In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira argues that the study of such transitions itself has gone through changes over the course of history.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira writes about different kinds of energy-regime shifts and their preconditions.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira discusses the drivers of future transitions in the light of past ones.
This Ecotopia Earth First! newsletter includes Judi Bari’s call for action in the endangered Headwaters Forest, the EF! blockade of MAXXAM redwoods logging in Redway, and helicopter logging in Albion. The issue of tree spiking is discussed, as well as Assata Shakur’s autobiography and the harmful effects of a landfill in an Indian reservoir. Demonstrators against logging operations “confess” their trespassing “sins.”
Brisbane’s 1893 floods shaped water policy in southeast Queensland, creating a dependency on dams.
Brisbane’s 1974 floods substantially damaged Brisbane, accelerating the government’s plans for a second flood mitigation dam.
Franz Kebl photographed the propeller sled Schneespatz, used in Alfred Wegener’s 1930 Greenland expedition.
Weltmeere examines society’s relationship with the oceans in the nineteenth century, through subjects such as whale fishing, polar expeditions, the sea in literature and psychology, and marine studies.
Projektion Natur is a collection of articles contextualising “green” genetic engineering within the debate about nature and society.
This introductory guide to the Earth First! movement was produced by The Earth First! Journal for Earth First! local groups. It outlines the purpose, philosophy, and tasks of the Earth First! movement, as well as information about its foundation, journal, wilderness preservation, local groups, monkeywrenching, and direct action.
