Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHeather White, "One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet" (Harper Horizon, 2022)
Episode 163
The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental h…
3 years, 1 month ago
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 97
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy?
Focusing on the special economic zones resul…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sarah E. Vaughn, "Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 160
Sarah E. Vaughn’s Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke UP, 2022) examines climate adaptation strategies that upend the n…
3 years, 1 month ago
Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 242
Vincanne Adams's book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology tha…
3 years, 2 months ago
Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 158
In From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2022), Professor Marco Grasso examines the respo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Simone Ferracina, "Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 88
Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Simone Ferracina's book…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
Episode 68
Amidst all the talk of a green revolution what about the blue stuff? There are the seas that will wash over inhabited land, there’s the sea economy w…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Episode 120
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, ba…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas
Episode 166
Like wolves, orcas have been loved and loathed throughout history. What created this complicated relationship between humans and whales? And have we …
3 years, 2 months ago
Erik Kojola, "Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 298
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in …
3 years, 3 months ago