Enviro-History

ENVIRO-HISTORY explores the environment and history through maps, visualizations, essays, music, art and other media. By @leiffredrickson

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

Excited to introduce this new website devoted to public-facing and educational approaches to the history of the environment and nature! Please have a look, follow us here or check back for new content -- and send us any feedback! https://t.co/hB2Cw2D1n6

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

Richard Branson is in space -- a good time to revisit this song and great essay by @JM_Thompson
https://t.co/07xQtsTx7D

[Justin McBrien @justinmcbrien]

For your #EarthDay reading, my article in @envhistcom on Charlton Heston's apocalypse trilogy & the rise of eco-fascist catastrophism. There may be the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, but there is also the possibility of capital in life's ruins. https://t.co/CFj7ZX2apR

[Environmental Politics @Env_Pol]

Fascinating forgotten history, dug up by @envhistcom - turns out Tom Lehrer wasn't the first person to write a Pollution song...

https://t.co/ODc5APC17Y

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

4/ The new website also includes an interactive timeline of the #EPA. Explore here: https://t.co/bXR91DXs81. #APeoplesEPA #EPAat50

👀 And follow @ApeoplesepaA for announcements as more resources are added to the website!

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

3/ For years, EDGI has collected oral histories with past & present EPA staff who tell the story of the agency under Trump. @ApeoplesepaA makes these publicly available. We’ve posted a few to start & will roll out more in coming months. Check them out: https://t.co/LkUgnSwV1B

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

2/ Since Dec 1970, the EPA has been charged w/ implementing laws regulating air pollution, dirty water, & hazardous waste. @ApeoplesepaA compiles resources from EDGI, @EEW_Network, @UCSUSA, @EnvProtectioNet, @ToxicDocs to understand @EPA. Press release: https://t.co/zzlImuzFhM

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

1/ 📣📣📣Today, EDGI launches A People’s EPA! This new collaborative digital project tells the complex history of the #EPA—both under Trump and before—to help illuminate a path forward under Biden and beyond. Check out @ApeoplesepaA: https://t.co/nNaygf3Qk0 #APeoplesEPA #EPAat50

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

Time is running out on bullshit changes/
Running out like a brush fire in a dry forest/
Like a murderer from a scene of the crime/
Like a little roach from DDT
- Abiodun Oyewole

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

Including essays by @StephenMacekura @JM_Thompson @LeifFredrickson @KDPluymers @JonathanDCohen1 @jdhamblin @UntilDarwin @jarekpaulervin

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

It's standard on Earth Day for media outlets to publish lists of environmental songs. These include great standards, such as John Prine's "Paradise"(RIP). But if you're looking to dig deeper check out this list and the accompanying essays. #envhist #envhum https://t.co/mTpCLDm7Tp

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

For Earth Day, check out this amazing play, "Black Survival," from @robgioielli that helps us understand why mainstream environmentalism was so white. #envhist #envhum #earthday https://t.co/SF4vjyXbyL

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

Fantastic reading for Earth Day! #envhist #envhum

[Justin McBrien @justinmcbrien]

For Earth Day reading, my article for @envhistcom
on Malthusian Environmentalism & Charlton Heston's Eco-Apocalyptic film trilogy. "There may be the possibility of life in capital's ruins, but there is also the possibility of capital in life's ruins." https://t.co/CFj7ZX2apR

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

One of the classic films on pandemics is Omega Man, starring disaster-actor Charlton Heston. Check out @justinmcbrien's fantastic piece on Omega Man and other Heston films like Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes. #envhist #medhist #covid https://t.co/d8iEiXCCiA

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

@AustinMcCoy3 And environment related? 😉

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

Check out this amazing digital humanities project on the history of lead and environmental inequality in Omaha by Adam Sundberg and Creighton students! #envhist
https://t.co/a1Li6Vy4eR

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

ICYMI -- "Visual images that tell stories from indigenous perspectives can offer more holistic understandings of the world and ask us to reconsider how we comprehend historical contexts and power structures" - @CherylJoyFish on #artivism #envhum
https://t.co/jIS412VyAE

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

@Kenny_Linden @amboseliacacia The English sometimes refer to all grains as "corn," -- see the "Corn Laws" of the 1800s. https://t.co/9XQx8Tf0mh

[Dr. Jessica DeWitt @JessicaMDeWitt]

Abstracts are trickling in for Succession: Queering the Environment! A @NiCHE_Canada series to be published in June! #envhist

I'd love to see one from you in my inbox! Just submit a 100-300 word abstract and short bio by the end of Saturday, Feb 15th!

https://t.co/bu7PBNFyLK

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

"Krause often ends his talks by reminding us that soundscapes give us a means to experience nature that is more than just visual observation, and one that is vital to our efforts to preserve biodiversity and natural physical and acoustic spaces." - @UntilDarwin

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

These two new essays by @KDPluymers and @UntilDarwin are about very different musicians -- Bernie Krause and teh Handsome Family -- but they also have some remarkable similar themes relating to the wild, #wilderness, history, and the #Anthropocene. Here are some quotes:

[Enviro-History @envhistcom]

And both call upon us to *listen* more.

"Rather than getting past the trouble with wilderness, we need to learn to stay with it. To do so will require many things but one may be to listen for the bells that ring out from the earth." - @KDPluymers