Good Food,Good Intentions: Where Pro-sustainability Arguments Get Stale in US Food Documentaries

Focusing on recent documentaries about sustainable agriculture in the US—Food, Inc., The Garden, Fresh, and Farmageddon—this paper examines how pro-sustainable food arguments fail to merge environmentalism and environmental justice. By framing their approach to sustainable food production around the normative issue of “good food” for capitalist consumers, such documentaries ignore questions about community and cultural conceptions of farmers. In the process the films promote a problematic vision of the white family farm. As a consequence, these films limit a reimagining of alternative food systems, the roles for diverse actors within those systems, and possibilities for eaters beyond “voting with your fork.” Several exceptions, most notably The Garden, are used to suggest how cinema might radically re-envision participation in alternative forms of agriculture.     

The Narrative Cycle of Climate Change in the Greek Newspapers, 2001–2008

This paper aims to establish whether the longitudinal framing of climate change (CC) in Greek newspapers exhibits the characteristics of a “narrative cycle,” with different themes becoming prominent at different periods in accordance with the media’s narrative considerations. In order to test this assumption, we formulate a number of hypotheses which we test with data originating from three Greek newspapers over the period 2001–2008. We find that the scientific and ecological/meteorological themes of CC are more often mentioned during the initial phase of media coverage, arguably due to media’s attempt to open the narrative and capture the public’s attention. Public protests and debate feature more prominently during the peaked phase of coverage, in accordance with the narrative need for a climax, while the later period of coverage, when some kind of resolution to the story should be offered, is characterized by the prominence of policy-making and economy-related issues.     

应用多孔陶瓷滤料治理环境污染

综述多孔陶瓷的类型与特性、制备的原料与方法以及表征多孔陶瓷孔特性的参量;研讨多孔陶瓷在环境污染治理中的应用和原理;简介笔者正在研究的轻质多孔陶瓷滤料、表面改性陶瓷滤料.采用多孔改性陶瓷滤料,结合聚结过滤和光催化技术,分别处理油田开采水和有机污染废水,其中的试验结果显示,聚结过滤工艺对油和悬浮物的去除率分别达到了90%和96%以上,出水水质能达到含油废水回注水的国家A1标准.从而拓展了陶瓷滤料的应用领域.     

采用实验和密度泛函理论计算揭示吸光性环境介质对多环芳烃光降解的影响机制

多环芳烃(PAHs)在环境中的光降解动力学受环境介质吸光组分的影响.为揭示介质吸光组分对PAHs光降解影响的内在机制,以吸光很弱的甲醇和吸光较强的丙酮和二甲基亚砜(DMSO)为模拟环境介质,考察不同吸光性溶剂介质对3种PAHs(菲、芘和苯并[a]芘)光解的影响;并采用密度泛函理论(DFT)计算,分析了溶剂分子光敏化能量/电子转移反应对PAHs光解的影响机制.结果表明,激发态的丙酮分子抑制了菲和芘的光解,而加快了苯并[a]芘的光解;激发态的DMSO分子抑制了菲的光解,促进了芘和苯并[a]芘的光解.过滤掉DMSO所吸收的部分光谱频段后,PAHs在DMSO中的光解速率与甲醇中的接近.DFT计算表明,激发态的丙酮或DMSO主要作为电子受体与PAHs发生光敏化电子转移反应,是影响PAHs光解的内在原因.     

改性火山岩生物滤料对微生物吸附实验研究

采用酸处理、铁盐处理和铝盐处理火山岩滤料,并将未处理的和改性的3种滤料分别在30℃、60 rpm/min条件下吸附恶臭假单胞菌野生菌和重组菌,通过测量OD600值的变化,比较它们的吸附效果。结果表明:它们的吸附率随时间延长而增大,3.5 h后对野生菌的吸附率分别为27.70%、34.84%、36.83%和31.69%,对重组菌的吸附率分别为31.65%、37.31%、38.23%和35.25%。3种改性滤料都有较好的吸附效果,每克滤料吸附野生菌菌数分别为0.308×1010个、0.363×1010个、0.372×1010个、0.340×1010个;吸附重组菌菌数分别为,0.704×1010个、0.885×1010个、0.936×1010个、0.805×1010个,其中铁膜滤料吸附效果最好。把微生物吸附在滤料上处理废水,能结合它们处理废水的优势,且可以回收滤料,为研究改性滤料固定化微生物在废水处理中的作用和效果上提供实验依据。     

基于透射光法探讨水流流速对DNAPL运移分布的影响

重非水相污染物(DNAPL)在地下水中的运移分布受多种因素控制.选择四氯乙烯(PCE)作为DNAPL的代表,通过二维砂箱实验探究地下水流速对DNAPL运移分布的影响.采用透射光法(LTM)监测DNAPL在砂箱内的运移行为并定量分析DNAPL的饱和度,进而采用空间矩分析DNAPL污染羽的平均运移行为随时间的变化.结果表明,透射光法分析得到的DNAPL计算体积与实际注入体积有良好的相关性(R20.98),LTM的测量精度较高,可准确反映DNAPL的入渗行为和再分布过程.DNAPL饱和度和污染羽一阶矩(质心)的分析结果表明,流速的增加能够促进DNAPL在水平和垂直方向的运移使得运移路径倾斜,且其对DNAPL垂向入渗的促进作用更为明显;污染羽二阶矩(展布)的分析结果显示流速的增加还提高了DNAPL在横向和垂向的扩散速度,导致污染区域增大.实验过程中,DNAPL的饱和度直方图在较小地下水流速下始终呈单峰分布,在较大地下水流速下则逐渐呈双峰分布,且流速越大,两个峰值的间距越大.