Multimedia | film profile
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth about Factory Farms
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
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Multimedia | film profile
Gyre: Creating Art From a Plastic Ocean
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
Multimedia | film profile
Wiebo's War
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
Multimedia | film profile
Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste
This film follows the efforts of the city of San Francisco to reach zero waste.
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Hauling
This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.
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Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah
Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.
Multimedia | book profile
Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
Multimedia | journal article
"Evaluating the 'Ethical Matrix' as a Radioactive Waste Management Deliberative Decision-Support Tool"
The paper “Evaluating the ‘Ethical Matrix’ as a Radioactive Waste Management Deliberative Decision-Support Tool” by Matthew Cotton outlines the strengths and limitations of the matrix as well as a framework for the development of alternative tools to better satisfy the needs of ethical assessment in radioactive waste management decision-making processes.
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"Remediation and Respect: Do Remediation Technologies Alter Our Responsibility?"
This paper examines the relationship between technologies that aim to remediate pollution and moral responsibility. The authors argue that such technologies do not exculpate polluters of responsibility.