the forefront.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
This film follows the obstacles which Guinea’s schoolchildren must overcome simply to find light at night to study by, in a country where only one fifth of the population has access to electricity.
Powerless is a film about India’s energy poverty and the people’s desperate measures to create functioning infrastructure. Electricity “thieves” divert power to homes and small businesses and come head-to-head with electricity supply companies.
This article examines the energy transition in the iron industry and studies the consequence of this switch to coal-fueling technology upon forests.
This article presents and discusses the papers presented at the 5th IWHA Conference under the theme ‘Water, Food and the Economy’.
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
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