Multimedia | film profile
Flow: For Love of Water
This film discusses many of the themes surrounding water issues, especially privatization.
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Vienen Por El Oro, Vienen Por Todo [They Came For The Gold, They Came For It All]
This film follows an Argentinian town which must struggle to decide whether to allow a gold mine that could reduce poverty but also uses toxic mining methods.
Exhibition chapter
Fish Consumption | 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 how the growing population required a lot of food and fish was significant part of the city dwellers’ diets. Social stratification led to the clear division between fish commodities for the wealthy and those for poor citizens, though some kinds of fish could be popular among all dwellers, regardless of social differences.
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Sushi: The Global Catch
This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.
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Last Ocean: Paradies am Ende der Welt [The Last Ocean]
This film follows the impacts of fishing on the Ross Sea, a deep bay of Antarctica’s southern ocean.
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Recipes for Disaster
This film follows a filmmaker as he and his family attempt to live for a year without using oil products.
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Wätterschmöcker [Weather Gazers]
This film follows the daily lives of seven “weather prophets” in the Swiss Muota Valley, who predict weather six months in advance based on evidence from animals and plants.
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Kahlschlag: Der Kampf um Brasiliens letzte Wälder [Clearcutting: The Fight for Brazil's Last Forests]
This film follows the residents of Brazil’s virgin forests as they struggle to maintain their identity in the face of environmental exploitation.
Multimedia | journal
Earth First! Journal 15, no. 2
In this issue of Earth First! Journal John Green brings news from Alaska regarding the suspension of killing wolves. In addition, Carolyn Moran, the editor of magazine Talking Leaves, discusses tree-free paper and waste, and Judi Bari reveals the secret history of tree spiking.
Arcadia
Conservation and Forestry in the American Tropics: John Clayton Gifford in Puerto Rico
Ian Tyrrell recounts the debate between forestry and conservation in a colonial setting that led to the establishment of Luquillo National Forest in Puerto Rico in 1907.