re: Wild Boyce Upholt
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How do we live on this Earth? How should we? Our answers to these questions are shaped by our idea of "nature" as something separate from humanity.
re: Wild is a series of conversations with people who are pushing the boundaries of that old idea. We'll talk to people who -- instead of conceiving of the wilderness as a place apart -- live, eat, and work in a more-than-human world.
New episodes drop twice a month, on the first and third Wednesdays.
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Jessica Camille Aguirre: The View From Space
Jessica Camille Aguirre is a writer whose work focuses on climate change and extremes.
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[01:41] AFAR Magazine: “The Promise and Peril of Space Tourism”
[05:13] Frank White’s The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution
[06:34] The Space Studies Institute: Gerard K. O’Neill
[08:19] NASA: “Blue Marble”
[08:23] NASA: “Earthrise”
[08:58] Kenneth E. Boulding: “The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth”
[09:14] Wikipedia: “Whole Earth Catalog”
[18:02] Harper’s Magazine: “Another Green World”
[22:25] University of Arizona: “Biosphere 2”
[31:56] Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature
[36:40] Southlands newsletter -
Justin Gregg: Us Dumb Humans
Justin Gregg is a science writer and animal cognition researcher.
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[0:52] Justin Gregg's If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
[9:39] EuroNews: “Explained: Who has nuclear weapons in Europe and where are they?”
[24:58] Arik Kirschenbaum's The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens—and Ourselves -
Defending the Forest
May and Hadley identify as members of the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement.
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[0:05] Atlanta City Studio’s Our Future City report (h/t Charles Bethea at the New Yorker)
[1:18] Defend the Atlanta Forest
[12:41] Resident Advisor: “Inside the American South’s Anti-Cop Raves”
[19:23] Rolling Stone: “The Battle for ‘Cop City’” -
Laura J. Martin: Designing the Wild
Laura J. Martin is a historian and ecologist who studies how people shape the habitats of other species. She is the author of Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration and an environmental studies professor at Williams College.
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[1:21] Laura J. Martin’s Wild by Design
[3:47] The Society for Ecological Restoration
[7:49] “A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030” -
Wyatt Williams: Life and Death and Meat
Wyatt Williams is a writer and a former restaurant critic.
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[1:19] Springer Mountain: Meditations on Killing and Eating
[2:01] Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma
[2:04] Food Inc.
[9:45] “Will the Next Pandemic Start with Chickens?” (The New Republic)
[10:58] “When the National Bird is a Burden” (The New York Times Magazine)
[14:09] Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm
[17:16] Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals
[23:44] “What Went Wrong With Eleven Madison Park's Vegan Menu" (Bon Appetit); “Restaurant Review: Eleven Madison Park's Vegan Menu” (The New York Times)
[28:39] Emma Marris’s Wild Souls -
Rien Fertel: The Pelican Holds Everything
Rien Fertel is the author of Brown Pelican and three previous books: Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera, The One True Barbecue, and Imagining the Creole City. He is currently a Visiting Professor of History at Tulane University.
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Mentioned in this episode:
[1:14] Rien Fertel’s Brown Pelican
[2:25] Fantasy Birding
[2:50] eBird
[9:20] Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
[15:19] Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
[15:58] Walter Anderson
[17:46] Jack Davis’s The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
Customer Reviews
Fascinating
I learn something new every episode!
Eye-opening
I’m a big fan of Boyce Upholt’s own writings, so it’s great to hear how he explores the writings and thinkings of others. This is an excellent series of thoughtful interviews on the current state of nature, from the unique perspectives of experts in the field. I particularly enjoyed this recent episode on rethinking how we live with wildlife in the urban landscape. Looking forward to the next episode!