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The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s
“We Want Pictures so Kodak as You Go”: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s
Tag Archives: Environment
EHTV: Live from the Field
In April NiCHE started a new project to share with the world what Canadian Environmental Historians do. A number of Flip cameras were purchased, branded with NiCHE skins, and distributed to willing historians to take with them as they research … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, NiCHE, Public History, Shameless Promotion
Tagged Canada, Documentary, EHTV, Environment, Graduate Students, NiCHE, public history, video podcast
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Archival Inspiration: “Dirty Pictures”
Over the past week I have spent a number of days at the Provincial Archives of Alberta researching in the STOP (Save Tomorrow Oppose Pollution) collection. Specifically, the set of files on the annual “Dirty Pictures Contest” that have caught … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, Research
Tagged Activism, Archives, Canada, Edmonton, Environment, Environmentalism, Pollution, Research, STOP, University of Alberta
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Reflection on Sustainability: Cronon’s 2011 ASEH Plenary Address
Sustainability is the buzz word of the early twenty-first century. The Green Party of Canada runs their entire campaign based on the tenant of living and governing in a more environmentally sustainable way – but since they were barred from … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opinion
Tagged ASEH, Cronon, Environment, plenary address, Reflection, sustainability
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ASEH Phoenix: Days 2 and 3
The internet in my hotel room was very temperamental and instead of staying in the air conditioning longer than necessary the Canadian contingent went out and basked in temperatures well above freezing late into the night. As a result the … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, NiCHE, Research
Tagged ASEH, Environment, Historiography, mountains, NiCHE
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Suzuki, The Nature of Things, and Public Science
Today is a double birthday in Canadian public science; Dr. David Suzuki turns 75 and the CBC program “The Nature of Things” turns 50. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Research
Tagged David Suzuki, dissertation, Environment, Reflection, science, The Nature of Things
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Public Environmental History
How do we go about making environmental history more public? This is a difficult task and I think it requires a shift in thinking about the field. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, Public History
Tagged Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, NiCHE, public history, Reflection, World
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Micro Environmental History – Weather and Missing Mountain Tops
Weather related travel seem to be dominating the news this holiday season. Before snow paralyzed air travel in Europe and Britain, it trapped people in their cars in southern Ontario while rains and storm surges were flooding rural New Brunswick. … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment
Tagged Canmore, climate change, Environment, Mines, mountains, weather, wilderness
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We are here.
Thirty-eight years ago today the crew of Apollo 17 took a photograph from space that would become known as “The Blue Marble.” Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opinion, Research
Tagged dissertation, earth, Environment, Opinion, photography, Reflection, sublime, World
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The Canmore-Provincial Parks Conundrum
The province of Alberta is looking to changing how provincial parks are regulated. Nowhere will these changes have a greater affect than Canmore. CPAWS, the Sierra Club, and other conservation interest groups have taken up lamenting how these changes will … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged Canmore, conservation, Environment, Mines, mountains, parks, public history, Reflection, wilderness
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Lauren Wheeler, Can Enviro Rock? 