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Advocating for the power of language to bring us into deeper awareness and connection with our landscapes, acclaimed British author Robert Macfarla...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:00
A decade into a journalism project that follows our early ancestors’ migration pathway out of Africa, Paul Salopek joins us to discuss the ways wal...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:01
Can something as simple and everyday as our food system be a rich avenue for remembering our way back into relationship with the land? In this conv...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:00
In this double-bill episode, we’re sharing a special conversation with author, eco-philosopher, and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy, along with her re...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:01
What other kinds of time exist outside of the constraints of standardized, mechanized clock time? Jenny Odell speaks to us about her book Saving Ti...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 52:01
A deadly fungal infection is pushing some bat species to the brink of extinction. As scientists scramble to track the spread of white nose syndrome...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:35
According to an Anishinaabe prophecy, manoomin – wild rice – is what brought the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples to the Great Lakes.But starti...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:40
America’s bird, the bald eagle, is facing a tremendous challenge. As scavengers, they feed on what we and other animals leave behind. But lead cont...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:03
Harmful algal blooms are a growing concern in the Great Lakes. The toxins they produce can close beaches and even poison drinking water. What’s fue...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:45
In this interview, artist, writer, and technologist James Bridle questions the parameters of the artificial intelligence we are creating and wonder...
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 52:01
In today’s episode, a special conversation with cultural ecologist and philosopher David Abram lifts the curtain of our humancentric perception to ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 01:09:07
In this conversation, Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker Andri Snær
Magnason delves into our sense of time amid this moment of ecological u...
- Added: May 27, 2024
- Length: 52:31
Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:57
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "In Your Dreams" - Did you dream last night? Or are you among the millions of Americans who are not only sleep deprived but dream deprive...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 01:59:01
A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have ag...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 9
A settlement for the largest civil penalty resulting from the Clean Air Act has just been reached. The EPA, DOJ and the State of California have ag...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 58:57
Connor visited the site of the new Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Center. This is the largest public utilities project in SLC's history, coming i...
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 08:54
We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 10
We often talk about a “just transition” from dirty to clean energy as if the term means the same thing to everyone. Indigenous people have seen the...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 58:58
HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke recor...
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
On today's show, we'll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We'll be looking at the environmental impact of the ra...
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...
- Added: Aug 20, 2023
- Length: 58:38