Best Race Beyond Borders Podcasts (2024)

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Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022) 1:15:41

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What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure. For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical force…

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7/16/24: Life on the northern border as illegal crossings increase 9:35

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(Jul 16, 2024) Border Patrol officials in the North Country say they're seeing record numbers of illegal crossings at the northern border. It's changing life for people who live in border towns like Mooers in Clinton County. Also: A powerful thunderstorm downed trees and caused flash flooding in Jefferson County this afternoon, including in Sackets…

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7/15/24: Mold from a warming climate in the museum archives 9:55

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(Jul 15, 2024) Climate change is making the North Country warmer, and also wetter. That's leading to an unfamiliar problem for museum curators: mold in the archives. Also: North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik praised the selection of J.D. Vance to be Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick.By NCPR News

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Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020) 57:56

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Kristin J. Jacobson In her new book, The American Adrenaline Narrative (University of Georgia Press), Kristin Jacobson considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives…

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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) 46:56

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Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023) focuses on the intersections of three entities otherwise deemed marginal in historical scholarship: the Jazira region, the borderlands of today’s Iraq, Syria, and Turkey; the mobile peoples within this region, from nomadic pastoralists to deportees and…

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7/12/24: North Country takes on social media 9:27

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(Jul 12, 2024) What role does social media play in the lives of children today, and how controlled should it be? We asked, you responded. Amy Feiereisel comes in to talk about new legislation and how North Country families deal with social media. Also: The DEC is urging hikers to stay away from many High Peaks trails because the heavy rains have ma…

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7/11/24: Surveying the storm damage 10:01

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(Jul 11, 2024) The flood waters have receded in Lowville and Lewis County, leaving local officials to figure out how to repair the damage to roads, homes, and the public school. The heavy rains also damaged dozens of roads in Essex County. An update on the damage from yesterday's storm.By NCPR News

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Flood and tornado watches as Beryl pummels the North Country 9:33

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(Jul 10, 2024) State officials say the North Country could be the hardest hit region by the heavy rains today and tonight. New York's Homeland Security commissioner says climate change means these powerful weather events are becoming more common and we need to be prepared. We have the latest on the storm.…

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7/9/24: Saranac Lake's community paddling race 9:36

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(Jul 9, 2024) Paddling races are a core part of summer Adirondack culture. The five-mile Willard Hanmer race was created in 1963, named after a well-known guideboat builder from Saranac Lake, and it's having a resurgence. Also: Canton's sustainability committee is documenting residents' home clean energy upgrades to unlock grants.…

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7/8/24: Ticks and climate change 10:03

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(Jul 8, 2024) Over the last twenty years, ticks and the diseases they carry, like Lyme disease, have spread rapidly in New York and across the Northeast. Scientists say human-caused climate change is one reason why, but it’s not the only thing driving their growth. Also: A statue of Harriet Tubman is on display at John Brown's Farm outside Lake Pla…

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Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:05:11

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American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensivel…

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Timothy Barnard, "Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City" (NUS Press, 2024) 31:44

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In Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024), historian Tim Barnard and his colleagues offer an edited volume of historical and ecological analysis, in which various institutions, perspectives and events involving animals provide insight into the development of Singapore as a modern, urban nat…

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Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024) 53:52

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Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation. This sea change presents a unique opportunity to dissect both the environmental impacts of modern-world resource extraction and the obscured yet damaging ways in whic…

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Samuel Dolbee, "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 55:53

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In this episode, I talk to Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts…

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John Soluri, "Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:19:25

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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalisation. Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) by Dr. John Soluri upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesti…

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7/3/24: Applying prosellaCOR in Chateaugay Lake 9:14

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(Jul 3, 2024) Lake George has been making headlines in the fierce debate over using an herbicide chemical to kill off Eurasian water milfoil in the lake. But other Adirondack lakes have been using the chemical with little controversy. Chateaugay Lake became the latest last Friday. Also: State regulators are getting closer to approving a large-scale…

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7/2/24: A climate dairy tracks changes on one farm 9:58

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(Jul 2, 2024) Climate change is altering the North Country's seasons year by year. Some people are documenting it with their own weather diaries. A conversation with a St. Lawrence County farmer who's tracking how the ecosystem around them is changing. Also: A healthcare network in Jefferson County is taking over a doctor’s office in Lewis County.…

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7/2/24: Farmworkers' clothes, as art 9:55

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(Jul 1, 2024) The newest installation at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake features a long clothesline with about 150 pieces of clothing on it. It's a reminder of all the unseen labor that goes into producing our food. We pay a visit. Also: The ADK Land Trust will use a $3 million grant to build accessible trails in Saranac Lake and Lake Placid.…

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Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023) 57:11

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Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals (Fordham UP, 2023) examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances…

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6/28/24: Deep inside an Adirondack museum's archives 9:38

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(Jun 28, 2024) Someone has to take care of all the artifacts and objects in a museum's collection. We speak with the conservator at the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake. Also: New York is making a new grant for available for co-locating solar panels amidst working farmland.By NCPR News

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6/27/24: The race to save Mohawk ash basketmaking 9:59

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(Jun 27, 2024) Ash baskets are at the heart of Akwesasne Mohawk tradition and culture. But an invasive beetle may eventually kill all ash trees. How Mohawks are preparing now to keep the basket-making tradition going into the future. Also: The DEC is hosting a public, virtual meeting tonight on visitor use management in the Adirondack High Peaks.…

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6/26/24: A community fights with border patrol over Blind Bay 9:10

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(Jun 26, 2024) More than 200 people came to a public meeting yesterday in Clayton to show their opposition to a new border patrol facility on the St. Lawrence River. Many people said US Customs and Border Protection isn't being transparent or listening to local concerns. Also: Plattsburgh is abandoning its appeal to save a major downtown project be…

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Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021) 1:06:34

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In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hendriks' work is amongst the most innovative in the anthropological study of capitalism, drawing upon queer theory, feminist ethnography, and phenomenology to make sense of cutting down large trees in…

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6/25/24: Voters who reject the electric school bus mandate 9:40

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(Jun 25, 2024) All schools in New York have to start buying only electric buses in just four years. Pushback is coming from some legislators and school officials, but also from voters who can turn down their school's budget vote. Also: It's primary day across New York, but there are few competitive races around the North Country.…

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6/24/24: Honor flights to DC 9:41

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(Jun 24, 2024) Over the weekend, 30 North Country veterans of Vietnam, Desert Storm, and the Cold War flew together to Washington DC to visit the memorials to the wars they and their comrades served in. How North Country Honor Flight brings veterans to DC who might otherwise not get the chance. Also: An outdoor winter attraction in Lake George that…

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Elsa Devienne, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford UP, 2024) 42:50

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The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States, if not the world. The vast shores of Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu are familiar sights to film and television audiences, conveying images of pristine sand, carefree fun, and glamorous physiques. Yet, in the early twentieth century Angelenos routinely lam…

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Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024) 51:56

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In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP, 2024) Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mi…

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6/21/24: The battle over Blind Bay 9:52

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(Jun 21, 2024) The controversy over a small, largely undeveloped bay in the Thousand Islands comes to a head next week. U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to build a new facility there. Local residents, politicians, and environmentalists want to stop them. Also: The Adirondack Park Agency approved the use of a chemical herbicide to kill an in…

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Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023) 1:22:10

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Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways that offer us strategies for how to proceed? Have we already become lost in some sort of gender essentialism to ask these questions together? In Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology (Northwestern Univer…

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6/20/24: Climate change and older adults 9:50

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(Jun 20, 2024) When we talk about the effects of climate change, we rarely hear about how it will affect older adults. A conversation with an expert about how to protect seniors who will be among the most vulnerable as the Earth warms. Also: Three carriers are competing to provide subsidized air service at the Plattsburgh airport.…

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6/19/24: The meaning of Juneteenth, in Watertown 9:26

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(Jun 19, 2024) On Juneteenth, a conversation with the organizer of Juneteenth events in Watertown. Bianca Ellis hopes the holiday motivates people to learn more about Black history and excellence, and encourages people of African descent to tell their own stories. Also: Adirondack forest rangers rescued lost and injured hikers, helped stranded kaya…

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6/18/24: Get used to more heatwaves like this 10:01

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(Jun 18, 2024) This week's heatwave is part of a trend of warmer, more extreme weather events in the Adirondack North Country. A climatologist from SUNY ESF on how the region's summer are changing and how we'll have to adapt. Also: State and local officials have set up cooling stations across the state and the North Country to help people who don't…

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6/17/24: The barges laying electric cable in Lake Champlain 8:56

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(Jun 17, 2024) Look out on Lake Champlain this summer and you'll see a set of large barges at work. They're laying 97-miles of electric transmission cables for the Champlain Hudson Power Express to New York City. How they do it, and criticisms of the project. Also: The popular Longway's diner near Watertown suffered major damage in a fire over the …

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John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021) 1:14:22

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Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-…

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Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024) 53:01

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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic poles, showcasing myriad efforts to research and protect marine environments. Through insightful interviews, oceanographer Tessa Hill and science journalist Eric Simons offer a compelling exploration of …

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6/14/24: The search for the mooneye fish 8:55

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(Jun 14, 2024) Researchers at Clarkson University are studying a rare, prehistoric fish that lives in the North Country's rivers. A search for the mooneye fish on a boat using electric current to bring up what's below the surface. Also: A celebration of life for a beloved Adirondack Forest Ranger and LGBTQ+ advocate who died in April will take plac…

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6/13/24: Rural Pride matters 9:02

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(Jun 13, 2024) June is Pride Month and there are celebrations from Malone to Lowville to Potsdam. Organizers say they're especially important in rural places like the North Country, where queer people may not feel like they have spaces to connect with each other and create community. Also: Wilmington passed a new law regulating short-term rentals l…

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Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:07:01

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Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and…

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Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023) 44:50

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If you don't recall the 1976 Denver Olympic Games, it's because they never happened. The Mile-High City won the right to host the winter games and then was forced by Colorado citizens to back away from its successful Olympic bid through a statewide ballot initiative. In The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth (Univer…

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6/12/24: A mural to open up talk about suicide 8:51

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(Jun 12, 2024) Suicide used to be the thing no one wanted to talk about. An upcoming mural in downtown Plattsburgh aims to help prevent and break the stigma around suicide in the North Country. Also: Officials are throwing their support behind one airline to take over air service at the Ogdensburg airport.…

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6/11/24: Tick vigilance 8:16

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(Jun 11, 2024) Ticks have become an expected, if unwelcome, part of North Country summers over the last twenty years. That means tick-borne diseases are more prevalent, too. A conversation with an expert about how to identify a tick bite and how to prevent them. Also: Rep. Elise Stefanik is on a shortlist of eight politicians being vetted to be Don…

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6/10/24: How climate change is affecting one server's tips 9:53

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(Jun 10, 2024) A woman relies on the money she makes waiting tables at a restaurant on a Lewis County snowmobile trail. But with warmer winters and less snow, the snowmobilers aren't coming and she's having a hard time. The latest story in our climate change series. Also: Some key items, like climate change and aid in dying, didn't get finished in …

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Mark Stoll, "Profit: An Environmental History" (Polity Press, 2022) 1:15:40

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Profit ― getting more out of something than you put into it ― is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to disci…

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Manisha Anantharaman, "Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2024) 40:28

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What types of coalitions can deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives? And how can we avoid reproducing unjust distributions of risk and responsibility in urban sustainability efforts? In this episode, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Arve Hansen, and Manisha Anantharaman discuss these questions by engaging with Anantharaman’s new book Recycling…

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6/7/24: The legislative session gets tense 9:17

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(Jun 7, 2024) The state legislature is scrambling to finish up its session for the year. Tension between Gov. Hochul and some state senate leaders over congestion pricing in New York City is making things harder. Also: Canadian border agents may go on strike this weekend.By NCPR News

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6/7/24 UPDATE: The legislature passes social media regulations 8:38

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(Jun 7, 2024) In this update to today's Story of the Day, there was a rare bipartisan vote in the state legislature on new rules to ban harmful algorithms in children’s social media feeds. Supporters, both Democrats and Republicans, say the change will help improve kids’ mental health.By NCPR News

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Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024) 53:49

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In Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Dr. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that intr…

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6/6/24: How a nonprofit built middle class housing in Lake Placid 9:42

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(Jun 6, 2024) Sixteen townhouses went up for sale in Lake Placid recently, specifically for people who work in the Adirondack village. How the Fawn Valley development came together as a non-profit. Also: Gov. Hochul is proposing to turn three former adirondack prisons into private property.By NCPR News

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Elena Kochetkova, "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:05:42

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In The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024), Elena Kochetkova examines the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism by looking at the industrial role of Soviet forests. The book explores evolving Soviet policies of wood consumption, discussing how profes…

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6/5/24: Baby steps to solve the housing crunch 10:02

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(Jun 5, 2024) The North Country is in the midst of a housing crisis. At a recent housing symposium, officials talked about how unleashing small-scale projects will be key to addressing it. Also: A new weather tower in Lake Placid is now part of a statewide network that monitors climate data.By NCPR News

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