In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Robert Mbeche argues that even though REDD+ claims to be democratic and participatory, the Uganda program allows the input of only a few selected stakeholders – mainly the government actors and a limited number of NGOs.
This issue of Forest Voice, a publication of the Native Forest Council, provides an annual report, outlines its goals, and highlights its successes in advancing a Zero-Cut policy on public lands, even resulting in support from a majority of Sierra Club members. Bill Willers address timber industry influence on U.S. public schools. A feature article spotlights a referendum to limit clearcutting in Maine.
Digital Environmental Humanities is a portal that explores how new digital technologies might be better used to showcase environmental humanities research.
Ecoartspace is a nonprofit platform providing opportunities for artists who address the human/nature relationship in the visual arts.
ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.
Dale Jamieson introduces the special issue by highlighting American perspectives on different facets of environmental values. These span spiritual and aesthetic dimensions, moral, political, and religious values, and conflicting values in the climate change debate.
This film follows a diverse group of women from around the world as they attend the Barefoot College in India. The college teaches them solar engineering skills to allow them to contribute to their communities and improve their daily lives, but societal and familial pressure proves challenging.
This film follows two young men fighting to preserve the Ecuadorean Amazon. One is a member of the indigenous Cofan tribe, sent to the US for a Western education as a child; the other is an American college student.
This film follows the obstacles which Guinea’s schoolchildren must overcome simply to find light at night to study by, in a country where only one fifth of the population has access to electricity.
This film examines the impact of creationism on US-American public education.
