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  • Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)
    Jun 11, 2025 – 55:14
  • Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands" (U Texas Press, 2025)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 01:15:56
  • Ashlee Piper, "No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity" (Celadon Books, 2025)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 42:35
  • Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 59:12
  • Jon L. Pitt, "Botanical Imagination: Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 47:13
  • Nicholas Chesterley, "Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 36:28
  • Ann McCallum Staats, "Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants" (MIT Kids Press, 2025)
    May 30, 2025 – 50:17
  • Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)
    May 29, 2025 – 45:10
  • Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
    May 28, 2025 – 39:07
  • Marine Environment Assessment in Palawan, Philippines
    May 25, 2025 – 25:47
  • Janine Schipper, "Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest" ((U Wyoming Press, 2025)
    May 24, 2025 – 41:40
  • Andrew Ofstehage, "Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 19, 2025 – 46:19
  • What is environmental authoritarianism and why we should be mindful of its allure
    May 15, 2025 – 37:21
  • Michael Buser, "Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context" (Policy Press, 2024)
    May 14, 2025 – 36:41
  • Pollyanna Rhee, "Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    May 13, 2025 – 44:50
  • Maron E. Greenleaf, "Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon" (Duke UP, 2024)
    May 12, 2025 – 49:46
  • Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    May 11, 2025 – 49:01
  • Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
    May 10, 2025 – 55:51
  • Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
    May 7, 2025 – 39:40
  • Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
    May 6, 2025 – 01:15:56
  • Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
    May 5, 2025 – 39:25
  • Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
    May 4, 2025 – 48:05
  • Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" (Island Press, 2025)
    May 2, 2025 – 47:19
  • Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024)
    May 1, 2025 – 36:47
  • Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
    Apr 30, 2025 – 36:32
  • Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    Apr 28, 2025 – 01:07:52
  • Ted Levin, "The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World" (Green Writers Press, 2025)
    Apr 26, 2025 – 30:51
  • Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (JP)
    Apr 24, 2025 – 50:52
  • Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 46:19
  • Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:04:57
  • María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
    Apr 16, 2025 – 01:08:53
  • Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
    Apr 10, 2025 – 01:04:41
  • Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)
    Apr 9, 2025 – 54:50
  • Duncan Watson, "Everyone's Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds" (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2024)
    Apr 8, 2025 – 39:45
  • Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
    Apr 5, 2025 – 02:05:32
  • Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 47:02
  • Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
    Mar 30, 2025 – 44:31
  • Jason L. Newton, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest" (West Virginia UP, 2024)
    Mar 29, 2025 – 55:31
  • Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
    Mar 28, 2025 – 01:04:17
  • V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    Mar 24, 2025 – 01:04:16
  • Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
    Mar 23, 2025 – 34:49
  • Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen
    Mar 21, 2025 – 24:50
  • Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Mar 20, 2025 – 30:32
  • Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 43:07
  • Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
    Mar 18, 2025 – 48:16
  • Sally Coulthard, "A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects" (HarperCollins UK, 2024)
    Mar 17, 2025 – 31:43
  • Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    Mar 16, 2025 – 01:01:38
  • Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
    Mar 15, 2025 – 42:53
  • Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 59:55
  • Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)
    Mar 11, 2025 – 45:05
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