"Everything Circulates: Agricultural Chemistry and Recycling Theories in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century"
This paper analyses the arguments in favour of recycling put forth by agricultural chemists in the mid-nineteenth century.
This paper analyses the arguments in favour of recycling put forth by agricultural chemists in the mid-nineteenth century.
Simon Werrett, Carson Fellow from May to September 2011, talks about his research on ‘Recycling and the History of Science and Technology.’
Nature’s Management is a collection of early nineteenth century agricultural writings by Edmund Ruffin, topically arranged to highlight Virginia’s fence enclosure laws, municipal public health measures to combat malaria, wetlands drainage and reclamation, and observations of the geology, botany, and culture of Virginia and the Carolinas.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
The award-winning Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys growing up as ‘Zabaleen’ or garbage collectors in Cairo, Egypt.
Cartoneros documents the work of unemployed garbage collectors in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence shapes economy and the production of consumer goods.
Jeremy Irons leads the viewer around the world as he explores the worst effects of the amount of waste humans produce, and what can be done about it.
This film follows the efforts of the city of San Francisco to reach zero waste.
This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.