In today’s blog, originally a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History 28.3 (August 2022), Tanja Riekkinen investigates petroculture as a ‘socio-technical imaginary’, proposing that ‘exploring the history of sociotechnical imaginaries related to energy’ – specifically positive advertisements for oil’s place in a bright future – ‘may provide novel perspectives for understanding current envisionings and practices of … More ENVISAGING ENERGY FUTURES: PAST AND PRESENT

In this blog, Matt Harvey offers a taster of his recently published article in Environmental Values (online first, August 2022), The Sublime and the Pale Blue Dot: Reclaiming the Cosmos for Earthly Nature, advocating ‘engagement with the sublime Cosmos, as an earth-centred aesthetic experience that reminds us of and finds joy in our inalienable attachments … More The Sublime and the Pale Blue Dot

In this blog, which first appeared as ‘Notes from the ICEHouse’, the ICEHO pages, in Global Environment 15.2 (June 2022), Claire Campbell of Bucknell University considers how we can ‘acknowledge the enormous gravity of the climate crisis that our children have been born to, but not define their lives by it’. My son wants to … More TIGERS, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS AND UNCERTAINTY.

In today’s blog, Atte Arffman introduces a new article in Environment and History (online first, August 2022), co-written by him and Antero Holmila, entitled  ‘Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation’ and proffering an ‘unusual angle’ on hurricane studies. Atte realised today the coincidence that Camille made its landfall on … More Hiding in plain sight – environment in history

In this blog, Monica Vasile discusses the problematic, complicated and ambivalent ‘success story’ of the reintroduction of European bison in Romania – the subject of her new, Open Access, article in Environment and History: From Reintroduction to Rewilding: Autonomy, Agency and the Messy Liberation of the European Bison Amidst the gloom of environmental news, updates … More The Messy Liberation of the European Bison

In keeping with the fantastic efforts made by theLocal Organising Committee to make ESEH Bristol a genuinely hybrid event, our second prize winner in the poster competition was Samuel Klee’s rather terrifying presentation on murder hornets. The judges admired the striking design and also the way it embraced the online format with its use of … More ESEH / White Horse Press Poster Prize – Runner-up

WHP is delighted to sponsor the ESEH poster prize and, in Bristol earlier this month, first place was awarded to Anne Jorunn Frøyen. The jury was struck by the poster’s graphic impact and balance of simplicity and informativeness. From across the room, this poster had a ‘wow’ factor. Anne definitely deserved her €100 prize (and … More Winner of the ESEH / White Horse Press Poster Prize

In today’s blog, David Samways, editor of The Journal of Population and Sustainability (Open Access) introduces his new article in Environmental Values. My current article in Environmental Values (online first, 2022), ‘Anthropocentrism, Ecocentrism and Hunter-Gatherer Societies: A Strong Structurationist Approach to Values and Environmental Change’ takes a hard look at the relationship between orientation toward nature and … More Strong structuration, ecologically enlightened anthropocentrism, population and welfare

Yesterday we published the Open Access essay collection, Pathways, edited by Daniel Svensson, Katarina Saltzman and Sverker Sörlin. Wed feel very honoured that Tim Ingold agreed to write a Foreword for the volume and here we shamelessly recycle it. When I began my career as a university teacher, I considered myself ahead of the curve. … More Foreword to Pathways, by Tim Ingold

In this blog, Timothy Cooper, whose article on the Sea Empress oil spill, ‘A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience’: Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive, was recently published Online-first in Environment and History interviews Abigail Sidebotham, creator of the project that inspired the article. [TC] The Sea Empress oil spill took place just … More A conversation with Abigail Sidebotham, artist, oral historian and project lead on the Sea Empress Project