Multimedia | film profile
Trash Dance
In Trash Dance, choreographer Allison Orr tries to persuade employees of the Austin Department of Solid Waste to participate in a public dance performance.
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Multimedia | image
Photograph: Canal río San Francisco, 1930
In addition to depicting a phase of the channelization works of the San Francisco River, this image shows Bogotá’s urban landscape, with the Eastern Mountains in the background and trees such as eucalyptus, pines and cypress along the river.
Multimedia | book profile
Hausmüll: Abfall und Gesellschaft in Westdeutschland 1945–1990
Hausmüll documents the rise of a “new” environmental problem in post-war Germany, that of an increase in consumption and consequently a dramatic increase in waste.
Arcadia
Half a Century of Public Participation to Stop Pollution in the Alviela River, from 1957 to Today
This article examines mobilization and resistance against pollution in the Alviela River in the Santarém municipality, Portugal, since the 1950s.
Multimedia | journal article
“Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid”
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
Arcadia
“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History
This book provides an economic history of the petroleum industry in Alberta, Canada, as well as a detailed analysis of the operation of the markets for Alberta oil and natural gas, and the main governmental regulations (apart from environmental regulations) faced by the industry.