BLOGS
March 14, 2023
From Historians Rebellion
EHAC invitation to join History Rebellion/Worldwide Teach-in for Climate and Justice
On behalf of History Rebellion, we are reaching out to the Environmental History Action Collaborative to participate in the WORLDWIDE Teach-In on Climate and Justice on or around March 29, 2023. Last year this event engaged an estimated 50,000 students at more than 300 campuses in over 60 countries.
On March 29, 2023, we hope you’ll join us to #MakeClimateAClass! This means devoting your regular class time to a discussion of how your field contributes to the understanding of climate change, climate solutions or climate justice. There are multiple resources available to help you develop an inventive and engaging class that connects climate change with any course or discipline in the sciences, social sciences, or humanities. We welcome other levels of action and participation in the teach-in as well. For example, you can organize a teach-in event with other interested faculty and student groups at your institution with multiple speakers or around a pressing topic (like “what is my college/university doing and what can we do better?”).
We would especially appreciate collaboration with EHAC on building a set of teaching materials for non-specialists to address climate change in their courses. Please email [email protected] with links, images, slides, lectures, and other materials!
History Rebellion is a group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences with expertise and interest in the past who believe that the severity of the climate and ecological emergency—and the lack of meaningful action—requires us to step up and speak out. We are working closely with Scientist Rebellion to build the climate movement, including teaching, advocacy, scholarly work, public speaking, and supporting and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience in order to raise awareness and pressure those in power to act.
If you’d like to participate with History Rebellion, please fill out this form or join our Facebook page. You can also get involved through joining the Scientist Rebellion community.
From Historians Rebellion
EHAC invitation to join History Rebellion/Worldwide Teach-in for Climate and Justice
On behalf of History Rebellion, we are reaching out to the Environmental History Action Collaborative to participate in the WORLDWIDE Teach-In on Climate and Justice on or around March 29, 2023. Last year this event engaged an estimated 50,000 students at more than 300 campuses in over 60 countries.
On March 29, 2023, we hope you’ll join us to #MakeClimateAClass! This means devoting your regular class time to a discussion of how your field contributes to the understanding of climate change, climate solutions or climate justice. There are multiple resources available to help you develop an inventive and engaging class that connects climate change with any course or discipline in the sciences, social sciences, or humanities. We welcome other levels of action and participation in the teach-in as well. For example, you can organize a teach-in event with other interested faculty and student groups at your institution with multiple speakers or around a pressing topic (like “what is my college/university doing and what can we do better?”).
We would especially appreciate collaboration with EHAC on building a set of teaching materials for non-specialists to address climate change in their courses. Please email [email protected] with links, images, slides, lectures, and other materials!
History Rebellion is a group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences with expertise and interest in the past who believe that the severity of the climate and ecological emergency—and the lack of meaningful action—requires us to step up and speak out. We are working closely with Scientist Rebellion to build the climate movement, including teaching, advocacy, scholarly work, public speaking, and supporting and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience in order to raise awareness and pressure those in power to act.
If you’d like to participate with History Rebellion, please fill out this form or join our Facebook page. You can also get involved through joining the Scientist Rebellion community.
February 13, 2023
By Anya Zilberstein
Environmental Historians Action Collaborative—ABOUT US
We are the Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (EHAC), a collective of historians committed to social justice, who are responding to the climate crisis by actively connecting it to our teaching, research, professional service, and public-facing work. EHAC strives to be a welcoming community. Through member-driven, collaborative projects we are finding ways to call attention to the universal urgency of environmental problems as well as in mobilizing our scholarly and pedagogical experience to influence public opinion.
EHAC originated at a meeting of environmental historians in spring 2019. That summer, many of our original members participated in the writing of or signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on the case Juliana v. US, which argued on behalf of young people the historical case for a constitutional right to a stable climate. Later that summer, we became a working group of the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), which documents, analyzes, and advocates for access to federal environmental data, websites, institutions, and policy. As an EDGI working group, besides continuing to support the Juliana case, we collectively annotated political speeches, wrote op-eds and public comments, and contributed to A People’s EPA, which collects oral histories and Freedom of Information (FOIA) documents related to the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.
EHAC continues to be closely associated with EDGI, including successfully protesting the threatened sunsetting of the online EPA archive. But in 2022, we have decided to step out on our own. Recent EHAC projects have included publicizing our group to environmental historians; advocating for climate-change pedagogy through conference panels and creating an online archive of teaching materials; and organizing the hybrid workshop “The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond,” co-hosted by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Early Modern Studies Institute at the University of Southern California.
As historians living in a time of planetary crisis, we are particularly alert to the emergence of profound political and cultural changes—new kinds of long-term thinking, new forms of intergenerational bonds, new ways of articulating our essential interdependence with the non-human. EHAC believes that historians have a vital role to play in explaining and participating in these transformations. Precisely because the existential danger of climate change is so wide-ranging and so grave, we need to learn how to mobilize on many fronts.
We are always looking for new members to broaden and diversify our membership and projects. Please join us! (The bottom of the home page has our Twitter handle and a space to sign up for our digest!)
By Anya Zilberstein
Environmental Historians Action Collaborative—ABOUT US
We are the Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (EHAC), a collective of historians committed to social justice, who are responding to the climate crisis by actively connecting it to our teaching, research, professional service, and public-facing work. EHAC strives to be a welcoming community. Through member-driven, collaborative projects we are finding ways to call attention to the universal urgency of environmental problems as well as in mobilizing our scholarly and pedagogical experience to influence public opinion.
EHAC originated at a meeting of environmental historians in spring 2019. That summer, many of our original members participated in the writing of or signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on the case Juliana v. US, which argued on behalf of young people the historical case for a constitutional right to a stable climate. Later that summer, we became a working group of the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI), which documents, analyzes, and advocates for access to federal environmental data, websites, institutions, and policy. As an EDGI working group, besides continuing to support the Juliana case, we collectively annotated political speeches, wrote op-eds and public comments, and contributed to A People’s EPA, which collects oral histories and Freedom of Information (FOIA) documents related to the history of the Environmental Protection Agency.
EHAC continues to be closely associated with EDGI, including successfully protesting the threatened sunsetting of the online EPA archive. But in 2022, we have decided to step out on our own. Recent EHAC projects have included publicizing our group to environmental historians; advocating for climate-change pedagogy through conference panels and creating an online archive of teaching materials; and organizing the hybrid workshop “The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond,” co-hosted by The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Early Modern Studies Institute at the University of Southern California.
As historians living in a time of planetary crisis, we are particularly alert to the emergence of profound political and cultural changes—new kinds of long-term thinking, new forms of intergenerational bonds, new ways of articulating our essential interdependence with the non-human. EHAC believes that historians have a vital role to play in explaining and participating in these transformations. Precisely because the existential danger of climate change is so wide-ranging and so grave, we need to learn how to mobilize on many fronts.
We are always looking for new members to broaden and diversify our membership and projects. Please join us! (The bottom of the home page has our Twitter handle and a space to sign up for our digest!)
EDGI/EHAC BLOGS
"Environmental Historians Action Collaborative Co-Organizes Conference on the Climate Crisis," Feb 18, 2022.
"Led by Environmental Historians Action Collaborative, EDGI signs on to Letter in Support of Juliana v. US Plaintiffs," Nov 19, 2021.
"EDGI/EHAC Critiques Trump Admin's Efforts to Weaken the National Environmental Policy Act," March 14, 2020.
"Led by Environmental Historians Action Collaborative, EDGI signs on to Letter in Support of Juliana v. US Plaintiffs," Nov 19, 2021.
"EDGI/EHAC Critiques Trump Admin's Efforts to Weaken the National Environmental Policy Act," March 14, 2020.
