An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
This film investigates the hidden costs of smart and affordable clothes.
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
Portraits of privatization from around the world show how the daily lives of people using what were once considered public resources are affected.
The chemist is one of the pioneers of environmental hygiene.
From its polluted landscapes to its poisoned workers, India is paying a heavy price for Europe’s desire for cheap cotton.
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
Edmund P. Russell, a Carson Fellow from October 2010 to June 2011, speaks of his collaborative research with neuroscientists and interest in designing environments to promote well-being.
