This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
Content
The first episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the impact of oil on 20th-century plastic production, geopolitical conflict, and culture.
In episode 50 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj, Richard Unger, and John Thistle discuss Canada’s energy transition from organic to mineral sources and its social, political, and cultural consequences.
For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Eben Kirksey reflects on the nature of hope and argues for the importance of grounding it in communities of actual living animals, plants, and microbes.
This book provides an economic history of the petroleum industry in Alberta, Canada, as well as a detailed analysis of the operation of the markets for Alberta oil and natural gas, and the main governmental regulations (apart from environmental regulations) faced by the industry.
Catrina A. MacKenzie, Rebecca K. Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, and Joel Hartter use interviews and focus group discussions to assess the interaction of oil exploration with the three primary conservation policies employed by the Uganda Wildlife Authority: protectionism, neoliberal capital accumulation, and community-based conservation.
In this special “rant issue,” Rhubarb discusses the idea of industrial collapse, Phil Knight tells of a lone hiker killed by grizzlies, and Jeff Juel reports on planned drilling in the Hall Creek area of the Badger-Two Medicine, home to the grizzly bear, the grey wolf, bald eagle, and other endangered species.
In this issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Joe Volk discusses the U.S. bombing attacks against Iraq; Bob Whitney tells the story of wilderness and over-dependence on oil and gas in Alaska; and David Giesen urges readers to recycle.
