This is the twenty-ninth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.

Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (September 11 – September 17, 2017):

Monday: “The First Book: Advice From Someone Barely Qualified To Give It” by Jeffers Lennox, Borealia: A Group Blog on Early Canadian History 

Tuesday: “Job Announcement: Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology, Lund University,” European Society for Environmental History

Wednesday: “Sundays Past and Present” by Lorna Sixsmith, Irish Farmerette

Thursday: “House Republicans Pass Largest Cut In Environmental Funding In History– Over $317 Million,” PA Environment Digest

Friday: “A lesson from Hurricane Irma: capitalism can’t save the planet – it can only destroy it,” by George Monbiot, The Guardian

Saturday: “03 Feb 2014 A Melee for the Relief Fund” by Mike Mantin, Disability and Industrial Society

Sunday: “Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin,” The Huntington

Top Words

1. Fund

2. will

3. House

4. million

5. Funds

6. Sunday

7. book

8. environmental 

9. Art

10. can

Published by Jessica M. DeWitt

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States. She is passionate about the use of digital technologies to bridge the gap between the public and researchers. In addition to her community and professional work, she offers various editing and social media consultancy services.

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