Multimedia | film profile
Winged Scourge
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
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Plastic Planet
A global view of the age of plastic, from its beginnings to the increasingly serious implications it has for humans and the environment.
Multimedia | film profile
Choropampa, El Precio del Oro [Choropampa, The Price of Gold]
A two-year chronicle documenting the real price of gold in a village in Peru’s Andean mountains, following a mercury spill by one of the world’s largest gold producers.
Multimedia | podcast
"Energy Utopia or Dystopia? A Historical Perspective on Nuclear Energy"
Horace Herring explores the history of nuclear energy and its reception shortly after a Tsunami hit the North East coast of Japan in March 2011, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima One nuclear power plant.
Multimedia | podcast
Episode 19: "Metropolitanism and Environmental History"
How can the changing nature of the relationship between urban environments and rural hinterlands be better understood? Three prominent Canadian environmental history scholars critique the role of metropolitanism in environmental history research.
Multimedia | podcast
"Silent Spring at 50"
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.
Multimedia | film profile
Traeume der Lausitz [Dreams of Lusatia]
Director Bernhard Sallmann returns to Lusatia to complete his trilogy about the region by exploring its dreamscapes, orienting himself somewhere between the scars of an industrial past and signs that nature is beginning to reclaim the degraded environments that remain.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Edmund P. Russell on “Neurohistory”
Edmund P. Russell, a Carson Fellow from October 2010 to June 2011, speaks of his collaborative research with neuroscientists and interest in designing environments to promote well-being.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Shane McCorristine on "Dreamscapes of the Arctic"
Shane McCorristine, a Carson fellow from June to September 2010, talks about how the arctic regions were understood in the nineteenth century.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Shen Hou on "Nature Conservation"
Shen Hou, Carson Fellow from February to July 2011, talks about her research project at the RCC. It explores the introduction, reception, and transformation of American ideas of nature conservation, and related practices in China.