Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
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Smog Disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania
England passes first Alkali Acts
The British Alkali Acts are a first systematic attempt to control the increasing pollution from the Alkali industry.
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The Natural and Social Conditions for Soil Nutrients: The Case of a Mediterranean Village in the 1860s
Delivery
A prize-winning short film about a man who, living a lonely life under dark clouds of industrial smog somewhere in a futuristic city, receives a mysterious package enabling him to change his environment.
Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
John McNeill on “An Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution”
John McNeill, Carson Fellow from June to August 2011, talks about his project to write a global environmental history of the industrial revolution.
Paul Josephson on "An Environmental History of the Soviet Arctic"
Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.
Ingo Heidbrink on "An Environmental History of Greenland"
Ingo Heidbrink, Carson Fellow from June 2011 to December 2011, talks about his environmental history of Greenland.
Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.