Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEdie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 98
Ocean Enlightenment is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Edie Widder, Founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at Ocean Res…
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Saumya Roy, "Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings" (Profile Books, 2021)
Episode 62
In 2016, the city of Mumbai was blanketed in toxic smog. The source? Fires at the nearby dumping ground of Deonar: the country’s oldest. The Deonar f…
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Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action
Episode 61
Education is one of our main weapons in the fight against climate change. The need of the hour, therefore, is to enhance the world’s commitment to cl…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 101
Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford UP, 2018) explores the connection between cinema and artificial weather, climates,…
4 years, 5 months ago
Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 83
Coral Reefs: Science and Survival is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Charles Sheppard, Professor of Life Sciences …
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Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021)
Episode 106
Drawing on thirty years of research, Goulson has written an accessible, fascinating, and important book that examines the evidence of an alarming dro…
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Janna Coomans, "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 92
By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries, Janna Coomans debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and …
4 years, 5 months ago
Pankaj Jain, "Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability" (Ashgate, 2011)
Episode 162
In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its nat…
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Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)
Episode 9
Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—a…
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Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray, "Technology in World Civilization" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 4
Technology in World Civilization represents a milestone history of technology. First published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recen…
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