Multimedia | interviews and talks
Slat, Boyan, "How the Oceans Can Clean Themselves"
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
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Multimedia | image
Permanent Disposal of Nuclear Waste
The large-scale testing of the atomic bomb in 1950 has left radioactive elements that could send strong, traceable chemical signals into our atmosphere for millennia.
Multimedia | image
The Misunderstanding: Waste
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an exceptional example of marine pollution, was discovered by Charles J. Moore in 1997 after returning from a sailing race.
Exhibition chapter
Pollution and Industrialization of the Neva and Viennese Danube in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | Neva and Danube Rivers
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 discuss similarities and differences in the history of water supply, pollution, and waste management in St. Petersburg and Vienna.
Multimedia | journal
Earth First! 9, no. 2
In this issue of Earth First! Darryl Cherney gives an update on the protests against logging in Goshawk Grove in Sanctuary Forest, California. Daniel Gibson writes on waste management, Roland Knapp calls for attention to the neglected White Mountains in California, and ecologist George Wuerthner untangles the “let burn” policy in Yellowstone National Park.
Multimedia | film profile
Wasser Unterm Hammer [H2O Up For Sale]
This film follows the results of water privatization in Germany and England.
Multimedia | film profile
Iron Crows
This film examines life in the Chittagong ship demolition yard, where workers risk their lives for two dollars a day to provide for their families.
Multimedia | film profile
The Clean Bin Project
A couple competes to live with zero waste for a whole year, with comedic results.
Multimedia | film profile
Trashed: No Place For Waste
Jeremy Irons leads the viewer around the world as he explores the worst effects of the amount of waste humans produce, and what can be done about it.
Multimedia | film profile
The Carbon Rush
This film explores the negative impacts of the multi-billion dollar carbon offsetting industry on those people who are most impacted but least heard.