The Age of Aluminum [Die Akte Aluminium]
This film investigates the widespread presence of aluminium in our daily lives, and its surprising consequences for the environment, as well as our health.
This film investigates the widespread presence of aluminium in our daily lives, and its surprising consequences for the environment, as well as our health.
Jeremy Irons leads the viewer around the world as he explores the worst effects of the amount of waste humans produce, and what can be done about it.
Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
John Reid-Hresko’s article draws on 18 months of comparative ethnographic research with men and women who are employed and reside in protected areas in northern Tanzania and South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.
Frank de Vocht reviews The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg.