Der Ährenmann [The Man in the Wheatfield]
This film profiles the work of Eckart Irion, German researcher and cultivator of new types of grain. He uses natural selection to develop his own seeds for growing rye, wheat, and oats.
This film profiles the work of Eckart Irion, German researcher and cultivator of new types of grain. He uses natural selection to develop his own seeds for growing rye, wheat, and oats.
A portrait of Michael Simml, a pioneering organic farmer based in the Bavarian Forest, and his methods of yielding the highest returns from the most challenging of soils.
A political thriller about GMOs and freedom of speech.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
A classic proponent of the trans-European Economic Enlightenment, the Oekonomische Gesellschaft Bern, founded in 1759, strove to optimize the use of the region’s resources in order to protect the sovereignty of the state of Bern. Its significance should not be measured according to its immediate practical effects, but rather in view of how its ideas for new forms of scientifically based natural resource usage unfolded over the long term.
Gesellschaft und Ernahrung is a lavishly illustrated catalog of an exhibition on the history of food that ran at the Food Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, in 2000.
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
Nature’s Management is a collection of early nineteenth century agricultural writings by Edmund Ruffin, topically arranged to highlight Virginia’s fence enclosure laws, municipal public health measures to combat malaria, wetlands drainage and reclamation, and observations of the geology, botany, and culture of Virginia and the Carolinas.
US history from an environmental perspective.