Multimedia | film profile
Beautiful Islands
Director Tomoko Kana compares three islands in different geographies and their adaptation to the impact of climate change through a portrayalof the inhabitants’ daily lives.
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Multimedia | film profile
Carbon Nation
Carbon Nation is a documentary movie about climate change solutions.
Multimedia | journal
Wild Earth 7, no. 3
Wild Earth 7, no. 3 features contributions by Bill McKibben on “Job and Wilderness;” Donald Worster on “The Wilderness of History;” Richard Harris on the rivers of Catalonia, Spain; and Andrew Kroll and Dwight Barry on the integration of conservation and community in Colorado.
Multimedia | film profile
Welcome to the Anthropocene
The animated film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
Perspectives Article
“But where the danger lies, also grows the saving power”: Reflections on Exploitation and Sustainability
This article looks at the discovery and storming of the Americas in relation to narratives of sustainability.
Multimedia | journal article
“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
Exhibition chapter
The Northwest Passage as a Voyage to Myth and Adventure | The Northwest Passage
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands
This exhibition will visualize the history, present, and (scientifically based) future of the Anthropocene as well as the deep interventions of humans into the geo- and biosphere over the last two centuries.
Multimedia | book profile
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World
State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World examines the policy changes needed to combat climate change and explores the economic benefits that could flow from the transition.
Exhibition chapter
“A huge variety of possibilities”: Interview with Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen on his life, his career in research, and his views on the Anthropocene idea | Welcome to the Anthropocene
This interview with Paul Crutzen is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.