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Back to SearchMarcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024)
Episode 120
Today I talked to Marcia Bjornerud about Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (Flatiron Books, 2024).
Rocks are the record of our …
1 year, 7 months ago
David N. Livingstone, "The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 203
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Omar Dahbour, "Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 366
Part of what makes the challenges that collectively are called the “environmental crisis” so difficult is that the vocabulary we deploy in thinking a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 90
Jana Byars talks to Ellen Arnold about Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, 300 - 1100 (Cambridge UP, 2024). Fishermen, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Episode 75
From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundanc…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 93
Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2024) presents an innovative and imaginative rea…
1 year, 7 months ago
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores
Episode 255
Our book is: Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores (UP of Colorado, 2024) which presents a new look at how the big…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ethan Tapper, "How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World" (Broadleaf Books, 2024)
Episode 202
For more than a decade, Ethan Tapper has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the worlds of forestry, conservation, and ecosystem s…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jamieson Webster, "On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 258
A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive. And alt…
1 year, 7 months ago
Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 107
As a rising infrastructure powerhouse, China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second t…
1 year, 7 months ago