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Vince Beiser: The global sand trade and how it remade ‘modernity’ (Ep399)
Hundreds of people have been murdered over sand in the last few years. Even though most of us barely ever think about it, sand is actually the most used natural resource in the world after air and...
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Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries (Ep400)
This kind of ‘win-win’ social change is dangerous not just because it obscures how little is changing, but also because plutocrats use this fake change as a smokescreen to distract us from their...
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Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes (Ep401)
To have true knowledge symbiosis—where there is harmony, balance, inter-relationality, and each [knowledge system] contributing respectfully with care, thoughtfulness, humility—is a messy, entangled...
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Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons (Ep402)
The legacy of Earth colonization… is still [in its] early days. We can protect this shared environment and also what I see as the intangible heritage of humanity. Space belongs to us all. — DR....
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The political questions of science and technology...
I think the bigger question is not necessarily about physics, but generally speaking, about how we culturally engage with science, the role of science in our communities, how it shapes our mindset,...
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Daniel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war (Ep404)
Given the kind of things that I saw, like the consequences of war, I came to understand that with the kind of violence performed in this region, you cannot always set a clear boundary between what’s...
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Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence (ep405)
[...] The United States started to heavily invest in subsidizing growing wheat for exporting purposes. That resulted in flooding international markets, including Jordan’s markets. Cheap American...
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Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling (ep406)
Black women are living in a state of emergency. I thought it would be tremendously irresponsible of me to ask these women to share their stories with me and then keep it to myself, within academia,...
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Patricia Kaishian: Lessons from fungi as queer companions (ep407)
What if the framework of conservation wasn’t about proving that each individual species was either at risk or not, but recognizing that there isn’t actually a true ability to separate any given...
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Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world (ep408)
Am I a human being having a microbial experience? Or am I collection of microbes having a human experience? — Siv Watkins In this episode we are joined by Siv Watkins, founder of Microanimism: a...
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Charlotte Wrigley: Respecting permafrost and moving beyond their stories of...
I wanted to approach permafrost to resist this idea of it as an apocalypse or as a scientific object that is able to be fully understood. — Charlotte Wrigley In this episode we welcome our guest...
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Zoe Todd: Embodied listening for freshwater fish futures (ep410)
My life goal is to get our governments to understand that Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures are completely linked. — Zoe Todd In this episode, we welcome Dr. Zoe Todd, who invites...
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Dekila Chungyalpa: Engaging faith leaders for planetary healing (ep411)
I started realizing that engaging with faith leaders and having these deeper dialogues around contemplative exercises might be beneficial to the environmental community. — Dekila Chungyalpa In this...
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Laurie Palmer: Lessons from lichen worlds (ep412)
You can’t cultivate [lichen] through artificial means... That is a mystery at the heart of this symbiotic relationship that is a fundamental resistance to capitalism and commodification. It hasn’t...
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Hilding Neilson: Astro-colonialism and honoring the stories of our dark skies...
As it is, space exploration is inherently colonial because we’ve ever only done it from a colonial perspective. Maybe we look at space exploration through the lens of how Indigenous peoples have...
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Ang Roell: Collective care and responsiveness in the hives of honeybees (ep414)
One in four bites of our food is pollinated by honeybees, but at what cost in the system that we are in now? How could that look different if our agriculture was more localized, regionalized, and...
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BONUS: Imagination, escapism, and disorientation in stretching alternative...
We welcome you into this behind-the-scenes conversation featuring Gabes Torres, a contributor and the advisor of our new 8-week program of daily imagination and creative prompts and practices,...
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Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration (ep415)
Human and grey whale relationships really interrupt the kinds of binaries that we often try to put on human relationships with whales more broadly. — Anna Guasco What might the histories of human...
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Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness...
I fell in love even more deeply with the seed world because it’s a world that looks like it’s dead but actually it is subversive. It is very insisting, quite resilient, and full of life. — Vivien...
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Jared Margulies: Succulent collection and extinction from the illicit trade...
What we’re talking about are plants that people desire for ornamental collection and will oftentimes go to great lengths to get them. Sometimes, that desire leads to conservation problems, and sadly…...
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