- Nature's Past: Canadian environmental history podcast
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iTunes SubscriptionProduction Info Producer & Host Sean Kheraj A monthly audio podcast about the environmental history research community in Canada. Sponsored by the Network in Canadian History & Environment. Nature's Past: Canadian environmental history podcast is a monthly episodic audio podcast about the environmental history research community in Canada, sponsored by the Network in Canadian History and Environment.[1] The podcast was first produced out of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.[2] It is now produced in Calgary, Alberta from the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University. New episodes are released each month, usually in the third week of the month. Listeners can subscribe to the podcast through RSS or iTunes.
It is the first audio podcast to focus on Canadian environmental history.[3] The podcast launched on 10 December 2008 with an episode about the history of Toronto's Don River. Since then, episodes have explored issues in environmental history, including dam construction in British Columbia, wildlife management in the Northwest Territories, environmental justice in Hamilton, Ontario, e-waste, and natural resource conflicts. The podcast has a wide audience of listeners from Canada, the United States, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and many other places. It has been reviewed positively on a number of history blogs.[4][5]
Nature's Past is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Canada License. In October 2009, all past episodes were stored in the Internet Archive.[6]
References
- ^ Network in Canadian History & Environment website, "Nature's Past: Episode 1" 10 December 2008
- ^ UBC History Department website, "History Department Post-Doc Hosts Podcast, Nature's Past" 9 April 2009"
- ^ UBC Faculty of Arts website, "Canadian environmental history, now on your iPod" 17 June 2009
- ^ Christopher Moore, "(Clear-) Cutting Edge History" Christopher Moore's History News, 10 November 2010
- ^ Colin Tyner, "Environmental History Podcasts" The Labor of Nature and Island Life, 10 November 2010
- ^ Internet Archive search
External links
Categories:- Educational podcasts
- Environmental history
- Canadian podcasters
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