{"id":1981,"date":"2023-03-05T20:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1981"},"modified":"2023-03-05T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:00:33","slug":"daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Macfarlane &#8211; Fixing Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Macfarlane, Associate Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University (USA), launched his book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/fixing-niagara-falls\">Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy and Engineers at the World&#8217;s Most Famous Waterfall<\/a><\/em> (UBC Press, 2020) in our Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 31 August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing fa\u00e7ade designed to appeal to tourists. Essentially, this natural wonder is now a tap: huge tunnels channel the waters of the Niagara River around the Falls, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar. <em>Fixing Niagara Falls<\/em>\u00a0reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane details how engineers, bureaucrats, and politicians conspired to manipulate the world\u2019s most famous waterfall. During the first half of the twentieth century, the United States and Canada explored various ways to maximize hydropower from the Niagara River while \u201cpreserving\u201d the Falls. Decades of environmental diplomacy and transborder studies led to a 1950 treaty that allowed new hydro-electric stations to funnel most of the river\u2019s water to generate power. To facilitate these diversions and lessen the visual impact of redirecting so much water, the two nations cooperated to install a range of control works while reshaping and shrinking the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Macfarlane, Associate Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University (USA), launched his book Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2020-08-31-Macfarlane.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2020-08-31-Macfarlane_pod.jpg","cover_image_id":"1983","duration":"48:55","filesize":"34.76M","filesize_raw":"36446099","date_recorded":"2020-08-31","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-1981","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","series-greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2020-08-31-Macfarlane_pod.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/1981\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/1981\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/1981\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/1981\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls<\/a>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/id1664960759","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0TNTSCl3zRBues4Eqjkwwm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MAcyEfF49x\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls\/\">Daniel Macfarlane &#8211; Fixing Niagara Falls<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls\/embed\/#?secret=MAcyEfF49x\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Daniel Macfarlane &#8211; Fixing Niagara Falls&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"MAcyEfF49x\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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