"From a 'Sociology of Nature' to Environmental Sociology: Beyond Social Construction"
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
This article attempts to illuminate this question of what the nature of envrionmental problems is by exploring the relationship between environmental ethics, environmental problems and their solution.
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
This film, narrated by Tilda Swinton, documents environmental projects and actions by ordinary people around the world.
A couple competes to live with zero waste for a whole year, with comedic results.
In 1992, a 12-year-old girl named Severn addressed the UN about climate change. Now grown up and expecting a child, she explains how much must still be done.
This film follows a diverse group of women from around the world as they attend the Barefoot College in India. The college teaches them solar engineering skills to allow them to contribute to their communities and improve their daily lives, but societal and familial pressure proves challenging.
This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.
This film examines political and economic crises and the role of a corporate military-industrial context in undermining democracy, and is narrated by actor Woody Harrelson.
This film examines the development of a new, more localized food system in Venezuela.