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Where Do We Put the Elephants? Tracking the Translation of the Savoir-faire of Tea from China to British India
In the 1800s, the British laid plans for growing tea in Assam to substitute for expensive imports from China. They transplanted Chinese tea plants, Ch
Mapping a Scientific Oeuvre, ECHO Source: Manuscripts of Thomas Harriot (1560–1621)
Workshop | Mar 9-Mar 10, 2017
Open Access to Convivencia. People and their Representations in the Iberian World and Beyond
MoreCircular Economy: Ancient Populations Pioneered the Idea of Recycling Waste
No 14
The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products that feed today’s rampant consumerist hunger, which are then thrown away. The idea of the circular economy only took off in the 1980s, but this doesn’t mean that the practices at the core of a circular economy, such as repairing, recycling, refurbishing, or repurposing, are equally novel. All of these strategies have the aim of keeping materials in use—whether as objects or as their raw components—for as long as possible. And all are hardly revolutionary.
Maikel Kuijpers
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Circular Economy: Ancient Populations Pioneered the Idea of Recycling Waste
No 14
The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products that feed today’s rampant consumerist hunger, which are then thrown away. The idea of the circular economy only took off in the 1980s, but this doesn’t mean that the practices at the core of a circular economy, such as repairing, recycling, refurbishing, or repurposing, are equally novel. All of these strategies have the aim of keeping materials in use—whether as objects or as their raw components—for as long as possible. And all are hardly revolutionary.
Maikel Kuijpers
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International Conference Energy and Scale: Trans-scalar and Multi-scalar Interactions in Energy Transitions
Conference on "Energy and Scale" with Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary
Dec 10, 2018International Conference Energy and Scale: Trans-scalar and Multi-scalar Interactions in Energy Transitions
Conference on "Energy and Scale" with Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary
Dec 10, 2018Futility and Transcendence: An Interpretation of Kant’s Philosophy
It is often said that Immanuel Kant’s intention in writing his three Critiques was to reconcile empiricism with rationalism and to urge a new form of
Lorraine Daston in einem Beitrag des Deutschlandfunks zur Veranstaltung „Das neue Alphabet“ am HKW
Zum Artikel und RadiobeitragLorraine Daston in Deutschlandfunk article on “Das neue Alphabet” event at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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