Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUlbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 305
For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes ha…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sally Hawkins et al., "Routledge Handbook of Rewilding" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 166
Routledge Handbook of Rewilding (Routledge, 2022) provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and current practices of ‘rewilding’. Rewi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Satish Kumar and Lorna Howarth, "Regenerative Learning: Nurturing People and Caring for the Planet" (Salt Desert Media, 2022)
Episode 210
Be The Change! Are you a policy maker? Parent? Teacher? Regenerative Learning: Nurturing People and Caring for the Planet (Salt Desert Media, 2022) i…
2 years, 9 months ago
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
Episode 141
America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities--Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others--increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutt…
2 years, 9 months ago
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
Episode 143
We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
Episode 140
We will not find “exposure to burning coal” listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthma, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Vinod Thomas, "Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 165
Vinod Thomas' book Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) presents essential insights on the interaction between…
2 years, 9 months ago
Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 129
Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ant…
2 years, 9 months ago
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "From the Pandemic to Utopia: The Future Begins Now" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 77
The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contrad…
2 years, 9 months ago
Simone M. Müller, "The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 162
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in searc…
2 years, 10 months ago