The Future of Fuels
In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson talk to a number of guests about The Future of Fuels.
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“Roadkill: Multi-Species Mobility and Everyday Ecocide”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Kate Rigby.
Sprawling from Grace
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
Autobahn Construction During the Nazi Regime
The Nazi regime embraces the construction of the Autobahn highway system. Although some of the initiatives appear to consider the environment, aesthetics are the primary motive—not conservation.
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Lions, Lords, and Automobiles: Animal Entertainment and Travel Technologies in the Late Twentieth Century
Earth First! Journal 15, no. 8
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Randy Ghent reports from the protests against MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber (PL) and its proposed logging in the Headwaters Grove, James Barnes discusses the Emergency Salvage Timber Sale Program rider (part of Public Law 104-19), and Michelle Stewart calls for attention to the threat of Hyundai to the Oregon Wetlands.
Earth First! Journal 18, no. 6
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Stefan Wray discusses how to monkeywrench through using computers and the internet. In addition, Susanne Wong reports on the occupation of the Maheshwar dam site in India, and Jan Lundberg expresses his opinions on the use of cars within the EF! movement.
Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement
In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders—Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. Each man brought a different background and perspective to the advocacy for wilderness preservation, yet each was spurred by a fear of what growing numbers of automobiles, aggressive road building, and the meteoric increase in Americans turning to nature for their leisure would do to the country’s wild places.
Invention of the Internal Combustion Engine
Nikolaus Otto and Rudolf Diesel invent the internal combustion engine.
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Gijs Mom on "Environmental Mobility History in the Making"
Gijs Mom, Carson fellow from October 2009 to September 2010, founder of the European Center for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) and co-founder the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), talks about “Space, Sound, Smog and the Senses: Environmental Mobility History in the Making.”