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John M. Staudenmaier: What does envirotech mean?

March 4th, 2005 · No Comments

March 4, 2005
Marty Reuss asked what does “envirotech” mean to you? Great question. I can’t make it to Houston for the conversation, so here are a few thoughts on the topic. No surprise that I would approach the question from a history of technology perspective: how enviro + tech affects what historians of technology have [...]

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Are Animals Technology?

August 1st, 2001 · No Comments

In 2001, Edmund Russell started an extensive email discussion by asking “Are animals technology? If so, what might they tell us about the history of technology? And about the overlap between history of technology and environmental history?”
Here is the archive of this discussion.

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