“The People’s Fuel”: Turf in Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This article examines in detail the trends in turf production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, noting its striking resilience.
This article examines in detail the trends in turf production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, noting its striking resilience.
This essay contests the traditional narrative of the gas revolution in the Netherlands. To illustrate the domestic roots of revolutionary change, the essay focuses on gas use in households.
In The Next Industrial Revolution, architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
Thank You Third World is a campaign that highlights short movies which draw attention to the exploitation of workforce in the Global South.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence shapes economy and the production of consumer goods.
Summers shows that modern environmentalism is among the most important legacies of a consumer society.
Most contributors to Agrarmodernisierung und Ökologische Folgen deal with the ecological consequences of farming and agriculture in twentieth-century Germany.
US history from an environmental perspective.
Hal Rothman’s Neon Metropolis is a colorful and absorbing account of Las Vegas’s rise from the desert landscape of the American West to the cutting edge of metropolitan growth and development.
In five major sections, this edited collection investigates the interaction of population growth, consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path.