Multimedia | film profile
Two Years at Sea
Two Years at Sea tells the story about a middle-aged man who lives a solitary life in a house near the mountains and close to the ocean.
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Multimedia | book profile
Rethinking the Power of Maps
Denis Wood takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways.
Multimedia | book profile
The Power of Maps
Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.
Multimedia | book profile
Aesth/Ethics in Environmental Change
This book catalyzes the reflection about the aesthetic and spiritual dimension in the environmental humanities and offers transdisciplinary insights into the challenge of sustainability and ongoing changes in our society and environment.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Burtynsky, Edward, "My Wish: Manufactured Landscapes and Green Education"
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.
Perspectives Article
Water as White Coal
The article tells the story of the rise and decline of the significance and visibility of “white coal” and hydroelectricity over the course of the twentieth century.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Jackson, Tim, "An Economic Reality Check"
Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
Perspectives Article
Tending the Emperor’s Garden: Modes of Human-Nature Relations in the Cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé Indians of the Lower Amazon
This article considers how the cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé, an indigenous tribe located in the Brazilian Amazon, interacts with the pressures of the modern era.
Perspectives Article
How Can Neurohistory Help Us Understand the Past?
This introduction to the RCC Perspectives volume discusses some of the diverse opportunities and pitfalls that neurohistory may face in the future.
Perspectives Article
The Ecovillage: A Model for a More Sustainable, Future-Oriented Lifestyle?
This article describes the ecovillage Sieben Linden from the perspective of one of its residents.