Best Ecoliving Podcasts (2024)

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Perdita Finn: Sitting with the wisdoms of darkness, death, and decay 39:50

1d ago39:50

39:50

What could it mean to heal our relationship with the dead, the decaying, and the dark in order to move towards more liveable futures? What possibilities might arise when we shift from cultural narratives of fear, discomfort, and disgust with these unseen worlds — to ones which honor the wisdoms that they may be able to offer? In this episode, Perdi…

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AM Kanngieser: Enlivening our responsiveness through embodied listening 36:22

16d ago36:22

36:22

In this episode, geographer, writer, and sound artist AM Kanngieser invites us to reconsider the diverse ways in which we register both sound and silence — pushing back against the idea that listening itself is a virtuous act with universality in experience. Through their own journey as a geographer and sound artist, Kanngieser sheds light on the c…

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Hamza Hamouchene: Rising up to true climate justice 44:04

29d ago44:04

44:04

Why is the North Africa and Middle East region so vital to center in discourses on climate justice? How does the current global energy transition reinforce colonial, extractivist power dynamics? And what is the meaning of “eco-normalization” in the context of the Arab world? Join us in this episode as Algerian researcher and activist Hamza Hamouche…

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Lindsay Naylor: Who does "fair trade" really serve and benefit? 46:27

1M ago46:27

46:27

Who does “fair trade” as a certification program speaking to conscious consumers really serve? How might it fall short of what it promises—supporting farmers and producers from falling into the deepest pits of poverty while paradoxically also keeping them at a certain level? What does the process of rebuilding power entail for communities who are g…

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Audra Mitchell: Rethinking conservation, biodiversity, and extinction 41:42

2M ago41:42

41:42

What does it mean to recognize the limitations of “biodiversity” as a gauge of planetary wellbeing? How do we make sense of the heads of big corporations like Shell being major patrons of the largest conservation organizations? And how might a politics of disability justice shape diverse futures beyond an exclusive framework of Western-Scientific c…

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Jared Margulies: Succulent collection and extinction from the illicit trade 36:15

2M ago36:15

36:15

“What we’re talking about are plants that people desire for ornamental collection and will oftentimes go to great lengths to get them. Sometimes, that desire leads to conservation problems, and sadly… in the worst-case scenario, the extinction of an entire species.” Where does cacti and succulent life fit within the realm of illegal/illicit wildlif…

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Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness 51:56

3M ago51:56

51:56

What can grief teach us about being truly alive? And how might seeds, and the compassionate acts of tending to them, be the “helpers and teachers” of mediating our collective grief? In this episode, we are honored to welcome Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project—an initiative centered on caring for and preserving seeds as…

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Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration 37:09

3M ago37:09

37:09

What might the histories of human and gray whale relations show us in terms of how the stories we tell shape the texture of our relationships to our more-than-human kin? How can adopting a plurality of narratives and cultural perspectives in and around a particular species disrupt the kinds of binaries that so often underly academic research method…

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BONUS: Imagination, escapism, and disorientation in stretching alternative possibilities 34:50

4M ago34:50

34:50

This is a behind-the-scenes conversation with Gabes Torres, a contributor and the program advisor of alchemize, and Green Dreamer's team members Anisa Sima Hawley and Kamea Chayne. We explore the themes of imagination, escapism, dissociation, and discomfort when it comes to dreaming, sensing, relating, and becoming otherwise. Enroll in alchemize th…

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Ang Roell: Collective care and responsiveness in the hives of honeybees 35:09

4M ago35:09

35:09

“One in four bites of our food is pollinated by honeybees, but at what cost in the system that we are in now? How could that look different if our agriculture was more localized, regionalized, and sustainable?” In this episode, we warmly welcome Ang Roell—founder of They Keep Bees—to discuss their practice of working and learning with honeybees as …

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Hilding Neilson: Astro-colonialism and honoring the stories of our night skies 39:57

4M ago39:57

39:57

In Green Dreamer's episode 413, we welcome Dr. Hilding Neilson, who shares with us his knowledge of the night skies and expertise as an astronomer traced by his Mi’kmaw lineage. Trained in the Western-scientific sphere of astrophysics and shaped by Mi'kmaq methodologies, Dr. Neilson aims to disrupt the Euro-centric claim on the night sky as codifie…

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Laurie Palmer: Lessons from lichen worlds 33:52

5M ago33:52

33:52

In this episode, we are joined by A. Laurie Palmer: a writer, artist, and author of the book The Lichen Museum. In paying attention to lichen, Laurie looks to these symbiotic organisms as a template for enriching human and multi-species relationality. How might lichen, and their refusal to be scientifically categorized, offer a model of living that…

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Dekila Chungyalpa: Engaging faith leaders for planetary healing 34:46

5M ago34:46

34:46

In this episode, we welcome our guest Dekila Chungyalpa, who reminds us of our intra-dependant existence with all of life. Traced by a lineage of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, Dekila weaves together teachings from her cultural and religious upbringing with her work as an environmental program director—from which she invites us to reflect on the w…

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Zoe Todd: Embodied listening for freshwater fish futures 53:39

6M ago53:39

53:39

“My life goal is to get our governments to understand that Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures are completely linked.” In this episode, we welcome Dr. Zoe Todd, who invites us to think alongside a critical lens of Indigenous fish philosophy and examine relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and fish well-being in Canada. By ask…

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Charlotte Wrigley: Respecting permafrost and moving beyond their stories of apocalypse 49:45

6M ago49:45

49:45

In this episode, we welcome our guest Charlotte Wrigley, who invites us to contemplate the upheaval of extinction as a discontinuous process—a becoming, rather than an end. Charlotte’s inquiry into this matter straddles the edges of human relations, geography, climate science, and ethics against the backdrop of permafrost and its changing form. Unv…

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Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world 48:19

7M ago48:19

48:19

“Once folks start to pick away at that scab of understanding how much of a role microbes play in the lives of other things in good ways and bad ways temporally, spatially, physically, and spiritually, it really does open up a rich vein of a new dimension — to start considering the world around us and how we fit in that world.” In this episode we ar…

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Patricia Kaishan: Lessons from fungi as queer companions 56:14

7M ago56:14

56:14

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Patricia Kaishian, a mycologist, writer, and educator who gestures to mycology as a queer discipline. Situated as a queer member of Armenian diaspora, Patricia threads connections between the often misunderstood and mis/under-represented displacement of mycelial bodes and her own. Offering a glimpse of the comp…

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Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling 49:57

8M ago49:57

49:57

In the episode, we welcome Dr. Eshe Lewis to discuss her life and learnings as an activist, anthropologist, and storyteller. Eshe walks us through glimpses of her time with Afro-Peruvian women as part of her doctoral research and how this experience transfigured beyond the siloed parameters of academic study into personal, historical, and political…

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Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence 41:29

8M ago41:29

41:29

“[...] The United States started to heavily invest in subsidizing growing wheat for exporting purposes. That resulted in flooding international markets, including Jordan’s markets. Cheap American wheat left many of the small-scale farmers unable to compete under record prices.” In this episode, we welcome Lama Khatieb, co-founder of Zikra for Popul…

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Danel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war 40:40

9M ago40:40

40:40

In this episode, we welcome anthropologist Daniel Ruiz-Serna, whose work, situated in the Choco region of Colombia, aims to expose the entanglement of political and ecological violence whereby echoes of conflict/healing reverberate through place. In light of the enmeshment between war and land, Daniel welcomes a framework of living territories, as …

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The political questions of science and technology 57:00

9M ago57:00

57:00

“I think the bigger question is not necessarily specifically about physics, but generally speaking, about how we culturally engage with science and the role of science in our communities and how it shapes our mindset and what our mindset about science is. ” Joining us in this episode is theoretical physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, whose rese…

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Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons 54:01

10M ago54:01

54:01

“The legacy of Earth colonization… is still [in its] early days. We can protect this shared environment and also what I see as the intangible heritage of humanity. Space belongs to us all.” In this episode, we are joined in conversation with Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, a cosmologist working on studies of “first-light” sources in the universe. She also w…

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Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes 1:01:05

10M ago1:01:05

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“It’s very important that we translate how different knowledge systems have been privileged and others have been marginalized and repressed and erased. To have true knowledge symbiosis, where there is harmony and balance and inter-relationality and each contributing respectfully with care, thoughtfulness, humility, that is a process and it’s a mess…

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THANK YOU & WHAT'S NEXT... 7:46

11M ago7:46

7:46

Support our show starting at $2/mo or via a one-time donation: www.greendreamer.com/supportBy Kamea Chayne

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400) Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries 49:51

11M ago49:51

49:51

For Green Dreamer’s 400th episode, we welcome Anand Giridhardas, a writer and journalist whose books include The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022), Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018), The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014), and India Calling: An Intimate Po…

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Ecoliving Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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The Wise Consumer

Madeleine Wisecup

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Perdita Finn: Sitting with the wisdoms of darkness, death, and decay 39:50

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AM Kanngieser: Enlivening our responsiveness through embodied listening 36:22

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Hamza Hamouchene: Rising up to true climate justice 44:04

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Lindsay Naylor: Who does "fair trade" really serve and benefit? 46:27

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Audra Mitchell: Rethinking conservation, biodiversity, and extinction 41:42

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Jared Margulies: Succulent collection and extinction from the illicit trade 36:15

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Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness 51:56

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Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration 37:09

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BONUS: Imagination, escapism, and disorientation in stretching alternative possibilities 34:50

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Ang Roell: Collective care and responsiveness in the hives of honeybees 35:09

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Hilding Neilson: Astro-colonialism and honoring the stories of our night skies 39:57

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Laurie Palmer: Lessons from lichen worlds 33:52

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Dekila Chungyalpa: Engaging faith leaders for planetary healing 34:46

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Zoe Todd: Embodied listening for freshwater fish futures 53:39

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Charlotte Wrigley: Respecting permafrost and moving beyond their stories of apocalypse 49:45

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Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world 48:19

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Patricia Kaishan: Lessons from fungi as queer companions 56:14

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Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling 49:57

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Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence 41:29

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Danel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war 40:40

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The political questions of science and technology 57:00

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Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons 54:01

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Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes 1:01:05

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THANK YOU & WHAT'S NEXT... 7:46

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400) Anand Giridharadas: Expanding empathy and breaking political binaries 49:51

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