Multimedia | film profile
Gekaufte Wahrheit [Scientists under Attack]
A political thriller about GMOs and freedom of speech.
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The Ecovillage of Sieben Linden
Founded in 1997 and located in the Altmark region of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, Sieben Linden is considered a classical example of an ecovillage as it tries to present a special “Culture of Sustainability” whose inhabitants aim to maintain an ecologically sustainable lifestyle without reducing their own quality of life.
Multimedia | journal article
"A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?"
Using the controversy over copyright on the internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, this article offers a couple of modest proposals about what a politics of intellectual property might look like.
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Review of Die GRÜNEN im Bundestag: Sitzungsprotokolle 1983–1987, edited by Josef Boyer and Helge Heidemeyer
The author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment, Joachim Radkau, reviews this volume of the papers of the German green party, which covers the first term during which it was represented in the Bundestag.
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"Degrowth: A Slogan for a New Ecological Democracy"
An interview with Serge Latouche, a proponent of the anti-utilitarian movement in environmental thought.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Towards Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomous Food Systems
Taking a historical, cross-cultural, and trans-disciplinary perspective, this e-book includes some of the most recent references in the scholarly and policy literature on food, agriculture, environment, and livelihoods. The photos and the embedded video clips, animations, and audio recordings show farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, fishers, food workers, urban farmers, and consumers all working to promote food sovereignty, highlighting the importance of locally controlled food systems to sustain people and nature in a diversity of rural and urban contexts.
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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.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Ethics of Environmental Holism and the Democratic State: Are they in Conflict?"
Laura Westra discusses environmental holism in relation to the democratic rights of individuals and of nation states within the international community.
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"Democracy and Environmental Decision-Making"
Klaus Peter Rippe and Peter Schaber discuss democracy and environmental decision-making.
Multimedia | journal article
Lundqvist, Lennart J., "A Green Fist in a Velvet Glove: The Ecological State and Sustainable Development"
The article discusses how far the ecological state can go in pursuing sustainable development without intruding on democratic values. Focussing on social choice mechanisms, it draws the image of the ecological state as a “green fist in a velvet glove.”