In Britain, a large proportion of the soil and groundwater pollution that occurred during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century came from gasworks and coke plants…
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.
The Pipe tells the story of a small Irish community taking on the Shell Oil Company and their plans to build a pipeline through the village.
As agents of knowledge and appropriators of technology, exhibitions (and most notably museum exhibitions) have played an important role in the early twentieth century, when gas and electricity, the quintessential modern energy sources, aimed to oust wood, coal, and peat while simultaneously competing intensely with each other.
This essay contests the traditional narrative of the gas revolution in the Netherlands. To illustrate the domestic roots of revolutionary change, the essay focuses on gas use in households.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Dennis Martinez contributes his thoughts on man and nature, Edith T. Mirante gives an update on the Burmese gas pipeline, Garth Kahl calls for rethinking national borders, and John Bowling interviews John Trudell.
This award-winning documentary explores ways the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is likely to happen around the world.
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
This film shows how the oil and gas industries, rich with political connections, obtained a position of almost untouchable power and how at-risk communities have united to fight back.
