The Toll 🧵
The mind reels at the losses. A few are highlighted.

One billion board feet of timber has been lost, estimated at $100 million—one thousand times more than what was destroyed at Lassen Peak in May 1915.

Fantastic presentation of Melting Metropolis by Chris Pearson (@LivUni) at Project House Europe/Rachel Carson Center in Munich today! Great to learn about histories of heat in the modern city & questions related to technology, resilience, international orgs, pollution, refuges, gardens & more ☀️

1915 Sunset ttlastspring.com #tt1915

It's me, sliding into the line-up of cool wetland writers! If you want the main historiographical bullets of my MA thesis, here they are 🦟

Our member Gab McLaren ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Love that these beauties are tucked away just a few metres from a 4 lane highway

Midnight in Bodø 🌄

In Noema Magazine I reflect on how herbicide use has skyrocketed in the years since Rachel Carson’s brilliant essay. Biocides = oil that is repurposed to destroy living beings: noemamag.com/the-war-on-wee…

New book excerpt! Read from Rick Van Noy's 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳: 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 on the Environment & Society Portal. Courtesy of Cornell University Press. #envhum #envhist

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1916 Spring Sunset Algonquin Park #tt1916

UBC Library has been awarded a Toshiba International Foundation grant to support the conservation and digitization of select Premodern Japanese materials in UBC Asian Library’s collections. bit.ly/3yA8R5o

Exciting News: the full programme for our 5-6 June workshop and symposium, 'Energy Transitions: Culture, Pedagogy, Degrowth', coorganised by Dr Treasa De Loughry Caleb O’Connor Sharae Deckard is now live and open for registration. Events are hybrid and free. Register:
tinyurl.com/44dh2jxp

Opportunity in Toronto, ON - Club Archivist, Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club, Toronto, ON - Deadline - June 30, 2024 ACA
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Bittersweet discovery at St James Church, Poole, where the pillars are made from Newfoundland pine. A pine that was strip-mined to practical extinction by the turn of the 20th century, as explored in this article in The Independent theindependent.ca/commentary/in-…

Views from the devastated area by USGS scientists from May 28, 1980. No sound.

Another record of the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of Treaty 6 is the programme for the event itself ((S)X 16). The programme includes the members of the Indian Diamond Jubilee Association and the lines for a pageant detailing the history of Treaty 6 territory.

1915 Stormy Sky #tt1915

#WaybackWednesday This is a view of Avon, ca. 1975. From the Hugh Sims fonds. A more recent view can be seen here: bit.ly/3yx0BTJ.

REMINDER:

Gender & Climate Justice
Deadline: 1 July 2024

Special Issue – Atlantis Journal: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice
Issue Editors: Sritama Chatterjee and Lori Lee Oates

niche-canada.org/2023/12/04/cal…

#genderstudies #climatejustice #climatechange

'Tropical Disease in Untropical Places: Thinking of Malaria in Canada' by gab taillefer mclaren 🎃 is the ninth post in our Wetland Wednesday series!

niche-canada.org/2024/05/29/tro…

#envhist #histmed #cdnhist