Franz-Josef Brüggemeier outlines the history one of the most crucial energy source of twentieth-century Europe in this article. “Coal returned to center stage again and again. In both world wars, coal provided the material basis for the atrocities committed and was of decisive importance in the subsequent search for lasting peace.”
In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson talk to guest Rachel Kyte about the impacts of living through a global energy crisis while living through a climate crisis. The musical guest is Carmody.
Nicole Seymour on her Rachel Carson Center project.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ronald L. Trosper is interviewed on his recent book, Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands .
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
Full open access book on ecological economics.
Book excerpt from Profit by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Mark Stoll.
