Worshipping the Gas Station: Rethinking Energy with Bart Welling
This month we had a fascinating conversation with Bart Welling, whose presentation at the ASLE Conference this last summer was caught by Lindsay! Bart's research was informed by his own road trip arou...
3 Okt 202549min
Becoming Botanical: Plant Life in Modern Japan
This month we sat down with Jon Pitt to discuss his new book "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan." The book spans Japanese writers and filmmakers from the 1930s to today whose wo...
5 Sep 202547min
Defining Disaster, Defining Ecocinema: Taking a Closer Look at Japan with Rachel DiNitto
For this month’s episode, we sat down with Rachel DiNitto to discuss the pioneering edited volume Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema (2024) and her own chapter in it on "Toxicoscapes." With thematic cov...
3 Aug 202543min
Environmentalisms: Latinx Catholicism and the Environment
In this episode, Alex sat down with Amanda Baugh to chat about her new book, Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism. An ethnographic study of Hispanic Catholics, B...
3 Juli 202542min
One Day At A Time: Kate Rigby's Meditation on Creation
For this episode, we sat down with Kate Rigby to discuss her new book Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction. The text is a reclaiming of the ancient theological meditation form, the hexamero...
30 Maj 202557min
Creating Coralations: Melody Jue and Finding New Coral Protagonists
We sat down with Melody Jue for a second episode to discuss her new work Coralations, a fascinating deep dive into the coral we know and the coral we need to know. Though tropical corals inundate perc...
2 Maj 202545min
Building an Audio Series: BlueLab's "Mining for the Climate"
This month's episode is a podcast about a podcast! We sat down with Nate Otjen and Jessica Ng, two of the leaders of the audio story series "Mining for the Climate," to discuss the audio documentary s...
4 Apr 202552min
Arrhythmic Time Keeping: Seasonality in the Anthropocene
In this month's episode, we spoke with Sarah Dimick about her new book Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. It connects literature and the environment through an idea of seasonality and...
28 Feb 202536min
