Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Kateman, "Meat Me Halfway" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
Episode 50
We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the sol…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kirstin Munro, "The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 89
Based on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, Kirstin Munro's book The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-C…
3 years, 2 months ago
Andrew Curley, "Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
Episode 148
For almost fifty years, coal dominated the Navajo economy. But in 2019 one of the Navajo Nation’s largest coal plants closed.
This comprehensive new w…
3 years, 2 months ago
Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 145
How did the Serengeti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?
In Our Gigant…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Cooperative Extension System
Episode 114
In this episode of High Theory, Karl Dudman tells us about the Cooperative Extension System.
Formed in 1914 as an extension of the Land Grant Universi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Christopher J. Preston, "Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 49
The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Joseph Giacomelli, "Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 145
Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable in the U…
3 years, 2 months ago
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
Episode 174
What does climate change adaptation look like in Bangladesh? And what kind of gendered social landscape does climate change adaptation have to naviga…
3 years, 2 months ago
Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 86
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures wi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Episode 46
Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicle T…
3 years, 2 months ago