Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDeborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 102
In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases ar…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 316
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked.…
4 years, 1 month ago
Merging the Local with the Global: A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate
Episode 120
In the past few years, youth-led groups such as the Fridays for Future school strike movement have changed the face of climate activism globally. In …
4 years, 1 month ago
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Episode 1183
In Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022), Dr. Susanne A. Wengle s…
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Laura J. Martin, "Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 101
Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions sp…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ecosphere
Episode 9
John Linstrom talks about the ecosphere, a way of understanding the world deriving principally from the work of ecologist and philosopher Stan Rowe. …
4 years, 1 month ago
Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
Episode 114
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned University of Cambridge political theorist Joh…
4 years, 1 month ago
Bethany Wiggin et al., "Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Episode 103
Time cannot be measured in so many coffee spoons, or that is what editors, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Dr. Carolyn Fornoff, and Dr. Patricia Eunji Kim argue …
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Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger
Episode 113
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Andy Hoffman, the dynamic and innovative business profe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 233
As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We yearn for Rome's power but fear Rome's ruin--will we turn out like th…
4 years, 2 months ago