The Society for the History of Technology honored long-time envirotechie Joel Tarr with the Leonardo da Vinci Medal during the Lisbon Annual Meeting in October 2008. The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is the highest recognition from SHOT and is awarded to individuals for their “outstanding contribution to the history of technology, through research, teaching, publications, [...]

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A new book from envirotechie Jeffrey K. Stine: America’s Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource
From the darkest, most forbidding swamp to the smallest soggy bog at the side of a housing development, wetlands provide invaluable ecological services to life on earth. Yet, prior to the 1930s, few people worried about the mounting loss of [...]

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Finn Arne Jørgensen successfully defended his PhD dissertation “The infrastructure of everyday environmentalism: Tomra and the reverse vending machine, 1970-2000″ Friday November 23, 2007. The dissertation examines the parallel technical development of reverse vending machines for the return of empty beverage containers and the cultural context of beverage container recycling.
For more information, see http://finnarne.jorgensenweb.net/

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I remain a professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University.  Every fall my wife Deborah, a geographer at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York, and I teach a course on land-use planning at the Environmental Studies Program at Princeton University.  We were in South Dakota in June [...]

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Pat Munday worked with the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups to write and direct a brief image event, “President Bush Grills an Endangered Species,” to publicize the plight of the Big Hole River grayling, a species recently removed as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wASzy-ikmYA

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Soon after settling in Butte in 1990, Montana Tech professor and environmental historian Pat Munday became interested and involved in Superfund issues. For many years, he worked with groups such as the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee and Trout Unlimited to promote remedies protective of human and environmental health. Now that the remedies, or [...]

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Joel Tarr and Clay McShane’s book The Horse in the City won Honorable Mention for the Lewis Mumford Prize of the Society for American Regional and Planning History.

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By Evelyn Boswell, Montana State University News Service, Bozeman
Originally published in the Spring 2007 Envirotech Newsletter.
Editor’s Note: I hope you all will forgive me in advance for including an article on my own work here, but I think the project will be of interest to many of you. By all means, please send me [...]

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Jeffrey Stine published a fascinating retrospective essay on Donald Worster’s Dust Bowl in the latest issue of Technology and Culture. The essay is also available on the journal’s website:
http://shot-dev.press.jhu.edu/eTC/eTCmain.html .

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During the 2006 - 2007 academic year, Sara Pritchard revised her book manuscript, organized Montana State University’s Department of History’s third NSF “Mile High, Mile Deep” conference (a joint workshop with the University of Wisconsin - Madison), gave several papers, and advised her first four Master’s students, all of whom are continuing on with their [...]

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