Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility" (Haymarket, 2023)
Episode 168
These days, with catastrophe after catastrophe, it can be easy to turn to despair and to believe that there is nothing we can do. But writer Rebecca …
3 years ago
Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 240
At a moment when the world has tipped over into irreversible violence and corruption, a divinity contacts a righteous man. The man is directed to bui…
3 years, 1 month ago
Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 408
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the…
3 years, 1 month ago
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
Episode 164
In Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022), Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the il…
3 years, 1 month ago
Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins, "Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Episode 46
The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives ma…
3 years, 1 month ago
Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Episode 167
Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis (U Georgia Press, 2023) turns an envir…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ulbe 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month ago