Visualizing Energy is an open-access, interdisciplinary science-communication project that aims to increase actionable knowledge about a sustainable and just energy transition.
In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.
Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.
In this article, Sarah Strauss and Carrick Eggleston track the transition to renewable energy in the village of Auroville in South India.
This page presents the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions” and its author—historian Nuno Luís Madureira.
Human practices of energy consumption both transform—and are transformed by—social structures. This exhibition—written by historian Nuno Luís Madureira—introduces the concept of “energy transitions,” structural shifts in energy use and their pathways, obstacles, and consequences, challenging the view of “transitions” as the simple replacement of one energy resource by another.
by Nuno Luís Madureira
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira discusses the drivers of future transitions in the light of past ones.
Human practices of energy consumption both transform—and are transformed by—social structures. This exhibition—written by historian Nuno Luís Madureira—introduces the concept of “energy transitions,” structural shifts in energy use and their pathways, obstacles, and consequences, challenging the view of “transitions” as the simple replacement of one energy resource by another.
by Nuno Luís Madureira This film follows a diverse group of women from around the world as they attend the Barefoot College in India. The college teaches them solar engineering skills to allow them to contribute to their communities and improve their daily lives, but societal and familial pressure proves challenging.
This film envisions a restructuring of global power relations and calls for individual action in order to create a 100 percent renewable energy economy.
Earth First! 29, no. 2 features news from the prisoner hunger strike in Greece, and water privatization in Maine, as well as reflections on a primitive lifestyle, on building an anti-capitalist movement for climate justice in Denmark and the US, and on “vengeful animals.”
Due to destructive environmental consequences carbon-based energy systems should slowly be replaced by sources with low to zero carbon dioxide emissions such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power.
