Season 3

Episode 24: Humans Need Nature

Jeanne Gang has an explicit intention to make the human built environment as kind as possible for birds, nature, wildlife and the Earth’s atmosphere…

EPISODE 23: Cutting Through the Noise On Climate: How to Do Something That Matters, Do It Consistently, and Then Move On with Your Life

Climate change is scary. The magnitude of the problem makes it hard for people to commit to direct action to solve it, hoping instead (reasonably but perhaps impractically!) that government will do the work…

Episode 22: The Grace of Going Unseen

Akiko Busch is well-known for her writing on design, culture and the natural world. Her essays continue to touch on those subjects although increasingly, it incorporates—or directly addresses—the natural world…

Episode 21: The Coat & the Goat

Andrew Robichaud explores the peculiar coexistence of people and farm animals in America’s cities. In the 1800s, it wasn’t unusual for men wearing top hats and formal attire to stride down tony Manhattan avenues right next to goats and cows…

Episode 20: The Weirdest Way

Dr. Katy Greenwald has a longstanding interest in puzzling out the success and persistence of North America’s “gene thieves,” the unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders…

Episode 19: Different Kinds of Aliveness

David Sibley started drawing birds at age five and never stopped. Having an ornithologist father and being around his father’s friends, all of whom were also interested in birds, made birdwatching seem an ordinary thing all grown men did…

THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD IS NOW CARBON NEUTRAL. We’ve reduced what we could and we’ve purchased offsets for the remainder of our greenhouse gas emissions from Tradewater which concentrates on removal of the most potent, highest impact greenhouse gases.

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