What Should We Eat?
Why do people want to eat locally? This essay considers the drive for local food as a consumer movement in the United States, suggesting that we can look at the past to learn valuable lessons for challenges we face today.
Why do people want to eat locally? This essay considers the drive for local food as a consumer movement in the United States, suggesting that we can look at the past to learn valuable lessons for challenges we face today.
In this essay, Watt recounts discussions with her students regarding lifestyle patterns; she shows how it will be necessary to change such patterns if we are to take climate change seriously from an economic and policy perspective, and to tackle it realistically.
Is a world without waste truly achievable? The essays in this volume of RCC Perspectives discuss zero waste as a vision, as a historical concept, and as an international practice. Going beyond the motto of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” they reflect on the feasibility of creating closed material cycles and explore real-world examples of challenges and successes on the way to zero waste.
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.