These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road portrays a father and son struggling to survive in a post-apocalytic world turned savage.
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 examines the history and future of energy in America. It advocates for a transition to green energy through individual action.
This film follows activists campaigning for the legalization of industrial hemp, which they believe has great potential for sustainability.
This film follows the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the former “exclusion zone” town of Futaba.
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.
This film examines the life of a German town some decades after a nuclear plant inspired nationwide resistance.
From the late 1950s onward, Helsinki experienced air pollution from energy generation, industries, waste incineration, and traffic. After having been at its worst in the late 1960s the air quality in Helsinki eventually improved remarkably. This paper examines the reasons for this environmentally advantageous outcome, which was achieved in the absence of a particularly successful environmental policy.
