Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
University of Oklahoma Press · 2024
How did the world's most celebrated landscape of innovation become one of its most polluted?
A century of growth, water, and waste beneath the Valley's orchards-turned-office-parks — and the communities who bore the environmental costs of high tech.
“How this land would be used, who would have access, and who would decide which areas to preserve or let fall to the bulldozer's blade is at the heart of Heppler's book. This is a subversive view of Silicon Valley's history that keeps the usual suspects in the background. Environmental inequalities are in the foreground.”
— W. Patrick McCray, LA Review of Books
I am an environmental historian of the North American West and Great Plains.
I serve as senior developer-scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, where I am also an Adjunct Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History. I'm also an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
I am the author and editor of two books, several book chapters, and various essays in places like the Washington Post and The Conversation.
