Professors call for sustainable campus Oct 23, 2007
D., offered insight about a book they are writing about the environmental history of Kansas City ... Sheppard, an environmental ethicist and an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, and Herron, an assistant professor in the Department of History with specialties in Environmental History, 19th century history and the American west, offered some of their ideas but were quick to solicit feedback from the students as well. (University News, MO)
The art of imagining a greener future Oct 17, 2007
He is in the process of expanding and updating courses in environmental history or philosophy, and believes it is essential that history students understand how humans' relationships with the natural environment affected everything from scientific discoveries to urban development and farming techniques. "It's the old adage: by studying how change happened, it frees us to imagine different futures.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Historic Settlement Reached to Reduce Plant Emissions Oct 9, 2007
Settlement to Reduce Chemical Emissions at Coal-Fired Plant Largest in Environmental History. Monday, October 08, 2007. (Fox News)
Federal penalty to clean coal-fired plants marks largest in environmental history Oct 9, 2007
The Associated Press. By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer. (Concord Monitor)
Imagination inspires local writer Sep 14, 2007
She later went to graduate school before earning a doctorate in environmental history. She taught classes on the topic at Yale, where she met Wheeler, who was a biologist there. (Easton Courier, CT)
Roosevelt really the beginning? Sep 9, 2007
A professor friend of mine who is a great expert on environmental history says that TR's presidential action is "an almost unbelievably important accomplishment" in the history of conservation. Was this stupendous achievement born at the Elkhorn Ranch. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
"Popcorn Lung" Patient Ate Two Bags A Day Sep 7, 2007
"And I took a very complete history, including a work history and an environmental history and found nothing. And it wasn't really until the end of his initial medical evaluation where I turned to him and asked him was he exposed to or was he around a lot of popcorn? And his jaw dropped and he asked me how I would possibly know that about him.". Rose said that no definite link can yet be made between Watson's popcorn consumption and his lung disease. (CBS News -- 48 Hours)
Arrrgh, matey! The real Caribbean pirates come alive in new book Sep 3, 2007
A previous book, "The Lobster Coast," a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine, also reflects his interest in Colonial America. In "The Republic of Pirates," he used the 1724 book "A General History of the Pyrates" as a starting point for research that relied mostly on primary sources. (Concord Monitor)
Sierra CrossingSecond in an eight-part series by Tom Stienstra Aug 6, 2007
" One of the exceptions, she said, are campers who build new fire rings, which scar rocks and create fire danger. Steiner is studying toward a Ph.D. in environmental history at UC Davis, and is working her way through college as a ranger. In the past six years, she's hiked roughly 5,000 miles out here. Furniss, who was surveying the health of high-country range on our trip, noted a lack of vegetation outside of riparian watersheds. "There's less grass in July this year than there was in October... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Were bison one of globalization's first victims? Aug 1, 2007
"It is somewhat ironic, that what must be the saddest chapter in U.S. environmental history was not written by Americans; it was instead, the work of Europeans," Prof. Taylor wrote. (Globe and Mail -- International)
State Senate OKs scrutiny of leased school sites Jul 27, 2007
There is currently no state law mandating formal environmental review and assessment or public approval of proposed school leasing sites in the five boroughs, although the School Construction Authority reviews proposed sites to assess their past use and environmental history, Padavan said. Under the current system, the School Construction Authority has its own process to evaluate leased sites but it does not require public review or City Council oversight. (Bayside Times, NY)
Book recounts environmentalists' fight in the Bay Area Jul 19, 2007
One lesson the Bay Area environmental history has taught us is that you have to fight like the devil, not one of those successes ever arrived on a silver platter. "I still feel optimistic. But we can't just congratulate ourselves on being ahead of the curve, then sit on our laurels around the Bay Area. The fight has to be carried outward, into the Central Valley and beyond. Otherwise, we're going to end up with just one big city between San Francisco and Yosemite.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
A Short History of China's Fragile Environment Jul 18, 2007
Here is an overview of China's environmental history. THE ENVIRONMENT UNDER MAO ZEDONG. (Planet Ark, United States)
$617M later, no clear picture of Sound's health Jul 15, 2007
Another critical piece of the sewage treatment equation, according to Tom Andersen, author of "This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound," is getting New York City to begin removing nitrogen from wastewater plants that dump sewage into the East River, much of which flows into the Sound. Jump to page: 1. (Stamford Advocate)
Augusta stores water for mine Jul 1, 2007
Sturgess and his company faced tough questions a few months ago from Southern Arizona s congressional coalition and Pima County supervisors, both of which argued that the dubious environmental history of open-pit copper mining in Southern Arizona made a new, 20-year mine in the Santa Rita Mountains a questionable bet for the area. Augusta has said, and is reiterating it with this water news, that it plans to be a different kind of copper company, using cutting-edge techniques to save water and... (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
'Sultan of sprawl' leaves environmental legacy Jun 18, 2007
The main hallway has several exhibits showing the environmental history of Gwinnett County and how the area has been impacted by humans. There's also a room of entertaining and interactive exhibits where students can learn about the properties of water. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
City leaders discuss vision for Blazing Star Landing Jun 7, 2007
During the walk-through, Friend and other city leaders discussed the environmental history of some of the land along with the potential to develop the site so that it can become a central part of Albert Lea. Along the course of the tour, talk could be heard about someday having a community center, an amphitheater, an extended bike trail and other types of recreational facilities at the site. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)
Smithsonian scientists connect climate change, origins of agriculture in Mexico Jun 2, 2007
New charcoal and plant microfossil evidence from Mexicos Central Balsas valley links a pivotal cultural shift, crop domestication in the New World, to local and regional environmental history ... Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental History of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico. (EurekAlert!)
Defending The Earth May 27, 2007
" "Silent Spring" struck like a thunderbolt 45 years ago, when the country was still conducting atmospheric nuclear tests and controlling insects with a toxic arsenal of synthetic compounds without fully understanding the long-term consequences. The book's message about manipulation of nature, the dangers of chemicals and the delicate balance of ecosystems continues to shape our environmental world view, says Jack Davis, a professor of environmental history at the University of Florida in... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Study looks at breast cancer link in sisters May 22, 2007
Sisters share much of their genetic and environmental history. The sister who never had cancer also serves as a sort of control. (Deseret News)
Author Douglas Brinkley leaving N.O. to teach at Rice May 17, 2007
At Rice, Brinkley will teach classes on the history of civil rights, the U.S. presidency, and environmental history. Brinkley's Los Angeles-based publicist referred questions on why Brinkley decided to change universities to Brinkley himself. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Lawsuit to settle dispute over religious references May 2, 2007
ACSI cited courses such as "Industrial Poetry," "Islam," "Modern History of Women in Science," "The Art of Protest" and "The Environmental History of Europe.". "Defendants obviously routinely approve courses with a narrow or specialized focus, including the influence of nearly every imaginable group on history (and plaintiffs believe they should evenhandedly approve such courses), but disapproved 'Christianity's Influence on American History' as 'focus too narrow/too specialized,'" ACSI said. (WorldNetDaily)
Tree rings show elevated tungsten coincides with Nevada leukemia cluster May 1, 2007
Witten approached the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research to see if LTRR researchers could help him trace Fallon's environmental history backwards in time. Sheppard, who works in dendrochemistry, was intrigued. (EurekAlert!)
Read more... Apr 21, 2007
The 189 new Fellows range not only in age but also in their interests, as the following samples show: Jane Ira Blooms musical composition based on Freuds Interpretation of Dreams; Warwick Andersons research on the science of race mixing in the twentieth century; Rennan Barkanas study of gas and stars in the early universe; Sidra DeKoven Ezrahis literary research on Jerusalem and the poetics of return; Timothy Beachs scholarly work related to the environmental history of the Maya lowlands;... (PNN Online)
Jones: Eco-Apartheid Apr 21, 2007
" Let them say: 'We want those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy to be locked into the new, clean and green economy. We don't have any throw-away species or resources. And we don't have any throw- away children or neighborhoods either. All of creation is precious. And we are all in this together.' A Green Growth Alliance Those words would make environmental history. More importantly, they could begin a complete realignment of American... (Zmag.org)
9 hours around the FarmHikers explore perimeter of Stanford land Apr 19, 2007
9 hours around the Farm / Hikers explore perimeter of Stanford land. Maybe we could get it covered over a long weekend," he said. "Oh no," Kennedy said. "I've got an idea: Let's do it all in a day. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
An environmental first for Canada: Manitoba town first in Canada to ban plastic bags Apr 2, 2007
As a direct result of this plastic bag levy, and their strong environmental history, Leaf Rapids was approached by Bring Your Own Bag(TM) in September 2006, who suggested the idea of becoming Canada's first single-use plastic-bag-free community. Leaf Rapids administrators immediately responded to the proposal and took proactive steps to make it law, while the community rallied behind the initiative through educational programs. (Canada Newswire)
New York City environmentalists eliminate toilet paper in effort to save the planet... Mar 24, 2007
Andrew Kirk, an environmental history professor at the , Las Vegas, whose new book, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism, will be published by University Press of Kansas in September, is reminded of environmentalisms last big bubble, in the 1970s, long before pulled federal funding for alternative fuel technologies (and his speechwriters made fun of the spotted owl and its liberal protectors, a deft feat of propaganda that set the movement back decades).... (The Drudge Report)
NASA Mars Rover Churns Up Questions With Sulfur-Rich Soil Mar 16, 2007
Determining which of those two hypotheses is correct would strengthen understanding of the environmental history of the Columbia Hills region that Spirit has been exploring since a few months after landing on Mars in January 2004. However, investigating the bright soil presents a challenge for the rover team, because the loose material could entrap the rover. (Science Daily)
Leopold collection to be digitized Mar 15, 2007
The collection has national significance because Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics and ethics. The grant is one of three awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, an affiliate of the National Archives. (The Hawk Eye)
In LV, it's easy being green Mar 6, 2007
He said Las Vegas "has a mixed environmental history. "We have relatively high population densities, which is a good thing. We're kind of perched on the precipice of an environmentally unsustainable community, because of our location in the Mojave desert. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)
Hal Rothman, 48; writer took academic approach to modern Las Vegas Mar 1, 2007
At the beginning of his academic career, Rothman focused on environmental history and the National Park Service. But after arriving at UNLV in 1992, he began studying the effect of tourism on the economy, society, culture and environment of the booming desert metropolis, which attracted an estimated 38. (Los Angeles Times)
UNLV professor, Las Vegas expert Hal Rothman dies Feb 27, 2007
Though he became known worldwide as the preeminent historian of modern Las Vegas, his areas of expertise also included environmental history and the history of the American West. "He was the leading scholar on the national parks," Kirk said. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)
- Isabel Hilton Feb 20, 2007
The targets, and the apparent determination to meet them, were hailed as milestones in China's environmental history. The targets sounded ambitious, but another set of figures illustrates how much room there is for improvement in China's industrial performance. (Guardian Unlimited)
Australian giants killed by bushfires, not Ice Age Jan 26, 2007
The finding, reported in the journal Nature, means that palaeontologists must rewrite theories on Australia s environmental history that has hitherto held Ice Age-driven climate change to be the cause of the animals extinction. The first complete fossil skeleton found of Thylacoleo carnifex. (Times Online)
How Fishes Conquered The Ocean Jan 25, 2007
The work is a unique hypothesis that integrates the cellular and molecular physiology of teleost reproduction with their evolutionary and environmental history. All ancestors of bony fish like these were once confined to freshwater, according to a new University of Bergen study. (Science Daily)
Australia needs to sign Kyoto: Flannery Jan 25, 2007
"He has encouraged Australians into new ways of thinking about our environmental history and future ecological challenges," Mr Howard said. Dr Flannery, who supports nuclear power using Australian uranium as part of the solution to climate change, said Australians, per capita, were the worst polluters in the world. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
What every Brit should know about jaywalking Jan 12, 2007
"I come from a country where you can cross the road where you like," said the visiting professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary College, University of London. "It hadn't occurred to me that I wasn't allowed to cross the road between the two main conference venues.". (BBC News -- UK)
Sources on Schwarzenegger's 2007 Budget UCD, Jan. 11 Jan 12, 2007
CALIFORNIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY -- UC Davis historian Louis Warren can give historical context to important environmental issues in the state. Warren teaches about 20th century California history: immigration, environmental issues and demographic impacts. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Arrested, cuffed and jailed, the don caught jaywalking Jan 11, 2007
Professor Fernandez-Armesto, professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of Oxford University's modern history faculty, was left "traumatised and disorientated" and with a gash on his forehead before he was charged with pedestrian failure to obey a police officer, and physical obstruction of police. And, apparently most distressing of all, he had his box of peppermints confiscated. (Independent)
Historian arrested for jaywalking Jan 11, 2007
When the 56-year-old professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary, University of London, who is also a member of Oxford University's modern history faculty, appeared in court the next day, prosecutors dropped the charges. An internal police inquiry is now under way. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Home sweet Coconut Grove home Jan 7, 2007
His latest book (edited with Ray Arsenault) is "Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida," and he is currently completing a book entitled "A Life with the Everglades: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Evolution of American Environmentalism." He wrote this commentary for the Orlando Sentinel. Copyright. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
What's down the rabbit hole? Jan 6, 2007
Lear's focus comes partly from her own interests: she is a professor of environmental history, a horticulturalist and a collector of natural art. She prefers to concentrate on the nitty-gritty of farming life rather than exploring Potter's relationship with her dominating mother. (Scotsman)
Group sees the environment as election issue Jan 5, 2007
The report notes the major problems in Jakarta's environmental history, including air, water and land pollution, floods, droughts, the inadequate waste management system and poor energy choices. "Up to 70 percent of air pollution in Jakarta comes from vehicle emissions. This figure alone is enough to show that if the city government does not introduce a good macro-transportation system, we will continue to breath in polluted air," Selamet said. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Beatrix Potter: The lady and the lakes Jan 3, 2007
Linda Lear is a Professor of Environmental History, and it comes as no surprise, therefore, that her book's greatest value lies in its portrayal of Beatrix Potter, post-1913, as a farmer, a prizewinning breeder of Herdwick sheep and, most significantly, as one of the greatest benefactors in the history of the National Trust. Through her "passionate and imaginative stewardship" of the extensive tracts of land that she had bought up, to save them from development by builders, Potter, or Mrs... (Independent)
Deep mysteryA UK robot is heading down to scour Antarctic sea-floor Dec 29, 2006
The environmental history of the Antarctic is held in this sediment ... "The environmental history of the Antarctic is held in these sediments," he said. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Wild Observations Nov 24, 2006
Professor Davis wrote "Paradise Lost" a book recounting the environmental history of Florida. As the book title implies, he sees a progression of negative impacts on the Florida natural landscape. (Williston Pioneer, FL)
The Yangtze's lost dolphin Nov 24, 2006
When they write the environmental history of early 21st-century China, the freshwater dolphin expedition now plying the Yangtze river may be seen as man's farewell to an animal it once worshipped. A team of the world's leading marine biologists is making a last-gasp search for the baiji, a dolphin that was revered as the goddess of Asia's mightiest river but is now probably the planet's most endangered mammal. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Battle over Case Estates? That's rich. Nov 6, 2006
"There is some sentiment in the town that Harvard should have brought the price down a little bit rather than having us match the price they got from a developer," says Brian Donahue , a professor of environmental history at Brandeis. Bill Brady is chairing a private fund-raising effort that he hopes, in combination with Community Preservation Act money and with the proposed bond issue, will preserve the entire Estates as open space. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Daily Debriefing Oct 18, 2006
The Dartmouth Online. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
Life on Mars Oct 8, 2006
Exposed geological layers in the cliff-like portions of Victoria's inner wall appear to record a longer span of Mars' environmental history than the rover has studied in smaller craters. Victoria is five times larger than any crater Opportunity has visited during its Martian trek. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Time for a good book Oct 8, 2006
It looks at this place through a lens that connects the perspectives of both human history and environmental history, revealing the story of the landscape itself. Human culture and the environment are inextricably mixed: Pursuit of profit brought colonists here, but that profit was dependent upon available natural resources. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
New images help NASA to plot Mars Rovers next move Oct 8, 2006
Exposed geological layers in the cliff-like areas of Victoria's inner wall appear to record a longer span of Mars' environmental history as compared to its studies in smaller craters. These exposed rock layers guarantee to help probing whether the place could have been hospitable to life or not. (The Money Times)
New York's cleaned-up harbor has its drawbacks Oct 2, 2006
Many captains would park in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to kill off any marine growth on their ships, thanks to the polluted water, said John Waldman, a Queens College professor who has studied the environmental history of New York Harbor. With human waste being dumped directly into the waterways, wildlife - including shipworms and gribbles - died off, Waldman said. (Buffalo News -- National)
MSU honors Bozeman science, nature writer Sep 22, 2006
D. program, which emphasizes Montana and the American West, environmental history and the history of science and technology. During the one-year, renewable appointment, Quammen will receive a full professor s pay. (Helena Independent Record)
The Cleanest NRG of All Sep 13, 2006
He is author of Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas, and editor of On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. San Antonio Current 2006. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Living dead of Rantau Abang Aug 13, 2006
It may be a case of semantics perhaps, but the fact remains that the majestic leatherback nestings that spawned a turtle-watching tourism industry from the 1960s right up to the 1980s will go down as a sad chapter in the nations environmental history. In Rantau Abang, the statistics reveal the tragic fact that nestings have dwindled from the thousands in the 1960s to a meagre average of 30 per season since 2000; a drastic 90% reduction in around two decades. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
• Letters From Readers, 8-7-06 Aug 7, 2006
One of the other books is by Tim Flannery, an Australian zoologist who wrote "The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its People" (2001) which I used as a textbook in my American Environmental History course at U.W-Parkside. Hansen praised all three books and admitted that Gore sounded the alarm long before he did. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Blounts Bay fish kill claims 13,000 Aug 3, 2006
give us a little bit of environmental history, James said. Kees, in a brief interview, said dissolved oxygen levels in the kill area had rebounded by Wednesday afternoon. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Wine country moves north Jul 21, 2006
" It's not Napa "The home run for us in Lake County is not to be Napa, but to be able to produce wines that are unique," said John Adriance, COO for Snows Lake Vineyard, a custom producer that sells its grapes to various wineries. In January 2007, Snows Lake will release its first two wines. Geologists say that volcanic upheavals dating back several million years (the last was 10,000 years ago) created Clear Lake, the oldest natural lake in North America. The volcanoes and earthquake fault lines... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Company sees its future in Valley neighborhoods' dirt Jun 6, 2006
In Arizona, chances are gardeners aren't going to dig up M-16 rounds or live grenades, but a new service is available to disclose their neighborhood's environmental history, from nearby landfills to hazardous waste. a Tampa, Fla. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Arctic's tropical past uncovered Jun 1, 2006
Until now, our understanding of the Arctic's environmental history has been limited because of the difficulties in retrieving material from the harsh, ice-covered region. But in 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition (Acex) used ice-breaking ships and a floating drilling rig to remove 400m-long cylinders of sediment from the bottom of the ocean floor. (Yahoo News -- Environment & Nature)
Campaign 2006: Westly paints green vision Jun 1, 2006
"California had changed the trajectory of environmental history and, my friends, I think it's time for California to lead again.". Westly and Angelides have each been endorsed by the Sierra Club, one of the leading environmental groups. (Sacramento Bee -- Politics)
Shelter from the storms May 26, 2006
Today's Globe Opinion Politics Magazine Education Science NECN Special reports Obituaries. SUMMER COTTAGES and homes, many of them occupied by coastal residents, disappeared without warning when the Great Hurricane struck on the afternoon of Sept. 21, 1938. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Athletic Hall of Fame May 12, 2006
Prior to moving to 'the Big Apple' and pursuing a career in dance, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Australia where she received a master's degree in environmental history and aboriginal studies from the University of Sydney. Chemar I. Smith won four varsity letters in as many years in women's soccer between 1994-97 and started 80 consecutive matches during than span. (Gwsports.com)
