"Natural Resources, Gadgets and Artificial Life"
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.
Andrew Jamison and Erik Baark attempt to indicate how national cultural differences affect the ways in which science and technology policies in the environmental field are formulated and implemented.
The essay examines local resistance to the New Deal rural electrification program in the United States before World War II as a crucial aspect of socio-technical change.
In this article, David E. Cooper discusses Heidegger’s view on nature.
The film depicts how modern food production companies employ technology to maximize efficiency, consumer safety, and profit.
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.
This article argues that Planet Earth has entered a period of “neurogeology”: the mental states and resulting actions of individual humans, groups of humans, and the collective mental states of all humans together are creating a new mode of planetary development.
The current mining “boom” in Latin America is the latest reincarnation of a colonial era business that intensified with industrialization in the nineteenth century. The continuities in the practice are as striking as the breaks are remarkable.
Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.