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Back to SearchGina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 74
Guest Gina Warren discusses her newest book Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, published May 2021 by University of Washington Pr…
4 years, 10 months ago
Stacia Ryder et al., "Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 37
Through various international case studies presented by both practitioners and scholars, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Pre…
4 years, 10 months ago
Nicoletta Batini, "The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet" (Island Press, 2021)
Episode 291
In The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet (Island Press, 2021), Dr. Nicoletta Batini, and co-authors, unpack the…
4 years, 10 months ago
Aase J. Kvanneid, "Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 67
Aase Kvaneid’s new book explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front lin…
4 years, 10 months ago
Todd M. Kerstetter, "Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin" (Texas Tech UP, 2019)
Episode 65
If floods are inevitable, why do humans insist on building alongside riverbanks? Todd Kerstetter, professor of history at Texas Christian University,…
4 years, 10 months ago
From the Archives: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices in Cambodia with Professor Daniel Tan
Episode 35
Improper pest management has led to significant yield loss in rice and other crop harvests in Cambodia, causing economic losses to farmers and enviro…
4 years, 11 months ago
Kristin Poling, "Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Episode 108
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier…
4 years, 11 months ago
Jenny Price, "Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Episode 66
We’ve been “saving the planet” for decades…and environmental crises just get worse. All this Tesla driving and LEED building and carbon trading seem…
4 years, 11 months ago
Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 70
Popular discussions of China’s growth prospects often focus on the success or failure specific industries. They might address the challenges rising w…
4 years, 11 months ago
Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" (HarperOne, 2021)
Episode 30
Although it is not described as such anywhere in the book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2021) is indeed a system…
4 years, 11 months ago