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ECO-WARS: Political Campaigns and Social Movements
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
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The New Watch on the Rhine: Anti-Nuclear Protest in Baden and Alsace
During the 1970s, anti-nuclear activists in the Upper Rhine Valley worked together to oppose a series of reactor projects planned for their region. Their daring actions drew attention to this rural borderland, spread awareness of the dangers of nuclear energy, and thus furthered the development of national anti-nuclear movements.
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Petra Kelly and the Transnational Roots of Green Politics
During the 1970s and 1980s, Petra Kelly traveled the globe, visiting local sites of anti-nuclear protest. Intent on bringing the energy of disparate grassroots anti-nuclear protests into parliamentary politics, Kelly helped found the West German Greens in 1980.
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Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.
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Wild Earth 6, no. 2
Wild Earth 6, no. 2 features Bill McKibben on nature writing and common ground, Laura Westra writes about ecosystem integrity, sustainability, and the “Fish Wars”, and W. O. Pruitt explains “The Caribou Commons.”
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"Incorporating Value Trade-offs into Community-Based Environmental Risk Decisions"
In this paper Robin S. Gregory discusses six reasons why such trade-offs are difficult and, for each, present helpful techniques from the decision sciences along with case study examples of successful applications.
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"Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism"
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
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Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining
This film follows resistance to mining companies and the Peruvian government by local residents, focusing on the small town of Tambogrande.
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Climate of Change
This film, narrated by Tilda Swinton, documents environmental projects and actions by ordinary people around the world.
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Unfinished Italy
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.