Finn Arne Jørgensen‘s book Making A Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling is out!
Consider an empty bottle or can, one of the hundreds of billions of beverage containers that are discarded worldwide every year. Empty containers have been at the center of intense political controversies, technological innovation processes, and the modern environmental movement. Making [...]
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New book: Making A Green Machine
August 1st, 2011 · No Comments
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Call for nominations: 2011 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize
February 9th, 2011 · No Comments
Envirotech, a dynamic interest group within the Society for the History of Technology and the American Society for Environmental History, invites nominations for the 2011 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize. The Tarr Prize recognizes the best article published in either a journal or article collection on the relationship between technology and the environment in history. The [...]
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New book: The Illusory Boundary Environment and Technology in History
August 10th, 2010 · No Comments
Great news – The Illusory Boundary is finally out, a collection of articles edited by Marty Reuss and Steve Cutcliffe and with many envirotechies as contributors. Here is the description from University of Virginia Press.
The Illusory Boundary
The Illusory Boundary
Environment and Technology in History
Edited by Martin Reuss and Stephen H. Cutcliffe
The view of nature and technology [...]
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Tim LeCain’s book chosen as “Outstanding Academic Title for 2009″
January 9th, 2010 · No Comments
Timothy LeCain’s new envirotech book, Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2009), has been chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2009″ by Choice, the review journal of the American Library Association. Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes [...]
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New book: Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet
September 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Tim LeCain’s book is out on Rutgers University Press!
MASS DESTRUCTION:
The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
Timothy J. LeCain
Mass Destruction is the fascinating story of Daniel Jackling, a Utah mining engineer who created the gigantic Bingham open-pit copper mine near Salt Lake City. One of [...]
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New book: Horses at Work
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
Ann Norton Greene
Harvard University Press, 2008
Historians have long assumed that new industrial machines and power sources eliminated work animals from nineteenth-century America, yet a bird’s-eye view of nineteenth-century society would show millions of horses supplying the energy necessary for industrial development. Horses were ubiquitous in cities and on [...]
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
November 9th, 2008 · No Comments
James Fleming encourages envirotech authors to contact him (jfleming@colby.edu) or Roger Launius (launiusr@si.edu) if they have manuscripts for Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology.
For more information, see the series description.
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New book: America’s Forested Wetlands
August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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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Welcome to the Envirotech Newsletter 2/2007!
November 27th, 2007 · No Comments
As you may have noticed, the Envirotech Newsletter does now have a new format: from now on, all news items will be posted on the web page as they are submitted to the new newsletter editor at news@envirotechweb.org. We will send out newsletters like this email twice a year to summarize all news posts.
If you [...]
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Sharing Waters: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes – A Special Issue of Québec Studies
November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Joy Parr shares this with us:
http://www.acqs.org/qc_studies_journal/table_of_contents.html
Québec Studies 42
Fall 2006/Winter 2007
Sharing Waters: St. Lawrence-Great Lakes
A special issue coordinated by Vincent Desroches and Sylvie Paquerot
Vincent Desroches and Sylvie Paquerot Sharing the Waters: The challenges of Understanding the Other
Madeleine Cantin-Cumyn Legal Status of Water in Quebec
Nicolas Milot and Laurent Lepage [...]
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