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Multimedia | journal article
“Roots through Asphalt: A Conversation with Sonja Dümpelmann”
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Heat Is On!”
In this Springs article, historian Melanie Arndt examines how the foundations for production, perception, and consumption of heating were laid at the turn of the twentieth century.
Multimedia | journal article
“Weathered History: Galveston and Extreme Events”
In this Springs article, natural-resource and environmental-policy professor Thomas Princen explores three extreme weather events in the Houston-Galveston area, Texas.
Multimedia | journal article
“Cities by the Sea: A Tale of Qingdao and Los Angeles”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Lawrence Culver on “Manifest Disaster”
Lawrence Culver, Carson Center fellow from June to December 2010, speaks about his research project “Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.”
Exhibition chapter
About the Exhibition | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong? What do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean”
In this video, Reinaldo Funes Monzote (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies) presents his project “From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean.”
Exhibition chapter
Beyond the Exhibition | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
Multimedia | image
Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.