Wild Earth 12, no. 3, features essays on a cultural transformation towards sustainability, commerce and wilderness, the role of literary intellectuals in conservation, and the preservation of wildlands in Mexico.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
In the eighteenth century, cheap raw materials from the Americas and other emerging markets drove European world trade. The transatlantic triangular trade between Europe, Africa and America was established.
In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors describe fish resources in St. Petersburg and Vienna and their role in urban life from different perspectives. Fisheries constituted an important part of local economic activities and fishers—both poor professionals and wealthy leisure anglers—were very visible in the cities’ crowds, at their markets, and on the banks of their rivers and canals.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Leslie Hemstreet tries to determine why the Earth First! movement has received such a bad reputation, Craig Beneville discusses free trade and dolphins, and Boris Garoasat contributes his reflections on the Anti-Terrorism Bill.
This exhibition shows some of the many links between the Neva River in St. Petersburg and the Viennese Danube discovered during the joint Russian-Austrian research project “The Long-Term Dynamics of Fish Populations and Ecosystems of European Rivers.”
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Pixiloo reports on the difficult fight against logging in the Sierra Nevada forests, Lin Wong discusses the OSA/FTAA, trade liberalization, and the environment, and James Bell discusses genetic engineering in Peoria, Illinois.
This award-winning film examines the experience of ordinary workers as it tracks a canned food product on its journey across the world.
This film captures the rise of China’s influence in Africa and in Zambia in particular, through the lives of three individuals: a Chinese entrepreneur, a project manager for a Chinese multinational and the Zambian Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
