Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid Bond, "Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 143
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 142
From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that repr…
3 years, 3 months ago
Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 101
How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Politics of Bicycling
Episode 39
Zack Furness, an associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, talks about his 2010 book, One Less Car: Bicycling and the Po…
3 years, 3 months ago
Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 87
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, M…
3 years, 3 months ago
Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 52
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale UP, 2021) is a multidisciplinary study of the ecolo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Episode 141
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesiz…
3 years, 3 months ago
Getting to Net Zero: A Conversation with Christian Arno
Episode 142
Kimon and Richard speak with Christian Arno, founder and CEO of Pawprint, about how companies can effectively achieve sustainability goals.
As a young…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ruth Rogaski, "Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 481
Among all the world’s most storied and legend-filled regions, the place known to some over time as ‘Manchuria’ has had an especially wide range of id…
3 years, 3 months ago
How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
Season 2 Episode 31
Journalist Katherine Blunt, who writes about renewable energy and utilities for the Wall Street Journal, talks about her new book, California Burning…
3 years, 4 months ago