This film explores the negative impacts of the multi-billion dollar carbon offsetting industry on those people who are most impacted but least heard.
This film follows the residents of Brazil’s virgin forests as they struggle to maintain their identity in the face of environmental exploitation.
This film gives voice to people affected by the development of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon, and details the devastating environmental and social consequences of the project.
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
This article, “Artificial Apple Production in Fraiburgo, Brazil, 1958–1989,” by Jó Klanovicz explores connections between the “domestication” of apples in Southern Brazil, the polemic on contaminated apples in 1989, and the reactions of the apple industry to the news published in the press on the use of pesticides in Brazilian orchards.
Four centuries of colonial extraction lead to severe ecological degradation of the forests and soils of the Atlantic region of Brazil. This article discusses the management of soil fertility and the relationship between agricultural practices and forest stands based on agricultural manuals published in Brazil over a period of more than two centuries.
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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Inspiration for sustainable waste policies and management will likely come from countries in the Global South, where consumerism and discard-oriented production are not yet fully established, where economies are less fixated on growth, and people’s lifestyles are not yet “cocooned in the consumption bubble.” Drawing on examples of informal and cooperative recyclers in Brazil, Gutberlet argues that these workers have developed effective practices and policies supporting circular economy, sufficiency, and solidarity.
In Earth First! 27, no. 6 activists report on defending wilderness in Iceland, Brazil’s movement of landless workers, the 2007 Wild Earth gathering, monkeywrenching caterpillars, reclaiming land rights in Canada, and new biofuel made out of forest biomass.
Earth First! 25, no. 4 reports on the protests against logging in the wild Siskyou Mountains in Oregon, on jurisdictional consequences for Earth Liberation Front activists, and features an essay on “Stupidity and Critics of the Ecology Movement.”
