Medialab Matadero
Medialab Matadero
The European climate law makes reaching the EU’s climate goal of reducing EU emissions by at least 55% by 2030 a legal obligation. The Fit for 55 package is a set of proposals to revise and update EU legislation and to put in place new initiatives with the aim of ensuring that EU policies are in line with the climate goals agreed by the Council and the European Parliament.
'Fit for 55' Package
A leading scientist long concerned about climate change, Keith offers no naïve proposal for an easy fix to what is perhaps the most challenging question of our time; climate engineering is no silver bullet. But he argues that after decades during which very little progress has been made in reducing carbon emissions we must put this technology on the table and consider it responsibly.
A Case for Climate Engineering
What do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? In this book Wolfgang Behringer introduces us to the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate. He focuses above all on the cultural reactions to climate change through the ages, showing how even minor changes in the climate sometimes resulted in major social, political and religious upheavals.
A Cultural History of Climate
Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
Without models, there are no data, Everything we know about the world's climate we know through models. In A Vast Machine, Paul Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere—to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.
A Vast Machine
Michael Marder interprets the “toxic flood” we are living or dying through as a global dump. On his reading, multiple levels of existence—from the psychic to the physiological, from the environmental-elemental to the planetary—are being converted into a dump, a massive and still growing hodgepodge of industrial and consumer by-products and emissions
“Being Dumped,” Environmental Humanities
Climate restoration will require not just innovative technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere, but social and economic transformation. Buck examines possible methods for such transformations and meets the people developing them.
After Geoengineering
Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family―all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Electronics can be hazardous when disposed of improperly, and the Basel Action Network investigates the underground world of the e-waste trade. The nonprofit group secretly embeds trackers in discarded devices, then hands them to recyclers to see where they end up, exposing bad practices in the process.
American Trash
Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, this collaborative volume of short, engaging essays offers ecologically productive terms to inspire responses to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism.
An Ecotopian Lexicon
The assumption that our pre-industrial climate was a robust equilibrium is an existentially dangerous one. If there’s more carbon around, the biosphere will just operate with more carbon until some process causes permanent sequestration. To understand this, as well as the unusual and metastable nature of our current climate, we have to go back to the geological history of climate change.
Ancient Upheavals Show How to Geoengineer a Stable Climate
Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers, chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems are more than mere objects.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human life abound. In response, a powerful subframe of Anthropocene theory—what we might name “precarious entanglement” or “dwelling in the ruins” thinking—forwards one way of doing so. For proponents of this perspective, the infrastructures, promises, and aspirations of modernity are seen as ruins themselves.
Anthropocene Hubris
The absence of a reflection on revolutionary practices and subjects is the main weakness of the radical critique of the Anthropocene. The risk is to envision the Anthropocene as a space for villains and victims but not for revolutionaries. It is crucial to challenge the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the Anthropocene beyond geological strata and planetary boundaries.
Anthropocene: victims, narrators, and revolutionaries
A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops and electric cars.
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments
Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
In the beginning, there was energy. Everything since then has been an exercise in transforming energy from one state into another – food becomes labour, gas becomes electricity, fossil fuels become architecture. In this month’s keynote essay, Barnabas Calder writes: ‘In the millennia before fossil fuels, the circular economy was the only economically viable way to operate’.
Architecture Review October 2022: The Energy Issue
Within the Spanish context, this report focuses on the role played by the autonomous communities in the fight against climate change. To this end, it first examines the constitutional regime of distribution of competences, the content of the autonomous community plans and the institutional framework and existing mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the plans.
El rol de las CCAA en la lucha contra el cambio climático. Planes autonómicos de energía y clima
Picking through a mountain of trash as high as 165 feet is how thousands of pemulung earn their living near Jakarta, Indonesia. They're at risk of getting injured by giant excavators, shards of glass, and methane gas emitted by the landfill.
Bantar Gebang Landfill near Jakarta
A close reading of Georges Bataille can help us rethink not only energy and consumption but also such related topics as the city, eroticism, and religion. The challenge of living in the twenty-first century, Stoekl argues, will be to comprehend the inevitable shift from a civilization founded on waste to one based on Bataillean expenditure.
Bataille's Peak
Batteries and accumulators play an essential role to ensure that many daily-used products, appliances and services work properly. The European Commission proposed a new Batteries Regulation on 10 December 2020. This Regulation aims to ensure that batteries placed in the EU market are sustainable and safe throughout their entire life cycle.
Batteries and Waste of Bateries Directive
Modern science, like ancient philosophy, explains that collapse is not an error, but a characteristic of the universe: entropy, the basis of the second principle of thermodynamics. Ugo Bardi proposes a strategy whose basic idea is that attempts to avoid it tend to make it worse and consists in not opposing the tendency of the system.
Antes del colapso. Una guía para el otro lado del crecimiento
This book provides a review of the bioregionalist theory in the field of spatial planning and design as a suitable approach to cope with the growing concerns about the negative effects of metropolization processes and the need for a sustainable transition
Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume I
The world is embracing renewable technologies but how much do we know about the metals that are powering this green revolution? This story exposes the shocking truth about the mining of cobalt, a metal essential to making the batteries in electric cars, laptops and mobile phones. The world's richest deposits of cobalt are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the poorest countries on earth. It produces about 70% of world output.
Blood Cobalt
Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it.
Bodies of Water: Post-Human Feminist Phenomenology
The untold story of the most contaminated place in America and the people who live there. There is an 85-mile stretch of land that is home to seven of the ten most carcinogen-ridden locations in America. In this small industrial corridor, there are over 150 petrochemical facilities in operation. Locals call this place, "Cancer Alley."
Cancer Ally
In the current reworking of the geopolitics of cleanliness/dirtiness, the invisibility of the cleaning jobs of women of color creates the visibility of clean homes and public spaces. Furthermore, representations of cleanliness/dirtiness in the world construct a racial spatialization.
Capitalocene, waste race and gender
To complement the ETS, the CBAM will be based on a system of certificates to cover the embedded emissions in products being subsequently imported into the EU. The CBAM departs from the ETS in some limited areas, however, in particular since it is not a ‘cap and trade' system. Instead, the CBAM certificates mirrors the ETS price
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Citizens of Worlds is the first thorough study of the increasingly widespread use of digital technologies to monitor and respond to air pollution. Drawing on data from the Citizen Sense research group, Jennifer Gabrys presents practice-based research on working with communities and making sensor toolkits to detect pollution while examining the political subjects, relations, and worlds these technologies generate.
Citizens of worlds: Open air toolkits for environmental struggle
The aim of this long-term strategy is to confirm Europe's commitment to lead in global climate action and to present a vision that can lead to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through a socially-fair transition in a cost-efficient manner. It underlines the opportunities that this transformation offers to European citizens and its economy, whilst identifying challenges ahead.
Clean Planet for All
Possibilities in the struggle for climate justice depend on our capacity to anticipate where the existing global order is likely to go. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about how environmental change will intensify existing challenges to the global order, unearthing the forces for a planetary variation on existing forms of sovereignty.
Climate Leviathan
Our current form of urban life needs the organization, abstraction, and automation of the countryside at an unprecedented scale. Data storage, fulfillment centers, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, robotic automation, economic innovation, worker migration, and the private purchase of land for ecological preservation are in many cases more actively explored and experimented with in the countryside than the city.
Countryside: The Future
A manifesto calling for a radical change in industry: a switch from a cradle-to-grave pattern to a cradle-to-cradle pattern and the strategies to achieve it. It suggests that the "reduce reuse recycle" methods perpetuate this cradle-to-grave strategy, and that more changes need to be made. The book discourages downcycling, but rather encourages the manufacture of products with the goal of upcycling in mind
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things
This study looks at the supply chains of nine technologies
used in three strategic sectors: renewable energy, e-mobility, defence and aerospace. It also attempts to provide a first answer, based on available knowledge and models, to where future challenges lie and how competition for resources may evolve.
Critical Raw Materials for Strategic Technologies and Sectors in the EU
Some 15 million used garments pour into Accra every week from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, flooding the city’s sprawling clothing market. An estimated 40 per cent are of such poor quality they are deemed worthless on arrival and end up dumped in landfill.
Dead white man's clothes
Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences delivers a unique perspective and treatment of the concepts, skills, and practices necessary to quickly become familiar with the application of deep learning techniques to the Earth sciences. The book prepares readers to be ready to use the technologies and principles described in their own research.
Deep Learning for the Earth Sciences
Architects today incorporate principles of sustainable design as a matter of necessity. But the challenge of unifying climate control and building functionality, of securing a managed environment within a natural setting―and combating the harsh forces of wind, water, and sun―presented a new set of obstacles to architects and engineers in the mid-twentieth century. First published in 1963, Design with Climate explores the impact of climate on shelter design, identifying four distinct climatic regions and explaining the effect of each on orientation, air movement, site, and materials. He derives principles from biology, engineering, meteorology, and physics
Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism
An enduring contribution to the technical literature of landscape planning and to that unfortunately small collection of writings which speak with emotional eloquence of the importance of ecological principles in regional planning.
Design with Nature
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away.
Digital Rubish: A natural history of electronics
Discard Studies is designed as an online hub for scholars, activists, environmentalists, students, artists, planners, and others who are asking questions about waste, not just as an ecological problem, but as a process, category, mentality, judgment, an infrastructural and economic challenge, and as a site for producing power as well as struggles against power structures.
Discard Studies Web
Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and people are valued or devalued, becoming dominant or disposable.
Discard Studies: Wasting Systems and Power
People dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders. This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.
Down to Earth
For this issue of e-flux journal we’ve asked a number of authors to reflect on food and agriculture as foundational expressions of life—as sociality, history, and entanglement. Just as they can be weaponized for political or industrial applications, such foundations can also be embraced to explore new and old sensations of autonomy and abundance in Indigenous, interspecies, anarchist, agrarian, or simply experimental forms of life
e-flux journal issue 128: “Food and Agriculture”
In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the “nature” they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all.
Ecology without nature
An statement in the belief that both human prosperity and an ecologically vibrant planet are not only possible, but also inseparable.
Ecomodernist Manifesto
EDIBLE seeks to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material upcycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes. It maps and redraws the affinities of the built environment as a product of many forces, translated in the tensions between products and by-products, production, and consumption and, finally, creation and decomposition.
The Effort Sharing legislation establishes binding annual greenhouse gas emission targets for Member States for the periods 2013–2020 and 2021–2030. These targets concern emissions from most sectors not included in the EU Emissions Trading System, such as transport, buildings, agriculture and waste.
Effort Sharing Regulations
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. It develops and promotes the idea of a circular economy, and works with business, academia, policymakers, and institutions to mobilise systems solutions at scale, globally.
Ellen McArthur Foundation
The EU ETS is a cornerstone of the EU's policy to combat climate change and its key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost-effectively. It is the world's first major carbon market and remains the biggest one.
Emission Trading Schemme
Ways of inhabiting, economies, political systems, types of work, demography, social struggles, technologies, value systems, ways of relating to the environment... how have they interacted throughout history? Does their course take the form of a spiral? What role has the quantity and quality of available energy played in their evolution? And, above all, what will their future evolution be?
En la espiral de la energía VOL. I: Historia de la humanidad desde el papel de la energía
Presenting the current moment as the collapse of global capitalism and its civilization. This book is an invitation to collective dialogue to elaborate strategies and initiatives to build just, democratic and sustainable societies during this process.
En la espiral de la energía. VOL. II: Colapso del capitalismo global y civilizatorio
Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. But what will it mean if those targets are achieved? The fossil fuel industry must come to an end but will not depart willingly; governments must intervene.
Ending Fossil Fuels
Balsawood extractivism has affected Amazonian indigenous territories, both at the level of the social fabric and the forests in the foothills of the Andes Mountains. The balsawood boom is destined for the Chinese wind industry, as China has become the country that has built the most wind farms in recent years.
Energías renovables, selvas vaciadas. Expansión de la energía eólica en China y la tala de balsa en el Ecuador
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization.
Energy and civilisation
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books.
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
Hall and Klitgaard explore the relation between energy and the wealth explosion of the 20th century, the failure of markets to recognize or efficiently allocate diminishing resources, the economic consequences of peak oil, the EROI for finding and exploiting new oil fields, and whether alternative energy technologies such as wind and solar power meet the minimum EROI requirements needed to run our society as we know it.
Energy and The Wealth of Nations
To meet the 2030 climate target, energy efficiency needs to be prioritised. To step up its efforts, the Commission put forward in July 2021 a proposal for a recast directive on energy efficiency as part of the package “Delivering on the European Green Deal”. The proposal promotes ‘energy efficiency first’ as an overall principle of EU energy policy and marks its importance and relevance in both its practical applications in policy and investment decisions.
Energy Efficiency Directive
The energy labelling requirements for individual product groups are created under the EU's energy labelling framework regulation, in a process coordinated by the European Commission. 15 product groups require an energy label.
Energy Labeling and Ecodesign Directive
To boost energy performance of buildings, the EU has established a legislative framework that includes the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU and the Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU.
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
This authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations.
Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability
People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself.
Energy: A human history
For Latouche, it is necessary and urgent to change our way of life, to save all unnecessary consumption, to invent a society capable of giving us back joy and ensuring the survival of our species. Serge Latouche calls this society a society of frugal abundance. Frugality avoids all unnecessary consumption, implies a voluntary limitation of one's own needs, but does not exclude, but rather encourages, the values of conviviality and even a certain hedonism in the practice of the art of good living.
La abundancia frugal como arte de vivir
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
EU 'Save Energy'
EU Save Energy Directive
The European Climate Law writes into law the goal set out in the European Green Deal for Europe’s economy and society to become climate-neutral by 2050. The law also sets the intermediate target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.
European Climate Law
The European Green Deal is a package of policy initiatives, which aims to set the EU on the path to a green transition, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. It underlines the need for a holistic and cross-sectoral approach in which all relevant policy areas contribute to the ultimate climate-related goal.
European Green Deal
Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible rules that govern the spaces of our everyday lives, making the city the key site of power and resistance in the twenty-first century. Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiber-optics of our modern habitat. Extrastatecraft will change how we think about cities—and, perhaps, how we live in them.
Extrastatecraft
The 47th episode of the Circular Metabolism Podcast: Feeding Cities - The relationship betwen food supply and cities with Carolyn Steel
Feeding Cities - The relationship betwen food supply and cities
Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective.
On the Commons and the Trasformation to Postcapitalism
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene.
Feral Atlas
Reaching beyond ‘sustainability,’ ‘regenerative’ practice is increasingly named as a new goal, but what does this emerging term really mean? Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings, infrastructure, and communities.
Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
Fuel is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises—most produced long before “climate change” was in circulation—Fuel argues for a distinction between energy and fuel as it endeavors to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and all will be golden.
Fuel: Aspeculative Dictionary
Bruce Clarke assesses the different dialects of systems theory brought to bear on Gaia discourse. This study illuminates current issues in neighboring theoretical conversations—from biopolitics and the immunitary paradigm to NASA astrobiology and the Anthropocene.
Gaian Systems
In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place." Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism.
Geographies of Trash
Global Energy Monitor studies the evolving international energy landscape, creating databases, reports, and interactive tools that enhance understanding. Our work transforms complexity into clarity, enhancing the quality of public discourse on energy and the environment.
Global Energy Monitor
After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smill considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal.
Growth: From Microorganisms to megacities
History is not a prerogative of the human species. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent. Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing that the only solution to our impending “Sixth Extinction” is to increase the area of natural reserves to half the surface of the earth.
Half Earth
Stored in landfills, scattered on the surface of the oceans or dispersed in invisible particles in the atmosphere, waste is now an indelible imprint of our presence on earth, as well as a symptom of the crisis of the contemporary world. A powerful book on the impasses of "managerial" approaches to our waste society.
Homo Detritus
Hot, moist air has long been a powerful, yet largely invisible, working fluid in the colonial and modern enterprise. Processes of air conditioning represent acts of metabolism, ensuring the adaptation of air to the project of human domestication.
Hot Air Rising
The radical fix for a noxious landfill in Staten Island: Bury the trash, plant some grass and do nothing for 20 years.
How the World’s Largest Garbage Dump Evolved Into a Green Oasis
Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects.
How to do things with sensors?
Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and ecology after the end of the world
Despite the obvious potential of insects as human food, animal feed, and fertilizer, scientists disagree about the future of an industry that seeks to convert crickets, mealworms, black soldier fly larvae, and other creepy critters into products that can be safely shelved in grocery stores, sold to feed lots, and developed into pharmaceutical products.
Insect Futures - from farm to table to pharmacy
The United States and the European Commission are committed to reducing Europe's dependency on Russian energy. The United States will strive to ensure, including working with international partners, additional liquified natural gas (LNG) volumes for the EU market of at least 15 bcm in 2022 with expected increases going forward.
Joint Statement on European Energy Securuty
In February 2019, the Government of Spain approved the Strategic Framework for Energy and Climate. This is structured in three pillars: the preliminary draft of the Climate Change Law, the draft of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC), and the Just Transition Strategy (ETJ). The third element of the Framework seeks to maximize social gains from the ecological transformation and mitigate negative impacts. It is articulated in this Just Transition Strategy.
Estrategia de Transición Justa
Vanadium, germanium, platinum, antimony, beryllium, rhenium, tantalum.... These are some of the names behind the raw material in question, rare metals, which Guillaume Pitron has been researching for six years, and which are supposed to lead us into a new energy era, this time much more ecological, sustainable and better for everyone. However, do we know what price we are going to pay for this bet?
La guerra de los metales raros La cara oculta de la transición energética y digital.
On Sunday, June 16, 2019, a blackout left fifty million people in Argentina without electricity. Never before has the need to put the right to energy on the agenda and to seriously discuss, in the midst of environmental collapse, the transition from a model based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energies been so evident. This book brings to the table the chiaroscuros and struggles surrounding the transition, knowing that it is not a pure or linear process and that there is no manual with univocal questions and answers.
La Transición Energética en la Argentina. Una hoja de ruta para entender los proyectos en pugna y las falsas soluciones
Analysis of scenarios, strategies and environmental impacts of the transformation of the Spanish agrifood system.
La Urgencia de la Transición Agroecológica en España
As LABVA we have set ourselves the challenge of creating a heterogeneous and diverse biomaterial palette with a designation of origin associated with raw materials -natural and/or anthropic waste- that are found in abundance in our environment. Using a Biodiversity-Based Design methodology, we generate biomaterials that arise both from the cultivation of organisms (GIY - Grow it Yourself) and from cooking recipes (CIY - Cook it Yourself) for the development of new materialities.
Somoslabva
For Ivan Illich, "belief in the possibility of high levels of clean energy as a solution to all ills" was the core of the "fundamental illusion". Today, in times of energy crisis, this illusion is fed by renewable energies. If we want to understand the energy labyrinth, we cannot isolate the technical issue from all its political and philosophical conditioning factors. The history of energy is also the history of the concentration of power.
Las ilusiones renovables: Ecología, energía y poder
From the plastic bowl to the oil, the entire industrial chain leading to the manufacture of plastic objects is traced back to the source. The film goes from this bowl to the mold that gave birth to it, then to the material (polystyrene), its coloring, and finally to the coal and oil, the raw materials of plastic, via styrene.
Le Chant du Styrène 1958
The purpose of this law is to ensure Spain's compliance with the objectives of the Paris Agreement; to facilitate the decarbonization of the Spanish economy, its transition to a circular model, so as to guarantee the rational and supportive use of resources; and to promote adaptation to the impacts of climate change and the implementation of a sustainable development model that generates decent employment and contributes to the reduction of inequalities.
Ley Española de Cambio Climático
Since its discovery, lithium was presented as a cure for the exhaustion that the capitalist economy exerts on bodies. Prescribed since 1817 for treating mania and depression, it is now better known as a vital element for the transition to renewable energies. Yet an increasing dependence in its extraction is causing the degradation and collapse of entire ecosystems.
Lithium: States of Exhaustion
The perception of glaciers in the early times was dominated by fear. In the age of Enlightenment and later in the 19th century, it changed to fascination. In the 20th century, glaciers became a top attraction of the Alps, but today they are disappearing from sight. With a huge number of high-quality pictorial documents, it is possible to reconstruct the history of many glaciers in the European Alps from the 17th to the 19th centuries
LITTLE ICE AGE GLACIER HISTORY OF THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN ALPS FROM PICTORIAL DOCUMENTS
Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the preeminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called Tough Oil.
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century
Lo—TEK, derived from Traditional Ecological Knowledge, is a cumulative body of multigenerational knowledge, practices, and beliefs, countering the idea that indigenous innovation is primitive and exists isolated from technology.
Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism
“Overcoming Carbon Form” reconceives architecture's role in climate change, away from sustainability and solutionism and toward architecture's formal complicity and potential agency in addressing the climate crisis.
Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form
Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. America invented everything that is now disposable, Giles Slade tells us, and he explains how disposability was in fact a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence.
Made to Break
The industrial stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a region known as “Cancer Alley,” is one of the most highly polluted areas in the country. A ProPublica analysis using a scientific model developed by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that some of the neighborhoods where new plants are being built already have very high concentrations of toxic chemicals. But Louisiana continues to approve the building of these new plants and the expansion of existing ones.
Mapping Cancer Alley
The ubiquity of food waste has sparked the interest of designers and industries around the globe who see its potential as a new (and abundant) raw material. One burgeoning area of interest in design is the use of the by-products generated by specific food sectors to engineer new materials.
Material Futures: Mining food Waste in the Antropochene
An open database of regenerative materials - what they're made of, how they're made, and their performance properties.
Materiom
The world’s population is growing in numbers and affluence, two trends that will drive rising demand for protein-rich foods. The problem is that there is not enough land to keep the animals necessary to meet that demand and sequester their associated impacts. Against this backdrop, cultivated meat offers the promise of real meat produced in ultra-clean, resource-efficient and cruelty-free conditions.
Meat without animals
In case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric changes, Medium Design looks not to new technologies for innovation but rather to sophisticated relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. It does not try to eliminate problems but rather put them together in productive combinations. And it offers forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organisations of all kinds.
Medium Design
Could architecture be understood as the practice of guardianship of the environment, both physical and social, rather than an agent of depletion? Could the role of the architect deal less with form and more with integration, circularity, reuse, material research, and community building? What are the models and metrics that such a paradigm could adopt?
Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing Without Depletion
The cultural life of oil—from aesthetics and politics to economy and ecology. Investigating cultural discourses that have taken shape around oil, these essays in Oil Culture compose the first sustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination
Oil Cultures
Getting the whole spectrum of governments, academia and civil society to track “natural capital” would help create shared efforts toward solving shared problems like the climate crisis.
One-earth Balance Sheet
Initially published in 1969, and one of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and “exercising our option to make it.”
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Urbanization organizes the planetary terrain—not just through cities and agglomeration zones, but also through the totality of diffused production areas and global commodity chains. On the basis of a metageographical analysis, urbanist Nikos Katsikis portrays the extensive transformation of the planetary terrain through the assembly of operational landscapes into a functional “Hinterglobe.”
Operational Landscapes and the Planetary Thünen Town
In recent decades, the field of urban studies has neglected the question of the hinterland: the city's complex, changing relations to the diverse noncity landscapes that support urban life. Neil Brenner and Nikos Katsikis of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design argue that this ‘hinterland question’ remains essential, but must also be radically reimagined under contemporary conditions.
Operational landscapes: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene
The Ore Streams website presents a study led by Studio Formafantasma on the current state of e-waste management. The website collects the research outcomes and compiles an archive of documents, videos, books and articles on the topic.
Orestreams
The pandemic has accelerated the arrival of a new cycle of crisis that never fully disappeared and which is intertwined and amplified by other global challenges of the 21st century. The economic recovery is reinforcing the Green New Deal thesis in Europe. The dangers of propping up the growth model under the arguments of absolute decoupling, the impacts of deepening extractivism in order to obtain the critical raw materials for green and digital transformation, and the risks of an over-indebtedness that will once again trigger austerity measures are more present than ever.
Pactos verdes en tiempos de pandemias. El futuro se disputa ahora
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty. It entered into force on 4 November 2016. Today, 194 Parties (193 States plus the European Union) have joined. The Agreement includes commitments from all countries to reduce their emissions and work together to adapt to the impacts of climate change, and calls on countries to strengthen their commitments over time.
Paris Agreement
Petrocalypsis is a crude and clear analysis of the possible alternatives to our current energy system. In contrast to the triumphalism that often appears in the news about the future use of new energy sources, the book concisely explains why the solutions discussed during the last two decades do not work.
Petrocalipsis, crisis energétca global y cómo (no) la vamos a solucionar
The Spanish National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change 2021-2030 is the basic planning instrument to promote coordinated and coherent action in the face of the effects of climate change in Spain. Without prejudice to the competencies that correspond to the various Public Administrations, the PNACC defines objectives, criteria, areas of work and lines of action to promote adaptation and resilience in the face of climate change.
Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático
The PNIEC is divided into two main blocks: the first one details the process, objectives, policies and measures to achieve the Plan's objectives, as well as the analysis of the economic, employment, distributive and health benefits impact. The second block, made up of the Annexes to the main document, includes the analytical part, which details the projections of both the Trend Scenario and the Target Scenario.
Plan Nacional Integrado Energía y Clima
A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries. Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system.
Planetary Mine
Lithoplast is an experimental composite material made of residues from industrial waste streams. The word lithoplast comes from Ancient Greek: lithos means rock, and plastic means malleable, or that which can be molded. Lithoplast is the next stage of plastiglomerates, which are naturally occurring plastic rocks.
Plastic History
The term “plastiglomerate” refers most specifically to “an indurated, multi-composite material made hard by agglutination of rock and molten plastic. This material is subdivided into an in situ type, in which plastic is adhered to rock outcrops, and a clastic type, in which combinations of basalt, coral, shells, and local woody debris are cemented with grains of sand in a plastic matrix.
Plastiglomerate
Grappling with the consequences of wiring our world, Program Earth examines how sensor technologies are programming our environments. Jennifer Gabrys suggests that the sensor-based monitoring of Earth offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but rather as new “technogeographies” that connect technology, nature, and people.
Program Earth
Shit, hair and dust. Soot, soya and sawdust. Fungus and cellulose. All over the world, an emerging generation of designers and makers are rethinking raw materials, repurposing waste, and presenting radical solutions to the challenges of making and surviving in the modern world. Radical Matter present a snapshot of projects and material innovations by the designers at the forefront of the making revolution.
Radical Matter
A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate. Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nuclear world.
Radioactive Ghost
While journeys to extraordinary places are the cornerstone of luxury travel, this project follows more well-concealed journeys taking place across global supply chains. It retraces rare earth elements, which are widely used in high end electronics and green technologies, to their origins.
Rare Earthenware
An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste. Lepawsky counters the assumption that e-waste is a post-consumer problem, pointing out that waste occurs at all stages of electronic materials' existence, and calls attention to the under-researched world of reuse and repair.
Reassembling Rubish: Worlding Elecronic Waste
The Citizens' Climate Assembly is configured as a forum for citizen participation to generate reflection and collective knowledge, allowing citizens to be informed, deliberate and generate consensus on what should be the solutions to the major transformations that must be undertaken to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
Recomendaciones de la Asamblea Ciudadana del Cambio Climático
A biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life. In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying substantial portions of their genomes, allows for the creation of entirely new species of organisms.
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Renovating both public and private buildings is an essential action, and has been singled out in the European Green Deal as a key initiative to drive energy efficiency in the sector and deliver on objectives. Given the labour-intensive nature of the construction sector, which is largely dominated by local businesses, building renovations can also play a crucial role in European economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic
Renovation Wave
REPowerEU is the European Commission’s plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030, in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Re-Power EU
Special report shows the impacts of the toxic mud in the Doce River in Colatina, Espírito Santo, and the expectation of the city to experience an unexpected explosion in the number of cases of dengue and zika virus.
Rio Doce, Rio Morto
From our foraging hunter-gatherer ancestors to the enormous appetites of modern cities, food has shaped our bodies and homes, our politics and trade, and our climate. Whether it's the daily decision of what to eat, or the monopoly of industrial food production, food touches every part of our world. But by forgetting its value, we have drifted into a way of life that threatens our planet and ourselves.
Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World
Food is the tissue of civilization, weaving cities and countries together. In her essay, architect and food thinker Carolyn Steel provides a powerful prompt for us to reconsider the geographic and societal interdependency of urban centers and food-providing ecosystems and to find a way to move beyond the perils of the modern industrial food complex.
Sitopia: The Power of Thinking Through Food
Small is Beautiful is a collection of essays by renowned British economist E. F. Schumacher outlining his critique of the Western economic system. First published in 1973, this classic collection, which is now considered to be one of the most influential books published since World War II, is as relevant today as it was in the ‘70s.
Small is Beautitul: Economics as if people mattered
Environments are increasingly becoming technologized sites of data production. From smart cities to smart forests, digital networks are analyzing and joining up environmental processes. This commentary focuses on one such understudied smart environment, smart forests, as emerging digital infrastructures that are materializing to manage and mitigate environmental change.
Smart forest and data practices: From the internet of trees to planetary governance
What can we learn about care and processing emotions from soil cultivation? Activist and geography scholar Huiying Ng reflects on the unintentional effects of metabolic rifts in the geological and chemical realms, as they become enmeshed within the emotional fissures underlying our current social and cultural spheres.
Soil’s Metabolic Rift: Metabolizing Hope, Interrupting the Medium
Solar energy needs a new narrative - one that says goodbye to old perspectives and only talks about the efficiency and the payback time of blue solar panels. This publication illustrates what we need to know to transition from solar technology to solar design using everyday integrated aesthetic solutions.
Radical Matter
Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy. Far from presenting solarity as a utopian solution to the climate crisis, it critically examines the ambiguous potentials of solarities: plural, situated, and often contradictory.
Solarities, seeking energy justice
This summary presents the main results of the economic, social and public health impact assessment of the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan PNIEC 2021-2030 for Spain.
Informe de Impacto económico y social del PNIEC
In Subnature, David Gissen, examines experimental work by today's leading designers, scholars, philosophers, and biologists that rejects the idea that humans can somehow recreate a purely natural world, free of the untidy elements that actually constitute nature. Each chapter provides an examination of a particular form of subnature and its actualization in contemporary designpractice.
Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments
Buckminster Fuller is globally known as a design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer, and a true visionary, way ahead of his time. As a surprise gift for his eighty-sixth birthday, he received Synergetic Stew: a compilation of cooking recipes contributed by his friends and colleagues
Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dinning
Microbial Lores offers an investigation on fermentation not only in the context of food, but also in relation to material innovation, interaction with microbial life, computation, biotechnological advancements in manufacturing, and in centering diasporic, indigenous and diverse forms of knowledge and cultural ritual.
Synthetic Ecologies Compendium
Uno de los mayores esfuerzos intelectuales por secuenciar y analizar los estadios evolutivos de la técnica, la máquina y su máxima manifestación en la Revolución industrial.
Técnica y civilización
What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism, those old saws of Western philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social? Seriously unthinkable: not available to think with.
Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene
With each passing year, the quantity and variety of mineral resources being extracted increases. All technologies require large quantities of raw materials, some of which are in very short supply. On a planet with limited resources, will there be enough to meet the demand of the world's population?
Thanatia. Límites materiales de la transición energética
What do outer space capsules, submarines, and office buildings have in common? Each is con- ceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary that does not allow for the transfer of matter or energy. Contemporary discussions about global warming, recycling, and sustainability have emerged as direct conceptual constructs related to the study and analysis of closed systems.
The Architecture of closed worlds: Or, What is the Power of Shit?
Describes, illustrates, and explains the principles and practical advantages of planning and building procedures, component systems, and design concepts of the self-sufficient house that functions independently within its immediate environment
The Autonomous House: Design and Planning for Self-sufficiency
By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work—most notably, the veneration of waged work—will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled.
The bitrth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
In three concise chapters, Morton investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of environmental philosophy and theory, The Ecological Thought explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of global warming.
The Ecological Thought
The End of Growth describes what policymakers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy that operates within Earth’s budget of energy and resources. We can thrive during the transition if we set goals that promote human and environmental well-being, rather than continuing to pursue the now-unattainable prize of ever-expanding GDP.
The End of Growth
We live in the age of the tyranny of the now, driven by 24/7 news, the latest tweet, and the buy-now button. With such frenetic short-termism at the root of contemporary crises – from the threats of climate change to the lack of planning for a global pandemic – the call for long-term thinking grows every day. The Good Ancestor reveals six profound ways in which we can all learn to think long.
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
Ubiquitous terms are used to describe the field of ecological design, including green, sustain, alternative, resilient, self-sufficient, organic, and biotechnical. In the context of this study, this paper will argue that ecological design starts with the reconceptualization of the world as a complex system of flows rather than a discrete compilation of objects, which visual artist and theorist György Kepes has described as one of the fundamental reorientations of the 20th century
Ubiquitous terms are used to describe the field of ecological design, including green, sustain, alternative, resilient, self-sufficient, organic, and biotechnical. In the context of this study, this paper will argue that ecological design starts with the reconceptualization of the world as a complex system of flows rather than a discrete compilation of objects, which visual artist and theorist György Kepes has described as one of the fundamental reorientations of the 20th century
The History of Ecological Design
In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes.
The Hungry Empire
The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the earth and human systems.
the Limits to Growth
The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society.
The machine in the garden: Technology and the pastoral ideal in America
René Redzepi, chef and co-owner of Noma, and David Zilber, the chef who runs the restaurant’s acclaimed fermentation lab, share never-before-revealed techniques to creating Noma’s extensive pantry of ferments.
The Noma Guide to Fermentation
Human activity is not entirely reducible to processes of production and conservation. Consumption must be divided into two distinct parts. The first, reducible part is represented by the use of the minimum necessary for the conservation of life . The second part is represented by so-called unproductive expenditures.
The notion of Expenditure
This book chronicles the history of food, the social biography and politics of food, and how food history is connected with race and ethnicity in the United States. In addition, the book assesses the impact of global food corporations' domination in the contemporary era, which in many ways can be seen as the equivalent of the European and American empire of the past.
The Oxford Handbook of Food History
The Planet Remade explores the history, politics, and cutting-edge science of geoengineering. Morton weighs both the promise and perils of these controversial strategies and puts them in the broadest possible context.
The Planet Remade
Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations. Informed by deep engagement with microbiology, immunology, ecology, and conservation biology as well as food, agriculture, and waste management, The Probiotic Planet offers nothing less than a new paradigm for collaboration between the policy realm and the natural sciences.
The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to manage life
The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world.
The Rise of Ecofascism
With protests over fossil fuels and controversies over nuclear and renewable energy technologies, democratic ideals have contributed to an emerging social movement. Energy democracy captures this movement and addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems.
The Routledge handbook of Energy Democracy
The title refers both to the terraforming that has taken place in recent centuries in the form of urbanisation, and to the terraforming that must now be planned and conducted as the planetary design initiative of the next centuries if true catastrophes are to be prevented. The term 'terraforming' usually refers to transforming the ecosystems of other planets or moons to make them capable of supporting Earth-like life, but the looming ecological consequences of what is called the Anthropocene suggest that in the decades to come, we will need to terraform Earth if it is to remain a viable host for Earth-like life.
The terraforming
In a resource rich environment, we coordinate in groups, corporations and nations, to maximize financial surplus, tethered to energy, tethered to carbon. At global scales, the emergent result of this combination is a mindless, energy hungry, CO2 emitting Superorganism. This paper attempts a cohesive narrative on how human evolved behavior, money, energy, economy and the environment fit together.
The theory of the Superorganism
The Waste Tide is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Chen Qiufan. It depicts a dystopian China in the post-2020 era. In the Guiyu island, the large electronic recycle industries are in full control of local lineage associations.
The waste Tide
Agbogbloshie has the largest electronic waste dump in Africa. With reports stating that this area is the most toxic area on the African continent. It has also been found that there is high levels of toxins in the food and water in which people here are eating. We got permission from the ‘chairman’ of the area to film and come and see whats going on.
THE WORLDS BIGGEST E-WASTE SITE - Agbogbloshie, Ghana
In this book llich diiscusses the institutionalization of specialized knowledge, the dominant role of technocratic elites in industrial society, and the need to develop new instruments for the reconquest of practical knowledge by the average citizen as "elite professional groups ... have come to exert a 'radical monopoly' on such basic human activities as health, agriculture, home-building, and learning, leading to a 'war on subsistence'.
La convivencialidad
The Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) is a policy that is focused on linking the energy infrastructure of EU countries. As part of the policy, eleven priority corridors and three priority thematic areas have been identified. The EU helps countries in priority corridors and priority thematic areas to work together to develop better connected energy networks, and provides funding for new energy infrastructure.
Trans European Networks for Energy
Trash Club is a community platform for the ongoing investigation and collective engagement with waste management in New York City and beyond through events, research projects, and a weekly reading group. With our cohort of trash-enthusiasts, we strive to gain a deeper understanding of the successes and failures of waste systems, and feel empowered to imagine alternatives to the current cycles of use, ruin, and salvag
Trash Club
On Tuesday 13th of December 2022, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and other officials announced that scientists for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than the energy used to start the process, resulting in a "net energy gain." "Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century," Granholm said. Officials said the "significant scientific breakthrough" in nuclear fusion research moves us one step closer to developing a clean source of power.
U.S. officials announce major nuclear fusion breakthrough
Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces.
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Visions of Excess challenges the notion of a “closed economy” predicated on utility, production, and rational consumption, and develops an alternative theory that takes into account the human tendency to lose, destroy, and waste.
Visions of Excess
Waste is one of the planet's last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills.
Waste
La Directiva Marco de Residuos establece algunos principios básicos de gestión de residuos. Exige que se gestionen los residuos. Explica cuándo los residuos dejan de serlo y se convierten en materias primas secundarias, y cómo distinguir entre residuos y subproductos. La Directiva también introduce el "principio de quien contamina paga" y la "responsabilidad ampliada del productor".
Waste Framework Directive
Cultural scholar Esther Leslie reveals the vexing temporalities of contemporary types of waste as it unsettles the socioeconomic logic of extraction and decay. Plastic fabrics and electronics molecularly molded from fossil hydrocarbons and rare earths, together with the multiple toxic byproducts of their life cycle, suggest a new history of the synthetic and the natural.
Waste in Time and the Radioactivity of Objects
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
Waste is Information
As natural resources dwindle, designers are exploring the potential of increasingly plentiful waste streams to become the raw materials of the future. A new book celebrates 30 optimistic and enterprizing designers, makers and manufacturers who use waste as their primary resource, offering a rare glimpse into the world they inhabit
Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure
How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment? Looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover the Wasteocene.
Wastocene: Stories from the global dump
Lifelong ecologist and futurist Stewart Brand relies on scientific rigor to shatter myths concerning nuclear energy, urbanization, genetic engineering, and other controversial subjects, showing exactly where the sources of our dilemmas lie and offering a bold, inventive set of policies and design- based solutions for shaping a more sustainable society.
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Information Grows takes you straight to the heart of the battle between entropy and order, examining the way that information is propagated and its impact on life, civilization and the universe. In doing so, the book offers a thought-provoking explanation for the success of human beings on earth.
Why Information Grows
On 12 May 2021, the European Commission adopted the EU Action Plan: "Towards a Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil" (and annexes) - a key deliverable of the European Green Deal. The zero pollution vision for 2050 is for air, water and soil pollution to be reduced to levels no longer considered harmful to health and natural ecosystems, that respect the boundaries with which our planet can cope, thereby creating a toxic-free environment.
Towards 0 polution for Air, Water and Soil
