Kevin Kelly presents his perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology, and religion.
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“Technology's Epic Story”
Arroyo, Vicki, "Let's Prepare For Our New Climate"
Vicki Arroyo uses environmental law and her background in biology and ecology to help prepare for global climate change.
Brand, Stewart, "4 Environmental Heresies"
Stewart Brand talks about cities, nuclear power, genetic modification, and geo-engineering.
Diamond, Jared, "Why do Societies Collapse?"
Jared Diamond investigates why cultures prosper or decline.
Episode 5: "The Storm History of Stanley Park"
Wolf Read, a 2009 graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, talks about his research on the complicated nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
Episode 4: "Environmental Justice on the Hamilton Waterfront"
Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.
Episode 2: "Natural Resource Development in British Columbia"
Tina Loo is talking about hydro-electric development and high modernism and Jonathan Peyton is interviewed on the history of resource conflict in northern British Columbia.
Episode 9: "Environmental History Graduate Studies in Canada"
In this episode students discuss their own experiences studying and researching in environmental history graduate studies in Canada.
Episode 12: "Industrialization in Subarctic Environments"
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
Episode 17: "Virtual Field Trips, Automobiles, and Global Commodity Chains"
Graduate students from around the world talk about their collaborative work on a virtual environmental history field trip organized by the NiCHE New Scholars group.