The article aims to provide a historical perspective on the concept of eco-innovation, its different meanings and its position in the modern debate around sustainability.

In case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.

Wild Earth 7, no. 4 features provocative essays on population extinction and the biodiversity crisis, how immigration threatens America’s natural environment, the costs of affluence and consumption, and a technological imperative.

In the 1980s, the findings of Paul Crutzen and his team were used as the basis for the Montreal Protocol’s ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), identified as the primary cause for the hole in the ozone layer.

The human species has substantially altered the Earth. We are even able to artificially recreate nature, such as a machine that can imitate the movement and sound of birds.

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.

When in about 1800 Bavaria urgently needed money, Georg von Reichenbach founded a factory for scientific instruments and started building precision theodilites to precisely survey the state in order to increase the taxes on land and buildings.