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Unexpected Agricultures: The Human in the Food Web “Imagine a watershed that soaks the field, cups the earth, floods and soaks the soil, creating mini aquifers in middle of the desert... These societies were architects of abundance.” - Lyla June Johnston “The best fertilisers are the farmer’s footsteps on the field.” - Michael Ableman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/42f6e0f2-857f-483f-9fbd-93dd20fbcfa5/Screenshot+2022-07-18+at+08.45.02.png Episodes Blog - 1. Unexpected Agricultures: The Human in the Food Web - GUESTS BIOS: Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, poet, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She blends her studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with. She is currently writing her PhD on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalisation. Lyla is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries. She is the lead organizer of the Black Hill Unity Concert which gathers native and nonnative musicians to pray for the return of guardianship of the Black Hills to the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota nations. She is the also the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September. https://www.lylajune.com. The full episode with Lyla can be found here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/bb33dbf4-5247-4fd8-a062-4e4f1cc6f263/Screenshot+2022-07-18+at+08.45.16.png Episodes Blog - 1. Unexpected Agricultures: The Human in the Food Web Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, photographer and urban and local food systems advocate. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970′s and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements. He is a frequent lecturer to audiences all over the world, and the winner of numerous awards for his work. Ableman is the author of four trade published books: From the Good Earth: A celebration of growing food around the world; On Good Land: The autobiography of an urban farm; Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it, and most recently Street Farm; Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier. He is the founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens in Goleta, California where he farmed for 20 years; co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and the charity Cultivate Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia; and founder and director of the Center for Arts, Ecology and Agriculture based at his family home and farm on Salt Spring Island. For more on Michael: https://michaelableman.com/. The full episode with Michael can be found here! https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/unexpectedagricultureslylajune monthly 0.5 2022-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/45ccaa93-81c8-404f-942a-fd315612a585/Agriculture-Lyla.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Unexpected Agricultures — with Lyla June Johnston “It dawned on me that what's actually more important than the physical, outward appearance of food systems is the invisible world of the human heart that drives them.” - Lyla June Johnston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d31889db-fc59-4b18-8b4b-29de86221f46/Screenshot+2022-07-18+at+08.45.02.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Unexpected Agricultures — with Lyla June Johnston - GUEST BIO: Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, poet, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She blends her studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the indigenous worldview she grew up with. She is currently writing her PhD on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalisation. Lyla is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries. She is the lead organizer of the Black Hill Unity Concert which gathers native and nonnative musicians to pray for the return of guardianship of the Black Hills to the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota nations. She is the also the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September. For more go to her website at https://www.lylajune.com and her presentation on food systems here. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/unexpectedagriculturesmichael monthly 0.5 2022-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/e4f5fc4b-fb80-4114-a832-3f1665598b65/Agriculture-Michael.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Unexpected Agricultures — with Michael Ableman “One thing I realized early on was the incredible importance of observation. It is probably the most important agricultural skill. It’s amazing what you learn to see.” - Michael Ableman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/fe0cba4f-2fec-4931-b4c3-d1648cc30ac0/Screenshot+2022-07-18+at+08.45.16.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Unexpected Agricultures — with Michael Ableman - GUEST BIO: Michael Ableman is a farmer, author, photographer and urban and local food systems advocate. Michael has been farming organically since the early 1970′s and is considered one of the pioneers of the organic farming and urban agriculture movements. He is a frequent lecturer to audiences all over the world, and the winner of numerous awards for his work. Ableman is the author of four trade published books: From the Good Earth: A celebration of growing food around the world; On Good Land: The autobiography of an urban farm; Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it, and most recently Street Farm; Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier. He is the founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens in Goleta, California where he farmed for 20 years; co-founder and director of Sole Food Street Farms and the charity Cultivate Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia; and founder and director of the Center for Arts, Ecology and Agriculture based at his family home and farm on Salt Spring Island. For more on Michael: https://michaelableman.com/. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/rewilding monthly 0.5 2022-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/1659004112139-GO0XWVIZ418D3GKJKF2R/ep2.jpg Episodes Blog - 2 . Rewilding: The Return of Exuberant Landscapes “With the return of beaver, you start the ecosystem function again. The light goes back on. Every other guild of life that is still there looks at these green oases forming, and sliver, fly, crawl, or trot to back find them.” - Derek Gow “I'm a student of beauty now, and I will study beauty until the day i die, and hopefully after I'm dead - because then things could get really beautiful.” - Kristine Tompkins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b9861a8c-0965-482e-967e-c912e083cb8c/2015_KrisTompkins_by_JamesQMartin.jpg Episodes Blog - 2 . Rewilding: The Return of Exuberant Landscapes - GUESTS BIOS: Kristine Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and former CEO of Patagonia. For nearly thirty years with her late husband Doug Tompkins, she has committed her career to protecting and restoring wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring wildlife, inspiring activism, and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation. As the president of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine Tompkins oversees a multitude of projects rewilding the Americas. Having protected approximately 14.7 million acres of parklands in Chile and Argentina through Tompkins Conservation and its partners, Kristine and Douglas Tompkins, her late husband who died in 2015, are considered some of the most successful national park-oriented philanthropists in history. Kristine Tompkins serves in various positions of global leadership in conservation, including as Chair of National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places campaign. She was the first conservationist to be awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. In 2018 she was named the United Nations’ Global Patron for Protected Areas. The full episode with Kris can be found here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/990ab800-01f9-4915-9254-470c11ffb415/_methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_f4b6c640-04cf-11eb-910e-49261a8ea333.jpg Episodes Blog - 2 . Rewilding: The Return of Exuberant Landscapes Derek Gow is a farmer, nature conservationist and the author of Bringing Back the Beaver. Born in Dundee in 1965, he left school when he was 17 and worked in agriculture for five years. Inspired by the writing of Gerald Durrell, he jumped at the chance to manage a European wildlife park in central Scotland in the late 1990s before moving on to develop two nature centres in England. He now lives with his children, Maysie and Kyle, on a 300-acre farm on the Devon/Cornwall border, which he is in the process of rewilding. Derek has played a significant role in the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver, the water vole and the white stork in England. He is currently working on a reintroduction project for the wildcat and a book on our lost wolves. Gow owns a farm in Lifton, Devon, which is home to captive breeding facilities, accommodation and a working farm. Much of the land is under the process of rewilding, alike to the Knepp Estate. The farm is home to many species, including Eurasian lynx, wild boar, beavers, white storks and harvest mice. The full episode with Derek can be found here! https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/rewildingderekgow monthly 0.5 2022-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/c903b4a9-be5a-4330-bb9e-38398a687d4f/derek.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Rewilding — with Derek Gow “As soon as you have an aggressive colonial culture or a frontier culture, it views animals, wilderness, and people all as obstructions.” - Derek Gow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/03ccca55-9ee1-4215-b501-388ea69c154b/_methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_f4b6c640-04cf-11eb-910e-49261a8ea333.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Rewilding — with Derek Gow - GUEST BIO: Derek Gow is a farmer, nature conservationist and the author of Bringing Back the Beaver. Born in Dundee in 1965, he left school when he was 17 and worked in agriculture for five years. Inspired by the writing of Gerald Durrell, he jumped at the chance to manage a European wildlife park in central Scotland in the late 1990s before moving on to develop two nature centres in England. He now lives with his children, Maysie and Kyle, on a 300-acre farm on the Devon/Cornwall border, which he is in the process of rewilding. Derek has played a significant role in the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver, the water vole and the white stork in England. He is currently working on a reintroduction project for the wildcat and a book on our lost wolves. Gow owns a farm in Lifton, Devon, which is home to captive breeding facilities, accommodation and a working farm. Much of the land is under the process of rewilding, alike to the Knepp Estate. The farm is home to many species, including Eurasian lynx, wild boar, beavers, white storks and harvest mice. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/rewildingkristompkins monthly 0.5 2022-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/e63d8167-3ada-4a4f-949e-9586882272ef/kris.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Rewilding — with Kristine Tompkins “I like the intensity of what I think is a wild life and a wild mind. I have come to seek that out and to have that confrontation with the true world.” - Kristine Tompkins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/ef66eeaf-6d9d-41d9-989d-e1e679545e33/2015_KrisTompkins_by_JamesQMartin.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Rewilding — with Kristine Tompkins - GUEST BIO: Kristine Tompkins is the president and co-founder of Tompkins Conservation, an American conservationist, and former CEO of Patagonia. For nearly thirty years with her late husband Doug Tompkins, she has committed her career to protecting and restoring wild beauty and biodiversity by creating national parks, restoring wildlife, inspiring activism, and fostering economic vitality as a result of conservation. As the president of Tompkins Conservation, Kristine Tompkins oversees a multitude of projects rewilding the Americas. Having protected approximately 14.7 million acres of parklands in Chile and Argentina through Tompkins Conservation and its partners, Kristine and Douglas Tompkins, her late husband who died in 2015, are considered some of the most successful national park-oriented philanthropists in history. Kristine Tompkins serves in various positions of global leadership in conservation, including as Chair of National Geographic Society’s Last Wild Places campaign. She was the first conservationist to be awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. In 2018 she was named the United Nations’ Global Patron for Protected Areas. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/the-inner-lives-of-fungi monthly 0.5 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/03ea7b77-af06-4a4c-b86b-724c2ba9e31f/ep3.jpg Episodes Blog - The Inner Lives of Fungi: Expeditions, Advocacy and Poetics “Every time I encounter a fungus, I feel plenitude. Even with mould on a lemon, I feel profound love.” - Giuliana Furci “Fungi are relational. They live between species. They are interrogative.” - Sophie Strand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/7fcef90d-be45-41b9-a0ec-d098185995d4/Screenshot+2022-06-14+at+19.50.12.jpg Episodes Blog - The Inner Lives of Fungi: Expeditions, Advocacy and Poetics - GUESTS BIOS: Giuliana Furci is foundress and CEO of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and co-author of titles such as the 1st State of the World’s Fungi. Giuliana has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international and Chilean marine conservation non-profits. She sits on the Board of Fundación Acción Fauna, and on the Advisory Board of Myco-Medica Life Sciences and of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/da2b4b1a-e1b8-49ad-ade1-e208d1c5d760/1654134680-website-headers-5.jpg Episodes Blog - The Inner Lives of Fungi: Expeditions, Advocacy and Poetics Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published in fall 2022. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. She is currently researching her next epic, a mythopoetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/fungisophiestrand monthly 0.5 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3e8e52ca-c535-4544-a99d-c50bd094fde7/3sophie.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Inner Lives of Fungi — with Sophie Strand “Civilization may not be a purely human story. It may be a fungal story and even just a yeast story.” - Sophie Strand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/da2b4b1a-e1b8-49ad-ade1-e208d1c5d760/1654134680-website-headers-5.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Inner Lives of Fungi — with Sophie Strand - GUEST BIO: Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published in fall 2022. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. She is currently researching her next epic, a mythopoetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/fungigiulianafurci monthly 0.5 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/fbbe67e1-6d03-47dc-9637-157e0e423044/3giuliana.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Inner Lives of Fungi — with Giuliana Furci “What fungi have shown me is that we can't, and we don't have to do, anything alone. They question the limits of individual existence.” - Giuliana Furci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/7fcef90d-be45-41b9-a0ec-d098185995d4/Screenshot+2022-06-14+at+19.50.12.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Inner Lives of Fungi — with Giuliana Furci - GUEST BIO: Giuliana Furci is foundress and CEO of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and co-author of titles such as the 1st State of the World’s Fungi. Giuliana has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international and Chilean marine conservation non-profits. She sits on the Board of Fundación Acción Fauna, and on the Advisory Board of Myco-Medica Life Sciences and of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/financefornature monthly 0.5 2022-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/01ff5ed2-a267-4710-8b8e-cca59116d2c6/ep6.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. Designs for Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans “You have to be on the ground sitting alongside the stakeholders, and part of that process is talking to nature, and feeling.” - Eric Smith “Communication is the most underused resource for conservation - everyone has a biophilic soul and we need to connect them with great stories.” - Lorenzo de Rosenzweig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/ea385d96-289c-47fc-81ce-ff2a0d30f601/tara-martin-chair-in-conservation.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. Designs for Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans - GUESTS BIOS: Lorenzo de Rosenzweig is an engineer and marine biologist by training, who for 25 years headed up the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (a $170 million endowment Conservation Trust Fund) and was Chairman of the Mesoamerican Reef Fund (a $35 million endowment fund) for more than 17 years. During his tenure in both institutions he led resource mobilization efforts that raised close to US$410 million of both project and endowment funds. He is part of several global conservation finance initiatives, such as the Conservation Finance Alliance Executive Committee, the World Environment Center, The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), the Fund for Communication and Environmental Education, the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Conservation and Exploration Fund, and several more. Now “retired” he has started up a new enterprise, Terra Habitus A.C. — a regional environmental fund for Northern México, focused on private lands conservation, borderlands cooperation, regenerative ranching, riparian/waterbasin regeneration, resource mobilization and strategic communication through environmental journalism. Lorenzo is also a nature, photographer, a watercolor artist, a scientific illustrator and is working on his first fiction book, a collection of illustrated essays on human nature and biodiversity called “Impossible animals in improbable environments”. The full episode with Lorenzo can be found here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/70236e90-4551-476c-8e46-327b8ee2bf55/06-Herb-Hammond-Portrait-WEB.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. Designs for Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans Eric Smith has spent his career at the intersection of ecology and economy. He was most recently Director of Neglected Climate Opportunities (NCO), the Grantham Environmental Trust's venture capital vehicle. He led investments in businesses and technology that can remove carbon and GHG at scale. NCO includes more than 45 direct investments in startups across all stages as well as funding of numerous grant-to-commercialization opportunities designed to incubate new firms from academia and non-profits. Eric was previously with SJF Ventures and worked for BlackRock on climate finance, in addition to providing advisory and audit services to forest carbon and other natural resource management projects. He is a graduate of the dual degree program at Duke University, having received his MBA and Master of Forestry. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, supporting women's banking institutions and building recycling programs on the border of Nicaragua. He is currently Founder/CEO of Edacious, a company working to differentiate food quality and connect the dots between soil and human health. The full episode with Eric can be found here! https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/financelorenzoderosenzweig monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/a8b18f7e-1dec-425e-834d-664c4be33d36/AF-edits-EPISODES-LIFE-WORLDS2.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Money: In Service of Nature? — with Lorenzo de Rosenzweig “Every morning I am grateful that I have been put by destiny and by work, in this position of being someone that eventually might become a good ancestor.” - Lorenzo de Rosenzweig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/77dcadde-817c-4d3c-85de-88bf4610b6b4/990212-xl.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Money: In Service of Nature? — with Lorenzo de Rosenzweig - GUEST BIO: Lorenzo de Rosenzweig is an engineer and marine biologist by training, who for 25 years headed up the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (a $170 million endowment Conservation Trust Fund) and was Chairman of the Mesoamerican Reef Fund (a $35 million endowment fund) for more than 17 years. During his tenure in both institutions he led resource mobilization efforts that raised close to US$410 million of both project and endowment funds. He is part of several global conservation finance initiatives, such as the Conservation Finance Alliance Executive Committee, the World Environment Center, The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), the Fund for Communication and Environmental Education, the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Conservation and Exploration Fund, and several more. Now “retired” he has started up a new enterprise, Terra Habitus A.C. — a regional environmental fund for Northern México, focused on private lands conservation, borderlands cooperation, regenerative ranching, riparian/waterbasin regeneration, resource mobilization and strategic communication through environmental journalism. Lorenzo is also a nature, photographer, a watercolor artist, a scientific illustrator and is working on his first fiction book, a collection of illustrated essays on human nature and biodiversity called “Impossible animals in improbable environments”. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/financeericsmith monthly 0.5 2022-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/4447c5f4-7d51-4bb9-8c24-42f4c3db4c0e/eric2.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Money: In Service of Nature? — with Eric Smith “We are extractive from our producers. If you want to get back to improving the land, you have to return wealth back to those producers. They know the land better than anyone. They're the reason we're alive.” - Eric Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/6ab40ad4-d6e3-4378-a1c3-7fb93fa217cd/e3-727x500.jpeg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Money: In Service of Nature? — with Eric Smith - GUEST BIO: Eric Smith has spent his career at the intersection of ecology and economy. He was most recently Director of Neglected Climate Opportunities (NCO), the Grantham Environmental Trust's venture capital vehicle. He led investments in businesses and technology that can remove carbon and GHG at scale. NCO includes more than 45 direct investments in startups across all stages as well as funding of numerous grant-to-commercialization opportunities designed to incubate new firms from academia and non-profits. Eric was previously with SJF Ventures and worked for BlackRock on climate finance, in addition to providing advisory and audit services to forest carbon and other natural resource management projects. He is a graduate of the dual degree program at Duke University, having received his MBA and Master of Forestry. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, supporting women's banking institutions and building recycling programs on the border of Nicaragua. He is currently Founder/CEO of Edacious, a company working to differentiate food quality and connect the dots between soil and human health. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/indigenousview monthly 0.5 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/c39895aa-ebe2-40ba-8ed6-804737461275/ep5.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. The Indigenous View: Protocols, Ceremony and Totem Poles — with Tyson Yunkaporta &amp; Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ) “Ceremony doesn’t just drop out of a tarot deck.” - Tyson Yunkaporta “The most important teachings that we can learn from these creatures, is that they take only what they need from nature, and never more.” - Joe Martin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/2bf34208-7922-43d4-af41-caa5880bd146/x500.JPG Episodes Blog - 5. The Indigenous View: Protocols, Ceremony and Totem Poles — with Tyson Yunkaporta &amp; Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ) - GUESTS BIOS: Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, author, educator, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises. He carves traditional tools and weapons and is founder of the Deakin University Indigenous Knowledges Systems Lab in Melbourne. He is the author of Sand Talk, a paradigm-shifting book that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability, and offers a new template for living. The full episode with Tyson can be found here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/5caef59d-b091-4ccf-a8de-3d8e30391a07/Melissa-Renwick-War-in-the-Woods-Joe-Martin-1-scaled.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. The Indigenous View: Protocols, Ceremony and Totem Poles — with Tyson Yunkaporta &amp; Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ) Joe Martin has been dedicated to mastering the art of traditional ƛaʔuukʷiatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) canoe carving for decades. He has sparked a revitalization of this ancient art form in his own community and among neighbouring nations in the Pacific Northwest. Taught by his father, the late Chief Robert Martin, Joe has continued to transfer his knowledge to future generations, taking on apprentices and leaving a legacy of over 70 carved canoes. Joe has been formally recognized for his incredible contributions to the artistic community – in 2013 he received a BC Creative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art and in 2012 he received a BC Community Achievement Award. The full episode with Joe can be found here! https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/indigenousviewtysonyunkaporta monthly 0.5 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/894c5f9f-f80f-4840-a12f-95021f357134/tyson.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Indigenous View: with Tyson Yunkaporta “People need to return to the land. That doesn't mean you need go to booga-wooga and take off all your clothes and walk into the prairie, and smear mud all over your face, but we do need to re-imbed ourselves in landscape and place.” - Tyson Yunkaporta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/14c02670-1a35-4e38-b433-2d59d88bfbe0/x500.JPG Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Indigenous View: with Tyson Yunkaporta - GUEST BIO: Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, author, educator, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. His work focuses on applying Indigenous methods of inquiry to resolve complex issues and explore global crises. He carves traditional tools and weapons and is founder of the Deakin University Indigenous Knowledges Systems Lab in Melbourne. He is the author of Sand Talk, a paradigm-shifting book that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability, and offers a new template for living. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/indigenousviewjoemartin monthly 0.5 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/e2a09d14-c3b5-4c9d-9459-338e79a16623/ep-5-joe.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Indigenous View: with Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ) “Indigenous peoples always stay home, and so we're the ones left to suffer the consequences of over-harvesting and the destruction of resources.” - Joe Martin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/a4a27b03-6f7c-4fcc-9df5-d337a728289c/Melissa-Renwick-War-in-the-Woods-Joe-Martin-1-scaled.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] The Indigenous View: with Joe Martin (Tutakwisnapšiƛ) - GUEST BIO: Joe Martin has been dedicated to mastering the art of traditional ƛaʔuukʷiatḥ (Tla-o-qui-aht) canoe carving for decades. He has sparked a revitalization of this ancient art form in his own community and among neighbouring nations in the Pacific Northwest. Taught by his father, the late Chief Robert Martin, Joe has continued to transfer his knowledge to future generations, taking on apprentices and leaving a legacy of over 70 carved canoes. Joe has been formally recognized for his incredible contributions to the artistic community – in 2013 he received a BC Creative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art and in 2012 he received a BC Community Achievement Award. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/naturebasedplans monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/ad99e32f-cea5-4cc2-8cb3-8a6544017ca2/ep6.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. Designs for Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans “We use art to help us to work with our knowledge holders in a way that is non extractive and full of beauty and reciprocity.” - Dr. Tara Martin “It's amazing how many people make decisions about forests without ever being in the forest. Their problems come in envelopes and leave in envelopes.” - Herb Hammond https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/de16f2a7-7ab4-4fb9-a418-17bf7cab684d/tara-martin-chair-in-conservation.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. Designs for Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans - GUESTS BIOS: Tara is a Professor in Conservation Decision Science with the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. Tara is also the Liber Ero Chair in Conservation at UBC. She is a pioneer in the field of Conservation Decision Science – combining predictive ecological models with decision science to inform what actions to take, where to take them and when to achieve our conservation and natural resource management goals. Tara leads a team of graduate students and research fellows seeking to understand, predict and ultimately inform decisions about the impact of global change on biodiversity and natural resources. Tara was recently awarded The Nature Conservancy Professor in Practice Award, Thomson Reuters Citation & Innovation Award for her work in Climate change decision making and a Wilburforce Conservation Fellowship. Tara is a member of the IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group and co-leads the Climate Adaptation Theme. The full episode with Tara can be found here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/93f14d27-8f2f-4a3d-acba-d2c23982c1d8/06-Herb-Hammond-Portrait-WEB.jpg Episodes Blog - 5. Designs for Life: Priority Threat Management and Nature-Based Plans Herb Hammond’s career in British Columbia has centered on forestry, land based communities and natural systems. From his work as a conventional forester he went all the way to launching an embodied learning forestry school and The Silva Forest Foundation, which he ran with his wife Susie for over 30 years. They developed over 25 nature-based plans across Canada, and around the world, upending ways that large landscape management was done by communities. Herb Hammond is a Registered Professional Forester with a B.Sc. in forest science and forest management and a M.F. in forest ecology and silviculture, with over 25 years of experience in applied research in soil and water degradation and practical planning systems, as an industry forester, as an instructor of silviculture and forest ecology, and as a consulting forester working with First Nations, environmental groups, and communities. The full episode with Herb can be found here! https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/natureplanstaramartin monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b1d0d00b-a592-496e-bace-67774bfa682d/DESIGNS-tara.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Designs for Life — with Dr. Tara Martin “If we had a salmon sitting at the decision table, we would all speak differently. We would all think differently. We would all make different decisions. An elder in a meeting once brought a seat to the table and he said, this is the seat for the salmon.” - Dr. Tara Martin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/9a312723-5c6a-4cac-aa00-c019958c5bb8/tara-martin-chair-in-conservation.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Designs for Life — with Dr. Tara Martin - GUEST BIO: Tara is a Professor in Conservation Decision Science with the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. Tara is also the Liber Ero Chair in Conservation at UBC. She is a pioneer in the field of Conservation Decision Science – combining predictive ecological models with decision science to inform what actions to take, where to take them and when to achieve our conservation and natural resource management goals. Tara leads a team of graduate students and research fellows seeking to understand, predict and ultimately inform decisions about the impact of global change on biodiversity and natural resources. Tara was recently awarded The Nature Conservancy Professor in Practice Award, Thomson Reuters Citation & Innovation Award for her work in Climate change decision making and a Wilburforce Conservation Fellowship. Tara is a member of the IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group and co-leads the Climate Adaptation Theme. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/natureplansherbhammond monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/7e16259f-3fba-4002-b895-0232d08dd14b/designs-herb.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Designs for Life — with Herb Hammond “What I do in the world is to be part of nature. That’s my goal.” - Herb Hammond https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/93f14d27-8f2f-4a3d-acba-d2c23982c1d8/06-Herb-Hammond-Portrait-WEB.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Designs for Life — with Herb Hammond - GUEST BIO: Herb Hammond is a Registered Professional Forester with a B.Sc. in forest science and forest management and a M.F. in forest ecology and silviculture, with over 25 years of experience in applied research in soil and water degradation and practical planning systems, as an industry forester, as an instructor of silviculture and forest ecology, and as a consulting forester working with First Nations, environmental groups, and communities. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/ecocentriclaw monthly 0.5 2022-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/59383e3a-2164-4918-a699-d8b08103c950/ep7.jpg Episodes Blog - 7 . Ecocentric Law: The Rights of Nature and Natural Law “That's the problem with law. It's always playing catch up with the rich, dense, textured nature of reality.” - Abhayraj Naik “I'm a student of beauty now, and I will study beauty until the day i die, and hopefully after I'm dead - because then things could get really beautiful.” - Dr. John Borrows and Lindsay Borrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/7830181e-8de5-4c22-8d12-abab91ed3506/JOhnLindsayBeach.JPG Episodes Blog - 7 . Ecocentric Law: The Rights of Nature and Natural Law - GUESTS BIOS: John Borrows has transformed Canada’s understanding of how indigenous and non-indigenous law can co-exist and created the world's first dual Indigenous law program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. His publications include Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide. He is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences and the 2019 Molson Prize Winner from the Canada Council for the Arts, the 2020 Governor General’s Innovation Award, and the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award winner. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020. John is a members of the Chippewa First Nation in Ontario, Canada. Lindsay Keegitah Borrows is mixed-rooted Anishinaabe and a citizen of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is a lawyer, writer and teacher, whose work aims to support Indigenous communities to revitalize their traditional laws for application in contemporary contexts. She has worked with many legal traditions including Anishinaabe, Haíɫzaqv, Mi’kmaq, nuučaan̓uł, St’át’imc, Denezhu, Tsilhqot’in and Māori. She has worked as a lawyer at the Indigenous Law Research Unit (University of Victoria Faculty of Law), and at West Coast Environmental Law on the Revitalizing Indigenous Laws for Land, Air and Water Project. She is a new professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/1fceebab-0d3d-43dd-8114-1b08e19bea52/Screenshot+2022-10-13+at+14.04.53.png Episodes Blog - 7 . Ecocentric Law: The Rights of Nature and Natural Law Abhayraj Naik is a lawyer, activist-academic, community builder, and design hacker for transformative change. At Azim Premji University, he teaches interdisciplinary courses on climate, environment, justice, law, policy, and research methods at a number of universities across India. He has published widely on issues in environmental law and policy, regulation theory and implementation, climate change, mobility rights, social justice. He holds degrees from the National Law School of India University and Yale Law School. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/lawabhayraj-naik monthly 0.5 2022-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/150bec39-6e58-4bc3-a54d-a94a5f69c641/abhay.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Ecocentric Law — with Abhayraj Naik “This paradigmatic shift, the possibility of a new worldview, is what makes thinking about and fighting for the Rights of Nature worthwhile.” - Abhayraj Naik https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/e9213ef5-3d7c-43ff-be6a-f00d140c9cc2/Screenshot+2022-10-13+at+14.04.53.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Ecocentric Law — with Abhayraj Naik - GUEST BIO: Abhayraj Naik is a lawyer, activist-academic, community builder, and design hacker for transformative change. At Azim Premji University, he teaches interdisciplinary courses on climate, environment, justice, law, policy, and research methods at a number of universities across India. He has published widely on issues in environmental law and policy, regulation theory and implementation, climate change, mobility rights, social justice. He holds degrees from the National Law School of India University and Yale Law School. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/lawjonandlindsay monthly 0.5 2022-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/68ee713c-e8ee-4333-94a3-51b99e7bb7d6/jandl.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Ecocentric Law — with Dr. John Borrows and Lindsay Borrows “A tongue is healthier when connected to our hearts, and laws when written on our hearts.” - John & Lindsay Borrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d66f2af1-9130-4e4e-abe0-26e73a5c9f05/JOhnLindsayBeach.JPG Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Ecocentric Law — with Dr. John Borrows and Lindsay Borrows - GUEST BIO: John Borrows has transformed Canada’s understanding of how indigenous and non-indigenous law can co-exist and created the world's first dual Indigenous law program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. His publications include Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law and Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide. He is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences and the 2019 Molson Prize Winner from the Canada Council for the Arts, the 2020 Governor General’s Innovation Award, and the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award winner. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020. John is a members of the Chippewa First Nation in Ontario, Canada. Lindsay Keegitah Borrows is mixed-rooted Anishinaabe and a citizen of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is a lawyer, writer and teacher, whose work aims to support Indigenous communities to revitalize their traditional laws for application in contemporary contexts. She has worked with many legal traditions including Anishinaabe, Haíɫzaqv, Mi’kmaq, nuučaan̓uł, St’át’imc, Denezhu, Tsilhqot’in and Māori. She has worked as a lawyer at the Indigenous Law Research Unit (University of Victoria Faculty of Law), and at West Coast Environmental Law on the Revitalizing Indigenous Laws for Land, Air and Water Project. She is a new professor at Queen's University Faculty of Law. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/multispeciesentanglement monthly 0.5 2022-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/496bd355-a0da-4bcd-be7e-bb106fda3be9/ep8.jpg Episodes Blog - 8 . Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with BeeWisdom &amp; Dr. Juniper Harrower “There is a belief system to change about bees that they are constantly busy and making honey. The honey is only a small part of the work of bees on earth.” - BeeWisdom “I love dwelling in the slippage between science and mysticism. There’s this incredible space of mystery there.” - Dr. Juniper Harrower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/0f2540c8-a811-4242-8432-c7f1f53b7b4d/Screenshot+2022-10-30+at+11.16.26.png Episodes Blog - 8 . Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with BeeWisdom &amp; Dr. Juniper Harrower - GUESTS BIOS: Sandira Belia was born in France, from a mother bee-keeper, bathing in the bee world from an early age. Since 2012, she has been exploring the interactions between the spiritual and the practical approaches of bee-keeping. She has learned to communicate with the Deva of the bees, with nature spirits and other presences. Sandra now lives in central Portugal, close to the ocean, and dedicates her life to bridging humans and nature. The bees are her muse, inspiration, and allies in this work. Her book Bee Wisdom: Teachings from the Hive is now available in English. Annelieke van der Sluijs lives in Portugal and takes care of the bees in the Alentejo BeeGrid, where she plants and sows forest habitat, and thrives as a “weaver” in the BeeWisdom network, endlessly inspired by the artful communion of bees as a colony and with the landscape. Her first BeeShip with Sandira, in 2017, naturally evolved into a collaboration and a living together with the bees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/a4514ea5-3365-4ba7-8467-6842a274a800/Screenshot+2022-10-30+at+11.30.19.png Episodes Blog - 8 . Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with BeeWisdom &amp; Dr. Juniper Harrower Specializing in multispecies entanglements under climate change, Dr. Juniper Harrower works at the intersection of ecology, art, activism and policy. A founding member of the international arts collective The Algae Society Bioart Design Lab, she also founded the environmental arts production company SymbioArtlab which contracts with national parks, universities, and the private sector to impact positive environmental change. Her research is published in both science and art scholarly journals and has shaped environmental policy. She is a National Science Foundation iCorps Fellow, an Oakland Teaching Fellow, and a Cota-Robles Fellow dedicated to advancing research for multicultural societies. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her research and artistic products have received wide exposure in popular media such as National Geographic, Kunstforum International, Atlas Obscura, KCET Artbound, the associated press, podcasts, music festivals and conferences. Harrower founded and directs the Art+Science initiative at UC Santa Cruz to disrupt hierarchies of science hegemony through providing paid arts residencies and mentorship to underrepresented students. She teaches art at both UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/beewisdom monthly 0.5 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/dab69c2e-ed67-4113-983a-aa5c12a9f982/beewsidm.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with BeeWisdom “Many people are very sensitive to bee touch. The bee recalls our thirst for touch and sensuality.” - Sandira Belia and Annelieke van der Sluijs, BeeWisdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/fe7e5e32-e56f-4bac-8881-f512ee4687c7/Screenshot+2022-10-30+at+11.16.26.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with BeeWisdom - GUEST BIO: Sandira Belia was born in France, from a mother bee-keeper, bathing in the bee world from an early age. Since 2012, she has been exploring the interactions between the spiritual and the practical approaches of bee-keeping. She has learned to communicate with the Deva of the bees, with nature spirits and other presences. Sandra now lives in central Portugal, close to the ocean, and dedicates her life to bridging humans and nature. The bees are her muse, inspiration, and allies in this work. Her book Bee Wisdom: Teachings from the Hive is now available in English. Annelieke van der Sluijs lives in Portugal and takes care of the bees in the Alentejo BeeGrid, where she plants and sows forest habitat, and thrives as a “weaver” in the BeeWisdom network, endlessly inspired by the artful communion of bees as a colony and with the landscape. Her first BeeShip with Sandira, in 2017, naturally evolved into a collaboration and a living together with the bees. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/juniperharrower monthly 0.5 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/14241356-e233-4588-9ae0-b13f18d1a02d/juniper.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with Dr. Juniper Harrower “Through embroidering the outside of the plant leaf and working those stitches into the leaf, I was tracing and following the swirls and whirls of deep evolutionary patterns. It was like I was training my hand to speak the language of the leaf.” - Dr. Juniper Harrower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3d5adaf2-7bf6-4365-8590-0a60a6d917b0/Screenshot+2022-10-30+at+11.30.19.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Multi-species Entanglements, or, How we Become Rapt in Other Lives — with Dr. Juniper Harrower - GUEST BIO: Specializing in multispecies entanglements under climate change, Dr. Juniper Harrower works at the intersection of ecology, art, activism and policy. A founding member of the international arts collective The Algae Society Bioart Design Lab, she also founded the environmental arts production company SymbioArtlab which contracts with national parks, universities, and the private sector to impact positive environmental change. Her research is published in both science and art scholarly journals and has shaped environmental policy. She is a National Science Foundation iCorps Fellow, an Oakland Teaching Fellow, and a Cota-Robles Fellow dedicated to advancing research for multicultural societies. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her research and artistic products have received wide exposure in popular media such as National Geographic, Kunstforum International, Atlas Obscura, KCET Artbound, the associated press, podcasts, music festivals and conferences. Harrower founded and directs the Art+Science initiative at UC Santa Cruz to disrupt hierarchies of science hegemony through providing paid arts residencies and mentorship to underrepresented students. She teaches art at both UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/urbanecologies monthly 0.5 2022-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/aba695d3-8660-47a0-b45b-07eb6d30ae42/ep9.jpg Episodes Blog - 9. Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with John Thackara &amp; Gavin Van Horn “It doesn't start with being in awe or having an epiphany. It starts with everyday intimacies that build our capacity for care, extending our empathic imagination into other spaces that we're a part of.” - Gavin Van Horn “We’ve learned too slowly that telling people things isn't the same as them getting it. So now my work is focused on how to enable people to have living embodied relationships with nature.” - John Thackara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b4779ebe-22ef-40a6-9855-be4021c26b4e/Gavin+Van+Horn-239.jpg Episodes Blog - 9. Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with John Thackara &amp; Gavin Van Horn - GUESTS BIOS: Gavin van Horn is Executive Editor of the Center for Humans and Nature, and is the author of the books The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds and City Creatures: Animal Encounters In The Chicago Wilderness. As a story forager, Gavin develops and directs transdisciplinary projects that illuminate what it means to become human within a more-than-human world. He received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and his doctorate from the University of Florida with a specialization in Religion and Nature. His dissertation research examined the religious, cultural, and ethical values involved in the reintroduction of wolves to the southwestern United States. Gavin wants stories to navigate with and get lost within—stories that crack shells, melt wax, and sprout wings. Stories that open paths to living well in a living world.a collaboration and a living together with the bees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b53baf1e-c051-4c3a-82a1-423d1f2b14c0/JohnThackara2013photoUrosAbram.jpg Episodes Blog - 9. Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with John Thackara &amp; Gavin Van Horn John Thackara is a writer, curator and professor whose work focuses on developing the design agenda for ecological restoration, urban-rural reconnection, and multi-species design. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, later across India; he was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07, and the French design biennial City Eco Lab; and in 2019, he curated the Urban-Rural expo in Shanghai. He is Visiting Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, School of Visual Arts in New York, and Politecnico di Milano, and is a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. He is a 2022 Design For Planet Fellow at Design Council, UK, and curator of the Social Food Forum. His last book was How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/urbanecologiesgavin monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/1668165526596-MEKLIO5AFCCI56I1D54Y/gavin.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with Gavin Van Horn “How do we think like a landscape? How do we think like a river? How do we imagine ourselves into these other types of being which would expand our empathic imaginations?” - Gavin Van Horn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/955e43c9-f04a-4f41-9ed7-7d77b830017f/Gavin+Van+Horn-239.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with Gavin Van Horn - GUEST BIO: Gavin van Horn is Executive Editor of the Center for Humans and Nature, and is the author of the books The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds and City Creatures: Animal Encounters In The Chicago Wilderness. As a story forager, Gavin develops and directs transdisciplinary projects that illuminate what it means to become human within a more-than-human world. He received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and his doctorate from the University of Florida with a specialization in Religion and Nature. His dissertation research examined the religious, cultural, and ethical values involved in the reintroduction of wolves to the southwestern United States. Gavin wants stories to navigate with and get lost within—stories that crack shells, melt wax, and sprout wings. Stories that open paths to living well in a living world.a collaboration and a living together with the bees. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/urbanecologiesjohn monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/773a1e42-7771-4b68-a064-d0b151814d74/john.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with John Thackara “You don't have to give people lectures about biodiversity. You just say, yeah, do you want to be part of growing food?” - John Thackara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b53baf1e-c051-4c3a-82a1-423d1f2b14c0/JohnThackara2013photoUrosAbram.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Urban Ecologies: Where’s Nature in the City? — with John Thackara - GUEST BIO: John Thackara is a writer, curator and professor whose work focuses on developing the design agenda for ecological restoration, urban-rural reconnection, and multi-species design. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, later across India; he was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07, and the French design biennial City Eco Lab; and in 2019, he curated the Urban-Rural expo in Shanghai. He is Visiting Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, School of Visual Arts in New York, and Politecnico di Milano, and is a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. He is a 2022 Design For Planet Fellow at Design Council, UK, and curator of the Social Food Forum. His last book was How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/natureasmentor monthly 0.5 2022-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d40da9c3-d2e9-46f0-b8a7-f4c00912c2ea/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 10. Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and Tracking — with Jon Young and Darren Silver “We have to get real humble and go back to listening to the songline of the river, of the juniper, the cottonwood.” - Darren Silver “When you're working with an adult, you can talk theory about nature connection all day long, and it doesn't do a thing. The trickiest part is to get an adult to go back and relive the childhood they didn't get — because you can't skip that.” - Jon Young https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d35f35e6-aac4-400c-b4ff-96dcc8f6c8ec/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+13.38.03.png Episodes Blog - 10. Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and Tracking — with Jon Young and Darren Silver - GUESTS BIOS: For over 40 years, Jon young has been a deep nature connection mentor, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, and storyteller. A leader in the field of nature-based education, in the 1980s he co-founded the Wilderness Awareness School in Washington and later the 8 Shields Institute in California. Jon has authored and co-authored several seminal works on deep nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote's Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his life’s work and for fostering the growth of the nature connection movement on a global level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3aa73348-5799-40d9-a62a-e9e5e74382f8/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+13.38.35.png Episodes Blog - 10. Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and Tracking — with Jon Young and Darren Silver Darren Silver, MA, is a rite of passage guide, Nature-Connected Coach, ceremonialist, and innovative educator. He has over a decade of experience working with ritual, wilderness living skills, and guiding transformational experiences residentially and internationally. A gifted storyteller and apprentice to the old myths, Darren weaves the power of the natural world, vision, and community in devotion to the remembrance of regenerative culture. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/naturementorjonyoung monthly 0.5 2022-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/1669553189336-HLKNGN0RRUNCLRIVGKVA/jon1.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and TrackingWilderness Rites and Tracking — with Jon Young “The birds do not lie. They don't fabricate. They don't interpret. They express purely, and your nervous system nourishes from that like a vitamin.” - Jon Young https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/a9419b52-a9a4-4331-948d-0017bb0053d5/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+13.38.03.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and TrackingWilderness Rites and Tracking — with Jon Young - GUEST BIO: For over 40 years, Jon young has been a deep nature connection mentor, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, and storyteller. A leader in the field of nature-based education, in the 1980s he co-founded the Wilderness Awareness School in Washington and later the 8 Shields Institute in California. Jon has authored and co-authored several seminal works on deep nature connection and connection mentoring, including What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World (2013), and Coyote's Guide to Connecting to Nature (2007). In 2016, he received the Champion of Environmental Education Award for his life’s work and for fostering the growth of the nature connection movement on a global level. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/naturementordarrensilver monthly 0.5 2022-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/e8c44dbb-e90b-4799-a397-2cf847ac9dce/darren1.jpg Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and Tracking — with Darren Silver “The natural world is always mirroring and reflecting back to us what is. The layers that stand between us and our true nature begin to be revealed.” - Darren Silver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/1e82734e-bfbb-47fa-91a2-178a47e03fba/Screenshot+2022-11-27+at+13.38.35.png Episodes Blog - [Full Length] Nature as Mentor: Wilderness Rites and Tracking — with Darren Silver - GUEST BIO: Darren Silver, MA, is a rite of passage guide, Nature-Connected Coach, ceremonialist, and innovative educator. He has over a decade of experience working with ritual, wilderness living skills, and guiding transformational experiences residentially and internationally. A gifted storyteller and apprentice to the old myths, Darren weaves the power of the natural world, vision, and community in devotion to the remembrance of regenerative culture. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/seasononeresolutionsreflections monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/86d56904-47d9-484b-a3e9-6655f880b3cb/2023-harvest.jpg Episodes Blog - From your Host: My 2023 Reflections and Resolutions from Season One! “So as you continue down this path, maybe, just maybe, you can learn to become a channel through which other species can tell their stories. You can start to think like a landscape, have your mind rush down riverbanks as the river. Become the wild god that comes to sit at the table. You can make yourself into good compost, let yourself rot, recomposing into something else entirely, sprouting fungal roots and sporing clouds that summon and ignite lightning. ” - Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/innerlivescarlsafina monthly 0.5 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/029e1878-3758-49ea-95e3-9cfaca7eec0d/ep11.jpg Episodes Blog - 11. The Inner Lives and Cultural Worlds of Animals – with Carl Safina “You can't just lose an animal culture in a region and expect that throwing a few animals there will get them back, because it doesn't always work. they're basically being abandoned in the hope that they'll know what to do.” - Carl Safina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d0ca418e-fbf0-4cc9-9a2a-b89a0f5d89c7/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-11-10%2Bat%2B4.37.29%2BPM.png Episodes Blog - 11. The Inner Lives and Cultural Worlds of Animals – with Carl Safina - GUEST BIO: Carl Safina is an ecologist and author whose work fuses scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action. His writing has won a MacArthur “genius” prize; Pew, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundation Fellowships; book awards from Lannan, Orion, and the National Academies; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. He grew up raising pigeons, training hawks and owls, and spending as many days and nights in the woods and on the water as he could. Safina is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center, a unique group of creative thought-leaders who make a case for life on Earth. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean, which can be viewed free at PBS.org. His writing appears in The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, Audubon, Yale e360, and National Geographic, CNN.com, and elsewhere. Safina is the author of ten books including the classic Song for the Blue Ocean, as well as New York Times Bestseller Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. His most recent book is Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace. He lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife Patricia and their dogs and feathered friends. Audubon magazine named Carl Safina among its “100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century.” https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/artoftracking monthly 0.5 2023-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/29c856a5-90ed-4854-ab5b-60470dc0b03c/lw12.jpg Episodes Blog - 12. The Art of Tracking &amp; Wild Bison — with Toni Romani “If you train your brain, it's easy to find tracks. Tracks are everywhere. You can see tracks in the city. You can see tracks in your house.” - Toni Romani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/95cd0acd-c9b3-4721-bc9c-83bd28d51372/9b4dad4b-28e1-4bab-a306-86243cdb49c7.jpg Episodes Blog - 12. The Art of Tracking &amp; Wild Bison — with Toni Romani - GUEST BIO: Toni Romani is a wildlife biologist and primatologist from Italy with extensive experience studying large European carnivores and their relationship to their prey, as well as chimpanzee nesting behaviour, using indirect evidence and non-invasive approaches (tracking, trailing and camera trapping). Toni has developed over the years an innovative approach to studying wildlife and interpreting the landscape through the interpretation of tracks and signs based on the CyberTracker standard, collaborating with local communities, organizations and NGOs in Europe and eastern Africa. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and teaches a Primatology master’s program at the University of Girona, Spain entitled ‘Tools and methods of research in primatology‘, which incorporates a combination of CyberTracker and SMART technology. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/soundsoflife monthly 0.5 2023-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/fe3dde07-bdcd-4b42-b620-4c73aef7c3a9/ep-13-cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 13. The Sounds of Life: Bioacoustics, A.I. and Ethics – with Karen Bakker “The bigger implication is that it may be that every single organism alive is sensitive to sound. And they may be more sensitive than us, because in the case of coral larva, they are listening with their entire bodies.” - Karen Bakker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/9ac69108-383e-436c-95df-8ea51eceb092/karen.png Episodes Blog - 13. The Sounds of Life: Bioacoustics, A.I. and Ethics – with Karen Bakker - GUEST BIO: Karen Bakker is a Canadian scientist, author, and entrepreneur known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance, and sustainability. A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford University, she is a Professor at the University of British Columbia. She is currently the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stanford University’s Annenberg Fellowship in Communication, Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40″, and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. Bakker’s Smart Earth project focuses on digital transformation and environmental governance, advancing regenerative sustainability and environmental justice through mobilizing the tools of the Digital Age to address the most pressing challenges of the Anthropocene. Bakker is the author of the widely celebrated The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, which won the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award (2022), has been translated into seven languages, and featured in a TED talk in 2023. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/musiciansofplanet monthly 0.5 2023-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/6a1dde7c-b21d-4ae2-85d5-8f3fa343faae/ep14cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 14. Musicians of the Planet: On Making Interspecies Songs – with David Rothenberg “Phenomenology is about trying to let the things come to you and to enter world without preconceptions. If you're used to improvising, you want to get to that sense of no preconception, the inability to rehearse for the unknown, the openness to what's there, to just relate to it.” - David Rothenberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b1bbad04-9ace-40e5-8f8b-a1e071f08d74/62dfe3c211a23d3065d86297_David_Rothenberg_07+Viktoriapark+blue.jpeg Episodes Blog - 14. Musicians of the Planet: On Making Interspecies Songs – with David Rothenberg - GUEST BIO: David Rothenberg has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years. He is the author of Why Birds Sing, on making music with birds, also published in England, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. It was turned into a feature length BBC TV documentary. His following book, Thousand Mile Song, is on making music with whales. It was turned into a film for French television. As a composer and jazz clarinetist, Rothenberg has at least thirty albums out under his own name, including On the Cliffs of the Heart, named one of the top ten releases by Jazziz Magazine in 1995 and a record on ECM with Marilyn Crispell, One Dark Night I Left My Silent House. Other releases include Why Birds Sing and Whale Music. He invited many musical colleagues to join him on Whale Music Remixed, with contributions from noted electronic artists such as Scanner, DJ Spooky, Lukas Ligeti, Mira Calix, Ben Neill, and Robert Rich. Rothenberg has a podcast series called Soundwalker. His latest streamed concerts are on his Youtube channel. David Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which has encouraged and supported all of his creative projects since 1992. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/reweavinglandscapes monthly 0.5 2023-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/8dbc9125-6c28-45ed-abea-df04ac937c7f/ep15cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 15. Re-Weaving Landscapes: Wildlife Crossings &amp; Designing for Nature as the Client “By thinking about the movement of everything from the side blotched lizard and the monarch butterfly to the California condor or red-tailed hawk, students are able to experience not only a different functional way of movement, but a different way of being in relationship to the land and to urbanization.” - Nina-Marie Lister https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/6c434761-3914-493d-93aa-0b8d8ed98ab9/Nina-Marie_Lister.jpg Episodes Blog - 15. Re-Weaving Landscapes: Wildlife Crossings &amp; Designing for Nature as the Client - GUEST BIO: Nina-Marie Lister is Professor in the School of Urban & Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University and Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where she leads a series of courses and seminars entitled Wild Ways: Thinking, Relating and Being with/in Wilderness, Wildness and Nature in the Anthropocene. Lister holds the Margolese National Design for Living Prize and is Senior Fellow at Massey College in Toronto. She is a Registered Professional Planner (MCIP, RPP) trained in systems ecology, environmental science and landscape planning, and her research, teaching and practice centre on the relationship between landscape infrastructure, biodiversity and ecological processes—specifically in the context of ecological design for resilience, health and well-being. At TMU, Lister founded and directs the Ecological Design Lab, a collaborative incubator for ecological design research and practice. She is co-editor of Projective Ecologies (with Chris Reed, published by Harvard University and ACTAR Press, 2014, 2020) and The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability, and author of more than 100 scholarly research & professional practice publications. These include notable contributions to Design With Nature Now (Lincoln Land Institute 2019), Nature & Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Planning & Design (Lincoln 2016), Is Landscape…Essays on the Identity of Landscape (Routledge 2016), Ecological Urbanism (Harvard University with Lars Müller Publishers 2010), and Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press 2008, winner of the J.B. Jackson Book Prize). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/c49915a7-0bff-47b7-8dfb-5b82dc8bce78/Screenshot+2023-06-17+at+09.59.17.png Episodes Blog - 15. Re-Weaving Landscapes: Wildlife Crossings &amp; Designing for Nature as the Client - Jeremy Guth is a trustee of the Woodcock Foundation and director of the foundation’s large landscape conservation program. The program has been focused on the protection of core and corridor areas within the Yellowstone to Yukon region, which offers one of the world’s best opportunities to conserve a landscape of a sufficient scale for the full range of ecological processes such as migration and adaptation to climate change. Jeremy is the co-founder of the ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition (completed: January, 2011) and founding director of the ARC Solutions Partnership. Rural life is not foreign to Jeremy. As a child, he grew up on a farm, and this experience left an undeniable imprint that is the basis of his interest in conservation and the environment. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/climategriefandecoanxiety monthly 0.5 2023-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/0126292f-6394-4028-9e61-ed2b46ceef6b/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 16. Climate Grief, Eco-anxiety, and Loving a world in Turmoil – with Dr. Britt Wray&nbsp; “You know what? No matter how far against the wall you're pushed, there is always something more to fight for. It doesn't ever disappear. And you don't know what you're going to create when you come together in community and fight for your existence. So many possibilities emerge that you could not have foreseen at the moment of being in rock bottom.” - Dr. Britt Wray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/0a3852a4-e1bd-4f34-b636-35c5fe548d7e/Screenshot+2023-09-10+at+12.48.27.png Episodes Blog - 16. Climate Grief, Eco-anxiety, and Loving a world in Turmoil – with Dr. Britt Wray&nbsp; - GUEST BIO: Britt Wray, PhD is an author and researcher working at the forefront of climate change and mental health. Her latest book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, is an impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption and was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Award. Britt is the Lead of the Special Initiative of the Chair on Climate Change and Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine. Before launching that initiative, she was a Human and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Innovation in Global Health, Woods Institute for the Environment and the London School of Medicine's Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. She holds a PhD in science communication from the University of Copenhagen. Britt has advised Canadian Federal Ministers, the US State Department, and multiple Fortune 500 companies, and is a Canadian Screen Award winner. She started Gen dread, the first newsletter that shares wide ranging ideas for supporting emotional health and psychological resilience in the climate and wider ecological crisis. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/talesofthearcticdeep monthly 0.5 2023-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/5e9d5668-bef0-4831-9e75-512dc01960a7/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 17. Tales of the Arctic Deep – with Sylvia Earle, Johan Rockström and Taylor Griffith “Explore, document, understand. And bring that information back and encourage others to see for themselves. No child left dry. Get out there, kid, get wet. Be an explorer, be a witness, do what kids naturally do. Ask questions and never stop, and be kind, be compassionate with other creatures.” - Dr. Sylvia Earle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/a8c25bbd-aaab-4513-9fa1-c233f3f92b2e/Screenshot+2023-09-23+at+20.35.29.png Episodes Blog - 17. Tales of the Arctic Deep – with Sylvia Earle, Johan Rockström and Taylor Griffith - GUEST BIO: Dr. Sylvia Alice Earle (born 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large, formerly Explorer in Residence, since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. Sylvia has pioneered research on marine ecosystems, with a special focus on exploration, conservation, and the development of new technologies for effectively accessing the deep sea and other remote environments. She holds the record for deepest walk on the sea floor. Earle is part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife. She founded Mission Blue, an organization dedicated to protecting the ocean from threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat destruction, invasive species, and the dramatic decrease in ocean fish stocks. Earle has led more than a hundred expeditions, logged over 7,000 hours underwater, and has authored more than 190 scientific, technical, and popular publications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/7179fcdb-105a-49d8-817b-01c144f37848/blobid1_1589877868973.jpg Episodes Blog - 17. Tales of the Arctic Deep – with Sylvia Earle, Johan Rockström and Taylor Griffith - Johan Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues. He led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. In addition to his research endeavours, which has been widely used to guide policy, Rockström is active as a consultant for several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at international meetings including the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Professor Rockström chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League and has been appointed as chair of the Earth Commission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/2cfdd863-e0fa-492c-a5cb-b9e70a061adb/204ABC9A-99A2-46F5-9F53-EE1E102D05E1%2B-%2BTaylor%2BGriffith.jpg Episodes Blog - 17. Tales of the Arctic Deep – with Sylvia Earle, Johan Rockström and Taylor Griffith Taylor Griffith is a multi-disciplinary artist from Oakland, California, currently living and working in Los Angeles. He obtained his BA in Photography from the University of La Verne in 2019, and in 2021, he received an MFA from Art Center College of Design. Taylor's work focuses on the relationship between the living ocean and humans. He employs a multi-medium approach to explore the interdisciplinary nexus of art and science in the natural and unnatural world. His artistic practice encompasses photography, sculpture, time-based media, and printmaking. His art aims to foster ongoing conversations about the challenges our planet faces and serves as a lens to alter our perception of time and space, prompting contemplation of the surreal world we inhabit. In 2022, Taylor was nominated as a permanent artist in residence at Altasea, where he maintains a studio practice and engages with the local community in partnership with the organization. Taylor's artwork and video projects have been exhibited globally in galleries and institutions. In Taylor's other professional life, he works as a cinematographer and filmmaker, specializing in underwater and deep-sea imagery. He has contributed images and provided consulting services for projects involving clients such as National Geographic, Blue Planet II, Mission Blue, and the United Nations. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/satellites-data-and-earth-observation monthly 0.5 2023-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/0629383e-b607-4499-b125-ae98da9a1363/dan.jpg Episodes Blog - 18. Satellites, Data and Earth Observation: Signal from Noise – with Dan Hammer “You can't see gender inequality from space. You can't see income vulnerability. But you can see these sort of breadcrumbs, and it takes a lot of ground truthing as well to be able to interpret what’s really happening there.” - Dan Hammer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/39682ebf-5735-4027-8b88-6681911327b1/DanHammerAlamo_0.jpg Episodes Blog - 18. Satellites, Data and Earth Observation: Signal from Noise – with Dan Hammer - GUEST BIO: Dr. Dan Hammer [CV] is a Managing Partner at Ode, a tech and design agency for the environment. He is the winner of the Pritzker Environmental Genius Award. He is a Fellow at National Geographic, a TEDx speaker, and founder of Earthrise Media. Hammer works to make satellite imagery of the Earth more accessible to journalists and educators. He was a senior advisor in the Obama White House, a Presidential Innovation Fellow at NASA, and an adjunct professor at both Georgetown University and the University of San Francisco. Hammer served as the chief data scientist at the World Resources Institute, and while there, co-founded Global Forest Watch to monitor deforestation from satellite imagery. He also founded Spaceknow, a satellite image analytics start-up. He received his Ph.D. in environmental economics at UC Berkeley, where he was a Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Hammer received his B.A. in mathematics and economics with high honors at Swarthmore College, where he was a Lang Opportunity Scholar. Hammer spent almost two years in the South Pacific as a Watson Fellow, building and racing outrigger canoes. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/conservationphotography monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/259664ee-839d-42e3-aa4d-3c2ff9616fa5/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 19. Conservation Photography and Beauty Activism – with Cristina “Mitty” Mittermeier “It's a delicate balance trying to encourage people to participate more and learn more without being terrified and becoming numb and apathetic. It's a dance every day.” - Cristina Mittermeier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/2a0bc46c-8ed0-4c7e-b805-b50648cf7b84/Mittermeier-Head-Shot_Sq-scaled-1.jpg Episodes Blog - 19. Conservation Photography and Beauty Activism – with Cristina “Mitty” Mittermeier - GUEST BIO: Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier is a Mexican photographer, conservationist, marine biologist, and author, who pioneered the concept and field of conservation photography. Her images focus on demonstrating the important relationship between human cultures, indigenous people and biodiversity, the ocean and climate change. Hailed as one of the most influential conservation photographers of our time, she has dedicated her entire life to protecting the World's oceans - inspiring millions of people to do the same. She graduated from the ITESM University in Mexico with a degree in Biochemical Engineering in Marine Sciences. She later attended the Fine Art Photography program at the Corcoran College for the Arts in Washington, D.C. In 2005 Mittermeier founded the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) to provide a platform for photographers working on environmental issues and coined the phrase "conservation photography". In 2014 she co-founded SeaLegacy, a non-profit organization using strategic communications at the intersection of art, science, and conservation to protect and rewild the ocean for the benefit of biodiversity, humanity, and climate within our lifetimes. SeaLegacy is the global marketing, education, and communication agency for the ocean. At the nexus of climate action and sustainable solutions, we create the strategies and content that move audiences into action. Mittermeier's work has been published in hundreds of prominent magazines, including National Geographic, TIME, McLean's, The Men's Journal and O. Along with her partner, Paul Nicklen, she was named one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year in 2018. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/seedslifekeepers monthly 0.5 2024-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/36efcc3c-11cb-44f1-bd26-fd860f9027f5/seeds-new.jpg Episodes Blog - 20. Seeds: The Life Keepers — with Milka </span>Chepkorir Kuto “It does not mean anything if you have a land, and the relationship is gone, and the values and the spiritual connection of the people and the land is gone. What gives us so much pride as a community is to refer to our ancestors, and our clan systems, and our family roots.” - Milka Chepkorir Kuto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d7826e6f-f9a3-4f1e-8a70-7ad1155be386/IndigenousFellowKenya.jpg Episodes Blog - 20. Seeds: The Life Keepers — with Milka </span>Chepkorir Kuto - GUESTS BIO: Milka Chepkorir Kuto is an anthropologist and climate and human rights activist. She is a member of the Sengwer indigenous community who primarily live in the Embobut forest in Kenya’s Rift Valley, and has become a representative for her people in defending their land rights after violent evictions from their traditional lands by the Kenya Forest Service. For the three years Milka worked with the Forest Peoples Programme, she fought for the recognition of Sengwer community land rights needed to sustain her community’s culture and traditional way of life. Milka is also a Coordinator of Defending Territories of Life at ICCA Consortium, and has worked the UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She and her community are working to revitalize People-Land Relationships through Indigenous Knowledge Systems. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/plantintelligence monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/f93a2475-4213-4cc8-8c35-5d49b000f5dc/plants.jpg Episodes Blog - 21. The Science of Plant Intelligence &amp; Neurobiology — with Paco Calvo “The different tips, the shoots, the roots — even the very notion, the very idea of an individual, is lost. It doesn't translate easily. It's something more akin to a form of swarm intelligence or collective intelligence, like a flock of birds, a school of fish. The plant is not really an individual, it's a collectivity.” - Paco Calvo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/489f9af8-cc14-49e2-b273-1bfd304c4155/Screenshot+2024-03-30+at+11.23.02.png Episodes Blog - 21. The Science of Plant Intelligence &amp; Neurobiology — with Paco Calvo - GUESTS BIO: Paco Calvo is a renowned cognitive scientist and philosopher of biology, known for his groundbreaking research in the field of plant cognition and intelligence. He is a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, where he leads the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), focusing on the study of minimal cognition in plants. Calvo’s interdisciplinary work combines insights from biology, philosophy, and cognitive science to explore the fascinating world of plant behavior, decision-making, and problem-solving. By investigating the complex interactions and adaptive responses exhibited by plants, Paco Calvo has significantly contributed to our understanding of cognition beyond the animal kingdom, challenging conventional perspectives on intelligence and mental capacities. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/zenbuddhism monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/5f0088e2-e1df-4f44-847d-a6b655594207/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 22. Zen Buddhism and the Soul of Lifeworlding - with Br. Spirit and Sr. True Dedication / Plum Village “There's a beautiful line that our teacher once said when he was describing this thing about animism. He was saying that everything in the cosmos has its own way of knowing. He would say, this bamboo has its own intelligence. It has its way of knowing. Even an electron has its way of knowing. Respecting these mysterious ways of knowing of the living world around us is such a key to unlocking our own consciousness, our own openness of mind.” - Sister True Dedication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/53874a60-da95-4eb3-b4a3-a1d460ec619d/Sister-True-Dedication-499x624.jpg Episodes Blog - 22. Zen Buddhism and the Soul of Lifeworlding - with Br. Spirit and Sr. True Dedication / Plum Village - GUESTS BIO: Sister True Dedication (Chân Hiến Nghiêm) is from the U.K. She was ordained in 2008 at the age of 27, and became a Dharma Teacher in 2016. Before entering the monastery, Sister True Dedication studied History & Political Thought at Cambridge University and worked as a journalist for BBC News in London. In the early years of her monastic training, she assisted Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chan Khong in their engaged Buddhist actions for human rights, religious freedom, applied ethics, and ecology. She helped to found the international Wake Up Movement, a community of young meditators who are finding new ways to combine mindfulness and engaged Buddhism. Today, she contributes her time and energy to guiding young monastics and editing Thich Nhat Hanh’s writings, in particular his recent books on Buddhism and ecology, including Love Letter to the Earth (2013), The Art of Living (2017), and Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (2021). She helps the community with external communications and media liaison, and can occasionally be found on twitter and instagram. At home in the monastery Sister True Dedication enjoys relaxing with her monastic siblings, drinking coffee, community-building, savoring silence in nature, and (when it’s appropriate) acting in comedy skits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/651ccac9-0e2e-4d11-876d-177de8cd02bf/Screenshot+2024-05-29+at+12.20.19.png Episodes Blog - 22. Zen Buddhism and the Soul of Lifeworlding - with Br. Spirit and Sr. True Dedication / Plum Village Brother Phap Linh, also known as Brother Spirit, is a zen Buddhist monk, musician and seeker. He began his monastic training with Thich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village in February 2008, and has since composed many of the community’s beloved chants. Before ordaining he studied mathematics at Cambridge and worked professionally as a composer. A co-founder of the Wake Up Movement for young people, today Brother Phap Linh is actively engaged in teaching applied mindfulness to climate activists, business leaders, artists, and scientists. As a leading voice in the new generation of Buddhist monastics in the West, he is passionate about exploring how meditators and scientists can learn from each other and open new paths of healing and discovery. He has the conviction that a modern form of monasticism can play a crucial role in bringing about a more compassionate society as well as a much needed collective awakening to our interbeing with all life. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/natureinvirtualreality monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/65ba4b9c-59d9-4913-b284-f25c240fef4d/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 23. Wild Avatars: Nature in Virtual Reality - with Marshmallow Laser Feast “It doesn't really matter what happens inside of the gallery. What matters is when you go to a park, when you look at your house plant, when you look at a tree, can you imagine these phases of temperature change? If you were to fly up, can you see the inner systems when you look inside? Can you notice the differences in the breeze and the smell that changes with it?” - Ersin Han Ersin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/9a378a9f-d80d-482a-8135-8356f25606d7/Screenshot+2024-07-31+at+18.51.58.png Episodes Blog - 23. Wild Avatars: Nature in Virtual Reality - with Marshmallow Laser Feast - GUESTS BIO: Ersin Han Ersin is an artist and director of London based experiential studio Marshmallow Laser Feast. Ersin’s art practice combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and mixed reality. His work illuminates the hidden natural forces that surround us, inviting participants to navigate with a sensory perception beyond their daily experience. In these spaces, the known physical world is removed to reveal networks, processes and systems that are at once sublime, underpinned by research, and fundamental to life on Earth. He has designed and directed for the likes of critically acclaimed Saatchi Gallery debut; We Live in an Ocean of Air, In The Eyes Of The Animal’ which was nominated for the Design of the Year by Design Museum Beazley Awards and won the Wired Innovation Award (2016). Most recently, he and the team at MLF won the Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes Award for Innovation in Storytelling and Best VR Film at VR Arles Festival for ‘TreeHugger, Wawona’. Ersin’s work has been exhibited around the world including Lisbon Triennial, Sundance Film Festival New Frontier, Tribeca Film Festival Storyscapes, Istanbul Design Biennial, London, New York, and Shanghai. Ersin Han was born in Turkey, 1984, studied Visual Communication Design at Gazi University, Ankara. He studied for a master’s degree at Goldsmiths University, Computational Studio Arts, London Marshmallow Laser Feast is an experiential studio that explores technology to make work which reinterprets the idea of human perception. Their expertise has earned a reputation for creating the seemingly impossible—for producing installations that push boundaries, redefine expectations and excite audiences worldwide. Their work is responsive and spans kinetic sculpture, film, live performance and virtual reality. Ersin Han Ersin, Barney Steel and Robin McNicholas are the driving forces behind all Marshmallow Laser Feast projects. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/ecocidelaw monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/29251587-c027-44c9-91a1-fbace556e469/cover-pella.jpg Episodes Blog - 24. Guardians of the Earth: The Rise of Ecocide Law - with Pella Thiel “At that time, Ecocide was such a fringe, radical idea. Very few people thought that this would become reality. For some people it was a joke, for other people, a utopian dream. And this has changed so fast.” - Pella Thiel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/352d44c8-5962-4c55-ab23-9546a2bdd0ba/Screenshot+2024-08-09+at+17.40.12.png Episodes Blog - 24. Guardians of the Earth: The Rise of Ecocide Law - with Pella Thiel - GUEST BIO: Pella is a maverick ecologist, farmer, author and educator. She works with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels, from local resilience to international legal frameworks. She is a knowledge expert in the UN Harmony with Nature programme and has co-founded Swedish hubs of international networks like Transition Sweden, (part of Transition Network), End Ecocide Sweden (part of Stop Ecocide International) and Save the Rainforest Sweden. Pella was awarded the Swedish Martin Luther King Award in 2023 and the Environmental Hero of the year 2019. She is an associate of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University and teaches regularly at several Swedish universities. She also leads a one-year ecopsychology programme with Lodyn. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/internetofanimals monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/d0b36934-a37e-4034-bff9-1a737f89df8f/cover25.jpg Episodes Blog - 25. The Connected Wild: Earth’s Internet of Animals - with <span class="sqsrte-text-color--black">Martin Wikelski</span> “There are so many animals out there that can't voice their concerns about what's happening on the planet. And we have now means to do that. We have ways to start to translate their needs. It's good for us and it's good for the animals.” - Martin Wikelski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/fac2460e-4123-4afe-8ddc-af7b16520303/Screenshot+2024-09-20+at+13.22.20.png Episodes Blog - 25. The Connected Wild: Earth’s Internet of Animals - with <span class="sqsrte-text-color--black">Martin Wikelski</span> - GUEST BIO: Martin Wikelski is the director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and honorary professor of ornithology at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, assistant professor at the University of Illinois and associate professor at Princeton. Wikelski investigates global animal migrations with the goal of creating an intelligent sensor network of animals—the “Internet of Animals”—and protecting animals worldwide. He has pioneered a system for continuously tracking thousands of animals from space, ICARUS, and in doing so has opened up a frontier in harnessing animal observation as a tool for conservation. Wikelski is a Niko-Tinbergen Laureate of the German Ethological Society (1998) and Bartholomew Laureate of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2000). In 2008 the National Geographic Society honored him as “Emerging Explorer”, and in 2010 he was designated “Adventurer of the Year” for his leading contribution to the research of global animal migration. He became elected member of the Leopoldina - German national science academy in 2014, was awarded with the Max Planck Research Award in 2016, and State of Baden-Württemberg’s highest honor, the Order of Merit in 2021. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/speculativedesign monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/15064615-2f00-41bb-acf4-1ec333a627d7/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 26. Speculative Designs &amp; Embodied Imagination - with Superflux “What we imagine is in a sense what we are and who we become. There is such a strong correlation between imagination, invention and innovation.” - Anab Jain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/1f1c2003-03c1-4508-a214-933f265a09c8/1_xolFeHXqYHzCllxetGSdAQ.jpg Episodes Blog - 26. Speculative Designs &amp; Embodied Imagination - with Superflux - GUEST BIO: Anab Jain (she/her) is a filmmaker, designer, and futurist renowned for her pioneering work on more-than human and ecological thinking. Through the work of her award winning studio Superflux, Jain and her co-founder Jon Ardern prioritise raising questions over demanding answers, with clients including Google AI, Cabinet Office UK, and IKEA. She has delivered talks at TED, Skoll, House of Lords, and House of Commons UK, and exhibited at MoMA New York, V&A London, MAK Vienna, and Museum of the Future Dubai. Anab is also a Professor for Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London. Anab Jain spends her time peering ahead into possible futures and reporting As a filmmaker and educator, and a designer of provocative, tangible experiences, Anab urges us to consider a new vision for design – one that moves beyond our narrow focus on the human experience towards recognising the interdependence of all life on Earth. She forewarns that neither naked fear nor blind hope, but only a deep-seated curiosity about what lies ahead can help us manage the uncertainties of our shared futures. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/qanda monthly 0.5 2025-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/c2259413-dc1b-46bf-8b01-a7db0d261069/Q%26A.jpg Episodes Blog - From Your Host: Season’s Reflections and Q&amp;A “At the heart of it all is a simple truth: the way we frame the world, the mindset we bring, is as vital as the actions we take. This podcast exists to nurture that frame, to open doorways into a deeper relationality with this wildly alive planet. As we grapple with the challenges of global breakdowns, returning life to ecosystems and wholeness to ourselves, I hope Lifeworlds can be a steady hand, guiding you toward what feels sacred and true.” - Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/theecologyofhealth monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/f2e522a6-f57c-4efb-9b0d-91433c4fc048/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 27. The Ecology of Health - with Dr. Mackenzie Hall&nbsp; “There are always two questions when a person comes in, and I think this is the same with the planet: Is there enough? Is there enough stock, reserve, essence? And can it move? Is it flowing?” - Dr. Mackenzie Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/a1e5a2a4-5952-4f65-9440-b8470be52486/Bio+Photo.jpg Episodes Blog - 27. The Ecology of Health - with Dr. Mackenzie Hall&nbsp; - GUEST BIO: Dr. Mackenzie Hall is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine specializing in Functional Medicine. She founded her business, Aaro Wellness, to offer people a synthesized approach to healing chronic health issues in response to the growing prevalence of long-term and difficult-to-treat diseases. With deep reverence for ancient wisdom, nature, and integrative healing solutions, she is passionate about helping people understand their unique inner ecology and the factors that create patterns of vibrant health versus disease. She is equally passionate about how the mind and unresolved emotion influences the body. Prior to pursuing a medical career, she immersed herself in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, which continues to enrich her personal and professional practice today. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/whale-dreaming-ocean-songlines monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/080a0713-eeaa-4df8-8a0b-153aedde3e27/cover2.jpg Episodes Blog - 28. Whale Dreaming &amp; Ocean Songlines - with WHAIA “It’s like Pele, the volcanic goddess. That lava that sits underneath the surface, waiting quietly to be seen or to be heard. And then, as soon as she lets it fly, it’s like this explosion of magnificence—and it births new worlds, and creates new lands, and gives new life.” - WHAIA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/395c4b9b-785d-471f-b37a-123a838fda6b/WhatsApp+Image+2025-03-27+at+13.45.01.jpeg Episodes Blog - 28. Whale Dreaming &amp; Ocean Songlines - with WHAIA - GUEST BIO: Whaia Sonic Weaver is a transcendent vocalist, alchemical performer, and First Nations multi-instrumentalist of Ngāti Kahungunu, Māori descent. Raised from the age of six on Yindjibarndi country in the Pilbara desert of northwestern Australia, the arid, red earth and the presence of her Aboriginal grandmother shaped her early path — grounding her in the deep listening and elemental kinship that now defines her work. She is a singer, designer, cultural producer, and facilitator, whose haunting vocals are drawn from her original mother tongue — the language of Te Rā, the Sun. Walking with Taonga Pūoro (traditional Māori instruments) and crystal singing bowls, Whaia blends vocals with melodies made of wood, bone, clay and stone, weaving the voices of mother nature. In 2011, she carved out a four-year Australian tour with the band WHALEDREAMERS, featuring Mirning elder and Senior Lore Man Bunna Lawrie, singing the ancient Aboriginal whale songlines at festivals across the continent. As an artist, activist, and elemental voice for the waters, Whaia is also an ambassador for the ocean. She serves on the board of Oceanic Global, the Kia’i Moana Foundation in Hawai’i, and is a member of the Wisdom Keeper Delegation, a global collective walking ancestral wisdom into policy spaces, including within the United Nations. (Photo of Whaia: Chanel Baran Photo) https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/carbonandgrammaroflife monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b69a265e-0345-4719-b554-f3769ac5fbbd/ep29.jpg Episodes Blog - 29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life - with Paul Hakwen “To me, it opened up whole worlds of exploration, of how life exists, how it expresses itself. And I would say: we are at ground zero in terms of understanding the flow of life.” - Paul Hawken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3ef27ed4-495d-4a36-8c11-ea0d7459b1c2/12277.jpg Episodes Blog - 29. Carbon and the Grammar of Life - with Paul Hakwen - GUEST BIO: Paul Hawken has written ten books published in 50 countries and 30 languages, including five New York Times bestsellers: Blessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce, Drawdown, and Regeneration. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc., Boston Globe, Atmos, Grist, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Orion, and other publications. He founded several companies including Erewhon, the first natural food company in the U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agriculture. He served on the board of Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog), Center for Plant Conservation, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and National Audubon Society. He lives in Mill Valley, California in the Cascade Creek watershed with his wife, coyotes, gray fox, bobcats, redtail hawks, and pileated woodpeckers. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/griefsongceremoniesofmourning monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/7d0ba215-2325-40ea-b84c-f4156b6a5a26/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 30. Grief, Song and Ceremonies of Mourning - with <span class="sqsrte-text-color--black">Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely</span> “I like to believe that Mystery — who for me is God, Mystery, the Great Unknown — has tucked these practices, these communal ways of grieving, deep into the earth. Buried them strategically, waiting for the right moment to emerge. Ready to sprout and rise when the world needs them the most.” - Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/066f54f0-56e9-43e6-8609-246e67261a2c/Screenshot+2025-05-12+at+2.52.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Episodes Blog - 30. Grief, Song and Ceremonies of Mourning - with <span class="sqsrte-text-color--black">Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely</span> - GUEST BIO: Alexandra “ahlay” Blakely is a descendent of Ashkenazi, Scandinavian and British folk. She is an artist, singer-songwriter, communal grief tender, community organizer, facilitator and ceramicist walking the path of ancestral healing and the reclaiming of lost cultural memories. Her community singing album, Spells from the Unknown encapsulates songs for the community to transform, ask questions, and seek to lead lives in service to the future ones. Her newest community singing album, WAILS: Songs for Grief was recorded with a choir of 200 voices. The album is completely dedicated to grief, inspired by the Whales of the Sea, the wails of our times, and Francis Weller’s book The Wild Edge of Sorrow and more specifically “the five gates of grief.” https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/lifeworldsinworlding monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/b4b69768-ad41-45ec-a0b0-b6f89068d389/bonus.jpg Episodes Blog - From Orbit to Intimacy: Beyond the Overview Effect “Only this time the overview effect is not humans in space staring back at the magnificence of our planetary home. It is us, firmly entangled in soil and salt water and reindeer moss, staring in and speaking out as the multiple lifeworlds of the earth… Eyes observing horizontally, fractally. Our gaze, and ourselves, reflected back in what we used to call “the other.” https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/holisticlandscaperestoration monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3d8a9197-d08a-47be-b240-e796ea2e5cb0/cover31.jpg Episodes Blog - 31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland “I think we should give more openness to the deeper spiritual context of what I call restoration, or integrated holistic landscape management. It’s been ignored but it should be much more present.” - Willem Ferwerda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/16dc6597-a655-40ba-b3c2-c250febfa1f6/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+6.04.35%E2%80%AFPM.png Episodes Blog - 31. Holistic Landscape Restoration and Inspirational Returns – with Willem Ferwerda from Commonland - GUEST BIO: Willem Ferwerda is the founder of Commonland, an international organization dedicated to large-scale, long-term, and holistic landscape restoration. By integrating biodiversity, carbon sequestration, regenerative agriculture, business, finance, and community development, Commonland works to restore ecosystems and livelihoods across the globe. Ferwerda studied tropical ecology in Amsterdam and Colombia. Before founding Commonland in 2013, he served as director and fund manager at IUCN Netherlands, where he supported conservation initiatives in more than 40 countries and launched a platform fostering dialogue between business and ecology. With the creation of Commonland, Ferwerda introduced the 4 Returns framework, a practical approach to holistic landscape restoration now implemented in over 20 countries. He also serves on the boards and advisory councils of several organizations focused on ecology, biodiversity, and sustainable land use. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/depthpsychology monthly 0.5 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/4f8cfe0b-4cfd-4666-a784-32959be9c62b/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute “Systemic human development oppression I’ve come to understand is the core oppression in the world. All the other oppressions — racial, sexual, gender, ethnic, class — stem from arrested human development.” - Bill Plotkin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/c913fb49-a728-41a9-835b-b6575ece01b4/Screenshot+2025-07-04+at+1.49.04%E2%80%AFPM.png Episodes Blog - 32. Depth Psychology and Soul Initiation – with Bill Plotkin from Animas Valley Institute - GUEST BIO: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide, and agent of cultural evolution. As founder of western Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute in 1981, he has guided thousands of seekers through nature-based initiatory passages, including a contemporary, Western adaptation of the pan-cultural vision fast. Previously, he has been a research psychologist (studying non-ordinary states of consciousness), professor of psychology, psychotherapist, rock musician, and whitewater river guide. In 1979, on a solo winter ascent of an Adirondack peak, Bill experienced a call to adventure, leading him to abandon academia in search of his true calling. Bill is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (an experiential guidebook), Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (a nature-based stage model of human development through the entire lifespan), Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche (an ecocentric map of the psyche — for healing, growing whole, and cultural transformation), and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries (an experiential guidebook for the descent to soul). He has a doctorate in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/empatheatresocialsculpture monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/5f987654-8e48-4dcf-8c3b-e3d0786edf77/cover2.jpg Episodes Blog - 33. Empatheatre: Social Sculpture &amp; Feeling Across Worlds — with Dylan McGarry “I think empathy is a creative act. It’s imaginal, it’s an art-making practice, where even just listening is creating a picture and a lifeworld of the other inside yourself in order to get closer to each other.” - Dylan McGarry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/722da9d1-68ab-4973-afcc-b42934b2f1ff/DYLAN+MCGARRY+BIO+PIC.jpg Episodes Blog - 33. Empatheatre: Social Sculpture &amp; Feeling Across Worlds — with Dylan McGarry - GUEST BIO: Dr. Dylan (Dyl) McGarry (aka Dylan Whale) practices across the fields of Education, Sociology, Ecology, and the Arts. As such Dyl (preferred pronoun) works with several tentacles touching the world, as an Educational Sociologist, Cultural Ecologist, multi-media artist, artivist, curator, theatre and film maker. Dyl has a PhD in Environmental Education and Art, as well as degrees in Marine Science, Environmental Science and Sustainable Rural Development. As co-founder of Empatheatre, their work and praxis draws from the power of public storytelling (theatre, film, animation) as a mechanism for regenerative community building, pro-active justice, active empathy, meaning-making and fostering inclusive forms of governance in complex social-ecological entanglements. Their areas of research span a wide spectrum, including Environmental Humanities, Transgressive Social Learning, Public Pedagogy, Theatre-based Research, Arts-based Research, Visual anthropology, legal anthropology, Queer Eco-Pedagogy, Post-humanism, New Materialism, and critical African feminist approaches to co-engaged research. Dylan is the recipient of the Bertha Foundation’s 2022 Artivist award, for their ongoing art-activism, a title he shares with Empatheatre co-founders, Neil Coppen and Mpume Mthombeni, as well as two 2023 national Social Science and Humanities (NHSS) awards for best curated exhibition and best digital humanities output, along with numerous theatre, environmental, and research awards. Dylan is most interested in the profound role of connective aesthetics, social sculpture, and 'making' as essential forms of thinking and theorizing, what they like to call “meaning ∞ making”. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/blackmountainscollege monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/6024e295-e767-46f1-b7af-79cb393864ff/Screenshot+2026-01-30+at+1.25.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Episodes Blog - 34. Black Mountains College: Rethinking Education for Our Times — with Ben Rawlence</span> “I think the role of universities at this time is to be critical about where we are and about the purpose of life.” - Ben Rawlence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/95ce3155-fc1a-4327-998d-dbf6ffb1bf26/IMG_0919.JPG Episodes Blog - 34. Black Mountains College: Rethinking Education for Our Times — with Ben Rawlence</span> - GUEST BIO: Ben Rawlence is co-founder and CEO of Black Mountains College, an experimental educational institution grounded in ecological imagination, creative practice, and adaptive thinking in the face of the climate and ecological emergency. He is an award-winning writer and activist, known for his deeply reported books that explore climate, displacement and human resilience. His work includes Think Like a Forest, City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp, Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa’s Deadliest War, and The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth — the latter shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and recipient of a National Academies Prize for Science Writing. Before founding BMC, Ben worked for several years as a researcher for Human Rights Watch’s Africa division, where he documented rights abuses and humanitarian crises across the Horn of Africa and East Africa. His early career also included political and policy work: he served as a speechwriter and advisor for UK Liberal Democrats, including for Sir Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy, and worked with the Civic United Front in Tanzania as well as with the Social Science Research Council in the United States. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/stardusttosentience monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/13d88fcc-a6bd-4449-ba16-1a36971fecaf/cover.jpg Episodes Blog - 35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology &amp; Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank “If we can pay attention, our individual stories can be embedded in this much broader, more grounded and expansive story of the rest of the universe: of which we are members, part of the story.” - Adam Frank https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/66c9f22e-233a-481e-a5ef-dfde8bcd694e/2023-08-18_Adam_Frank_0115-2.jpg Episodes Blog - 35. From Stardust To Sentience: Astrobiology &amp; Life in the Cosmos – with Adam Frank - GUEST BIO: Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester, where he has been a faculty member since 1996. His computational research group at the University of Rochester developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die, and he is a leading expert on the final stages of stellar evolution for stars like our sun. His research has since expanded far beyond stellar physics — encompassing exoplanet atmospheres, astrobiology, and what he calls the study of exo-civilizations — the generic response of planets to the evolution of energy-intensive technological life. A self-described "evangelist of science," Adam is committed to showing others the beauty and power of science and exploring its proper context in culture. He is one of the most prominent science communicators working today. He was co-founder of NPR's 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog, which ran for seven years, and is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, as well as a contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other major outlets. He currently writes the 13.8 column on BigThink. He has authored five books. The Constant Fire examined the deep relationship between science and spiritual experience. About Time explored how cosmology and culture shape each other through the human experience of time. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth reframed climate change as a universal challenge facing any technological civilisation — it won the 2019 National Honor Society Best Book in Science. The Little Book of Aliens is his definitive guide to the scientific search for extraterrestrial life. His most recent book, The Blind Spot, co-authored with philosopher Evan Thompson, argues that modern science has an unexamined philosophical assumption at its foundations — that a complete account of reality can leave out the experiencer — and that addressing this blind spot is essential not just philosophically but for how we approach everything from consciousness to climate. Frank has developed a framework classifying planetary atmospheres into five classes, from barren to fully technosphere-integrated, arguing that Earth currently sits between Class 4 and 5 — and that we don't yet know if we make it to a sustainable Class 5. This framing — astrobiology as a mirror for understanding our own civilisational choices — is perhaps his most distinctive and urgent contribution to the field. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, the Lex Fridman Podcast, Netflix's Alien Worlds, National Geographic's Mars, and the History Channel's The Universe, among many others. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/stinglessbeesamazonfuture monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/80b73281-c309-4807-8885-49d5874b0cd0/rosa.jpg Episodes Blog - 36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey &amp; the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa “The Amazon is fluid. We couldn't just develop a simple grid as people typically would, walking a path and expecting to happen upon the bees. No… We had to completely reshift that and first see the world through the eyes of the beekeepers.” - Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/4b1b13c4-e92d-4611-b458-cba3922a831e/Screenshot+2026-03-29+at+11.39.04%E2%80%AFAM.png Episodes Blog - 36. Stingless Bees, Ancient Honey &amp; the Amazon's Future – with Dr. Rosa Vasquez Espinosa - GUEST BIO: Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza is a Ph.D. chemical biologist, conservation leader and National Geographic Explorer leading the global movement protecting wild pollinators and the Amazon. Raised between the Peruvian Andes and the rainforest, she bridges cutting-edge science with ancestral knowledge to drive real-world environmental change. Her work has achieved the world’s first legal recognition of an insect’s rights, inspired national and local conservation laws, increased the value of native honey by over 500%, and helped launch new models for positive nature-based economies across Indigenous territories. Rosa is the Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Research Internacional, working across the Amazon basin to protect biodiversity, empower communities and build climate resilience. Her leadership has been recognised by BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women (2024), the UNESCO–Al Fozan Prize for Young Scientists, Peru’s Order of Merit - the nation’s highest civilian honour, and the New Explorer Award from The Explorers Club (2025). Her work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, CBS News, National Geographic and People Magazine, and she has appeared in major international documentary projects with the BBC, ARTE, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and Disney. She has collaborated with global brands and institutions including NASA, Boeing, PepsiCo, Garnier, and Sea-Doo, and has delivered keynote addresses and panel discussions across the UK (including University of Oxford and TEDx London Global Idea Search 2025), USA, Germany, France, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Peru and Colombia. Rosa’s passion for exploration and conservation is reflected in her new book, “The Spirit of the Rainforest” (2025), which takes readers on an immersive journey through the Amazon, weaving together adventure, science, and the deep-rooted wisdom of indigenous cultures. https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/fruitfuldarknessrilke monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/57b4f743-4634-4fad-81eb-834177cec777/rilke.jpg Episodes Blog - Poetry : Fruitful Darkness with Rilke “But when I lean over the chasm of myself it seems my God is dark and like a web: a hundred roots silently drinking. This is the ferment I grow out of. More I don’t know, because my branches rest in deep silence, stirred only by the wind” -Rainer Maria Rilke https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/practicesensingplace-yy5hc monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3967ce03-d98f-4ad6-88f3-76bafdfd8abf/meditaton-.jpg Episodes Blog - Meditation: Deep Ecology “Without being awake in our bodies We can’t feel how our bodies belong to this earth Feel the touch of the world upon you.” - Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/soulfiresessionsall monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/30d29f7a-46fa-4f63-935c-02cbb9cdba11/soulfire.jpg Episodes Blog - Soulfire Sessions! (All) https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/practicesensingplace monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/0370f413-c303-4d99-966f-91d3d31066c6/practice-1-.jpg Episodes Blog - Practice: Sensing Place “Our Homo sapien brains, our neuronal pathways, jolted and fused and tenderly sprouted new branches every time our eyes scanned the complexity of a living world, trying to make sense of its miraculous expressions, our bodies learning how to live by sensing the minutest details of topographies, foraging, tracking, hunting. We were often nomadic, and as we moved through landscape, we became landscape and landscape became us.” - Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/bodycompass monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/ff2319d9-e69e-4c0a-b636-c9208bea218e/COMPASS.jpg Episodes Blog - Practice : Body Compass https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/poemwildgod monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/09750925-a0f6-4bae-b0c8-0f0aecd5b4e1/sometimes-wild-god.jpg Episodes Blog - Poem: Sometimes a Wild God Poem by Tom Hirons https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/poembeinghuman monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/3d873c7b-b0e1-4be3-a375-261d146ea530/beinghuman.jpg Episodes Blog - Poem: Being Human “I wonder if the soil thinks she’s too dark if butterflies want to cover up their marks if rocks are self-conscious of their weight if mountains are insecure of their strength…” - Climbing PoeTree https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/deeptime monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/e4af9a2b-a9b3-43c3-ae29-172e81545e60/deeptime2.jpg Episodes Blog - Meditation: Deep Time “Let that preciousness sink into your bones. We are all related to that first cell, which means, we are all related to a multitude of organisms that exist today on earth. We were all there at the beginning, and have been ever since.” - Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/extinctionisloneliness monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/27a5d9b4-63da-4769-9d1f-4fae7137b5a2/extinction.jpg Episodes Blog - Bedtime Story: Extinction is Loneliness “Extinction is loneliness. I can see it in no other way. How else would the beetle, the acacia ant, the bacteria, the salmon, experience the absence of part of themselves? This is heartbreak. This is an outstretched hand waiting millennia for anybody to greet its soft warm flesh.” - Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/cosmosinyourfood monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/5f6c2a5b-e6b8-42f7-bbdc-1638d408780f/cosmos-food.jpg Episodes Blog - Meditation: The Cosmos in Your Food&nbsp; "By eating, we are inviting the Earth to become a part of us. What could be more intimate than that? Feel, through this gift, how you are being nourished and cared for by the whole planet…" https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/worldthinksinpoetry monthly 0.5 2025-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/c4849293-f36d-4239-be43-604c5ce02cb7/poetry.jpg Episodes Blog - Poetry : The World Thinks in Poetry by Alexa Firmenich “Would our greatest soliloquys ever be superior to the circling flight of the bald eagle as it hunts at sunset its wings painting poems on the dusk? No – our soliloquys exist because the eagle exists.” Alexa Firmenich https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/soundjourneymusicwaters monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/40c2f49c-6e63-4ffd-a560-b0aa74b8d5b5/sound-journey.jpg Episodes Blog - Sound Journey | Music of the Waters “If music is everywhere, then the words that come from our mouths will also be music…” - Moncaya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/8f392c49-572d-4a6d-8ec2-885b7f5051da/Screenshot+2023-11-20+at+09.04.46.png Episodes Blog - Sound Journey | Music of the Waters - Our dear artist, Moncaya… https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/maryoliver monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/55785cbc-91b1-46b3-b62e-8204f5641c75/mary-oliver-.jpg Episodes Blog - Poetry : A Sunset with Mary Oliver “Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air – An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, Biting the air with its black beak?” Mary Oliver https://www.lifeworld.earth/episodes-blog/mythofremembrance monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5960411275129ba0c607d/595a1f55-2359-4765-ab83-9c1df63ba216/myth.jpg Episodes Blog - Myth: Remembrance &amp; Initiation of the Soul "Acorn in hand, brother traveled yet again through the unknown territory. He noticed subtle movements through the forest. Life returning. Trees opening the way for him to travel. Streams lapping the shores of his lips as he drank. He traveled great distances, growing more into his upright posture everyday. The eyelid of the underworld opened and closed, day and night, day and night. Over and over again. It could have been days or years… Time doesn’t always go in a straight line. 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