The Savannah: Story of a River and its City
River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology and Culture
Georgia Humanities and the Learning Center
October 14, 2021, Savannah, GA
Energy Equity Panel Discussion
Florida Energy and Climate Summit
Florida Department of Agriculture and Community Services (FDACS)
November 16, 2021, Orlando, FL
River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology and Culture
Georgia Humanities and the Learning Center
October 14, 2021, Savannah, GA
Energy Equity Panel Discussion
Florida Energy and Climate Summit
Florida Department of Agriculture and Community Services (FDACS)
November 16, 2021, Orlando, FL
Energy Affordability and Your House of Worship
Sustaining Way and South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
Sustaining Way and South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
An Environmental History of the Okefenokee Swamp
Georgia Conservancy
Georgia Conservancy
Florida Advisory Council on Climate and Energy
"Energy Insecurity & Equity in the Southeast"
"Energy Insecurity & Equity in the Southeast"
Environmental Justice in Atlanta
Atlanta Music Festival
Atlanta Music Festival
Building Conversations: Energy Insecurity in the Southeast
Institute for Market Transformation (IMT)
Institute for Market Transformation (IMT)
Our Future Political Landscapes
Georgia Conservancy
Georgia Conservancy
INVITED TALKS
2021
Energy Equity in the U.S. South
Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI), Energy Opportunities Coalition
2021
What is Nature? (And Why Does That Matter?)
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL)
2021
Clean City: Affordable Housing and Electric Transportation
Coca-Cola
2021
Energy Affordability and Your House of Worship
Sustaining Way & South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
2021
Resorting to Nature: American Coastal Development and the Roots of Global Ecotourism
International Learning Communities (ILC) Lecture Series, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2020
The Okefenokee: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Swamp
The Learning Center: Savannah, GA and Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
2020
Energy Insecurity in the Southeast
U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Office
2020
Energy Insecurity in the Southeast
SK Collaborative, Decatur, GA
2020
Strengthening Georgia's Communities with Environmental Justice
Georgia Grassroots Environmental Network (GGEN) Quarterly Meeting, July 2020
2019
How Atlanta's Pipes Got Their Shapes: A Century-Long Evolution of Water and Sewer Infrastructure
City of Atlanta, Department of Watershed Management, Atlanta, GA
2019
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
FoxTale Book Shoppe, Woodstock, GA
2019
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, Albany, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA
2018
Sustainability with a Southern Twang: Lessons from the South's First Attempt at Sustainable Development
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business/Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2018
Theodore Roosevelt and the Age of Excess
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Atlanta Authors Series, SUGA, Tucker, GA
2018
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2018
Charles E. Fraser: The First Green Developer?
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC
2018
The Savannah: The Story of a River and Its City
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2017
Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soil: The First Generation of 'Green' Developers
Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2017
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2017
Hilton Head Goes to Earth Day: Protecting 'Nature's Showpiece" in the Lowcountry
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2016
A Century of America's National Parks
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
2016
Do not "uglify" the earth: Tourism and American Environmental Politics
Furman University, Greenville, SC
2015
John Muir and Wilderness in Modern Georgia
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Georgia Humanities
2015
Constructive and not Destructive Development: The Struggle for 'Permanent' Uses of Resources in the South"
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2014
Giving "Wise Use" a Southern Twang: Reshaping Conservation for a Developing Region
The University of Delaware
Energy Equity in the U.S. South
Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI), Energy Opportunities Coalition
2021
What is Nature? (And Why Does That Matter?)
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL)
2021
Clean City: Affordable Housing and Electric Transportation
Coca-Cola
2021
Energy Affordability and Your House of Worship
Sustaining Way & South Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
2021
Resorting to Nature: American Coastal Development and the Roots of Global Ecotourism
International Learning Communities (ILC) Lecture Series, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2020
The Okefenokee: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Swamp
The Learning Center: Savannah, GA and Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
2020
Energy Insecurity in the Southeast
U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Office
2020
Energy Insecurity in the Southeast
SK Collaborative, Decatur, GA
2020
Strengthening Georgia's Communities with Environmental Justice
Georgia Grassroots Environmental Network (GGEN) Quarterly Meeting, July 2020
2019
How Atlanta's Pipes Got Their Shapes: A Century-Long Evolution of Water and Sewer Infrastructure
City of Atlanta, Department of Watershed Management, Atlanta, GA
2019
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
FoxTale Book Shoppe, Woodstock, GA
2019
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, Albany, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA
2018
Sustainability with a Southern Twang: Lessons from the South's First Attempt at Sustainable Development
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business/Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2018
Theodore Roosevelt and the Age of Excess
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Atlanta Authors Series, SUGA, Tucker, GA
2018
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2018
Charles E. Fraser: The First Green Developer?
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC
2018
The Savannah: The Story of a River and Its City
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2017
Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soil: The First Generation of 'Green' Developers
Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2017
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2017
Hilton Head Goes to Earth Day: Protecting 'Nature's Showpiece" in the Lowcountry
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2016
A Century of America's National Parks
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
2016
Do not "uglify" the earth: Tourism and American Environmental Politics
Furman University, Greenville, SC
2015
John Muir and Wilderness in Modern Georgia
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Georgia Humanities
2015
Constructive and not Destructive Development: The Struggle for 'Permanent' Uses of Resources in the South"
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2014
Giving "Wise Use" a Southern Twang: Reshaping Conservation for a Developing Region
The University of Delaware
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2021
Rooting Energy Equity in the South
Energy and Public Health Workshop: “Energy Transitions: Clean Energy, Healthy Energy, Prosperity for All”
Georgia Institute of Technology
2020
A Regional Approach to Measuring and Addressing Energy Inequities
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference (BECC)
2020
Energy Affordability in South Carolina and the Southeast
South Carolina Clean Energy Conference
2020
Improving Health through Integration with Energy-Efficiency Programs
American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Conference
2019
How to Get to Zero: A Multi-State Comparison of Zero Energy Ready Homes
Getting to Zero Forum, Oakland, CA
2019
Greening Racial Justice: Lessons from a Century-Long Struggle over Atlanta’s Proctor Creek
Atlanta Studies Symposium, Atlanta, GA
2018
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing: Coping with the South's High Energy Burdens
Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing, Orange Beach, AL
2018
The Environmental and Social Permanence of Tourism at the Height of Jim Crow
Southern Labor Studies Association, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2018
Green Tourism and Environmental Justice on the Carolina Sea Islands
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA
2017
Resorting to Nature?: 'Green' Developers and American Environmental Politics
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2015
Manufacturing 'Permanent' Landscapes in the Developing South
Manufacturing Landscapes--Nature and Technology in Environmental History
Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Center and Renmin University of China
2015
Hobby Farming Tourists and Working Rural Landscapes in the New South
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2014
Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development in the American South
Green Capitalism: Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History - Hosted by the Hagley Library and Museum, Wilmington, DE
2014
Permanent Growth and Environmental Degradation in a Developing Region
Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism - Hosted by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014
Building a More "Permanent" South
Symposium on Southern Environmental History - Hosted by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2013
Nature’s Bounty: Competing Visions of Economic Development in the New South (panel organizer)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Touring the New South Creed: Southern Railroads as Tourist Boosters (panel co-organizer)
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Commentator for panel: Southern Landscapes, Southern Bodies: Freedom and the Environment
Landscapes of Freedom: Freedom Struggles During the Long Nineteenth Century - Hosted by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
2010
Ecology Emotion: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1969-1970 (panel organizer)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2009
The Strength of the Scup Ticket: The Politics of Fishery Regulation in Rhode Island, 1870-1872
North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Annual Meeting
Rooting Energy Equity in the South
Energy and Public Health Workshop: “Energy Transitions: Clean Energy, Healthy Energy, Prosperity for All”
Georgia Institute of Technology
2020
A Regional Approach to Measuring and Addressing Energy Inequities
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference (BECC)
2020
Energy Affordability in South Carolina and the Southeast
South Carolina Clean Energy Conference
2020
Improving Health through Integration with Energy-Efficiency Programs
American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Conference
2019
How to Get to Zero: A Multi-State Comparison of Zero Energy Ready Homes
Getting to Zero Forum, Oakland, CA
2019
Greening Racial Justice: Lessons from a Century-Long Struggle over Atlanta’s Proctor Creek
Atlanta Studies Symposium, Atlanta, GA
2018
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing: Coping with the South's High Energy Burdens
Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing, Orange Beach, AL
2018
The Environmental and Social Permanence of Tourism at the Height of Jim Crow
Southern Labor Studies Association, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2018
Green Tourism and Environmental Justice on the Carolina Sea Islands
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA
2017
Resorting to Nature?: 'Green' Developers and American Environmental Politics
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2015
Manufacturing 'Permanent' Landscapes in the Developing South
Manufacturing Landscapes--Nature and Technology in Environmental History
Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Center and Renmin University of China
2015
Hobby Farming Tourists and Working Rural Landscapes in the New South
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2014
Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development in the American South
Green Capitalism: Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History - Hosted by the Hagley Library and Museum, Wilmington, DE
2014
Permanent Growth and Environmental Degradation in a Developing Region
Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism - Hosted by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014
Building a More "Permanent" South
Symposium on Southern Environmental History - Hosted by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2013
Nature’s Bounty: Competing Visions of Economic Development in the New South (panel organizer)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Touring the New South Creed: Southern Railroads as Tourist Boosters (panel co-organizer)
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Commentator for panel: Southern Landscapes, Southern Bodies: Freedom and the Environment
Landscapes of Freedom: Freedom Struggles During the Long Nineteenth Century - Hosted by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
2010
Ecology Emotion: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1969-1970 (panel organizer)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2009
The Strength of the Scup Ticket: The Politics of Fishery Regulation in Rhode Island, 1870-1872
North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Annual Meeting