"The RCC is pleased to announce the launch of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review. Our new open-access online publication features peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction, and artistic contributions that showcase the work of the RCC and its community across the world. In the spirit of Rachel Carson, Springs publishes sharp writing with an impact. Surveying the interrelationship between environmental and social changes from a wealth of disciplines and perspectives, it is a place to share rigorous research, test out fresh ideas, question old ones, and to advance public and scholarly debates in the environmental humanities and beyond."

Link: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_events/2022-news/springs_launch_first_issue/index.html

Nuclear Weapons—Development, Detonation, Deterrence & Disarmament: A Bibliography (2022) von Patrick S. O’Donnell

Link: https://www.academia.edu/4844106/Nuclear_Weapons_bibliography?email_work_card=thumbnail

"The 2nd Annual Conference of the Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities will take place at the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University, 3–5 November 2022.
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Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities, 8000 Aarhus N (Denmark)
03.11.2022 - 05.11.2022
Bewerbungsschluss: 22.08.2022

CONFERENCE THEME:

We intend to spark discussions about plural understandings of justice by exploring how scholars, activists and other civil society actors relate with the concept, and how they negotiate justice claims through space and time. We explicitly seek to address the temporal and spatial dimensions of global environmental justice by considering how colonial/postcolonial trajectories inform mobilization and communication strategies in ongoing conflicts over resources, territories and the distribution of risks. Crucial to speaking back to and denouncing global environmental injustices are questions of how to give shape to stories of global justice. How do we tell "terrible" stories that are still motivating, empowering and hopeful – if these are the stories to tell?

In particular, we intend to discuss how the different temporalities and histories inherent to different notions of global justice play out in environmental justice movements and how imperial/colonial pathways of extraction shape environmental justice claims and practices of transformative future-making. Furthermore, we intend to explore how to give form to (through narration, storytelling, performance, theories, video, writing) such histories and how stories – or other forms – can be assistive in breaking the course of environmental injustice [...]"

Link: https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-128485

"Umweltschützerinnen und -schützer bemängeln, dass mit der Einstufung von Atomkraft und fossilem Gas das grüne Finanzmarktlabel der EU verwässert wird. Sie verweisen unter anderem auf die ausgestoßenen Treibhausgase und im Fall von Atomkraft insbesondere auf den radioaktiven Abfall und mögliche Unfälle.

Die Umweltorganisation Greenpeace kündigte eine Klage vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof an, sollte die Kommission den Beschluss nicht ändern oder zurückziehen. Greenpeace-Finanzexperte Mauricio Vargas erklärte: "Wer Gas und Atom nachhaltig nennt, stürzt die Finanzakteure in Orientierungslosigkeit, die zu windigen Angeboten einlädt und Klimaschutz untergräbt." Beides wolle man mit der Klage verhindern. Ähnlich äußerte sich die Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)." (mdr)

Links: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/welt/politik/atomstrom-gas-eu-entscheidung-parlament-gruenes-label-klima-freundlich-strassburg-100.html (6. Juli 2022)
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/radio/nachhaltig-investieren-in-gas-und-atomkraft-echt-jetzt-100.html
https://www.berlinertageszeitung.de/technik/166997-greenpeace-will-gegen-eu-einstufung-von-gas-und-atom-als-nachhaltig-klagen.html

"The Environmental Humanities Program based in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) encourages the participation of faculty, research scholars and students from the humanities in the study of environmental subjects in order to develop well-rounded insights into environmental issues. An active grants program supports faculty-led research and the development of courses that examine environmental topics through the lens of literary traditions, philosophy, history, human rights and justice, and the arts. Seminars, lecture series and conferences in the environmental humanities promote an inclusive and challenging public dialogue on the ethical, visual, literal, and human dimensions of environmental topics, including climate ethics, environmental justice and cultural dissolution in the wake of environmental destruction."

Link: https://environment.princeton.edu/research/environmental-humanities/