A Letter to the Citizens of Hangzhou
Environmental historian Fei Sheng, a native of Hangzhou, addresses this city’s citizens to consider balancing economic growth with environmental protection while expressing hope for Hangzhou’s future.
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Dear Little Rock: The Ironic Plot in Civil Rights and Environmental Historiography
Nicole Seymour reflects on leaving Little Rock, exploring the city’s civil-rights legacy alongside present challenges, and draws lessons on struggle and hope.
“Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix”
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
This edited volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations.
Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 13
The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
A book on the relevance of the the land ethic of Aldo Leopold.
Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History
Full text of Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History.
The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space
In this book, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US.
Exploring City Wetlands: Small Resilient Unruly (Story Map)
Interactive story map by Paolo Gruppuso on urban ecologies in Latina, Italy.
“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.