Environmental Movement History

I’ve been a bit quiet on here, though I am feeling the urge to start posting again.  I’m excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University in the fall.  I’ll be finishing up the dissertation and defending this summer, along with moving out to Pennsylvania.  And I have a trip to Japan lined up and will be starting to look at some green building trends in that country.

But for now, I’ve been working on some parts of my dissertation focused on the history of the environmental movement and I thought I’d post up a few links of really neat sites I’m finding about the history of the environmental movement.

There are a few timelines that have been really informative.  The Environmental History Timeline is a great resource with detailed listings for every decade and a fantastic list at the end of each year of the notable books which came out.  Highly reccomended.  The project is by William Kovarik.  Another more parsimonious but still useful timeline comes from EcoTopia and is the Environmental Movement Timeline.  It’s nice because it links to additional explainations (though sometimes those are a little bit lacking).

There are some really beautiful historical photos from the Library of Congress American Environmental Photographs collections.  To the left is a picture of Alberta Falls in Colorado.

I also found a Love Canal Archive at the University of Buffalo which has some neat looking archives including newspapers, photos and more.

Picture credits: American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP-COS10] Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.