Timothy J. LeCain’s Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet won the George Perkins Marsh Prize from the ASEH because it is gutsy, eloquently written and narrated, and carefully argued. It is a fine example of “envirotech” scholarship, a sub-field within environmental history [...]

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Envirotech invites submissions for the Envirotech Prize for Best Article on the Inter play between Technology and the Environment.  The Envirotech Prize recognizes the best article published in either a journal or article collection on the relationship between technology and the environment in history.  The prize committee is particularly seeking innovative publications that explore new [...]

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The January 2009 issue of the E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence has been posted.  As always, it is open access.  Simply click the following link:
The Sustainable Development Paradox
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv05n01.html
A series of articles on “dimensions of sustainable development” is being published.  The January 2009 issue shows the impossibility of integrating the social, economic, and political dimensions [...]

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International Congress of History of Science and Technology
Budapest, Hungary, July 28-August 2, 2009.
Conveners:
Cornelia Luedecke: C.Luedecke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
James R. Fleming: jfleming@colby.edu
The sky too belongs to the Landscape: —the ocean of air in which we live and move, with its continents and islands of cloud, its tides and currents of constant and variable winds… in which [...]

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A conference on the history of climate change is being held at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1-4 April 2009.  This conference, titled  “Climate and Cultural Anxiety: Historical Perspectives,” will be international in scope, interdisciplinary in nature, and intergenerational in its inclusion of both graduate and undergraduate students.  The meeting will be focused on a discussion [...]

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The winner of the 2008 Envirotech Prize for the best article examining the relationships between technology and the environment is Paul S. Sutter’s “Nature’s Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal.” (Isis, 2007, 98: 724-754.) Sutter offers a path breaking analysis of the interplay between [...]

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The ICOHTEC Prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 3,000 Euros. ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology studies focusing on the technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers [...]

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We have had very few submissions of news and other items lately. Please send me an email (or even better, register on the web site and post it yourself!) if you have anything relevant you want to share. This can be member updates, conference news and notes, new books, etc.

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The Envirotech web site contains a section called “Envirotech Resources”, which is mostly based on old discussions from the mailing list. We plan to collaboratively overhaul this section (with envirotech-relevant essays, links, multimedia, publications, syllabi, excursions, novels, archives, etc.) over the next few years. We plan to have one of these topics as the theme [...]

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The Hal Rothman Research Fellowship was created to recognize graduate student achievements in environmental history research in honor of Hal Rothman, recipient of ASEH’s Distinguished Service award in 2006 and editor of Environmental History for many years. The fellowship provides a single payment of $1,000 for PhD graduate student research and travel in the field [...]

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