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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 5d

"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...

Iran's Water Crisis Is Its Greatest Threat

The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · 8d

An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · 12d

I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 12d

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

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#envhist #archives

Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories

Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 13d

Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social

This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social

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#envhum

History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games

Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.

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Environmental History Now @envhistnow.bsky.social · 21d

Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Sep 3

Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.

Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Aug 22

Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.

New Guidelines for Partnering with NiCHE

The SSHRC Insight Grant deadline is October 1st. Consider partnering with NiCHE on your application to enhance your knowledge mobilization.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Aug 27

Call for Proposals – Cross-Pollinations

2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC)

16-20 June, University of Alberta
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025

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Call for Proposals / Appel à propositions - Cross-Pollinations

We invite proposals for scholarly, creative-critical, and creative presentations or panels that examine or employ “cross-pollination."

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Aug 25

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Aug 22

Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.

New Guidelines for Partnering with NiCHE

The SSHRC Insight Grant deadline is October 1st. Consider partnering with NiCHE on your application to enhance your knowledge mobilization.

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Aug 20

Exciting event planned for next June!

NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Aug 20

Call for Papers – (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment

@deindustrialpol.bsky.social Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 18-20 2026
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025

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#envhist #envhum #deindustrialization

Call for Papers - (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment

The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Aug 18

"In 1919, more than 6,500 Drumheller coal miners went on strike under the banner of the One Big Union to fight for better working and living conditions, and higher wages." - @daveberta.bsky.social

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#labour #mininghistory #envhist #cdnhist

The Truth, the Coal Truth and nothing but the Truth

By Dave Cournoyer Crossposted with Permission from Dave Cournoyer The Government of Alberta Trade Branch once operated a COAL TRUTH OFFICE in Winnipeg in an apparent effort to market the sa...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today on our site Cheryl Troupe introduces us to her new book, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community ( @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025)

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#envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist

New Book - Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community

Putting Down Roots explores Métis women’s land-based labour and resilience in Qu’Appelle road allowance communities amid colonial displacement.

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Bartley Kives @bkives.bsky.social · Aug 7

As of today, 3% of Manitoba’s land mass has burned this fire season.

The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres.

That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.

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Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social · Aug 1

Trying to compile a playlist of songs relating to post-1885 #CdnHist but finding it hard to find actual good ones. Any suggestions? It’s gotta be more than the Hip, right? Here’s what I have so far open.spotify.com/playlist/2dU...

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Playlist · Jezza · 42 items

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Jul 30

Tina, you are so kind and such a powerful example of how to cultivate supportive scholarly communities. I feel really fortunate to be in the environmental history mix with you!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you want a space to write about changes to structures supporting climate change action in the US, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis.

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#uspoli

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduces our Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series.

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#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis

Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis

This series explores how humour helps environmental historians engage climate crisis narratives, bridging human-nonhuman relations and resisting despair.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jul 22

Call for Submissions – Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools

Edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: August 25, 2025
Series Publication: Fall 2025

Please spread the word!

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#envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

Call for Submissions - Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools

Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Jul 17

Maybe social history is a particularly viable way for environmental historians to communicate with scholars outside our specific sub-discipline?

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Jul 17

Such interesting thoughts, Tina! I note there were no PiCHE publications in your original list -- maybe one factor here is that authors were often trying to fit their work to journals with a Canadian focus but not necessarily an environmental history focus?

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · Jul 17

#envhist and economic history is such an important intersection!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jul 14

We are providing space for writing about these kind of impacts to public lands in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series. Rolling submission deadline.

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#uspoli #envhist #publiclands

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Jul 8

Today we have "Visiting Julienne The’dahcha: A Reflection on Memory, Land, and Dinjii Zhuh Knowledge" by Crystal Gail Fraser

This is the seventh post in a series on the fiftieth anniversary of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, edited by Mark Stoller.

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#envhist

Visiting Julienne The’dahcha: A Reflection on Memory, Land, and Dinjii Zhuh Knowledge

Julienne’s pipeline testimony affirms Gwich’in sovereignty, ecological knowledge, and love for Land—echoing across generations through memory, kinship, resistance.

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you are one of these PostDocs and you want to write about your experience, we're providing space at @nichecanada.bsky.social for in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

#science #noaa

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