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.
For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Eben Kirksey reflects on the nature of hope and argues for the importance of grounding it in communities of actual living animals, plants, and microbes.
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Eileen Crist considers the Manifesto’s point as view as one of humanism and freedom.
This book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
This book provides an economic history of the petroleum industry in Alberta, Canada, as well as a detailed analysis of the operation of the markets for Alberta oil and natural gas, and the main governmental regulations (apart from environmental regulations) faced by the industry.
Catrina A. MacKenzie, Rebecca K. Fuda, Sadie Jane Ryan, and Joel Hartter use interviews and focus group discussions to assess the interaction of oil exploration with the three primary conservation policies employed by the Uganda Wildlife Authority: protectionism, neoliberal capital accumulation, and community-based conservation.
This issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter covers regional forestry issues and initiatives, the Redwood Summer event to bring attention to the destruction of the redwoods, the environmental consequences of the Gulf War, and a plan for a “conservation power plant” in Sacramento.
