So who wants to organize an energy history panel for World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu!?
#WCEH2024 #envhist #energyhist
#histodons fully prepped for #springsemester and with energy to burn (forgive the pun) consider joining the CHSTM Energy History Working Group this Friday, January 13 at 1:30 PM EST. We will hear from Ritam Sengupta and Matthew Shutzer on energy regimes in India. For papers + zoom link log in at https://www.chstm.org/content/energy-history #energyhist #envhist #electricity #empire #techhistory @envhist @brianleechphd
Energy History | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Headed to the #AHA tomorrow. #histodons join myself, @seow, Trish Kahle, Fredrik Albritton Johnson, and Liz Chatterjee bright and early (8:30 am Friday!) for a roundtable discussion of everything #energy, #envhist #ClimateHistory #laborhistory #energyhist #energytransition
My review of @seow's fantastic book, Carbon Technocracy is out today on H-Environment.
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58594 #envhist #envhum #energyhist
This is happening! Co-organized by the #ManagingScarcity group @FasosMaastricht, and colleagues at the @CarsonCenter. #CFP #envhist #oilhist #energyhist spread the word and send an abstract! https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_events/2022-news/cfa_black-and-green-workshop/index.html
Call For Papers: Black and Green? Towards an Environmental History of the Oil Industry - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

#histodons Join the Energy History Working Group of the Consortium for the History of Science, Tech, and Medicine this Friday, Dec 9, 1:30 PM EST. Jennifer Eaglin will discuss her paper, "My Kingdom for a Horse: Brazilian Nuclear Ambitions and Water Resources." Log in at https://www.chstm.org/content/energy-history to see paper + zoom link. #envhist #energyhist
Energy History | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

A Yale senior whom I taught last Spring published an essay in #edgeeffects today based on a paper she developed in our class. Check it out! https://edgeeffects.net/electrified-farming-poultry/

"Electricity reshaped the poultry industry over the 20th century. Zoe Robertson asks what the costs of this transformation were for birds and inter-species relations.."

#envhist #animalhist #histtech #energyhist #animalwelfare #histodons

How Electrified Farming Transformed Poultry Production in the U.S.

Electricity reshaped the chicken and turkey farming over the 20th century. What are the costs for birds and inter-species relations?

Edge Effects
Pleased to see my NiCHE post from 2020 read more than 230 times this week!
The Mirage of Industrial Agriculture: Fossil Fuels, Groundwater Irrigation, and Feedlots on the High Plains.
https://niche-canada.org/2020/10/27/the-mirage-of-industrial-agriculture-fossil-fuels-groundwater-irrigation-and-feedlots-on-the-high-plains/
The post is based on my Agricultural History article, "“The Single Most Important Factor”: Fossil Fuel Energy, Groundwater, and Irrigation on the High Plains, 1955–1985."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3098/ah.2020.094.4.629#metadata_info_tab_contents
#envhist #energyhist #aghist
The Mirage of Industrial Agriculture: Fossil Fuels, Groundwater Irrigation, and Feedlots on the High Plains

This post is cross-listed with the Agricultural History Society and is based on the author’s recently published article in Agricultural History entitled “‘The Single Most Important Factor’: Fossil Fuel Energy, Groundwater, and Irrigation on the High Plains, 1955–1985.” The article is free to downloa

NiCHE
@seow I’m reading it right now and it’s excellent so far! Good stuff for #histstm #histtech #envhist & #energyhist #histodons
These two cool kids want you to know that...
(1931) #energyhist #aghist #envhist