"Artefacts and Functions: A Note on the Value of Nature"
Eric Katz examines and compares the ontological and axiological character of artefacts—human creations—with nonhuman natural entities.
Eric Katz examines and compares the ontological and axiological character of artefacts—human creations—with nonhuman natural entities.
Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.
This essay offers an historical sociometabolic perspective on the changing relationship between energy and land use during industrialization.
This essay discusses the history and future of the AC electrical grid. The article argues that the DC power generation and distribution pioneered by Edison can make a comeback.
In The Next Industrial Revolution, architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.
2012—Time for Change sees the Mayan Calendar’s prediction of imminent doom as an opportunity for transformation.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence shapes economy and the production of consumer goods.
Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.