Igor Vamos, associate professor of electronic media and culture jammer-- along with Andy Bichlbaum--has premiered their new movie, THE YES MEN. FIX THE WORLD and received media attention for holding a faux news conference on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment 1998 Faye Duchin In all societies, the main causes of environmental degradation are resource extraction and the generation of wastes by households and industries. Realistic strategies for mitigating these impacts require an understanding of both the technologies by which resources are transformed into products and the lifestyle choices that shape household use of such products. Structural economics is a body of theory and method that provide a framework for developing and evaluating such strategies. It represents an important new approach to describing household lifestyles and technological choices, the relationships between them, and their impact on resource use and waste. In Structural Economist Faye Duchin provides for the first time an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the field. Contact: Faye Duchin
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Paradise for Sale
Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy Armed with new data and a new sensitivity to interconnectedness, a growing number of people warn that the tentacles of our world economy are damaging the fabric of life on earth. In this concise and absorbing account of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, the authors use the history of this unusual place to tell a larger story of financial success and environmental degradation. Nauru was originally an island with rich phosphate deposits – an absolute requirement for agriculture – but a century of human exploitation has nearly exhausted the phosphate as well as the island’s native biological diversity. Now little remains except coral pinnacles and an indigenous people attempting to survive in a devastated environment and a crumbling economy. Contact: John M. Gowdy |