Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Eyler, "Last Days of the Mighty Mekong" (Zed Book, 2019)
Episode 66
The Mekong River is one of the world’s great rivers. From its source in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau it snakes down through southern China and then bo…
5 years, 8 months ago
Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 10
Debjani Bhattacharyya’s Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press) asks: What happens when a distant…
5 years, 8 months ago
Sue Stuart-Smith, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature (Scribner, 2020)
Episode 113
Sue Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardenin…
5 years, 8 months ago
Carl Safina, "Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace" (Henry Holt, 2020)
Episode 2
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human accomplishment. What are those people afraid of? Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Familie…
5 years, 8 months ago
Karen Holl, "Primer of Ecological Restoration" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 54
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscape…
5 years, 8 months ago
Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger" (Portfolio, 2020)
Episode 56
What would actually make America great? More people.
If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost…
5 years, 8 months ago
Chantal Bilodeau, "Forward" (Tanlonbooks 2018)
Episode 26
Over the past ten years, Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate c…
5 years, 9 months ago
Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nation in 20th-Century Africa" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Episode 82
The protection of African wildlife enjoys the support of large numbers of individuals and institutions throughout the world. In Wildlife between Empi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Brad Walters, "The Greening of Saint Lucia: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the West Indies" (UWI Press, 2019)
Episode 61
Saint Lucia’s rural landscape is more forested today than at any time in at least seventy-five years (probably much longer). This change is profoundl…
5 years, 9 months ago
Nathalie Peutz, "Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Episode 7
Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage …
5 years, 9 months ago