This film follows two young men fighting to preserve the Ecuadorean Amazon. One is a member of the indigenous Cofan tribe, sent to the US for a Western education as a child; the other is an American college student.
This film recounts the formation and rise of Greenpeace as one of the world’s most prominent environmentalist organizations.
Live Wild or Die! no. 6 includes discussions of civil disobedience and demonstration tactics, rage against television, and an explanation of the negative environmental and health consequences of tampon use. In an introductory editorial, the editors clarify their non-violent intent.
The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
Animal rights prevailed over bullfights in a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India.
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
The 2015 edition examines what we think we know about environmental damage and the hidden threats to sustainability we need to recognize.
Is a world without waste truly achievable? The essays in this volume of RCC Perspectives discuss zero waste as a vision, as a historical concept, and as an international practice. Going beyond the motto of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” they reflect on the feasibility of creating closed material cycles and explore real-world examples of challenges and successes on the way to zero waste.
This paper looks at the history of attempts to influence the conservation and management of the world’s forests through the creation of international organisations since the 1890s. The attempts are seen in the context of changes in the world political economy, changes to the forests themselves, and changing ideas about how forests should be conserved and managed.
Kamikōchi is the southern gateway to the Japan Alps, which in 1934 was one of the first areas in Japan to be designated a national park. This was the result of a rapid rise to prominence that followed a 1927 newspaper poll of Japanese landscapes.
