Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe So-Called Mystery of Rapa Nui (AKA Easter Island)
Three hundred years ago on Easter Sunday, 1722, European explorers landed on a South Pacific island that they called “Easter Island.” And they were s…
4 years, 6 months ago
How to Build a Solar-Powered Website
Like most modern publications, Low-tech Magazine has a website. But when you scroll through theirs, you’ll notice an icon in the corner: the weather …
4 years, 6 months ago
Frankenfish
Lake trout are on life support in Lake Michigan. They rely on intense breeding and stocking by federal fisheries. There was a breakthrough last summe…
4 years, 7 months ago
Outside/Inbox: You Can't Get Further Outdoors than Space
In this episode, the final frontier of the outdoors: space! From rocket particles, to ominous theories about what might happen if we ever make contac…
4 years, 7 months ago
Holy Scat! Why Antlers Are Freaking Amazing
Antler tissue is the fastest growing animal tissue on the planet. It grows faster than a human embryo, faster even than a cluster of cancer cells. On…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Immigrant Apple and The Hard Cider Comeback
Forget about beer, or even water; it was hard apple cider that was THE drink of choice in colonial America. Even kids drank it! And since it’s made f…
4 years, 8 months ago
What the Tofurkey is Going On with Fake Meat?
Move over, beef: there’s a new burger in town. Plant-based meats are sizzling hot right now; in 2020 alone, the alternative meat industry saw a recor…
4 years, 8 months ago
Even Hikers Get The Blues
When Jocelyn Smith was growing up, she told her friends and family she didn’t want to go to college. Instead, her goal was to hike all 2,190 miles of…
4 years, 8 months ago
Dispatches from the New American Shore
When writer Elizabeth Rush visited neighborhoods already transformed by rising seas, she noticed that many people did not use terms like “climate cha…
4 years, 9 months ago
The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part II, The Mountain
Decades before the first international permaculture conference or certified organic tomato, a farmer on an island in southern Japan turned his back o…
4 years, 9 months ago