Episode 6 of Crosscurrents features talks and short interviews from the Climate Change and Energy Futures workshop. The 2018 workshop imagined futures related to climate change and energy, with attention to the social values that underlie decision-making in a carbon-constrained world.
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
In episode 45 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Daniel Macfarlane discusses his new book on the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project with Sean Kheraj.
In episode 50 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj, Richard Unger, and John Thistle discuss Canada’s energy transition from organic to mineral sources and its social, political, and cultural consequences.
In episode 52 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Matthew Evenden talks to Sean Kheraj about his new book Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada’s Second World War.
This book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?
Ecopolis München: Environmental Histories of a City is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories and showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
An exploration of the ideas of two postwar Australians, William Hatfield and Flexmore Hudson.
Wasser correlates the control of water supply with power in a comparative collection of articles on water in ancient, early modern, and modern states.
This page presents the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions” and its author—historian Nuno Luís Madureira.
Human practices of energy consumption both transform—and are transformed by—social structures. This exhibition—written by historian Nuno Luís Madureira—introduces the concept of “energy transitions,” structural shifts in energy use and their pathways, obstacles, and consequences, challenging the view of “transitions” as the simple replacement of one energy resource by another.
by Nuno Luís Madureira
