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Back to SearchJosep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 38
I recently sat down with Josep M. Coll to discuss his new book Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation (…
4 years, 6 months ago
Climate Change and Individual Moral Duties
Episode 55
The global trends of increasing climate change are predicted to intensify over the next few decades. General consensus remains that climate change is…
4 years, 6 months ago
J. Shapiro and J-A. McNeish, "Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 86
Judith Shapiro and John-Andrew McNeish's book Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance (Routledge, 2021) emphasizes how the spectru…
4 years, 6 months ago
Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Episode 47
In her new book Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene (Brandeis UP, 2021), environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “gho…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jordan Salama, "Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena" (Catapult, 2021)
Episode 85
Jordan Salama’s Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena (Catapult Press, 2021) is a travelogue for a new generation about a journe…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jen Corrinne Brown, "Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West" (U Washington Press, 2017)
Episode 80
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But a…
4 years, 6 months ago
Chris McLaughlin, "Mississippi Barking: Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Episode 32
On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana…
4 years, 6 months ago
Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 99
Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic …
4 years, 6 months ago
Julia E. Ault, "Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 134
When East Germany collapsed in 1989-1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The com…
4 years, 6 months ago
Todd LeVasseur, "Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Episode 83
In Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future (Lexington Books, 2021), Todd LeVasseur explores the interface of bodies and religion by investiga…
4 years, 7 months ago