Season 4

Episode 28: The Wild Card

Sarah Cowles encourages radically rethinking the synthetic landscapes found in cities. When welcoming nature to our human cities, do we aim for an…

Episode 27: The World Is Not Static

Dr. Caitlin Rankin’s research shows that a long-held theory about why an ancient civilization passed out of existence was wrong. Cahokia Mounds in…

Episode 26: Bees Understand the Concept of Zero

Dr. Scarlett Howard’s research on cognition of honeybees got a lot of media attention when in 2018, she published a paper that showed bees can…

Episode 25: Think Beyond the Possible

Tony Hiss’s new book, “Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth,” lays out both the urgency for and possibility of protecting…

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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