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Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear
This essay explores the possibility of “slow hope” for positive environmental change.
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Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
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What Consumers in the Past Tell Us about Future Energyscapes
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.
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How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
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Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
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Domestic Storage Problems and Transitions: Coal in Nineteenth-Century America
Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.
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Renewable Energy and Class Struggles: Slurry and Stratification in Germany’s Energy Transition
Jennifer Carlson examines the material and social dimensions of contemporary energy transitions in the village of Dobbe in the East Frisian Peninsula.
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Do Wastelands Exist? Perspectives on “Productive” Land Use in India’s Rural Energyscapes
Jennifer Baka looks at energy cultivation and energy security in India through an analysis of two energy development programs.
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Experimenting with Energyscapes: Growing up with Solar and Wind in Auroville and Beyond
In this article, Sarah Strauss and Carrick Eggleston track the transition to renewable energy in the village of Auroville in South India.
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Climate-Sensitive Architecture as a Blueprint: Habits, Shades, and the Irresistible Staircase
Daniel Barber explores alternative visions of modernity in architectural projects in Brazil from the 1930s and 1940s that embraced, rather than excluded, climate.