A podcast exploring how culture shapes our relationship to the natural world
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The Episodes
The Invention of the Alphabet with Johanna Drucker
“Letters have power,” Johanna Drucker tells me. But what is the nature of this power and how did it all begin? Whereas writing was invented a number of times,...
William Bryant Logan on the Ancient History of Managed Woodlands
William Bryant Logan’s book Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees opens the door to a little known history, in which people all over the world, from Norway to...
John Roulac on Agroforestry
Picking up where we left off in the spring, we return to the topic of farming through a conversation with John Roulac, entrepreneur and executive producer of the movie...
Nate Looney on Urban Farming, Jewish Ethics and Diversity Equity and Inclusion
For the second of three episodes on farming, I talk to Nate Looney about Jewish ethics, Diversity Equity and Inclusion and, yes, farming, specifically, his experience as an urban...
Filmmaker Jim Becket on The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
“When you control seed, you control life on earth,” says Indian environmental activist and scholar Vandana Shiva in the new documentary film The Seeds of Vandana Shiva. Known as...
Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise
Mermaids are the fly in the ointment in Lydia Millet’s very funny satirical novel Mermaids in Paradise, “an absurdist entry into the mundane,” as she puts it. And, yet,...