social change

The film discusses how biodynamic agricultural methods transformed an area of desert 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and a leading agro-industrial corporation was founded.

This film shows how farming, state, and business and finance interrelate, such that various forms of malnutrition continue to pose a risk that is often life threatening, even in times of overproduction.

Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.

An account of post-World War II conflicts, prompted by the arrival of two major timber companies in Earth’s largest coastal temperate rainforest: Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska.

An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, oil imports in Cuba were halved and food imports reduced by up to 80 percent. This film suggests that, given the perceived immanence of peak oil, there is much to be learned from the Cuban experience.

A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.

This film chronicles the arrival of around four hundred Chinese workers in Dortmund’s postindustrial landscape in 2003. Their task: to work alongside the remaining 30-strong German workforce, dismantling what was formerly Europe’s most modern coking plant.

Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.

Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.