Earth First! 28, no. 6
Earth First! 28, no. 6 features news from the Round River Rendezvous in Ohio, from Climate Camp Australia, the West Coast Climate Convergence, the G8 protests, and the actions against the superhighway I-69.
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Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining
This film follows resistance to mining companies and the Peruvian government by local residents, focusing on the small town of Tambogrande.
Growing Change
This film examines the development of a new, more localized food system in Venezuela.
China Blue
This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.
From Anti-Abundance to Anti-Anti-Abundance: Scarcity, Abundance, and Utopia in Two Science Fiction Writers
This essay looks at science fiction works by Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin from the 1970s in which visions of scarcity are both critiques of abundance and utopian gestures. Today, Ramírez argues, scarcity has lost its critical power.
“Main Objective: Don’t Starve”: Representations of Scarcity in Virtual Worlds
Although video games seem to be a product of a culture of abundance, they create challenges for their players by requiring them to negotiate conditions of lack, as can be seen in the recent rise in games that portray post-apocalyptic worlds in which scattered survivors have to scavenge for basic resources in barren environments and destroyed ecosystems.
Small Is Beautiful. A Study of Economics As If People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful was first published in 1973 and still offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution reveals how today’s global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
"Environmental Values and Human Purposes"
In this paper, it is argued that many social practices serve human purposes and also provide a setting for the emergence of environmental value.
"Environmentalism in Ireland: Ecological Modernisation versus Populist Rural Sentiment"
This paper examines the contestation of two forms of environmentalism, institutional ecomodernism versus a grassroots ecopopulism within the context of the ongoing dispute between a local community in the west of Ireland and both multinationals and the state, who are attempting to run gas pipelines from the Atlantic Corrib Field through the rural community’s lands.