November 14, 2018
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing: Coping with the South's High Energy Burden
Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing, Orange Beach, Alabama
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The Real Cost of Affordable Housing: Coping with the South's High Energy Burden
Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing, Orange Beach, Alabama
Check back soon for more!
INVITED TALKS
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, S-UGA, 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
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
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
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, S-UGA, 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
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
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