Gyre: Creating Art From a Plastic Ocean
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
A couple competes to live with zero waste for a whole year, with comedic results.
This essay reflects on an incident in 1995, when 300 snow geese died in the flooded Berkeley Pit, a toxic open pit copper mine in the northwestern United States. In his analysis the author draws on new materialist theoretical approaches that reject anthropocentric thinking and instead emphasize the powerful materiality of cultural phenomena.
A supertanker suffers an explosion while offloading oil near Genoa, Italy, triggering a huge oil spill; quick action by Italian authorities limits the extent of the disaster.
The Hanford Site in the United States was the home of the first full-scale plutonium reactor in the world. It produced millions of gallons of radioactive waste and is now the site of massive cleanup efforts.
Hacia finales del siglo XIX, la ciudad se vio confrontada con la urgencia de construir nueva infraestructura como una exigencia impuesta para la transformación de su imagen y de las condiciones de vida de sus habitantes. La modernización de Bogotá hizo necesaria la transformación de espacios públicos y privados siguiendo los paradigmas europeos y norteamericanos sobre la higiene, el ornato y la moral. Mientras la ciudad crecía en términos de población e infraestructura, el volumen de residuos producidos por la población también aumentó.
The pollution of the Cuyahoga River was so severe that over the years the toxic waste caught fire numerous times. One specific fire in 1969 was reported upon by the Time Magazine and played a strong part in the movement towards cleansing the waterways nationwide.
The Sydney Tar Ponds are a huge waste site in Nova Scotia, Canada that contains large amounts of toxic chemicals. The ponds formed in a river mouth, where steel corporations let their largely coal-based pollutants and sludge drain off for many decades.