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The Light Green Society
Author | : Michael Bess |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2003-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226044173 |
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The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. The Light-Green Society limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to "save" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a "separate sphere" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled nature-culture has increasingly taken its place.
Green Liberalism
Author | : Marcel L. J. Wissenburg |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781857288490 |
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This is an agenda-setting exploration of the relationship between green politics and liberal ideology. Ecological problems provide unique challenges for liberal democracies.; This challenge is examined by the author who aims to fill the gap between short-term ecological modernization and the politically infeasible longer term utopian approaches.
Making a Green Machine
Author | : Finn Arne Jørgensen |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780813550879 |
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Consider an empty bottle or can, one of the hundreds of billions of beverage containers that are discarded worldwide every year. Empty containers have been at the center of intense political controversies, technological innovation processes, and the modern environmental movement. Making a Green Machine examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to present. Finn Arne Jørgensen investigates the challenges the system faced when exported internationally and explores the critical role of technological infrastructures and consumer convenience in modern recycling. His comparative framework charts the complex network of business and political actors involved in the development of the reverse vending machine (RVM) and bottle deposit legislation to better understand the different historical trajectories empty beverage containers have taken across markets, including the U.S. The RVM has served as more than a hole in the wall--it began simply as a tool for grocers who had to handle empty refillable glass bottles, but has become a green machine to redeem the empty beverage container, helping both business and consumers participate in environmental actions.
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
Author | : Andrew C. Isenberg |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190673482 |
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This book explores the methodology of environmental history, with an emphasis on the field's interaction with other historiographies such as consumerism, borderlands, and gender. It examines the problem of environmental context, specifically the problem and perception of environmental determinism, by focusing on climate, disease, fauna, and regional environments. It also considers the changing understanding of scientific knowledge.
Green Illusions
Author | : Ozzie Zehner |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780803243361 |
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We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will? This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women’s rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are surprisingly straightforward. For instance, he introduces a simple sticker that promises a greater impact than all of the nation’s solar cells. He uncovers why carbon taxes won’t solve our energy challenges (and presents two taxes that could). Finally, he explores how future environmentalists will focus on similarly fresh alternatives that are affordable, clean, and can actually improve our well-being. Watch a book trailer.
Planet in Peril
Author | : Michael D. Bess |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781009160339 |
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Exploration of the top four mega-dangers facing humankind and plots a hopeful path to dealing with them through global governance.
The Deep Green Society
Author | : Don Light |
Publsiher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781449070717 |
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This book is a novel about students at the University of Montana in Missoula who belong to a group called "The Deep Green Society." Some of them commit civil disobedience to protest logging in our national forests and one of them interferes with logging trucks by secretly letting the air out of their tires. The unintended consequences of the acts of the students are the main subject of the book.
Nature of the Miracle Years
Author | : Sandra Chaney |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780857450050 |
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After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar context. Forced to change by necessity, those involved in state-sponsored conservation institutionalized and professionalized their efforts, while several private groups became more confrontational in their message and tactics. Through their steady and often conservative presence within the mainstream of West German society, conservationists ensured that by 1970 the map of the country was dotted with hundreds of reserves, dozens of nature parks, and one national park. In doing so, they assured themselves a strong position to participate in, rather than be excluded from, the left-leaning environmental movement of the 1970s.