Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 13
energy regimes
Visualizing Energy
Visualizing Energy is an open-access, interdisciplinary science-communication project that aims to increase actionable knowledge about a sustainable and just energy transition.
“Power Poverty: Energy Injustice in South Africa”
In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.
Crosscurrents episode 6: “Climate Change and Energy Futures Workshop”
Episode 6 of Crosscurrents features talks and short interviews from the Climate Change and Energy Futures workshop. The 2018 workshop imagined futures related to climate change and energy, with attention to the social values that underlie decision-making in a carbon-constrained world.
Domestic Storage Problems and Transitions: Coal in Nineteenth-Century America
Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.
How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
Nuclear Nation
This film follows the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the former “exclusion zone” town of Futaba.
When Waste Disappears, or More Waste Please!
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America
About this issue
What does history tell us about energy transitions? What do energy transitions tell us about the history of colonialism? This volume of RCC Perspectives presents five histories of colonial projects that transformed potential energy sources in Africa, Europe, North America, and Greenland into mechanical energy for wealth production.
Content
Energy, Industry, and Transport in South-Central Africa’s History
Energy must be seen in interaction with transportation and industry in order for its role in South-Central Africa to be fully understood. This article traces the history of energy, industrialization, and transportation from the pre-colonial through the colonial period.