Sao Paulo

Latitude: 
-23.55
Longitude: 
-46.64
GeoNames ID: 
3 448 439
Geofield: 
POINT (-46.636 -23.5475)

Hauling

This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.

"Was Brazilian Industrialisation Fuelled by Wood? Evaluating the Wood Hypothesis, 1900–1960"

Two substantive criticisms of Warren Dean’s ‘wood hypothesis’ are offered here: the wood hypothesis is accurate in general but underestimated the industrial consumption of fossil fuels, without conclusively rejecting the competing ‘hydroelectricity’ hypothesis; the method used for estimating potential energy supply from forest area was erroneous.

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