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This Is Not a Rehearsal – Hala Alyan
This Is Not a Rehearsal – Hala Alyan

Season 8

Self-quarantined and isolated in her apartment in Brooklyn, Hala Alyan is more aware than ever of humanity’s interdependence—suddenly expose…

5 years, 10 months ago

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I Am Not Your Peril – Lisa Lee Herrick
I Am Not Your Peril – Lisa Lee Herrick

Season 8

In the wake of COVID-19, Lisa Lee Herrick challenges the resurgence of dangerous historical frames of race and belonging.

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In the Ground of Our Unknowing – David Abram
In the Ground of Our Unknowing – David Abram

Season 8

Facing the paradoxes and ambiguities enmeshed with the COVID-19 pandemic, David Abram finds beauty in the midst of shuddering terror. As we’…

5 years, 11 months ago

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What Difference Does a Day Make? Earth Day at Fifty – Paul Elie
What Difference Does a Day Make? Earth Day at Fifty – Paul Elie

Season 8

Paul Elie is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Reinventing Bach and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. As part of o…

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Among the Trees – Carl Phillips
Among the Trees – Carl Phillips

Season 7

In this extended meditation on the relationship between place and intimacy, the body and the word, Carl Phillips walks among trees to explor…

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The Poet and the Palm Tree – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
The Poet and the Palm Tree – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

Season 7

The poet W.S. Merwin spent the last four decades of his life on Maui, restoring a plot of abandoned land that would become one of the most d…

6 years ago

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Shaking the Viral Tree – a conversation with David Quammen
Shaking the Viral Tree – a conversation with David Quammen

Season 7

In this interview, science writer David Quammen, author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, speaks about the root c…

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Woods Work – William Bryant Logan
Woods Work – William Bryant Logan

Season 7

After visiting a two-thousand-year-old Linden tree in England, William Bryant Logan explores the nearly forgotten practice of coppicing, or …

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One Hundred and Eleven Trees – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
One Hundred and Eleven Trees – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

Season 7

When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that reclaims …

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On Survival: the Dead, the Sapling, and the Ancients – Lauren E. Oakes
On Survival: the Dead, the Sapling, and the Ancients – Lauren E. Oakes

Season 7

In this narrated essay, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes looks beyond the scientific lens of subject-object while studying the consequences of clim…

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