Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
A comprehensive history of the Adirondack mountain range in the eastern United States.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
A cultural critique of zoos that seeks to problematize their role as a sanctuary for animals.
Reflects upon the short period of geological time during which humans have inhabited the Earth, raising questions as to how much time the human race may have left on the planet, and what might happen after the human race—and even Earth itself—disappears.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, oil imports in Cuba were halved and food imports reduced by up to 80 percent. This film suggests that, given the perceived immanence of peak oil, there is much to be learned from the Cuban experience.
This dramatised film portrays the fate of the Guarani-Kaiowá people, dispossessed of their land in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul to make way for cultivation of genetically modified crops.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
This film investigates the hidden costs of smart and affordable clothes.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.
