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"Education, the Interpretive Agenda of Science, and the Obligation of Scientists to Promote this Agenda"
Warwick Fox discusses education and the obligations of scientists to promote intepretive agendas.
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"The Emperor has no Clothes...Let us Paint our Loincloths Rainbow: A Classical and Feminist Critique of Contemporary Science Policy"
Alastair Macintosh uses Plato and Bacon as yardsticks to consider the British government’s White Paper on science together with government research council reports as a basis for critiquing current science policy and its intensifying orientation, British and worldwide, towards industrial and military development.
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International Environmental History: Nature as a Cultural Challenge
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, adapted from a 2008 proposal submitted to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler explain why the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society was founded. They conclude by outlining the six research clusters of the RCC and highlighting its activities, which include colloquia, summer schools, international conferences, and exhibitions.
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Anthropocene: Exploring the Future of the Age of Humans
What does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? What are our responsibilities in a world where the boundaries between nature and culture are no longer clear? How do we visualize and teach the challenges of the future? The articles in this issue of RCC Perspectives reflect upon the ethics, aesthetics, and didactics of an “Age of Humans.”
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Making Tracks: Human and Environmental Histories
Perhaps it is a feature of environmental history in particular that our origins and our past stories shape our interests and our fields of enquiry in myriad ways. Many of the “tracks” in this volume are not well-trodden, and they lead us through a landscape that is mutable and as yet uncharted.
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"When 'The Environment' Comes To Visit: Local Environmental Knowledge in the Far North of Russia"
Based on field research in villages and towns in the Komi Republic (northeastern European Russia), this article compares the perception of the environment with environmental knowledge, and examines their interrelations in local contexts.
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Bag It
Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world.
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Carbon Nation
Carbon Nation is a documentary movie about climate change solutions.
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“Our Only World”—An American Vision
The photo exhibition “Our Only World,” opened at the Smithsonian Institution in 1974, is conceivably the first example of a photo exhibition in which a national government consciously employed photographic eco-images to emphasize the complexity of environmentalism and to sanction specific behavioral patterns.
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Assuming Responsibility for the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities in Education
The Anthropocene emphasizes that all of us are collectively responsible for the future of the world. Society will have to legitimize science and technology, focusing in particular on education as one of the most powerful tools for transformation, in order to make the Anthropocene long-lasting, equitable, and worth-living.