re: Wild Podcast
1) Justin Gregg: Us Dumb Humans
Justin Gregg is a science writer and animal cognition researcher. * [0:52] Justin Gregg's If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity [9:39] EuroNews: “Explaine...Show More
2) Defending the Forest
May and Hadley identify as members of the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement. * [0:05] Atlanta City Studio’s Our Future City report (h/t Charles Bethea at the New Yorker) [1:18] Defend the Atlanta For...Show More
3) 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 st...Show More
4) Wyatt Williams: Life and Death and Meat
Wyatt Williams is a writer and a former restaurant critic. * [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 th...Show More
5) 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 ...Show More
6) Julia Rosen: We Are Grass People
If you're anything like me, when you think of nature the first image that comes to mind is a tree. But, as beautiful as forests are, another ecosystem is even more important to human history: grasslan...Show More
7) Peter Alagona: The Nature of Cities
Cities and suburbs across the U.S. are filled with wildlife, from squirrels to hawks to coyotes and bears. Indeed, you're more likely to run into a bear outside of Newark, New Jersey, than outside of ...Show More
8) Lyndsie Bourgon: Tree Thieves
The act of carving up a tree on public land can seem like a desecration: our forests are our natural cathedrals, after all, at least according to the classic cliché. But as writer and oral historian L...Show More
9) Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness
Sometimes we like to seek landscapes that feel timeless, as if they've been set adrift from the tyranny of the clock. But perhaps we need to start seeing the world as timeful. Marcia Bjornerud is a pr...Show More