The Canadian Oral History Association (COHA) recently published a special issue of their journal Oral History Forum d’histoire orale titled “Talking Green: Oral History and Environmental History.” This special issue is available for free public access (one does not need to be a member of COHA or a journal subscriber to access the articles).
The journal is also available in electronic form through the PSU Library. The journal’s table of contents:
Articles
- ** Lianne Leddy, “Interviewing Nookomis and Other Reflections: The Promise of Community Collaboration.”
** Claire Elizabeth Campbell, “‘We All Aspired to be Woodsy’: Tracing Environmental Awareness at a Boys’ Camp.”
** Sharon Weaver, “First Encounters: 1970s Back-to-the-land, Cape Breton, NS and Denman, Hornby and Lasqueti Islands, BC.”
** Adam M. Sowards, “We’re All Kinda Crazy”: Smokejumpers and Western Forests.”
Oral History Projects
- ** Ronald Rudin, “Voices of Kouchibouguac”
** Fereshteh Toosi, “UP THE CREEK! A Site-Specific Oral History Project”
Work in Progress
- ** David Todd, “Texas Legacy”
Book Reviews
- ** Kyle R. Franz , “The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, by Rick Rennie”
** Peter A. Stevens,” The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55, by Sharon Wall”
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Sustainability History Project 
“First Encounters: 1970s Back-to-the-land Cape Breton, NS and Denman, Hornby and Lasqueti Islands, BC.” I have had the ill fate of reading the portion of Ms. Weaver’s dramatization of Denman Island in the 1970’s. As a retired teacher of English, I am shocked to find her drama set in an actual community and that the cast speaking her lines are named members of the community, including myself. While I support the writing of fiction, I need to stress the convention that names of actual living persons not be used without permission. I