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2012—Time for Change
2012—Time for Change sees the Mayan Calendar’s prediction of imminent doom as an opportunity for transformation.
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Polluted Water
This article discusses the shift in perception regarding polluted water. When did perceptions of polluted water change, when was it no longer considered a part of everyday life? And what caused the tide to turn?
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Jackson, Tim, "An Economic Reality Check"
Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.
Perspectives Article
The Enjoyment of Complexity: A New Political Anthropology for the Anthropocene?
This article argues that a paradigm change in political anthropology might be reasonable and realistic as a way of establishing dams against human self-destruction in the Anthropocene.
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“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
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Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.
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"Let the Environment Guide our Development"
Johan Rockstrom works to redefine sustainability, and identifies nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
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State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability
In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.
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The Steam Engine
Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.
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America and the Transatlantic Triangular Trade
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.