social change

This film examines the role of women in finding water in India, and how pollution impacts their communities.

This film follows a woman who returns to modern, neoliberal Nicaragua to find the Sandinista woman soldier she filmed during the armed rebellion over two decades earlier.

This film examines the development of a new, more localized food system in Venezuela.

The invention of the spinning jenny in 1764 sparked a movement that would change the lives of people worldwide: the rapid mechanization of the textile industry spurred a period of economic growth.

In the eighteenth century, cheap raw materials from the Americas and other emerging markets drove European world trade. The transatlantic triangular trade between Europe, Africa and America was established.

Author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives.

Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.

In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.

Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.