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Renewable Energy and Class Struggles: Slurry and Stratification in Germany’s Energy Transition
Jennifer Carlson examines the material and social dimensions of contemporary energy transitions in the village of Dobbe in the East Frisian Peninsula.
Environmental Sustainability and Technological Change: The Slurry-Tanks Conflict in Galician Agriculture (1999–2019)
The Community Food Movement in the United Kingdom: 1960s to Present
Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 30
The Good Muck: Toward an Excremental History of China
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This monograph explores the history of the use of human excrement as agricultural fertilizer in China.
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Dead Zones and Toxic Algae Bloom in US Waters
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 7
Zero Budget Natural Farming and Bovine Entanglements in South India
Daniel Münster takes us to the troubled history of improving dairy production in India, from the crossbreeding and high-cost industrialized care of delicate hybrids to the equally complex implications of a native-cow revival.
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth about Factory Farms
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
"Agriculture, Health, Environment: Interview with Piero Bevilacqua," interview by Idamaria Fusco
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.
First Industrial Use of the Haber Process
The Haber Process is a chemical process that converts ammonia into nitrogen and oxygen gas. Nitrogen is an extremely potent fertilizer, and prior to its chemical mass production, was only available in bird and bat feces. The invention of this process and its large-scale use starting in 1913 revolutionized agriculture around the world.
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