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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.
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The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden
Serenella Iovino uses the garden as a lens to analyze the impacts of old and new forms of aestheticizing nature on the geology of our planet.
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Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge
This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
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Telling Stories of a Changed Climate: The Laki Fissure Eruption and the Interdisciplinarity of Climate History
Kleemann argues that interdisciplinarity is key to successfully tackling climate change.