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Thomas Berger's Unfinished Revolution

27 May, 2009 | Stephen Bocking

What a lovely boom it was to be. Earth Day 1970 was a recent memory, and then president Richard Nixon was expanding American involvement in Vietnam. But for many, the action was in Northern Canada. It was full speed ahead for frontier oil and gas. Oil wells would be pumping, compressor stations shrieking, and to carry the wealth south, soon the biggest megaproject of all: the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. ...

Published in: Measuring Progress and Building Heritage 33.2-3
Tags: science, pipeline, oil, energy

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FUEL

29 April, 2009 | John Knechtel

EVERY EDITION that the pocketbook anthology series Alphabet City co-publishes with The MIT Press binds together the work of a diverse group of artists and writers who investigate a single topic from many angles.

FUEL was a theme particularly well suited to our method because it is multifaceted. We were able to assemble a collection of works that take the reader from considerations of infrastructure to questions about our fuel fantasies.

Published in: Books from the Deep Green 35.3
Tags: tar sands, renewable energy, oil, fuel, energy, coal, Athabasca, Alberta

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Soil Not Oil

29 April, 2009 | Vandana Shiva

THE CLIMATE CRISIS is at its roots a consequence of human beings having gone astray from the ecological path of living with justice and sustainability. It is a consequence of forgetting that we are earth citizens. It is acting like we are kids in a supermarket with limitless appetites for consumption and falsely imagining that the corporations that stock the supermarkets have unlimited energy warehouses.