Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
Episode 39
The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral charact…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
Episode 1027
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Jessica Smith, Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department and Dean’s Fellow for Earth a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
Episode 29
This is a special episode that features a conversation between Sonia Bussu and Hans Asenbaum on democracy, capitalism, climate and the practices and …
1 year, 4 months ago
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
Episode 116
Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, in Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Env…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
Episode 210
This is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS—a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of—poisoned the entire country. Based on origi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 1023
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter …
1 year, 4 months ago
Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 363
Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country.…
1 year, 5 months ago
Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 1021
After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ted Levin, "The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World" (Green Writers Press, 2025)
Episode 209
In The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World (Green Writers Press, 2025), a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer…
1 year, 5 months ago
Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
Episode 61
In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set out to find the Venn diagram intersection of tech and fiction—only to realize that Kim Stanley Robinson had staked hi…
1 year, 5 months ago