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Lawrence Culver on “Manifest Disaster”
Lawrence Culver, Carson Center fellow from June to December 2010, speaks about his research project “Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.”
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Anthropocene Blues: Abundance, Energy, Limits
Since fossil fuel consumption has been integral to the project of modernity, energy history offers one way of trying to understand the Anthropocene and link the histories of capital and climate.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Generation Anthropocene is Upon Us”
Inspired by courses they’ve developed at Stanford, Mike Osborne and Miles Traer created the Generation Anthropocene podcast, a volunteer-based audio show featuring thought leaders.
Multimedia | film profile
“Global Hotspots for Tropical Forest Restoration”
Pedro Brancalion is a professor of forest restoration at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In this presentation, he discusses the results of his research conducted in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. He applies these results to other tropical forests across the globe, stressing the importance of global restoration implementation.
Multimedia | journal article
"Restoring Eden in the Amish Anthropocene"
Through an ethnographic account about the use of an electromagnetic water system in the Amish community, Nicole Welk-Joerger explores the conceptual meeting ground between sacred and secular worldviews in efforts that address the Anthropocene.
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“10 Years to Transform the Future of Humanity—Or Destabilize the Planet”
Johan Rockström works to understand Earth’s resilience, and shows how nine out of the 15 big biophysical systems that regulate the climate are at risk of reaching tipping points. 10 years after his first TED Talk, he presents a plan for putting the planet back on the path of sustainability over the next 10 years.
Multimedia | journal article
“Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology”
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
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“Stew of the Earth”
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
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“Adventures in Mockstitutions”
Jenny Price argues the efficacy of alt-institution public art projects for environmental humanities practitioners and uses examples from her own practice and beyond.