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by Daniel A. Barber
15 minutes
Patterns of Desire The relationship of climate to the built environment has been of increasing interest over the past decade. As is generally known, t...
by Kate Brown
21 minutes
In 1829, Nathanial Bagshaw Ward, a London doctor, placed the pupa of a sphinx moth, some dirt, and a few leaves in a glass bottle and clamped on a lid...
by Catherine T. Dunlop
6 minutes
Historians are just beginning to explore what ordinary buildings can teach us about practices of environmental adaptation across the globe. In a count...
by David Stradling
6 minutes
Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create ...