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In Technology and the Environment in History, the authors discuss the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech.

Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of ...

Every fall since 2020 I have been teaching energy economics in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) program. I team teach with my friend Mark Witte, and my ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward ...

Like many cultural holidays Indigenous Peoples' Day has become more than a simple holiday with bank closures; it's a reclamation of identity, culture and justice. What are the best ways Indigenous ...

There have been many questions arising around the potential returns seen from artificial intelligence and generative AI. As we reported here last month, there is growing nervousness among board-level ...

I can’t forget the biggest TV I’ve ever seen. Deep inside a convention center in Las Vegas, a Samsung PR representative calmly ushered me past workers setting up for the evening event. They were ...

In these modern empires, we see the same four key influences on their cycles of growth and inequality—technology, institutions, politics and social norms—but playing out at an ever-faster rate. As the ...