The Haber Process is a chemical process that converts ammonia into nitrogen and oxygen gas. Nitrogen is an extremely potent fertilizer, and prior to its chemical mass production, was only available in bird and bat feces. The invention of this process and its large-scale use starting in 1913 revolutionized agriculture around the world.
Is a world without waste truly achievable? The essays in this volume of RCC Perspectives discuss zero waste as a vision, as a historical concept, and as an international practice. Going beyond the motto of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” they reflect on the feasibility of creating closed material cycles and explore real-world examples of challenges and successes on the way to zero waste.
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The participants in a roundtable discussion that took place in May 2013 at LMU’s Center for Advanced Studies draw on their collective experience in engineering, anthropology, environmental justice, and city politics, in order to explore the impact of waste, and the strategies we should, and currently do, employ as we work towards zero waste in the world.
Earth First! 27, no. 2 features articles on nuclear resistance in Germany, Trinidad community’s fight against the Alcoa aluminum smelter, Molokai’i activists’ battle to “save the last Hawaiian island”, and the self-sustaining community Umoja Village Shantytown in Miami.
Earth First! 29, no. 1 reports on the movement’s victory against the Pacific Lumber Company, the climate and anti-racist camp in Germany, the Northeast Climate Confluence, the international movement of camps and convergences for climate action, and repression against animal activists in Austria.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal, Dug sends greetings from the new EF! Journal headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, Karen Pickett gives an update on MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber’s (PL) lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), Leith Kahl comments on the structurelessness of the Earth First! movement, and Kieran Suckling discusses the connections between the biological and linguistic diversity crises.
Alfred Wegener was the first scientist to theorize the concept of continental drift to explain how land masses are situated today. Modernized technology proved his proposition to be true in the 1960s and many divisions of geologic study today begin with Wegener’s ideas.
An account of the destruction in Nuremberg by major flooding along the Pegnitz River.
A curious and memorable incident with mice around the village Brochdorp near Hannover in 1675.
Natural scientific paper from 1753 with an illustration of a full-grown crocodile and a hatching baby as well as a lizard, reportedly the crocodile’s main food.
