The Prescience of E. M. Forster

Compared to 1984 or Brave New World, E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic novella The Machine Stops was, in some ways, the most eerily accurate prediction of our current technological milieu.

By Geoffrey Dutton | January 2, 2020 | Automation, Culture, Environment, Philosophy, Relationships, Society | Addiction, Atrophy, Class, Computers, Decadence, Dependence, Dystopia, E. M. Forster, Eugenics, Fiction, Internet, Nature, Pollution, Progress, Social Commentary, Synthetic Food

Podcast #31: Roald Hazelhoff’s Environmental Citizenship

Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.

By Mo Lotman | May 2, 2019 | Community, Culture, Environment, Family, Podcasts | Alabama, Art, Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, Children, EcoScape, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Garbage, Garden, Mosaic, Museums, Native Plants, Partnerships, Pollution, Preservation, Recycling, Reuse, Sculpture, Southern Environmental Center, Stewardship, Stone, Students, Waste, Water

Talking Trash: Recycling Inches Up, But Problems Remain

With the changes in consumed materials, recycling is running into problems; meanwhile, plastic and overall waste climb.

By Geoffrey Dutton | March 20, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Government | Automation, Bioplastics, Black Plastic, BPA, Bubble Wrap, Clamshell Packaging, Compost, Corrugated Cardboard, EPA, Foil, Garbage, Glass, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Grocery Bags, Metal, Newspapers, Newsprint, NOAA, Packaging, PET, Plastic, Plastic Bags, Pollution, Produce Bags, Recycling, Recycling Rates, Resin, Straws, Styrofoam, Trash, Waste, Water Bottles

Voyage of the Dammed

Hydroelectric power is often thought of as “green” energy, but dams have devastated river ecology and the creatures it supports—including us.

By David A. J. Reynolds | February 13, 2019 | Energy, Environment, Health | Bonneville Dam, Canals, Civilization, Colorado River, Columbia River, Dams, Danube River, Deltas, Dneprostroi Dam, Dnieper River, Drinking Water, Ecology, Energy, Erosion, Estuaries, Extinction, Fish, Fish Ladders, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, Green Energy, Groundwater, Hatcheries, Heiddeger, Hoover Dam, Hydroelectric Power, Ian Nairn, Industry, International Rivers, Iron Gate Dam, Mills, Pollution, Reservoirs, Riverbank, Riverbed, Rivers, Salmon, Sediment, Snake River, Soviet Union, Sturgeon, Trees, Tributaries, Water, Water Table, Watershed

Plastic’s Legacy of Pollution

Our obsession with disposability and sterility has ironically led to an explosion of plastic, which is non-biodegradable and full of contaminants.

By Samantha Maxwell | May 31, 2017 | Environment, Health | Autism, BPA, CDC, Chemicals, Cognition, Contaminants, Convenience, Endocrine System, Environment, Estrogen, Fertility, Fisheries, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Henderson Island, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Malnutrition, Nature, Pacific Ocean, Phthalates, Plastic, Plastic Bags, Pollution, Soil, Water, Water Bottles

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