Category: Environmental Studies

June 29, 2010

James Rodger Fleming on Fixing the Sky

In today’s New York Times, Cornelia Dean has a round-up of books on “geoengineering,” an idea gaining traction in the scientific community. With the effects of global warming becoming more pronounced each day, scientists argue that geonengineering (the application of...

May 24, 2010

Is is too big to fail? Andrew Lakoff on our energy production system

In a piece for the Huffington Post, Andrew Lakoff, editor of the just published Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, examines what if anything can be learned from the debate over financial reform as attention turns to the regulatory reforms...

December 9, 2009

Steven Cohen on weatherizing New York City

“In the end, all the forward-looking policies articulated in Washington and in Copenhagen will have meaning only when a landlord in New York City decides to sign up a contractor this summer to weatherize his pre-World War II apartment building.”—...

October 21, 2009

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October 8, 2009

The Oldest Tree in New York City

Not surprisingly, when the New York Times City Room blog wanted to find out what the oldest tree is in New York City they asked Edward S. Barnard author of New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan...

September 4, 2009

Mother Nature Network reviews Climate Change, by Edmond Mathez

Titled “A (much needed) climate change bible,” the Mother Nature Network’s review of Edmond Mathez’s Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, extols the virtues of the book for both general readers and students. The reviewer...

September 1, 2009

On Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry’s The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century is now available. The excitement and interest about a new work from Berry is of course tempered by the sadness of his death earlier this summer. Mary...

April 22, 2009

Earth Day Selection: Climate Change by Edmond Mathez

Leave it to George Will to not let us forget why Earth Day is still necessary. As the conservative columnist continues to dig himself a deeper hole by attacking global warming science, we are reminded why it so important that...

September 11, 2008

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July 30, 2008

The Man Behind "A Civil Action"

The August issue of Discover magazine features a profile and interview with Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. The interview tells how Phil Brown’s work as a sociologist in the field of public...

July 22, 2008

"In Praise of Localism": From American Pests

Following up on yesterday’s post about James McWilliams’s American Pests: Losing the War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, here is an excerpt from the book that was posted on Celsias, which was recently named one of the top...

July 21, 2008

Catch Jimmy McWilliams in Person Discussing the History of American Attempts to Kill Pests

It’s that time of year again, with the hot weather driving us all outdoors, Americans are encountering insects in their backyards, at the local park, and splattered on the windshield of their cars. In his new book, American Pests: The...