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Climate of Denial: Why Do Americans Doubt Climate Change?
Episode 22
Human-caused climate change is real and growing in impact. Yet many Americans see climate change as a belief that they can opt out of. Two belief str…
3 years, 4 months ago
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 139
In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more tha…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
Episode 118
Many of us have likely seen photos of the Aral Sea, and the rusted Soviet-era ships, sitting in the desert with no water in sight. The Aral Sea is no…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
Episode 132
What is the difference between global warming and climate change? This episode explores:
What led Dr. Wu into STEM, and to the study of climate chang…3 years, 4 months ago
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
Episode 2
Catherine Coleman Flowers, activist, author, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and MacArthur “genius prize” winne…
3 years, 4 months ago
Char Miller, "Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril" (Chin Music, 2022)
Episode 138
A collection of 42 essays meditating on both California’s natural gifts and its natural disasters, Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet…
3 years, 5 months ago
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
Episode 11
For most of human history, the Mediterranean was home to a significant number of pastoralists, who herded livestock along seasonal migratory routes. …
3 years, 5 months ago
Mathew Gandy, "Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 6
In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew Gandy explores urban nature as a multilayered mate…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 266
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against an…
3 years, 5 months ago
Finis Dunaway. "Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 118
In far northeastern Alaska lies one of the most remarkable, and contested, places in North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This coastal…
3 years, 5 months ago