PETER WOHLLEBEN on the Hidden Life of Trees /67

Following a nine-thousand-year journey, Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the ancient technology embedded in our relationship with corn.

FE3.3 - Nature, by Design? Freakological Fallacies (Part 3)

Set in 2024, the sci-fi classic shows an America ravaged by climate change. Here's what the book got right — and what we can learn from it.

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

New Year's Eve, late 1800s. A group of loggers in an isolated lumber camp yearn to celebrate with their loved ones, but the river is frozen. If the men want to see their families, their only choice is to make a pact with the Devil to ride in a flying canoe. Original music and animation preserve the spirit of this Quebec legend.

What’s the cultural transformation Westerners must make to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other?

The world as we know it appears to be unravelling and becoming unmade at a bewildering and unnerving pace, but as Anishinaabe scholar, author and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, that’s an experience all too familiar to Indigenous peoples, whose worlds were undone by colonialism. In her latest award-winning book, Theory of Water, Simpson draws on the Anishinaabe creation story, Indigenous ethics of relationality and reciprocity, and the wisdom of water to chart a course for remaking a better, more sustainable and just world. In particular, she takes inspiration from sintering — the way snowflakes bind together to become a bigger, stronger whole while taking nothing away from themselves or each other — as a model for living in the world. Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead won the 2025 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Climate change. We know. It can feel too overwhelming. But what if there was a show about climate change that left you feeling... energized? One so filled with possibility that you actually wanted to listen? Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds, as we bring you smart, inspiring stories about the mess we're in and how we can get ourselves out of it. Check out our Calls to Action archive here for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. How to Save a Planet is reported and produced by Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz, Anna Ladd, Daniel Ackerman, and Hannah Chinn. Our intern is Nicole Welch. Our supervising producers are Katelyn Bogucki and Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Peter Leonard and Emma Munger.

Hosts Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown read the works of Octavia Butler one chapter at a time, bringing a modern analysis and scholarship to the work, and offering listeners guiding questions for applying the lessons in their own lives and community work. Produced by Kat Aaron.

St. Pierre has developed this complexity—desire and aversion, serenity and gloom—in her practice over time, addressing the fallout of industrialized life ways, while avoiding simplistic critiques o…

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On view until 11 August 2024 — Laura St. Pierre’s exhibition "All t...

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