Writer, historian of ideas, Curator-at-Large
Environment in museums and the wider world
What Birdo is That?
A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅
New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. 🌿
Libby Robin
There is nothing to beat a wry dictionary for light reading. You may have to look under "science" to find it in your friendly Indie bookshop, but it's full of humanity. Bernadette Hince is brilliant.
Waste managers laying waste... this is a story all over many different Countries... consultants lack transparency & ride roughshod over local interests with "solutions" that create more work (for them. It's a business model)
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... If it's private they can walk away. So they need to pay enough tax while in business to fund new cooktops and friers when they leave - or they lose their bond. Renters have to pay one - why not billionaires?
whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/12/i... A lovely riverine response by @harrycroft.bsky.social taking Aust Env Hist to Germany. Don't miss it! @iceho.bsky.social
www.iceho.org/an-environme... @mcookhistory.bsky.social has a great new post here @aehhub.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Perhaps the stadium is the problem not the solution? There will always be work in Aged Care Facilities - first to build them, then to care for ppl (AI can't do that). Why not target *real* problems & local ppl???
A new essay in our series "Building Environmental History
Around the World" is out! Margaret Cook here responds to Libby Robin's recent essay in Global Environment. All posts can be read here:
www.iceho.org/notes-from-t...
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Don't miss this one if you are in Toronto!
#Anthropocene @nichecanada.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh...
The One Nation vote will start to collapse as soon as they’re subject to proper scrutiny by the media, because Pauline is still a boneheaded racist and the party is a clown car.
More of this please:
Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year.
Funds from a gas export tax could create new infrastructure, fund new services and offer support for people experiencing homelessness.
✍ Sign the petition: https://theaus.in/4fBEG1s
Libby Robin
For many, getting off gas and electrifying their homes is a personal choice. But what happens when an entire town is abandoned by a gas company?
From being a hot destination 10 years ago, Tasmania's population growth has ground to a halt — and big changes will be needed to reverse the trend, experts say.
Summer SavingsROM is pleased to participate in the Canada Strong Pass program, which provides Free General Admission to visitors 4 to 17 years, and 50% off General Admission to visitors 18 to 24 years...
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Hanson’s party is leading in the polls, but it has a long way to go before being recognised as a serious political outfit
In this blog Harrison Croft dons his ‘stout pair of boots’ and takes environmental history out of the office’ in a second response to Libby Robin’s essay in Global …
Loving this one! Humour on every page that only words can generate. Bernadette Hince's Magnum
Opus produced in style by CSIRO Publishing (2025) @iceho.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social
We've added a new blog post by Margaret Cook - part of Global Environment's series in partnership with ICEHO. Margaret responds to a recent essay by Libby Robin in GE. whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/09/i... @globalenvironment.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social #envhist
Libby Robin
In this blog, the first of two responding to Libby Robin’s essay in Global Environment’s new ICEHO series ‘Building Environmental History Around the World’, Margaret Cook de…
Resistance grows against the NSW government's bid to build an energy-from-waste facility near Parkes, with local Aboriginal groups saying they were not properly consulted. trib.al/hclDOni
The White Horse Press
The Saturday Paper
As the NSW government prepares to approve an energy-from-waste facility on Wiradjuri Country, local Indigenous groups have not been properly consulted and fear its impacts on health and sacred sites.
