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This book aims to illustratehow rich and articulated are the ideas that, over the centuries, have generated the contemporary concept of Eco-Village and Eco-Living. The author, an expert on environmental issues and history of architecture, through an extensive research lasting more than ten years, intends to decribe the philosophical, cultural, historical and theoretical(...)
juin 2021
Being light on the earth: Eco-village policy and practice for a sustainable world
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This book aims to illustratehow rich and articulated are the ideas that, over the centuries, have generated the contemporary concept of Eco-Village and Eco-Living. The author, an expert on environmental issues and history of architecture, through an extensive research lasting more than ten years, intends to decribe the philosophical, cultural, historical and theoretical aspects of this complex topic. The book is split in thwo volumes. The first one describes the historical and conceptual aspects of the contemporary Eco-Villages, supported by an extensive bibliography and acurate examples. The second is focusing more on the technical aspects, illustrating the most important Eco-Villages in the world.
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which(...)
septembre 2019
Self-devouring growth: a planetary fable as told from southern Africa
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
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Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were unaware of the serious damage(...)
novembre 2018
The environment: a history of an idea
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Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature—nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they had done. What people lacked was an idea: a way of imagining the web of interconnection and consequence of which the natural world is made. Without this notion, we didn’t have a way to describe the scale and scope of human impact upon nature. This idea was "the environment." Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin trace the emergence of the concept of the environment following World War II, a period characterized by both hope for a new global order and fear of humans’ capacity for almost limitless destruction. It was at this moment that a new idea and a new narrative about the planet-wide impact of people's behavior emerged, closely allied to anxieties for the future. Now we had a vocabulary for talking about how we were changing nature: resource exhaustion and energy, biodiversity, pollution, and—eventually—climate change. With the rise of "the environment," the authors argue, came new expertise, making certain kinds of knowledge crucial to understanding the future of our planet.
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'Energy Culture' is a book about oil’s firm grip on our politics and everyday lives. It brings together essays and artwork produced in a collaborative environment to stimulate new ways of thinking and to achieve a more just and sustainable world.
novembre 2019
Energy culture: art and theory on oil and beyond
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'Energy Culture' is a book about oil’s firm grip on our politics and everyday lives. It brings together essays and artwork produced in a collaborative environment to stimulate new ways of thinking and to achieve a more just and sustainable world.
Le toucher du monde
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La conception de la nature dominante dans la tradition occidentale est indissociable d'une pensée de la technique définie comme son contraire. Ce dualisme est au coeur des débats actuels sur l'avenir de l'humanité à l’ère de l’anthropocène que nous pourrions résumer par : Pensée écologiste d'une part, pensée posthumaniste et techniciste de l'autre.
septembre 2019
Le toucher du monde
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La conception de la nature dominante dans la tradition occidentale est indissociable d'une pensée de la technique définie comme son contraire. Ce dualisme est au coeur des débats actuels sur l'avenir de l'humanité à l’ère de l’anthropocène que nous pourrions résumer par : Pensée écologiste d'une part, pensée posthumaniste et techniciste de l'autre.
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L’ouvrage « Vivre sans plastique » se place en continuité des efforts de Chantal Plamondon et Jay Sinha de sensibilisation aux dangers que représentent notamment les produits à base de BPA, le polystyrène et autres plastiques à usage unique. Couramment utilisés pour emballer des aliments, des boissons, des produits de soins personnels et de nettoyage, la plupart des(...)
octobre 2019
Vivre sans plastique : des outils écologiques à notre portée
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L’ouvrage « Vivre sans plastique » se place en continuité des efforts de Chantal Plamondon et Jay Sinha de sensibilisation aux dangers que représentent notamment les produits à base de BPA, le polystyrène et autres plastiques à usage unique. Couramment utilisés pour emballer des aliments, des boissons, des produits de soins personnels et de nettoyage, la plupart des plastiques peuvent en effet libérer des produits chimiques lorsqu’ils entrent en contact avec de la nourriture et de l’eau. Jay et Chantal expliquent dans ce guide comment analyser son utilisation personnelle du plastique et comment trouver ou créer des alternatives à ce matériau en donnant des idées de substituts sûrs, réutilisables et abordables. Un livre appelé à devenir la référence en la matière.
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Changements climatiques, pollution, inégalités sociales et économiques ne sont que quelques-uns des symptômes qui affectent notre planète malade. Les causes de ceux-ci : les dysfonctions de l’économie, particulièrement celles qui permettent qu’une contribution négative à la société se traduise en profit pour une minorité. Comment changer la donne? Comment mettre(...)
La transition, c'est maintenant
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Changements climatiques, pollution, inégalités sociales et économiques ne sont que quelques-uns des symptômes qui affectent notre planète malade. Les causes de ceux-ci : les dysfonctions de l’économie, particulièrement celles qui permettent qu’une contribution négative à la société se traduise en profit pour une minorité. Comment changer la donne? Comment mettre l’économie au service de la société et faire en sorte qu’elle opère à l’intérieur des limites planétaires? Par où commencer pour déjouer le cynisme ambiant et se donner un élan d’espérance? Laure Waridel a cherché à tracer les contours, au contact de chercheur.e.s, d’artistes et de militant.e.s qui se dédient, chacun.e à leur échelle, à une grande diversité d’initiatives privées, publiques et collectives, d’une réelle transition vers une économie écologique et sociale.
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'Fueling culture' offers a compendium of keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of(...)
janvier 2017
Fueling Culture : 101 words for energy and environment
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'Fueling culture' offers a compendium of keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of dependence upon unsustainable energy forms.
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In ''Beyond the World's End,'' T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes, including(...)
Beyond the world's end: arts of living at the crossing
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In ''Beyond the World's End,'' T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah's cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio. Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of aesthetics and politics, as exemplified in the Standing Rock #NoDAPL campaign and the Zad's autonomous zone in France, are creating the imaginaries that will be crucial to building a socially just and flourishing future.
Les trois écologies
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Contre la lecture médiatique des accidents écologiques, le philosophe propose de penser l'écologie environnementale avec l'écologie sociale et l'écologie mentale, à travers une lecture éthique et politique. Paru en 1989, cet essai examine les pratiques de recomposition des subjectivités individuelles et collectives au sein de nouveaux contextes techniques, scientifiques(...)
Les trois écologies
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Contre la lecture médiatique des accidents écologiques, le philosophe propose de penser l'écologie environnementale avec l'écologie sociale et l'écologie mentale, à travers une lecture éthique et politique. Paru en 1989, cet essai examine les pratiques de recomposition des subjectivités individuelles et collectives au sein de nouveaux contextes techniques, scientifiques et géopolitiques.