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Back to SearchRobert Sroufe et al, "The Power of Existing Buildings" (Island Press, 2019)
Episode 50
Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the ca…
6 years ago
Christian Wright, "Carbon County, USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West" (U Utah Press, 2020)
Episode 49
During the early 1970s, a movement of rank-and-file coal miners rose up in Appalachia to challenge mine bosses and stodgy union officials. They sough…
6 years, 1 month ago
Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 49
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosp…
6 years, 1 month ago
Chris Courtney, "The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 318
For somewhat unfortunate reasons, many more people in the world now know about the existence and location of a city called Wuhan than was the case at…
6 years, 1 month ago
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Episode 193
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. …
6 years, 1 month ago
A. B. Chastain and T. W. Lorek, "Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Episode 75
Emerging out of a 2016 conference, Andra Chastain and Timothy Lorek have brought together Environmental History, Latin American Studies, and Science …
6 years, 1 month ago
Jacob Blanc, "Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil" (Duke UP, 2019)
Episode 74
Jacob Blanc’s Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil (Duke University Press, 2019) tells the story of the the Itaipu dam…
6 years, 1 month ago
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren, "Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 48
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren's book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, usi…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jodi Hilty, "Corridor Ecology: Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation" (Island Press, 2019)
Episode 248
In Corridor Ecology: Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation, 2nd Edition (Island Press, 2019), Dr. Jodi Hilty and he…
6 years, 1 month ago
Wenfei Tong, "Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 247
Wenfei Tong's Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds (Princeton University Press, 2020) looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian …
6 years, 1 month ago