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Coffee To Go: Mit dem Geschmack der Vertreibung [Coffee To Go: With the Taste of Eviction]
This film reports on the eviction of villages near Mubende by the Ugandan army to clear land for a coffee plantation.
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Sprawling from Grace
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
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Pandemics in Context
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
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No Impact Man
Colin Beavan’s year-long attempt to live ‘off the grid’ in the heart of New York City brings the environment, and his relationships, to the forefront.
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Cafeteria Man
This film examines a project in Baltimore’s public schools to transform the school food programs, making them more nutritious and connected to local food systems.
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Interview with David Munns, author of Engineering the Environment
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Munns is interviewed on his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War.
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A Place Without People
This documentary shows how the local population of Tanzania has been evicted to make way for the creation of the world’s most famous nature reserves.
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Climates of Migration
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
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Microtopia
This film displays ideas and experiments in art and architecture to design and dwell in portable, flexible, environmentally-friendly off-grid and compact homes.
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Why Poverty? Land Rush
This award-winning documentary follows a controversial sugar development scheme in Mali. Some oppose its claims to offer inclusive development, and see it as a neocolonial venture.