On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
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14 February 2010 , 3pm
Peter Galison: Waste-Wilderness
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
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159 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 post card
[Tel Aviv] : Yundler Brondino Verlag, [2021]
Toxic garden / AN+ ; Avital Gourary [and five others] ; edited by Stella Fitzgerald ; photography by Aviad Bar Ness.
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[Tel Aviv] : Yundler Brondino Verlag, [2021]
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Tender and Toxic Tales.
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[Place of publication not identified] : dpr-barcelona, 2024., [Place of publication not identified] : Irish Architecture Foundation, 2024.
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[Place of publication not identified] : dpr-barcelona, 2024., [Place of publication not identified] : Irish Architecture Foundation, 2024.
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22 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Philadelphia, Pa. : Paint Manufacturers' Association, ©1914.
The toxic and antiseptic properties of paints / by Henry A. Gardner.
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22 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Philadelphia, Pa. : Paint Manufacturers' Association, ©1914.
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Open Humanities Press Post Office Press 2025
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Open Humanities Press Post Office Press 2025
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[Place of publication not identified] : e-flux, 2018.
Vivian Ziherl on Frontier Imaginaries, Toxic Assets, and The Fourfold Articulation.
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[Place of publication not identified] : e-flux, 2018.
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Toxics.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2023.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2023.
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1 online resource (1 video file (57 min., 28 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
Simone M. Müller : here it is toxic, there it is not.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
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[6], 394 pages 19 cm
London, Pluto Press Ltd., 1973.
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London, Pluto Press Ltd., 1973.