Speak4Nature
@speak4nature.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice 🌿🌎 Promoting inter-species, inter-human and inter-generational equality ⬇️Learn about our project! 🔗 https://www.speak4nature.eu Funded by the European Union
Very happy to see another article out in the world! Part of a special issue edited by the wonderful @sabinehanke.bsky.social & Anne Sophie Overkamp, from a fantastic (and very hot) workshop we had in Tübingen back in 2024 #envhist #envhum #histsci Available open access: doi.org/10.1002/bewi...
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Center for Progressive Reform@progressivereform.bsky.social · last wk.What can environmental law teach us about the world it was built to protect? In the second post of our blog series, Member Scholar Carmen Gonzalez of Loyola Law, Chicago, explains why Teaching Environmental Law in Context was written. 👉Read the story: progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/why...
My review of Frank Uekötter's book 'The Vortex. An Environmenal History of the Modern World' is now available in 𝐼𝑠𝑖𝑠. 𝐴 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 (only accessible with a subscription): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histsci #envhist
Frank Uekötter. The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World. 848 pp., illus., notes, index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023 (open access); ISBN 9780822989806. Cloth avail...
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I recently wrote a couple of articles on the history of forest fires and fire prevention in MN, one an overview and one more in-depth. #envhist #MinnesotaHistory #Wildfire @mprnews.org @minnpost.bsky.social Links to the articles: niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/sea...
MPR News@mprnews.org · 4w agoThere was a new fire detected over the weekend — the lightning-caused Finstad Fire, burning near Finstad Lake near Buyck. It was last reported to be just a tenth of an acre; crews were dropping water on the fire to try to keep it from spreading.
In the beginning of September, we are organizing the Winter School "Ecological Justice in Action" in Santa Fe, Argentina! Those who wish to participate should register here: www.unl.edu.ar/noticias/new...
Companion read - "The Past, Present and Future of Forest Fires" by @haydenlnelson.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... @nichecanada.bsky.social #envhist #wildfires
The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires
Upfront costs–in research, in personnel, and in deployment–are essential for fire prevention. Yet today, as in the early twentieth century, the federal government, despite possessing knowledge indicat...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4w agoCARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
Upcoming online seminar in Spanish: “El desierto lacustre, historia hidropolítica de la desecación del Valle de México” on 25 August, 5pm (central Mexican time). www.youtube.com/watch?v=utO8... #envhist
“El desierto lacustre, historia hidropolítica de la desecación del Valle de México”
YouTube video by El Colegio de México A.C.
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Excited to share my latest research article, published in Germinate: Environmental History Review @g-ehr.bsky.social , an open-access, digital publication of the @aseh.bsky.social . Read the full piece here: doi.org/10.65131/GPS... #envhist #rachelcarson #silentspring #spain #francoistspain
How can protected areas conserve wildlife while also safeguarding people’s livelihoods? Read this new article by the Rachel Carson Center's Mengxi Kou and colleagues to learn more. #envhum
“Current Patterns and Mitigation Strategies of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Chinese Protected Areas”
Article by Rachel Carson Center alumna Mengxi Kou and colleagues on how protected areas can conserve wildlife while also safeguarding people’s livelihoods.
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"We don’t think of wild animals like grizzly bears as having a history, but they do, and not just collectively and evolutionarily, but as individuals." - @lootina.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2018/01/10/t... #envhist #animalhistory #bears #animalstudies
The Bow Valley and 'People' Without a History
Multispecies ethnographies offer a way to approach the world from a "more-than-human" angle.
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If you're in Munich on 27 July, don't miss this talk hosted by our consortium member the Rachel Carson Center!
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · last mo.On Monday, 27 July, Rimona Afana will give a talk on “Animal Captivity: The Matrix of Extraction, Torture, Murder.” The event will be chaired by Almuni Fellow John Barry. More info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #envhum #envhist #animals #rights @rimona-afana.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the release of a special issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, titled “Imagining Environmental Futures.” Read the issue for free at springs-rcc.org. #envhum #envhist #publications #RCCSprings #specialissue #future
Tomorrow, 16 July, our @speak4nature.bsky.social fellows at the RCC will present on research conducted in Europe and Latin America exploring different dimensions of socioecological justice. Join us in person or on Zoom! The event will be conducted in Spanish. More info here: tinyurl.com/396a6muj
This Friday! Join us wherever you are.
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis Friday we are organizing a Speak4Nature webinar together with the National University of the Littoral, Argentina, and the Loisachbündnis. You are all welcome to join! Link: unl-edu-ar.zoom.us/launch/jc/81... ID de reunión: 810 6535 6994 Código de acceso: 962675 #EnvHum #EnvJust
Ya está disponible la nueva voz del Diccionario Speak4Nature: “Naturaleza”, escrita por Antonio Gómez Ramos, investigador de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
New Speak4Nature seminar at the Rachel Carson Center! Join to listen to five of our Speak4Nature fellows. Note that this event will be in Spanish, the title notwithstanding. Join us at the Rachel Carson Center or online: unl-edu-ar.zoom.us/j/85798128769 Zoom ID: 857 9812 8769 #envhum #envjust
¡Nuevo S4N Seminar Series de la mano de Valeria Berros (UNL) y de Virginia Gazzo (UNL)! Ambas se encuentran durante el mes de junio realizando su estancia de Speak4Nature; Valeria Berros en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Virginia Gazzo en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
June is here! ☀️ The @greenhouseuis.net is closing the academic year 2025/2026 with social events, visits from researcher from Leeds and France, and @asterhoving.bsky.social 's public defence! #envhum
Register now for next week’s “Good Food, True Costs” workshop, which explores the costs of dietary decisions on human and environmental health. More info: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #envhum #envhist #food #workshop #planetaryhealth
New academic zine workshop! Are you tired of the traditional forms of publication? Learn about how to (and why you should) make your own publications in our free workshop. Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/how-to-mak... #envhist #envhum
📢 Nueva sesión del seminario Técnicas, vida digna y crisis ecosocial 🗓 28 de mayo de 2026 | 17:00–19:00 📍 Aula 17.2.47, Campus de Getafe (UC3M) + online Paulina Isabel Silva Rubio & Jorge Martínez Crespo 🗣 ¿Qué políticas necesitamos para avanzar hacia nuevas técnicas?
Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist
Villanova Environmental Law Journal is now open and accepting submissions on Scholastica! Submit your article here: https://villanovaelj.scholasticahq.com/for-authors #LRSubmissions
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Alcoa’s strip-mining of WA’s jarrah forest is under further investigation for its “deliberate repeat breach” of environmental laws that destroyed habitat for protected species – including black cockatoos, quokkas and numbats – & cost it $40m to avoid prosecution.
US miner under further investigation after destroying WA habitat of black cockatoos, quokkas and numbats
Pressure grows on Alcoa over strip-mining of Western Australian jarrah forest, which also threatens Perth’s water supply
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New Speak4Nature publication by our colleagues at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil! #envhum #envjust #rightsofnature
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn 2021, a disaster in Florianópolis, Brazil, prompted a lawsuit that might have far-reaching effects on environmental law. Read this new Arcadia article by José Rubens Morato Leite, Isabel Pinheiro de Paula Couto, Iasna Chaves Viana, and Marcos José de Abreu to learn more. #envhist #speak4nature
