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"Distributional Obstacles to International Environmental Policy: The Failures at Rio and Prospects after Rio"
Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.
Reclaiming the Seeds, Becoming “Peasants”: On-Farm Agrobiodiversity Conservation and the Making of Farmers’ Collective Identity
This article examines the significance of “peasant seeds” and outlines the development of the “Peasant Seed Network” movement.
Energy Regimes, Foodways, and the Efficiency of the Human Engine
This essay explores connections between energy regime changes and nutrition, as well as the impact of such changes on nutritional knowledge and food policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
"Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism"
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
"At Home in the Great Northern Wilderness: African Americans and Freedom’s Ecology in the Adirondacks, 1846-1859"
Miller suggests a new heuristic, the ecology of freedom, which highlights past contingency and hope, and can furthermore help guide our present efforts, both scholastic and activist, to find an honorable, just way of living on the earth.
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
This film follows activists campaigning for the legalization of industrial hemp, which they believe has great potential for sustainability.
Growing Change
This film examines the development of a new, more localized food system in Venezuela.
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth about Factory Farms
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
Bringing It Home
This film examines the environmental impact and uses of hemp, from nutrition to construction.