Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence (ep405)
Lama Khatieb on food interdependence, Al-Barakeh, Jordanian farming, wheat production, local food knowledge, community empowerment
Daniel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war (Ep404)
Daniel Ruiz-Serna on human and more-than-human rights, the ecological violence of war, living territories in Bajo Atrato, Columbia, and more.
Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons (Ep402)
Dr. Aparna Venkatesan on night sky heritage, interplanetary justice, cosmos, Indigenous wisdom, space commons, privatization, extractive colonial legacies, science
Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes (Ep401)
Melissa Nelson on reclaiming sustainability, Turtle Island, ancestry, heritage, composting, regenerating, death, decay, plants, justice, place, cosmology, relationality
Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries (Ep400)
Anand Giridharadas on philanthropy and the elite “change-making,” call-out and call-in cultures, building empathy and moving beyond political binaries, and more.
Vince Beiser: The global sand trade and how it remade ‘modernity’ (Ep399)
Vince Beiser on the history of how sand remade western civilization's blueprints of modernity, our global reliance on sand trade and black markets of sand, and more
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Artisanal futures and economics of happiness (ep398)
Helena Norberg-Hodge on localization, decentralization, globalization, technology, new economies, community-lead economies, local futures
Rosamund Portus: A preemptive mourning of bee decline (ep397)
Rosamund Portus on bee/insect species extinction, slow violence, multi-species entanglement, ecological grief, art, creativity, and advocacy
Staci K. Haines: Somatics for trauma healing and transformative justice (ep396)
Staci K. Haines on somatics, power-over dynamics, hierarchies, and collective interdependence
Andreas Weber: The ecological dimension of love (ep395)
Andreas Weber on the ecological dimension of love, seeing the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic reality, and more.
Vijay Prashad: Reviving collective life and scaling small gestures of care (ep394)
Vijay Prashad on scaling up gestures of humanity, reviving our collective lives through rebuilding confidence and capacity, and more.
James Bridle: ‘Artificial’ intelligence and lies of a computerizable world (ep393)
James Bridle on the fallacy of a computable world, corporations as a form of artificial intelligence, and more.
Eben Kirksey: Boundless entanglements with the virosphere (ep392)
Eben Kirksey on the thought-provoking lessons from thinking with viruses.
Enrique Salmón: Ancestral foodways that enrich local landscapes (ep391)
Enrique Salmón on “eating the landscape,” kincentric ecology, living knowledges, and more.