Cultures of Energy Podcast
1) 246 - Radioactive Governance (feat. Maxime Polleri)
Happy 2026! It's been quite a year so far and your co-hosts talk about their recent trip to Nicaragua and Shadow's reinvention as a fly assassin. Then (17:18) we welcome Maxime Polleri to the conversa...Show More
2) 245 - 2025 Year in Review (feat. AI ;)
Neither headcolds nor hangovers will keep your plucky co-hosts from bringing you one more episode for 2025. Since this is supposedly the year of AI, we let ChatGPT create a Year in Review episode stru...Show More
3) 244 – Energy Transition (feat. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz)
In honor of cookie week, your co-hosts tackle an age-old question: are brownies cookies are not? Then we process the fact that next month will be the 10th anniversary of Cultures of Energy (wow!) Ther...Show More
4) 243 - Oil and Intimacy (feat. Chelsea Schields)
Cymene and Dominic recount a pleasant business trip to New Orleans including a mild bout of Satanic panic. Then (9:10) we are joined by the delightful Chelsea Schields to talk about her recent book, O...Show More
5) 242 – Living Minerals (feat. Javiera Barandiarán)
Dominic and Cymene begin with the war on Chicago and Kelly Hayes's amazing essay, "In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together" which everyone should read. Then (15:20) we welcome Javiera Barandiarán to...Show More
6) 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful Alice Lovejoy to talk about her new book Tales of Militant Chemistry: The ...Show More
7) 240 - Carbon Banking (feat. Ben Luzzatto & Gustav Peebles)
We begin this episode with a shoutout to our friends at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and try to settle once and for all the Montreal vs New York bagel question. Then (13:58) we welcome t...Show More
8) 239 - Carbon Capital (feat. Sean Field)
There be tales of two Sean Fields on this week’s podcast. Happily, we are only welcoming (8:56) the smart and accomplished Dr. Field to the podcast to talk about his pathbreaking new ethnography of oi...Show More
9) 238 - Thinking Like a Climate (feat. Hannah Knox)
Cymene and Dominic talk about screamo music and the band Phish and how you can’t fake the feels on this week’s intro to the podcast. Then (13:07) expert in all things Mancunian, the great and wondrous...Show More
10) 237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)
Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to happen. Then (13:17) Robert Savino Oventile joins the podcast ...Show More