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Jamie L. Jones

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Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/ren…

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can't wait to host @nathankhensley.bsky.social here at UIUC next week! Come through Champaign-Urbana-ites: next Wednesday 9/23 4pm in Levis 210!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 08/05/2026
More than 20,000 seafarers are stranded on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. "The seafarers, men and women, have not provoked this war, are not a part of it, and cannot stop it," says Mohamed Arrachedi of the International Transport Workers' Federation.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
pleased to be included in this very handsome collection. thanks to @andyoler.bsky.social
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
grateful that Sarah Mesle articulated this, in this precise way. Beef & fucking prunes. (from Reasons & Feelings, 2025)
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org
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Homepage - National Network of Abortion Funds
Our network of nearly 100 abortion funds builds power for abortion access. Find a fund, get support, donate, and join campaigns with NNAF.
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Today I learned that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was reviewed in AHR by @calebwellum.bsky.social. I'm grateful to Caleb for the sharp, generous review, and for all the work he's been doing in energy humanities. Link to review below, or DM me for a PDF! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 29/11/2025
December 2025 in the Greenhouse! We are winding down for the year with some exciting #envhist #envhum events.
Poster with overview of activities in the Greenhouse in December 2025.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Energy Humanities and American History”
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory
Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd
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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
One month until publication for _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. Tom Rogers and I lay out the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs and explain why they matter for energy, climate, and politics. Pre-orders available now! www.oupress.com/978080619601...
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Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press
Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us: "Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat." muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Project MUSE - Almost Heaven: West Virginia University and the Transcendental Grifter
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“We have chosen a life of humanistic study, because we believe it will bind us more closely to you, to those who have preceded us, to those who will follow, and to the lands that we rely on.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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An Open Letter to Our Students: Universities Do Not Deserve You
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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Here's what I'm up to these days. SO EXCITED to write this book and talk about how the history of positive thinking in wellness impacts us all. Grateful for my agent @babedylan.bsky.social and my new editor Maria, who rocks.
Announcement of a deal report from Publisher's Marketplace that reads:
American Studies scholar and host of The Great Courses’ Literary Tour of the United States Arielle Zibrak’s WISHING OURSELVES WELL, a compelling look at the origins of the women's wellness guru archetype and "manifestation" movements through the complicated history of the 19th-century American women who pioneered the big business of alternative healing, from Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science) to Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham (a sexual pleasure activist and eugenicist), to Maria Goldverg at Liveright, by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (USCOM).
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Belated announcement of a collection I'm proud to be part of: Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, out from Bloomsbury late last year. 1/ www.bloomsbury.com/us/biocultur...
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Biocultural Empire
Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challe…
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/08/2025
For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives. But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.
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These crabs probably saved your life. Can we save theirs?
The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC: — Beige sweater with beige chinos — Jacket sleeve tag left on — Tan shoes with navy suits — Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)
Trump in a beige v-neck merino sweater and beige chinos. Donald Trump Jr. wearing a USA flag sport coat. The jacket tag has been left on the sleeve.Brendan Carr and Benny Johnson. Both wearing blue suits with tan shoes. Carr's suit is mid-blue. He has paired it with blonde shoes. Johnson is wearing a navy suit with walnut colored shoes. Matt Braynard wearing a navy suit with a white French cuff shirt and gold colored tie. He has a giant Windsor knot and a metal sports watch.
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Huge congratulations to the winners of the ASLE book awards: Christina Gerhardt & Debbie Urbanski! I'm so happy that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was given an honorable mention. Especially exciting to be mentioned honorably alongside my colleague, office-neighbor, and friend, Janice Harrington!
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
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Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!
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April Anson @aprilanson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Updating my lecture slides for American Studies as well as Literature and the Environment with the screenshot. Always taught alongside Charles Hillard’s 2021 painting of the same name iltf.org/wp-content/u...
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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Several states have adopted shield laws to protect providers of gender affirming care, including from out-of-state actors who want to punish them for treating ban-state residents. Some states cover repro but not GAC. Know your state’s law & advocate for your state leaders to strengthen protections
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Shield Laws for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care: A State Law Guide | UCLA Law
UCLA Law's Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy has produced the comprehensive "Shield Laws for Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care: A State Law Guide."
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As a side note for your read, here is a review by Jamie Jones of a cool web project by Katt Kish that illustrated every page of Moby Dick. commonplace.online/article/blog...
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Blogging Moby-Dick: An artist illustrates every page of The Whale - Commonplace
The set of 552 images is impossible to describe as a single body of work, but the illustrations cohere.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Here it is, my 229th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 229
Published on June 15, 2025
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
@rebwright.bsky.social and @elsadevienne.bsky.social and I would love for any and all of you to join us for a chat on the place of ideas in 20th century US #envhist and more!
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Anne O’Neil-Henry @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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Current Table of Contents | ncfs
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Very happy that my book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, has been named a finalist for the 2025 ASLE Book Award. And I'm VERY proud to share the slate with so many other amazing authors. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Rendered Obsolete | Jamie L. Jones | University of North Carolina Press
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Limn's founding editors Christopher Kelty, Andrew Lakoff, and Stephen Collier conclude issue 11 with a reflection on the journal’s origins. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue limn.press/article/is-l...
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy pub day to @parhee.bsky.social and this SPECTACULAR BOOK, which will totally change the way you think about the history of US environmentalism. Essential reading! Get it at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Book cover for Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920-1970 by Pollyanna Rhee
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It's my actual pub day! If you want to hear me talk about environmentalism v. environmental justice, Santa Barbara, neighborhood associations, and "Abundance," tune in to my New Books in Environmental Studies episode below! @uchicagopress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Environmental Studies · 05/13/2025 · 45m
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/05/2025
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social : "The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?" thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...
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Bad Attachments
What if our biggest obstacle to shutting down Line 5 isn’t the pipeline, but the story we’ve been telling ourselves about modern life?
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 06/05/2025
Ok y’all—buckle up for another student book project thread! Yesterday I shared projects from my graduate iSchool course Today I’m sharing from my English course "Building a Better Book"—mostly undergrad but a few grad students I don’t usually teach both courses concurrently but this term I did
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
thank you so much, @uchicagopress.bsky.social! 😭🙏🌿
Wrapped book! Unwrapped book! (Action without Hope)
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Very excited to host this conversation tomorrow: Illinois activists, lawyers, and researchers who were involved in the fight against DAPL reflecting on their experience then, and what kinds of energy justice issues we should be paying attention to now. cas.illinois.edu/node/2943?fb...
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Reflecting on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the Illinois Energy Landscape | Center for Advanced Study
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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Very excited to host this conversation tomorrow: Illinois activists, lawyers, and researchers who were involved in the fight against DAPL reflecting on their experience then, and what kinds of energy justice issues we should be paying attention to now. cas.illinois.edu/node/2943?fb...
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Reflecting on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the Illinois Energy Landscape | Center for Advanced Study
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Academic senate of the University of Illinois resolves to join the Big 10 mutual defense compact! Proud to have been a co-signer of a great resolution put forward by @gipperfish.bsky.social
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UI Senate approves resolution to join Big Ten Defense Compact
The University Senate approved a resolution to join a Big Ten Academic Defense Compact with universities in the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 04/04/2025
"As Angelenos, we should be planning for a future where the success of the ports and the region is not measured by year-over-year growth in goods movement," I wrote in the LA Times two years ago. The volume of trade in the ports here is ecologically unsustainable, + www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: L.A. ports can't follow business as usual. Our shipping system is unsustainable
The pandemic supply chain crisis and our recovery create a rare opportunity to plan for a livable future.
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 28/04/2025
Behind the scenes photo of today’s online #envhum book talk with @parhee.bsky.social! We do them from home, squeezed in between work and dinner.
Computer with zoom window open, Røde microphone, camera lens in background
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