Wälder der Hoffnung [Forests of Hope]
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
This film provides insight into the secretive way of life behind the walls of German nuclear plants.
This drama captures how the inhabitants of Javé, a small village somewhere in Brazil, set out to secure a future for themselves in the face of plans for a hydropower dam that threaten to submerge their village.
This documentary examines the risks of farming transgenic salmon.
This fictional drama is inspired by Eric Schlosser’s nonfiction book of the same name. Both explore the complex realities behind that staple of American fast food, the burger—from the slaughterhouse, via the laboratory, to the shop counter.
This film follows one farming couple’s efforts to maintain the mountain farmers’ way of life through an organic cheese dairy in the Swiss Alps.
This documentary is about Estamira, a 63 year-old woman suffering from schizophrenia who has lived and worked for decades in Jardin Gramacho, one of the largest landfills in the world.
The modernization, the declinist, and the inclinist paradigms of the late twentieth century, despite their differences, all tended to frame environmental change in a unilinear Nature-to-Culture fashion, which in turn entailed homogenizing the agency, process, and outcome of environmental change. This article examines the characteristics of each paradigm, as well as some of the paradoxes that have arisen in their wake. Finally, it looks to alternative approaches.
A review of economist Óscar Carpintero’s history of resource use in the Spanish economy.
Japan has one of the most eco-efficient economies in the world. The present paper looks at the history of two central policy measures designed to stimulate the emergence of a more sustainable industrial base.