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Nature reorganized
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Waste Creeps Back
Take care
Abroad, ADN, American Gothic, Bangalore, Buffalo University, DNA, Imperfect Health, India, recycling, United States, waste
7 February 2012
Take care
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
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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Detritus, Waste, Salvage
Into the material world
18th century, 19th century, rubbish, trash, salvage, recycling, André Guillerme, construction, demolition, Paris, round table
18 January 2017
Into the material world
Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
25 March 2017, 3pm
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
Wastrel food waste disposer
DR1995:0263:032:018:014
circa 1974
PH2018:0010:031
20 August 2017
Waste Management Facility under construction, Welcome Township, Port Hope, Ontario
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Stop the Five Gallon Flush! A Survey of Alternative Waste Disposal" about low-cost and alternative sanitation systems.
1973
Stop the Five Gallon Flush! A Survey of Alternative Waste Disposal
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Stop the Five Gallon Flush! A Survey of Alternative Waste Disposal" about low-cost and alternative sanitation systems.
AP149.S1.1973.PR01.002
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Stop the Five Gallon Flush! A Survey of Alternative Waste Disposal" about low-cost and alternative sanitation systems.
1973
Stop the Five Gallon Flush! A Survey of Alternative Waste Disposal
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AP149.S1.1973.PR01.002
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Stop the Five Gallon Flush! A Survey of Alternative Waste Disposal" about low-cost and alternative sanitation systems.
ARCH270448
circa 2000