Environment

postmedieval is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in medieval studies that aims to bring the medieval and modern into productive critical relation. “The latest issue of postmedieval takes up Jane Bennett’s challenge in the last chapter of her book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things to rethink environment and landscape from an actor-network point of [...]

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Yolande Harris: Scorescapes: On Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness (2011)

“Scorescapes investigates how sound mediates our relationship to the environment, and how contemporary multidisciplinary art practices can articulate this relationship. It joins my own artistic practice with a theoretical analysis of the field, highlighting how relationships to the environment drawn through sound are profoundly bound up with technology. Key concepts include: making the inaudible audible; [...]

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California Releases First-ever Fracking Regulations

by Paul Rodgers / Mercury News Wading into one of the hottest environmental debates in the nation, California on Tuesday released its first-ever regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the increasingly common — and controversial — practice of freeing oil and gas from rock formations by injecting chemicals under high pressure into the ground. The [...]

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Wild & Weird: Need Green Cleaning Products? Try Flesh-eating Beetles

by the Center for Biological Diversity Looking for Earth-friendly, nontoxic home-care solutions that really work — at least for maintaining your personal collection of display-ready skeletal specimens? The Natural History Museum in London has landed on a great, albeit creepy-crawly, green alternative to peroxide and carbon tetrachloride: hundreds of flesh-eating beetles. That’s right: Dermestes maculatus, [...]

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‘Social Risk’ Test Ordered by China for Big Industrial Projects

By KEITH BRADSHER / The New York Times BEIJING — The cabinet of China has ordered that all major industrial projects must pass a “social risk assessment” before they begin, a move aimed at curtailing the large and increasingly violent environmental protests of the last year, which forced the suspension or cancellation of chemical plants, [...]

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Wild & Weird: Bigfoot Denied Endangered Species Status

by the Center for Biological Diversity At the Center for Biological Diversity we shed both sweat and tears fighting for some of the country’s rarest species. It’s hard work getting federal protection for gray wolves and bald eagles — so just imagine trying to lock in safeguards for the eastern pink-tailed unicorn or the Florida [...]

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Earth’s Biggest Trees are Dying

from Science Daily The largest living organisms on the planet, the big, old trees that harbour and sustain countless birds and other wildlife, are dying. A report by three of the world’s leading ecologists in today’s issue of the journal Science warns of an alarming increase in death rates among trees 100-300 years old in [...]

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The Bloody Footprints of Freeport-MacMoRan

How the Mining Goliath is Rewriting New Mexico’s Environmental Regulations

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Day 2 of the Earth First! Film Fest in Florida

We have an awesome lineup of some radical, entertaining, visual awesomeness! People are coming in from all over and we already have a handful of Earth First!ies crashing in our EF! Journal office (thanks for working in the garden friends!). So bring ye…

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Fracking and Radioactivity

by KARL GROSSMAN / Counterpunch.org Fracking for gas not only uses toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking and groundwater—it also releases substantial quantities of radioactive poison from the ground that will remain hot and deadly for thousan…

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Canada: Movement Against Tar Sands on the Rise

By Roger Annis / Green Left   A popular movement against tar sands oil production and pipeline transport is on the rise and gathering steam in Canada. Its biggest expression so far came on October 22 when 4000- 5000 people rallied in front of the …

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Olafur Eliasson: TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 1: Small Spatial Experiments (2007)

An in-house production, TYT (Take Your Time) presents current research and projects by Olafur Eliasson and the studio in the format of an intermittently recurring magazine, with an emphasis on the process of developing and testing ideas and artworks. Concept by Olafur Eliasson Edited and published by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, November 2007 Design by [...]

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Michel Serres: The Natural Contract (1992/1995)

Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1992 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants. World history is often referred to as the story of human conflict. Those struggles that [...]

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Unusual Dallas Earthquakes Linked to Fracking, Expert Says

By Eli MacKinnon, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer | LiveScience.com Three unusual earthquakes that shook a suburb west of Dallas over the weekend appear to be connected to the past disposal of wastewater from local hydraulic fracturing …

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