“Crude Encounters”
This artistic contribution explores sensory engagement with contamination caused by oil-waste pits in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
This artistic contribution explores sensory engagement with contamination caused by oil-waste pits in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.
Wild Earth 3, no. 1 on the Northwoods wilderness recovery, the Southern Ozarks, endangered species like the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker and the Perdido Key Beach Mouse, and the breadth and the limits of the deep ecology movement.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Monica Vasile.
Wild Earth 7, no. 4 features provocative essays on population extinction and the biodiversity crisis, how immigration threatens America’s natural environment, the costs of affluence and consumption, and a technological imperative.
Lawrence Culver, Carson Center fellow from June to December 2010, speaks about his research project “Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.”
Guy DeLeonardo of General Electric (GE) highlights the market, business, and technology in energy generation. Motivated by the 1.2 billion people who lack access to reliable electricity, DeLeonardo talks about how renewable resources enter the energy production market through technology, and what alternatives to our present modes of productions can achieve better energy use.
This film presents the interdisciplinary and international project BASYS (Baltic Sea System Studies), financed by the European Union in the years 1996 to 1999, which investigated many aspects and influences of mankind activities on the ecosystem Baltic Sea as well as the natural influences such as climate and weather. A large database accessible to all scientists was collected during the project and should help in the future to distinguish between the natural and human effects upon the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea.
Wild Earth 9, no. 4 features visionary essays that reimagine the future. Topics include abolitionism and preservationism, the environment and the US constitution, and the Buffalo Commons.