Episode 7: "E-Waste and Obsolescence"
Sean Kheraj discusses the problem of e-waste with the author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, Giles Slade.
Sean Kheraj discusses the problem of e-waste with the author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, Giles Slade.
Most contributors to Agrarmodernisierung und Ökologische Folgen deal with the ecological consequences of farming and agriculture in twentieth-century Germany.
Summers shows that modern environmentalism is among the most important legacies of a consumer society.
Wild Earth 7, no. 4 features provocative essays on population extinction and the biodiversity crisis, how immigration threatens America’s natural environment, the costs of affluence and consumption, and a technological imperative.
Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
The paper highlights shortcomings in GMO public consultation practices in the European Union and in one of its member countries, Finland. Specifically, they do not serve democracy, increase consensus, enable better decisions to be made, or establish trust.
The interview with Piero Bevilacqua touches on a broad range of subjects: From the use of pesticides to the “Green Revolution”; from GMOs to biodynamic and biological agriculture, and the respect of biodiversity; from modern farming’s wasteful use of water to Common Agricultural Policy with its nonsustainable exploitation of farmland.
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Allision Cobb is interviewed on her book, Plastic: An Autobiography.