Content tagged "environment"
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Geographies of Nowhere: Smeltertown and the Rising Wave of Environmental Refugees
We don’t often think of modern American communities as places that disappear. But lead pollution erased the tiny TX community of Smeltertown from the map.
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Sense and the City: Representations of Air Quality Data in the “Smart City”
Examining representations of air quality data intended for governmental to grassroots audiences, and how these representations may prove to be problematic in attempts to reconcile their myriad forms and meanings across contexts and constituencies.
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Loss, Mourning, and Climate Change
What might mourning loss due to climate change reveal about the deeper relationship between human and non-human life in the environment?
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The City Expressed: Everyday Media Production and the Urban Environment
Our interactions with the city are increasingly mediated through a complex array of technologies, including location-aware mobile devices and a vast number of online platforms.
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The Unfinished Miracle: How Plastics Came to be Lost at Sea
The problem of plastic marine pollution is not due to the nature of the material itself, but rather lies in the ways we have chosen to use it.
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Distant Harvest: The Production and Price of Organic Food
If we eventually switch over to a more sustainable way of growing our food, we could, says MIT agricultural historian Deborah Fitzgerald, experience the gentrification of our food system.
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Help for landowners who could be victimized by natural gas drilling
“Landman Report Card will help landowners in any state navigate the government and corporate databases.”
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Landman Report Card highlighted in Good Clean Tech, PC Magazine
“MIT is working on a suite of software applications that helps aggregate all the necessary information about land deals, along with input from citizens in the affected areas, in a clear, user-friendly format.”
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Air Trade: Promises — and Pitfalls — in the Coming Carbon Market
The market designs that have been proposed, along with reasons why the carbon market is likely to fail to live up to its greatest promise.
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Neon Signs, Underground Tunnels and Chinese American Identity: The Many Dimension of Visual Chinatown
What is Chinatown? Is it an imaginary construct, a real location, or a community?
