Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIndra’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 …
3 years, 1 month 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, …
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month ago
Flora Samuel, "Housing for Hope and Wellbeing" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 157
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellb…
3 years, 1 month ago
Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 46
The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries (Cambridge UP, 2023) provides a comprehensive examination of European engagement w…
3 years, 1 month ago
Erika Marie Bsumek, "The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Episode 349
The Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River provides electricity for some forty million people, and is one of the largest sources of water in the Ameri…
3 years, 1 month ago
Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 192
For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an ove…
3 years, 1 month ago