energy

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.

This award-winning documentary explores ways the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is likely to happen around the world.

This essay discusses methodological difficulties of the established concept of social memory for the analysis of energo-political discourse. It examines the case study of the German-Russian energy cooperation on the natural gas market which began with the discovery of the Urengoi gas field in 1966.

This article presents and discusses the papers presented at the 5th IWHA Conference under the theme ‘Water, Food and the Economy’.

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.