This article examines in detail the trends in turf production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, noting its striking resilience.
What does history tell us about energy transitions? What do energy transitions tell us about the history of colonialism? This volume of RCC Perspectives presents five histories of colonial projects that transformed potential energy sources in Africa, Europe, North America, and Greenland into mechanical energy for wealth production.
In the early twentieth century, most ships were powered by coal and steam. The first diesel engine was built by Rudolf Diesel in 1897. It became part of almost all types of ships and a driving force of globalization.
Soft Energy Paths serves as an important historic milestone: an intelligent and convincing argument for conservation and the use of renewable energy.
This film envisions a restructuring of global power relations and calls for individual action in order to create a 100 percent renewable energy economy.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Mark Lucey talks about the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Mexico, Michael Dorsey discusses environmentalism and racism, Lacey Phillabaum sheds light on endangered owls and Goshawks, and Rhys Roth puts focus on depleting fossil fuels to extinction.
Since fossil fuel consumption has been integral to the project of modernity, energy history offers one way of trying to understand the Anthropocene and link the histories of capital and climate.
This film criticizes America’s dependency on oil, explains how oil companies were able to establish their power, and provides information on viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel.
Earth First! 28, no. 2 features news from the Colorado resistance front against the oil and gas industry, from the No Borders Camp and its resistance against the US-Mexico border policy, and from the EF! circles and their endeavours to “evolve” the movement.
Earth First! 30, no. 4 features a memorial on Judi Bari, and essays on militant feminism, multinationals in Chiapas rainforest, the Olympics in Vancouver, mining in Argentina, and green capitalism.
