Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021)
Episode 95
A little more than 70 percent of Planet Earth is ocean. So wouldn’t a better name for our global home be Planet Ocean?
You may be surprised at just ho…
4 years, 7 months ago
Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
Episode 59
There’s nothing more vital to survival than water.
“Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!”, said the Ancient Mariner, in the poem by Samuel…
4 years, 7 months ago
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 45
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature …
4 years, 7 months ago
Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 80
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti's Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020)…
4 years, 7 months ago
Rocio Gomez, "Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Episode 134
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining …
4 years, 7 months ago
Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 66
Harnessing the Sun is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics and Head of the Climate C…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jaime Lowe, "Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California's Wildfires" (MCD, 2021)
Episode 43
A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires for less than a dollar an hour On February 23, 2016,…
4 years, 8 months ago
David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 79
Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound (University of Washington Press, 2021) tells a story about exploitation and a story of hope. F…
4 years, 8 months ago
Milieudefensie v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations?
Episode 53
In May 2021, a landmark court order from a district court in the Netherlands ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest fossil fuel companies i…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ranae Lenor Hanson, "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 78
Ranea Lenor Hanson's Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress (U Minnesota Press, 2021) weaves a narrative that captures life on the water,…
4 years, 8 months ago