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.
In this issue of Earth First! Mike Davis calls for attention to the destruction of our planet with the words: “Wake Up!” Ron Johnson discusses trash and trains, “Sockeye Sue” gives an update on the actions in Walbran Valley, and Joanne Forman contributes a musical piece for Earth First! kids.
This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.
Why do people want to eat locally? This essay considers the drive for local food as a consumer movement in the United States, suggesting that we can look at the past to learn valuable lessons for challenges we face today.
Saúl Ordúz, Chorro de Padilla, 1979
Saúl Ordúz, Chorro de Padilla, 1979
At the beginning of the twentieth century public water fountains were installed across the city to bring free water to citizens. This photograph shows one of them: the Chorro de Padilla, a colonial water fountain that poured freshwater from the mountain of Monserrate, one of the mountains from the Cordillera Oriental near Bogotá.
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This exhibition explores the role of water in the struggle of Colombia’s capital to become a modern city. For Bogotá, complying with the standards of sanitary reformers and the governing elite was a social, technological, and environmental control endeavor. The exhibition examines everyday and gendered experiences of water, such as washing clothes or bathing, as well as urban infrastructural interventions including the domestication of rivers for water supply and wastewater disposal systems.
Stefania Gallini, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo, and Stephanie Garcés
Author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 – September 2016, which was curated by Nina Möllers. Coined by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul J. Crutzen, the term “Anthropocene” describes the idea of a new geological era shaped by deep interventions into nature by humans as biological and geological agents.
Nina Möllers
This interview with Paul Crutzen is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.
Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 – September 2016, which was curated by Nina Möllers. Coined by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul J. Crutzen, the term “Anthropocene” describes the idea of a new geological era shaped by deep interventions into nature by humans as biological and geological agents.
Nina Möllers This book tells the stories of urban do-it-yourself activists contesting conventional conditions of production and consumption through urban gardening sites, open repair workshops, fab labs, and share-and-swap events.
