Catalyst for Transition: The Anschluss, Kaprun, and a Dual Energy Transition, 1938–1955
This essay considers how the Kaprun project launched by Germany drove two critical but neglected energy transitions in postwar Austria.
This essay considers how the Kaprun project launched by Germany drove two critical but neglected energy transitions in postwar Austria.
About eight percent of Earth’s freshwater is located in Greenland. Theoretically, this would mean that Greenland has some of the greatest potential for hydropower in the whole world. However, nearly all its freshwater is permanently frozen.
The Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station was built between 1918 and 1924 under the supervision of Oskar von Miller, a Bavarian engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum.
This film explores the negative impacts of the multi-billion dollar carbon offsetting industry on those people who are most impacted but least heard.
The construction of the Serre-Ponçon dam in 1955 was the first step in the development of dams in the Durance River, the most regulated waterway in France
Beginning in the pre-modern world, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers both served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In modern times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” became integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism. Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building discusses their histories, through which we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment, which adds another lens to our understanding of the past.
Wasser correlates the control of water supply with power in a comparative collection of articles on water in ancient, early modern, and modern states.
An exploration of the ideas of two postwar Australians, William Hatfield and Flexmore Hudson.
This book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
In episode 45 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Daniel Macfarlane discusses his new book on the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project with Sean Kheraj.