Enviro-History

Excited to introduce this new website devoted to public-facing and educational approaches to the history of the environment and nature! Please have a look, follow us here or check back for new content -- and send us any feedback! enviro-history.com

Richard Branson is in space -- a good time to revisit this song and great essay by @JM_Thompson enviro-history.com/whitey-on-the-…

For your #EarthDay reading, my article in @envhistcom on Charlton Heston's apocalypse trilogy & the rise of eco-fascist catastrophism. There may be the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, but there is also the possibility of capital in life's ruins. enviro-history.com/heston

Fascinating forgotten history, dug up by @envhistcom - turns out Tom Lehrer wasn't the first person to write a Pollution song... enviro-history.com/uaw

4/ The new website also includes an interactive timeline of the #EPA. Explore here: apeoplesepa.org/home/interacti…. #APeoplesEPA #EPAat50 👀 And follow @ApeoplesepaA for announcements as more resources are added to the website!

3/ For years, EDGI has collected oral histories with past & present EPA staff who tell the story of the agency under Trump. @ApeoplesepaA makes these publicly available. We’ve posted a few to start & will roll out more in coming months. Check them out: apeoplesepa.org/home/interviews

2/ Since Dec 1970, the EPA has been charged w/ implementing laws regulating air pollution, dirty water, & hazardous waste. @ApeoplesepaA compiles resources from EDGI, @EEW_Network, @UCSUSA, @EnvProtectioNet, @ToxicDocs to understand @EPA. Press release: bit.ly/3oIQPnc

1/ 📣📣📣Today, EDGI launches A People’s EPA! This new collaborative digital project tells the complex history of the #EPA—both under Trump and before—to help illuminate a path forward under Biden and beyond. Check out @ApeoplesepaA: apeoplesepa.org #APeoplesEPA #EPAat50

Time is running out on bullshit changes/ Running out like a brush fire in a dry forest/ Like a murderer from a scene of the crime/ Like a little roach from DDT - Abiodun Oyewole

Including essays by @StephenMacekura @JM_Thompson @LeifFredrickson @KDPluymers @JonathanDCohen1 @jdhamblin @UntilDarwin @jarekpaulervin

It's standard on Earth Day for media outlets to publish lists of environmental songs. These include great standards, such as John Prine's "Paradise"(RIP). But if you're looking to dig deeper check out this list and the accompanying essays. #envhist #envhum enviro-history.com/planet-rock

For Earth Day, check out this amazing play, "Black Survival," from @robgioielli that helps us understand why mainstream environmentalism was so white. #envhist #envhum #earthday enviro-history.com/black-survival

Fantastic reading for Earth Day! #envhist #envhum

One of the classic films on pandemics is Omega Man, starring disaster-actor Charlton Heston. Check out @justinmcbrien's fantastic piece on Omega Man and other Heston films like Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes. #envhist #medhist #covid enviro-history.com/heston

@AustinMcCoy3 And environment related? 😉

will try to devote time to my manuscript after transitioning my classes online Listening to a bunch of music is the thing I look forward to the most in my social distancing. I wonder if I can scratch that writing about something music-related itch?

Check out this amazing digital humanities project on the history of lead and environmental inequality in Omaha by Adam Sundberg and Creighton students! #envhist steppingintothemap.com/inequalities/

ICYMI -- "Visual images that tell stories from indigenous perspectives can offer more holistic understandings of the world and ask us to reconsider how we comprehend historical contexts and power structures" - @CherylJoyFish on #artivism #envhum enviro-history.com/artivism

@Kenny_Linden @amboseliacacia The English sometimes refer to all grains as "corn," -- see the "Corn Laws" of the 1800s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws

@amboseliacacia I've come across this too in a translation of Marco Polo iirc, and it threw me at first. I think corn in this context doesn't mean maize, but other sort of cereal like wheat.

How would North Africa have gooten corn in 348 BCE? From the Cambridge History of Africa. #twitterstorians #envhist

Abstracts are trickling in for Succession: Queering the Environment! A @NiCHE_Canada series to be published in June! #envhist I'd love to see one from you in my inbox! Just submit a 100-300 word abstract and short bio by the end of Saturday, Feb 15th! niche-canada.org/2020/01/14/cfp…

"Krause often ends his talks by reminding us that soundscapes give us a means to experience nature that is more than just visual observation, and one that is vital to our efforts to preserve biodiversity and natural physical and acoustic spaces." - @UntilDarwin

And both call upon us to *listen* more. "Rather than getting past the trouble with wilderness, we need to learn to stay with it. To do so will require many things but one may be to listen for the bells that ring out from the earth." - @KDPluymers

These two new essays by @KDPluymers and @UntilDarwin are about very different musicians -- Bernie Krause and teh Handsome Family -- but they also have some remarkable similar themes relating to the wild, #wilderness, history, and the #Anthropocene. Here are some quotes: