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Gary Griggs, Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast UC Press, 2010

Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz

California has 1100 miles of coastline; most of it is eroding and all of it is changing in myriad ways. Gary Griggs has written a book about the coast's history, geology, climate, and resources. He also addresses the impact of rising sea levels and the history of oil extraction off California's coast.

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Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies

 

 

Economic growth and industrial development, we are told, are the keys to human and social progress. Debal Deb is far from convinced. In his book Beyond Developmentality, Dr. Deb critiques mainstream economic priorities; calls into question many assumptions about the natural world; describes how traditional indigenous societies have interacted with nature; and calls for a zero-growth economy.

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John Muir Laws, The Laws Pocket Guides to the San Francisco Bay Area Heyday Books

Bay Nature

Traces of the Trade, a film by Katrina Browne

The Tracing Center

Diverse ecosystems, bizarre life cycles, evolutionary wonders: John Muir Laws has written about and created drawings of natural phenomena and many living things. In this first-time presentation of the full-length interview, Laws shares stories about bird and lizard behavior, pollination strategies, and more. Also, Katrina Browne has made a film about her slave-trading ancestors.

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Turbulence

Turbulence Collective, What Would It Mean To Win? PM Press, 2010

John Gabriel Borkman at Aurora Theatre

The capitalist order faces multiple crises, including what Tadzio Mueller calls a bio-crisis. When capitalists say they're going green, what challenge, if any, does that present to the status quo? Mueller provides an analysis grounded in neoliberalism's history. And Karen Lewis discusses Henrik Ibsen's pointed indictment of capitalist greed.

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Tristram Stuart, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal Norton, 2009

 

Could it be that what we don't eat is destroying our environment? Historian Tristram Stuart argues that the vast amount of food that is wasted by manufacturers, supermarkets, farmers, and consumers -- up to 50 percent of food grown in this country -- has massive ecological consequences, leading to the depletion of the oceans of fish, the decimation of rainforests to grow grains for livestock, and mountains of methane-emitting landfills.

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Marco Armiero, ed., Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World

Wasting Naples (Una Montagna di Balle)

Where do issues of environmental justice, privatization, police repression, and popular resistance come together? In the case of the tumultuous garbage struggles in Italy's polluted Campania region. Marco Armiero describes the struggles, which he argues are ultimately about power (and its abuses) and democracy (and its absence). Also, Jerry Levy stars in Howard Zinn's play Marx in Soho.