Monday, June 27, 2011

Nukes Fires Floods The China Syndrome (1979)

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The recent conflagration at the nuclear power plants in Japan after the horrifying earthquake/tsunami event has freaked nations all over the...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

National Film Board of Canada Films at ASLE

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Elspeth Tulloch, from the Universite Laval in Quebec City, highlighted three important films questioning food industry practices, all of whi...

Ninth ASLE Biennial Conference: "Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global: http://www.indiana.edu/~asle2011/

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I just returned from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference and wanted to highlight a plenary s...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Hospitals as Deadly Ecosystems

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There is a matter of fact statistic that gets bounced around a lot these days and for some reason it never seems to capture the attention of...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Metamorphosis and Mutation in Context

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The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) listserv has lately been discussing texts that address the metamorpho...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

*Gasland* and Facebook

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A new message and petition have been posted on Facebook that connects with and perhaps demonstrates the success of Josh Fox's Gasland (2...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

When Vegetables Go Rogue

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The recent tragic deaths and the thousands of cases of sickness caused by a new strain of E-Coli poisoning in Germany has been attributed to...