Multimedia | film profile
No Man's Zone
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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Multimedia | film profile
Trashed: No Place For Waste
Jeremy Irons leads the viewer around the world as he explores the worst effects of the amount of waste humans produce, and what can be done about it.
Multimedia | film profile
Hempsters: Plant the Seed
This film follows activists campaigning for the legalization of industrial hemp, which they believe has great potential for sustainability.
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A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth about Factory Farms
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
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Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste
This film follows the efforts of the city of San Francisco to reach zero waste.
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Transgenic Wars
This film examines the global reach of transgenic agricultural technology through the use of genetically modified soy produced in Argentina and used as pig feed in Denmark, as well as the far-reaching health consequences in both countries.
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The High Cost of Cheap Gas
This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.
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Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah
Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.
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"Remediation and Respect: Do Remediation Technologies Alter Our Responsibility?"
This paper examines the relationship between technologies that aim to remediate pollution and moral responsibility. The authors argue that such technologies do not exculpate polluters of responsibility.
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"An Impure Nature: Memory and the Neo-Materialist Flip at America’s Biggest Toxic Superfund Site"
This essay reflects on an incident in 1995, when 300 snow geese died in the flooded Berkeley Pit, a toxic open pit copper mine in the northwestern United States. In his analysis the author draws on new materialist theoretical approaches that reject anthropocentric thinking and instead emphasize the powerful materiality of cultural phenomena.