‘Green-Thumb’ Miracles Gave These Monks an Eco-Authority in Medieval Italy New Research Shows A scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting; a diseased swamp restored to ‘peak fertility’; healing the broken leg of an ox; and multiplying cabbages. These are just some of the forgotten medieval miracles of the Augustinian Order which Dr. Krisztina Ilko brings to light not long this 800-year-old organization found one of its members elected Pope […] The post ‘Green-Thumb’ Miracles Gave These Monks an Eco-Authority in Medieval Italy New Research Shows appeared first on Good News Network.

‘Green-Thumb’ Miracles Gave These Monks an Eco-Authority in Medieval Italy New Research Shows: A scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting; a diseased swamp restored to ‘peak fertility’; healing the… @goodnewsnetwork.org #EcoHistory #MedievalItaly #SustainableFarming #GreenThumb #NatureMiracles

The Most Dangerous Inventor You’ve Never Heard Of Learn how the inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. transformed engineering with inventions that solved problems but created new challenges.

What can Midgley teach us about innovation today? More than you might think. #STEMCulture #EcoHistory #InnovationEthics

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History shows missed opportunities for eco-friendlier industrialization: smaller scale, local control vs. concentrated power & colonialism. 🏭 Post-colonial India/China prioritized haste over environment, leading to "environmental recklessness." ⏳ #EcoHistory #Development

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The Great Disarmament
This 14-part Peace is Here podcast series traces the link between war and agriculture.
Guano. Gunpowder. Nitrates. Nukes.
And the people who fought back.
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Episode 93 is live: Cold Crops—where war and agriculture collide in the Cold War’s shadow. Voice of the era: #RachelCarson
Peace is Here podcast.
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Commentary on how we look at climate / human history interactions, and the search for explanations of human behavior.

Good thread (oversimplified tl;dr: people have choices in disasters).

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#Correlation/Causation
#SocialResilience

Diving into modern approaches to urbarium and other early modern tax documents! 📝
The focus: #ecohistory, #TheLittleIceAge, #PriceRevolution, thinking beyond national #historiography, and consulting German expertise on church possessions. Plus, some Ginzburg-style #microhistory for good measure. 🌍📚😍

"How did ancient cities like Rome not consume all of the available nearby trees for fuel?
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments... #twitterstorians #ecohistory #ancientrome"