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Saubere Ernte—Mavuno Safi [Clean Crop—Cotton as Fate]
The film tells the story of two cotton farming villages in East Africa: one organic, one heavily industrialized.
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Most—Nachruf auf eine Alte Stadt [Most—An Old Town's Obituary]
The film tells the story of the town Most in Northern Bohemia, destroyed in the quest for coal.
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Katiyabaaz [Powerless]
Powerless is a film about India’s energy poverty and the people’s desperate measures to create functioning infrastructure. Electricity “thieves” divert power to homes and small businesses and come head-to-head with electricity supply companies.
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"The Challenge of Sustainable Planning for US Metropolitan Areas"
Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, talks about the challenges of regional planning in the United States. As opposed to Europe where spatial planning prevails, the notion of urban planning is more dominant here, and Hoch uses the Chicago region as a case study.
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"Urban Transformation: Spaces in the Sky"
Belinda Yuen, a town planner and expert in mass housing, presents an account of Singapore’s public housing, the evolution of concepts and strategies for high-rise urban planning, and the diverse common spaces that have been designed for a higher quality of life.
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Crosscurrents episode 3: Rose Ricciardelli
The third episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the relationship between mental health and public safety for workers through the research conducted by Rose Ricciardelli, Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Crosscurrents episode 4: “An Interview with Historian David Wilson”
The fourth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on professor David Wilson´s latest research on Irish organized nationalism in Canada between 1866 and 1871.
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Crosscurrents episode 5: Ashlee Cunsolo and Sean Kheraj
The fifth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series, John Sandlos interviews Ashlee Cunsolo on the concept of ecological grief among indigenous communities in Labrador, Canada; Sean Kheraj speaks about the history of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.
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Interview with David Moon, author of The American Steppes
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon is interviewed on his new book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s.
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Interview with Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver, authors of An Environmental History of the Civil War
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.