Oil is the fossil of ancient forests. Its discovery in the mid-19th century sparked the rapid industrialization of Western Europe, Russia, Japan, and America; it fueled two world wars and contributed to the industrialization of...
Evaggelos Vallianatos
A journey through history
ForewordI spent about eight days in late September – early October 2025 traveling around Greece with my son and his family. We started in Kefalonia — the beautiful Ionian island where I was born. We rented a lovely two-story house near the...
Freedom, the Highest Good
The continuation of the article Ioannis Kapodistrias, President of Greece, 1828-1831. By Dionysios Tsokos - National historical Museum, Athens, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10436040 - https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ioannis...
Freedom, the Highest Good
The continuation of the article Fragment A contains 27 of the 30 gears of the Meteoroscope. Note the connections of the gears. The X-ray of Fragment A is from the X-Tek Company and the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project. The...
Freedom, the Highest Good
Foreword Ancient Greece was not a Christian state or polity. The piety of the Greeks for thousands of years was love for ancestral gods. The greatest Greek poet and teacher of the Greeks, Homer, speaks of the gods in his epics, “Iliad” and “Odyssey.” The...
Filiatra: The Ugly Behind the Beauties of Modern Greece
Theodore Marangos from Filiatra, Peloponnese is an accomplished artist of Greek history and culture. In his 2007 work, It's Enough to Look Good, he summarizes the history of the small rural town/village, Filiatra, on the Ionian coast of southwestern Greece.
Minoan Civilization
Foreword In a lecture at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Minister of Culture of Greece, Lina Mendoni, said the following: “Today [12-07-2025] is a landmark day for our homeland, for the Greek people, for Crete, for Culture in its long historical...
National Salvation Strategy
Foreword For several years I have been a member of the International Hellenic Association for Greek professors and scholars with PhDs from all over the world, but mainly Greece and America. The name also has the English equivalent International Hellenic Association (IXA). The main...
The Aegean Has Been a Greek Homeland for Centuries
Greece is in danger On June 15, 2025, Nikos Konstantaras of Kathimerini tells us that Greece faces danger in its neighborhood. “The threats,” he says, “against the stability of our wider region multiply the risks for the...
Is Greece Becoming a Non-Viable Nation State?
The secrets of Greek demography A Greek newspaper editor, Nikos Konstandaras, said in the midst of the country's debt crisis, in 2013, that: "The Greeks are in a struggle for survival. And the odds are piling up against us. The fight is not only on the economic front......
Educations
BA, Zoology, University of Illinois, 1965
MA, Medieval (Byzantine) history, University of Illinois, 1967
Ph.D., European / Greek history, University of Wisconsin, 1972
Postdoctoral studies in the history of science, Harvard University, 1972-1973, 1974-1975.
Experience
Capitol Hill, 1976-78: International politics of food and agriculture.
US Environmental Protection Agency, 1979-2004: environmental regulation,
human and ecological risks of pesticides and industrialized agriculture,
benefits of organic farming alternatives to industrialized farming, climate change? seconded to the UN Development Program, 1995-1996, worked on food sovereignty for Africa.
Teaching
History (teaching assistant: Roman history; European diplomatic history; and Russian history): University of Wisconsin.
Environmental protection and politics (visiting professor): American University,
Humboldt State University, University of New Orleans, Bard College,
George Washington University, and University of Maryland. Lecturer:
Pitzer College and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Books
Fear in the Countryside: The Control of Agricultural Resources in the Poor Countries by Non-Peasant Elites (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1976);
From Graikos to Hellene: Adamantios Koraes and the Greek Revolution (Athens: Academy of Athens Press, 1987). This book started as my dissertation at the University of Wisconsin:
Harvest of Devastation: The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences (New York: The Apex Press, 1994);
This Land is Their Land: How Corporate Farms Threaten the World (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2006);
The Passion of the Greeks (Cape Code, MA: Clock and Rose Books, 2006):
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014):
The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and its Demise (Universal Publishers, 2021):
Freedom: Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History (Universal Publishers, 2025):
Earth on Fire: Brewing Climate Chaos and Pandemics in our Backyards (Forthcoming, World Scientific, October 2025)”
Hundreds of articles published in academic journals, newspapers, and electronic media (Balkan Studies; Mediterranean Quarterly; College Quarterly; Development and the Environment; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Christian Science Monitor; Chicago Tribune; Philadelphia Inquirer; Seattle Times; Seattle Post Intelligencer; Baltimore Sun; Truth-Out; AlterNet; On Line Opinion; Independent Science News; Huffington Post; Hellenic News of America; the National Herald; the Greek News; Greek Reporter; Hellenic Insider; Helleniscope, Geostrategico, Counterpunch and Capitol Hill Citizen).
Articles: (1) ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, including the history of Greek science and technology, and the achievements of ancient Greece, which made our modern world. The Greeks gave us science, political theory, democracy, technology (in the advanced astronomical computer of genius of the second century BCE known as the Antikythera Mechanism. They also gave us the epic poetry of Apollonios Rhodios, The Argonautica, and the immortal poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. In addition, we inherited beautiful architecture and sculpture, the Olympics, the Oracle at Delphi, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the ethics and love for the natural world and the Cosmos. Archaeological excavations and research by Greek and foreign archaeologists add material treasures from the ancient Greek world, thus enriching our understanding of the inestimable contributions ancient Greeks made for the foundations of our Western civilization and the rule of law.
(2) My articles also shed light on political corruption in the United States affecting the industry, academia, and the government, which results in pollution of agriculture, contamination of food, and the poisoning of the natural world and the rapid extinction of species, climate change / chaos, pandemics, human and environmental diseases, and the breakdown of civilization. Articles also examine the history and philosophy of ecological civilization, seeking alternative concepts and theories for regeneration of the land, farming, and political institutions. My interest in ecological civilization emerged from my 3 journeys to China.
BA, Zoology, University of Illinois, 1965
MA, Medieval (Byzantine) history, University of Illinois, 1967
Ph.D., European / Greek history, University of Wisconsin, 1972
Postdoctoral studies in the history of science, Harvard University, 1972-1973, 1974-1975.
Experience
Capitol Hill, 1976-78: International politics of food and agriculture.
US Environmental Protection Agency, 1979-2004: environmental regulation,
human and ecological risks of pesticides and industrialized agriculture,
benefits of organic farming alternatives to industrialized farming, climate change? seconded to the UN Development Program, 1995-1996, worked on food sovereignty for Africa.
Teaching
History (teaching assistant: Roman history; European diplomatic history; and Russian history): University of Wisconsin.
Environmental protection and politics (visiting professor): American University,
Humboldt State University, University of New Orleans, Bard College,
George Washington University, and University of Maryland. Lecturer:
Pitzer College and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Books
Fear in the Countryside: The Control of Agricultural Resources in the Poor Countries by Non-Peasant Elites (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1976);
From Graikos to Hellene: Adamantios Koraes and the Greek Revolution (Athens: Academy of Athens Press, 1987). This book started as my dissertation at the University of Wisconsin:
Harvest of Devastation: The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences (New York: The Apex Press, 1994);
This Land is Their Land: How Corporate Farms Threaten the World (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2006);
The Passion of the Greeks (Cape Code, MA: Clock and Rose Books, 2006):
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014):
The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and its Demise (Universal Publishers, 2021):
Freedom: Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History (Universal Publishers, 2025):
Earth on Fire: Brewing Climate Chaos and Pandemics in our Backyards (Forthcoming, World Scientific, October 2025)”
Hundreds of articles published in academic journals, newspapers, and electronic media (Balkan Studies; Mediterranean Quarterly; College Quarterly; Development and the Environment; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Christian Science Monitor; Chicago Tribune; Philadelphia Inquirer; Seattle Times; Seattle Post Intelligencer; Baltimore Sun; Truth-Out; AlterNet; On Line Opinion; Independent Science News; Huffington Post; Hellenic News of America; the National Herald; the Greek News; Greek Reporter; Hellenic Insider; Helleniscope, Geostrategico, Counterpunch and Capitol Hill Citizen).
Articles: (1) ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, including the history of Greek science and technology, and the achievements of ancient Greece, which made our modern world. The Greeks gave us science, political theory, democracy, technology (in the advanced astronomical computer of genius of the second century BCE known as the Antikythera Mechanism. They also gave us the epic poetry of Apollonios Rhodios, The Argonautica, and the immortal poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. In addition, we inherited beautiful architecture and sculpture, the Olympics, the Oracle at Delphi, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the ethics and love for the natural world and the Cosmos. Archaeological excavations and research by Greek and foreign archaeologists add material treasures from the ancient Greek world, thus enriching our understanding of the inestimable contributions ancient Greeks made for the foundations of our Western civilization and the rule of law.
(2) My articles also shed light on political corruption in the United States affecting the industry, academia, and the government, which results in pollution of agriculture, contamination of food, and the poisoning of the natural world and the rapid extinction of species, climate change / chaos, pandemics, human and environmental diseases, and the breakdown of civilization. Articles also examine the history and philosophy of ecological civilization, seeking alternative concepts and theories for regeneration of the land, farming, and political institutions. My interest in ecological civilization emerged from my 3 journeys to China.
Evaggelos Vallianatos
The Politics of Oil: Wars, More Floods, More Heat and Misery — Everywhere
Oil is the fossil of ancient forests. Its discovery in the mid-19th century sparked the rapid industrialization of Western Europe, Russia, Japan, and America; it fueled two world wars and contributed to the industrialization of...
A journey through history
ForewordI spent about eight days in late September – early October 2025 traveling around Greece with my son and his family. We started in Kefalonia — the beautiful Ionian island where I was born. We rented a lovely two-story house near the...
Freedom, the Highest Good
The continuation of the article Ioannis Kapodistrias, President of Greece, 1828-1831. By Dionysios Tsokos - National historical Museum, Athens, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10436040 - https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Ioannis...
Freedom, the Highest Good
The continuation of the article Fragment A contains 27 of the 30 gears of the Meteoroscope. Note the connections of the gears. The X-ray of Fragment A is from the X-Tek Company and the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project. The...
Freedom, the Highest Good
Foreword Ancient Greece was not a Christian state or polity. The piety of the Greeks for thousands of years was love for ancestral gods. The greatest Greek poet and teacher of the Greeks, Homer, speaks of the gods in his epics, “Iliad” and “Odyssey.” The...
Filiatra: The Ugly Behind the Beauties of Modern Greece
Theodore Marangos from Filiatra, Peloponnese is an accomplished artist of Greek history and culture. In his 2007 work, It's Enough to Look Good, he summarizes the history of the small rural town/village, Filiatra, on the Ionian coast of southwestern Greece.
Minoan Civilization
Foreword In a lecture at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Minister of Culture of Greece, Lina Mendoni, said the following: “Today [12-07-2025] is a landmark day for our homeland, for the Greek people, for Crete, for Culture in its long historical...
National Salvation Strategy
Foreword For several years I have been a member of the International Hellenic Association for Greek professors and scholars with PhDs from all over the world, but mainly Greece and America. The name also has the English equivalent International Hellenic Association (IXA). The main...
The Aegean Has Been a Greek Homeland for Centuries
Greece is in danger On June 15, 2025, Nikos Konstantaras of Kathimerini tells us that Greece faces danger in its neighborhood. “The threats,” he says, “against the stability of our wider region multiply the risks for the...
Is Greece Becoming a Non-Viable Nation State?
The secrets of Greek demography A Greek newspaper editor, Nikos Konstandaras, said in the midst of the country's debt crisis, in 2013, that: "The Greeks are in a struggle for survival. And the odds are piling up against us. The fight is not only on the economic front......