Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1214
Flowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract a…
5 months, 1 week ago
Clifton Crais, "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 1213
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic with Mia Bennett
Episode 1212
Nowhere is the dual threat of climate change and geopolitical contest felt more strongly than in the Arctic. Sea ice is declining rapidly, wildfires …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
Episode 1211
Lithium is necessary for the green transition but its mining comes with significant environmental and social harms. This is the conundrum at the core…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Katharine K. Wilkinson, "Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home" (Amber Lotus Publishing, 2026)
Episode 1210
When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassiona…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Priyanka Kumar, "Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit" (Island Press, 2025)
Episode 1209
As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit--especially apples. …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Tim Altenhof, "Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings" (Zone Books, 2026)
Episode 1208
Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings (Zone Books, 2026) is a compelling and wide-ranging analysis of pneumatic phenomena in modern c…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Leuven UP, 2026)
Episode 1207
Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leuven UP, 2026) by Dr. Wout Saelens explores how the homes …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Caroline Tracey, "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Episode 1206
Salt lakes are some of the most beautiful and unusual landscapes that you can find on this planet, even as they can be quite alien to people used to …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Vojta Hybl, "Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell" (Frances Lincoln, 2026)
Episode 1205
What is that rock you’ve just picked up? Which minerals is it made of, what’s unique about it and what can it reveal about Earth’s deeper story?
Rocks…
5 months, 4 weeks ago