Multimedia | film profile
Chasing Ice
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
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Perspectives Article
When Waste Disappears, or More Waste Please!
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
Arcadia
Carbon Bomb: Indonesia’s Failed Mega Rice Project
In 1997 and 1998 peat swamp forests burned in Borneo, Indonesia, spewing big amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Exhibition chapter
Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland) | A 360º Visual Journey
In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Jeroen Oomen and Adam Sébire delve into the world of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies through a video triptych in Hellisheiði in Iceland. The three screens, shown here in one video, capture experiments at Hellishei∂i, aspects of the sequestered CO2, and an imagined future.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Forest of Our Lives: In and Out of Political Ecology"
The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.
Perspectives Article
Climate-Sensitive Architecture as a Blueprint: Habits, Shades, and the Irresistible Staircase
Daniel Barber explores alternative visions of modernity in architectural projects in Brazil from the 1930s and 1940s that embraced, rather than excluded, climate.
Multimedia | journal article
“Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial”
This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels.
Multimedia | journal article
“Low-Carbon Research: Building a Greener and More Inclusive Academy”
This essay examines how the fossil fuel energy regimes that support contemporary academic norms in turn shape and constrain knowledge production.
Multimedia | journal article
“Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale”
This article examines how a scalar divide has been negotiated visually, focusing in particular on Ed Hawkins’ 2016 viral climate spiral.
Exhibition chapter
Making Carbon and Climate Change Visible | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
Third chapter of Ricardo Rozzi et al.’s virtual exhibition, From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.