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Reading Speculative Futures in a Post-Truth World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means ...
Jekanowski, Rachel Webb
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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of Alexa Weik von Mossner\u27s Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental ...
Tagnani, David
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Dual‐Mode Film Based on Highly Scattering Nanofibers and Upcycled Chips‐Bags for Year‐Round Thermal Management

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Intelligent radiative cooling devices, adaptable to various weather conditions, have the potential for year‐round energy savings. This study introduces a sustainable dual‐mode film made from polycaprolactone nanofibers and upcycled chip bags for effective thermal management.
Qimeng Song   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Year Without a Winter Edited by Dehlia Hannah [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Book Review of editor Dehliah Hannah\u27s A Year Without a ...
Scott, Conrad
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Enhancing Low‐Temperature Performance of Sodium‐Ion Batteries via Anion‐Solvent Interactions

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
DOL is introduced into electrolytes as a co‐solvent, increasing slat solubility, ion conductivity, and the de‐solvent process, and forming an anion‐rich solvent shell due to its high interaction with anion. With the above virtues, the batteries using this electrolyte exhibit excellent cycling stability at low temperatures. Abstract Sodium‐ion batteries
Cheng Zheng   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Climate Fiction (and Nonfiction) through First Nations Cultural Genre Theory

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Environmental Education
For Indigenous peoples, all stories begin with Country. And as climate change reveals, all stories will end with Country too. This paper re-examines popular framings of the climate fiction (cli-fi) genre, and the ways ancient and contemporary First ...
Mykaela Saunders
doaj   +1 more source

Prophesying the End of Human Time: Eco-Anxiety and Regress in J. G. Ballard’s Short Fiction

open access: yesText Matters, 2022
Despite being written half a century before the term “eco-anxiety” (Gifford and Gifford) was coined, J. G. Ballard’s disaster fictions can be read in the context of the social psychodynamics of climate change.
Dominika Oramus
doaj   +1 more source

Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental ...
Kroon, Ariel
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How a professionals slash writer disrupts readers' expectations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Professionals fandom is a fertile ground for AU stories. At face value, Rhiannon's The Larton Chronicles is a pleasant, cozy AU that bears only a token resemblance to the show that inspired it.
Wheeler, Sharon
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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