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Environment and Infrastructure: Challenges, Knowledge and Innovation from the Early Modern Period to the Present
An edited volume environment and infrastructure in the late middle ages to our days.
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“Technology as a Strategy of the Human? A Comparison Between the Extension Concept and the Fetish Concept of Technology”
In this article, David Gentilcore writes about the Venetian cistern-system and its a success as a technology for treating rainwater.
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“Being Nature in the Digital Age: Digital Technology, Nature, and Self-Identity”
In this video, RCC Landhaus Fellow Melusine Martin presents on “Being Nature in the Digital Age: Digital Technology, Nature, and Self-Identity.”
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“Green States in a Dirty World: 1975 and the Performance of Nordic Green Modern”
This book chapter examines the 1975 Nordic Council conference at Frostavallen in Sweden as a transnational media event which specifically sought to articulate a green modernity to the outside world.
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Air Conditioning
Hsuan Hsu’s Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.
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Episode 5: “Enchanted Objects”
In the fifth episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins meets Richard Forrest, steward of the Lytton Museum and Archives, to talk about the devastating losses sustained by the municipal repository through the Lytton fire and to contemplate the futures of collections in digitized records and photographs, and 3-D printed copies of objects.
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“Frank Vorhies: Integrating Conservation and Economic Development”
In this Smart Forests Radio episode, Dr. Frank Vorhies explores the economic aspects of conservation initatives, focusing on how different views of conservation and biodiversity influence contributing activities and quantification methods.
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Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
Full text of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey, a environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel.
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“Mother Drone, Mother Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israel’s Military”
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.
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What Living in Space Teaches Us about Living on Earth
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management.