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EHTV: Live from the Field
In April NiCHE started a new project to share with the world what Canadian Environmental Historians do. A number of Flip cameras were purchased, branded with NiCHE skins, and distributed to willing...
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Busy Summer
Summer is off to a busy start so post here have been few and far between – didn’t even get something up about CHESS 2011, St.Andrews edition! Will strive to do better from a writing workshop on Hornby...
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A Circulpolar Interlude
There is a hidden gem for environmental history at the University of Alberta. It is called Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). The CCI is an interdisciplinary institute with a mandate to promote and...
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Stop the Great Rabbit Invasion of Canmore
It finally happened. The little problem Canmore, Alberta has been having with feral rabbits for the past two decades hit the national news last night. I did a short information piece in the summer on...
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Canada vs. Iceland: The National Park Edition
Canada celebrates nature. It celebrates nature as ‘wilderness’ that much attacked idea that for nature to matter it cannot be touched by human hands. This is the legacy of the human history of Canada...
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Archives and the Digital World
The University of Alberta has a digital archive called ERA (Education and Research Archive) where any one working at the university can deposit electronic records. The items deposited include drafts of...
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Environment vs. Economy: The Perpetual Alberta Conundrum
The Gateway Pipelines public hearings have landed in Edmonton and the proceedings will probably get less press than the hearings with Aboriginal communities in British Columbia. Most communities along...
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FOUND! The Gateway Sept 1970-March 1971
Found the missing year! The helpful people at the University of Alberta Archives and in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library tracked down The Gateway run for the 1970/1971 academic year. The...
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Pollution and the Tar Sands: The Same Old Story.
All weekend in Alberta the news covered the provincial and federal Environment Ministers toured new pollution monitoring stations in the Oil/Tar Sands. It reminded me of the consistent sense of deja...
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Reviving a Canadian Hero
*This was written for Active History and can also be found on the Sam Steele Collection site. Portrait, Samuel Benfield Steele, 1891. Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta...
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The “Trouble” with Wi-Fi Hotspots in National Parks
On Tuesday April 29, 2014 Parks Canada announced it will install Wi-Fi hotspots in National Parks. The response from Canadians is divided; some welcome the ability to access the internet in remote...
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