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

Joined March 2018
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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! enviro-history.com/
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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. enviro-history.com/heston
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4/ The new website also includes an interactive timeline of the #EPA. Explore here: apeoplesepa.org/home/interac…. #APeoplesEPA #EPAat50 👀 And follow @ApeoplesepaA for announcements as more resources are added to the website!

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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: apeoplesepa.org/home/intervi…

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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: bit.ly/3oIQPnc

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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: apeoplesepa.org/ #APeoplesEPA #EPAat50

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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
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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 enviro-history.com/planet-ro…
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Including essays by @StephenMacekura @JM_Thompson @LeifFredrickson @KDPluymers @JonathanDCohen1 @jdhamblin @UntilDarwin @jarekpaulervin
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Fantastic reading for Earth Day! #envhist #envhum
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." enviro-history.com/heston
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Check out this amazing digital humanities project on the history of lead and environmental inequality in Omaha by Adam Sundberg and Creighton students! #envhist steppingintothemap.com/inequ…

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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! niche-canada.org/2020/01/14/…
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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:
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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
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"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
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