Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLindsay Starkey, "Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Episode 124
What is holding the oceans back from entirely flooding the earth? While a twenty-first century thinker may approach the answer to this question withi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Environmental Catastrophe
Episode 90
In this episode John Yargo speaks with Kim about Environmental Catastrophe.
In the episode John quotes Hannah Arendt and N.K. Jemisin, discusses a Sha…
3 years, 9 months ago
Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 105
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press, 2022) by Dr. Michael Hathaway pushes today’s mushroom rena…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sébastien Philippe and Tomas Statius, "Toxique: Enquête sur les essais nucléaires français en Polynésie" (Companyédition PUF/Disclose, 2021)
Episode 99
What happens when you bring together an important collection of previously secret archival documents dealing with France's nuclear detonations in the…
3 years, 10 months ago
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
Episode 15
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. In our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant's largely-forgotten history--how it poisoned th…
3 years, 10 months ago
China’s Role in the Future of Green Energy
Episode 142
How green is green energy really? And what role does Asia, more specifically China play in the transition to green energy? On the 7th of July, Intern…
3 years, 10 months ago
Fred Delcomyn and James L. Ellis, "A Backyard Prairie: The Hidden Beauty of Tallgrass and Wildflowers" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Episode 76
In 2003 Fred Delcomyn imagined his backyard of two and a half acres, farmed for corn and soybeans for generations, restored to tallgrass prairie. Ove…
3 years, 10 months ago
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
Episode 14
In this episode of Cited: What it means to live in a place where your home can give you cancer.
Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up …
3 years, 10 months ago
Tema Milstein and José Castro-Sotomayor, "Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 182
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (Routledge, 2020) brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. Tema Milstein an…
3 years, 10 months ago
Carl H. Nightingale, "Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 3
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good an…
3 years, 10 months ago