Energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the United States off oil and coal by 2050 cheaply and easily, by integrating sectors as well as innovations.
Hsuan L. Hsu is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming).
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu
This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, which occurred at Three Mile Island.
Until the project was finally abandoned in 1989, the Kaiseraugst nuclear power plant was the focus of Swiss disputes on nuclear energy for almost twenty years. In this case study, Patrick Kupper pursues the question of how an electro-technical infrastructure project could become the focal point of discourse about common basic values of Swiss society.
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.
This report by the US Atomic Energy Commission estimates the possible damage from a meltdown at a large nuclear reactor.
