electricity

Powerless is a film about India’s energy poverty and the people’s desperate measures to create functioning infrastructure. Electricity “thieves” divert power to homes and small businesses and come head-to-head with electricity supply companies.

This film envisions a restructuring of global power relations and calls for individual action in order to create a 100 percent renewable energy economy.

This film follows the obstacles which Guinea’s schoolchildren must overcome simply to find light at night to study by, in a country where only one fifth of the population has access to electricity.

Life After People is a television series in which scientists, engineers, and other experts speculate about what Earth will be like if humanity instantly disappears.

Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.

Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.

Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.