Energy and the Making of Modern California
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
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Invention of the Franklin Stove
American “Founding Father” and inventor Benjamin Franklin creates an advanced heating system.
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The Fermi Reactor
The reactor was a model for all nuclear plants built after the Second World War.
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Paul Crutzen popularizes the concept of the Anthropocene
The theory states that humanity is a major geological and geobiological factor on Earth.
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Groningen gas field discovered
The discovery changes the European approach to energy use.
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Constuction of the Hoover Dam Completed
The main function of the dam is flood control and the production of energy.
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Crude Impact
This award-winning film exposes just how deep-rooted our dependency on fossil fuels has become, and what this means for those who live in regions affected by oil extraction and for the future of life itself.
The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
Otzenrath 3° kälter [Strange Homeland]
Jens Schanze documents the impact on the residents of Otzenrath, a seven hundred-year-old village in North-Rhine Westphalia, following their relocation in order to make way for the Garzweiler II open-pit, brown coal mine.
Lajos Racz on "An Environmental History of Hungary"
Lajos Rácz, Carson Fellow from June 2010 to June 2011, talks about his research project, “An Environmental History of Hungary.”