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Multimedia | film profile

Water Makes Money

This film investigates the increasing trend towards privatizing control of water resources, and the response of cities, organizations, municipalities, and communities.

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Multimedia | journal

Earth First! Journal 21, no. 5

In this issue of Earth First! Journal, Dug sends greetings from the new EF! Journal headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, Karen Pickett gives an update on MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber’s (PL) lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), Leith Kahl comments on the structurelessness of the Earth First! movement, and Kieran Suckling discusses the connections between the biological and linguistic diversity crises.

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Multimedia | journal

Earth First! 27, no. 2

Earth First! 27, no. 2 features articles on nuclear resistance in Germany, Trinidad community’s fight against the Alcoa aluminum smelter, Molokai’i activists’ battle to “save the last Hawaiian island”, and the self-sustaining community Umoja Village Shantytown in Miami.

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Multimedia | journal

Earth First! 29, no. 1

Earth First! 29, no. 1 reports on the movement’s victory against the Pacific Lumber Company, the climate and anti-racist camp in Germany, the Northeast Climate Confluence, the international movement of camps and convergences for climate action, and repression against animal activists in Austria.

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Perspectives

A Future without Waste? Zero Waste in Theory and Practice

Edited by Christof Mauch

Is a world without waste truly achievable? The essays in this volume of RCC Perspectives discuss zero waste as a vision, as a historical concept, and as an international practice. Going beyond the motto of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” they reflect on the feasibility of creating closed material cycles and explore real-world examples of challenges and successes on the way to zero waste.

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Working for Zero Waste in Germany: A Discussion across Disciplines

by Christof Mauch, Eveline Dürr, Martin Faulstich, Heide Rieke, and Markus Vogt

The participants in a roundtable discussion that took place in May 2013 at LMU’s Center for Advanced Studies draw on their collective experience in engineering, anthropology, environmental justice, and city politics, in order to explore the impact of waste, and the strategies we should, and currently do, employ as we work towards zero waste in the world.

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