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Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything” to hit movie theaters

September 9, 2015
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By Katie Herzog in Grist (8 September 2015). The book This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein’s opus on how climate change could be our greatest opportunity to reinvent the world…

Navigation Device Lets You Feel Your Way Through A City

September 9, 2015
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By Claire Maldarelli in Popular Science (4 September 2015). The Animotus Device. Courtesy of Adam Spiers Navigating through a crowded city like New York or London can be a challenge, especially…

Parks Are Social

August 24, 2015
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In the Summer 2015 issue of Boom, Jon Christensen writes about his collaboration with Stamen Design to explore social media generated in California parks, open spaces, and natural areas.…

Environment & Society Portal opportunity for Ph.D. candidate

August 24, 2015
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This opening with the Environment & Society Portal may be of interest to doctoral candidates who are in Munich at least 3 days/week. Environment & Society Portal Research Associate (wissenschaftliche…

Google Street View Cars are Mapping City Air Pollution

August 14, 2015
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In Smithsonian Magazine, Heather Hansman reports on how Google, environmental monitoring startup Aclima, and the EPA have partnered to monitor air quality by adding sensors to Google's Street View cars:…

Biodiversity Heritage Library: The Arcadia Fund Awards Grant to Support The Field Book Project

August 8, 2015
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library blog reports great news in the field of the digitization of primary sources. The Smithsonian Libraries received a $511,200 grant from the Arcadia Fund for The Field…

CFP: TRACE 2.0 Ecoplay

August 4, 2015
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The second issue of TRACE, “Ecoplay: Digital Games and Environmental Rhetoric,” focuses on digital games and asks how play contributes to ecological thought. Building on M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline…

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Taming the Wild Social Media Animals: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger… Oh My!

August 1, 2015
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Maria Chiochios, Outreach Impact Strategy Intern at Biodiversity Heritage Library, discusses her experience at "evaluating BHL’s outreach strategy and impact" and how it helped her to "gain a deeper knowledge about the…

HUMlab gives perspective to Nature

August 1, 2015
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In an interview with Umeå University's HUMlab Blog Ant Spider Bee editor Finn Arne Jørgensen discusses how "digital technology plays a major role in how people perceive and interpret nature."…

A Twitter Bot That Generates Beautiful, Imaginary Moths

July 20, 2015
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Created by artists Loren Schmidt and Katie Rose Pipkin, @mothgenerator is a Twitter account that automatically produces images of make-believe moths, with the structures and colors of the insects’ bodies…

Eruptions, Earthquakes, & Emissions: Visualizing the Planet’s Heartbeat

Exit counselling for the Modern?

Ant meets ANT: A gathering on “media ecologies”

A THATCamp for environmental historians