Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMontserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, "Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 1135
To think through soil is to engage with some of the most critical issues of our time. In addition to its agricultural role in feeding eight billion p…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024)
Episode 1134
"The Coast has been battered for years by decisions made by those who don’t live there and don’t have any connection to the place. It started early."…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Gregory S. Wilson, "Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Episode 1133
In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand n…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Chad Augustine Córdova, "Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France" (Northwestern UP, 2025)
Episode 1132
What good is aesthetics in a time of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France (…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Jessica F. Green, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 1131
It’s no secret that the Paris Agreement and voluntary efforts to address climate change are failing. Governments have spent three decades crafting in…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Joshua Duclos, "Wilderness, Morality, and Value" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 38
What if wilderness is bad for wildlife? This question motivates the philosophical investigation in Wilderness, Morality, and Value (Lexington Books, …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Episode 1129
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his gl…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 76
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk i…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Thomas Princen, "Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1127
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michig…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Conversations with Birds
Episode 1126
Growing up at the feet of the Himalayas in northern India, Kumar took for granted her immersion in a lush natural world. After moving to North Americ…
10 months ago