Latest Ecoliving Podcast Episodes
AM Kanngieser: Enlivening our responsiveness through embodied listening
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - April 03, 2024 10:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, geographer, writer, and sound artist AM Kanngieser invites us to reconsider the diverse ways in which we register both sound and silence — pushing back against the idea that listening itself is a virtuous act with universality in experience. Through their own journey as a geogr...
Hamza Hamouchene: Rising up to true climate justice
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - March 21, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsWhy is the North Africa and Middle East region so vital to center in discourses on climate justice? How does the current global energy transition reinforce colonial, extractivist power dynamics? And what is the meaning of “eco-normalization” in the context of the Arab world? Join us in this epi...
Lindsay Naylor: Who does "fair trade" really serve and benefit?
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - March 08, 2024 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsWho does “fair trade” as a certification program speaking to conscious consumers really serve? How might it fall short of what it promises—supporting farmers and producers from falling into the deepest pits of poverty while paradoxically also keeping them at a certain level? What does the proces...
Audra Mitchell: Rethinking conservation, biodiversity, and extinction
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - February 23, 2024 10:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsWhat does it mean to recognize the limitations of “biodiversity” as a gauge of planetary wellbeing? How do we make sense of the heads of big corporations like Shell being major patrons of the largest conservation organizations? And how might a politics of disability justice shape diverse futures...
Jared Margulies: Succulent collection and extinction from the illicit trade
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - February 09, 2024 10:35 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“What we’re talking about are plants that people desire for ornamental collection and will oftentimes go to great lengths to get them. Sometimes, that desire leads to conservation problems, and sadly… in the worst-case scenario, the extinction of an entire species.” Where does cacti and succule...
Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - January 26, 2024 10:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsWhat can grief teach us about being truly alive? And how might seeds, and the compassionate acts of tending to them, be the “helpers and teachers” of mediating our collective grief? In this episode, we are honored to welcome Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project—an in...
Anna Guasco: Justice, histories, and narratives of gray whale migration
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - January 11, 2024 10:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsWhat might the histories of human and gray whale relations show us in terms of how the stories we tell shape the texture of our relationships to our more-than-human kin? How can adopting a plurality of narratives and cultural perspectives in and around a particular species disrupt the kinds of b...
BONUS: Imagination, escapism, and disorientation in stretching alternative possibilities
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - January 03, 2024 06:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsThis is a behind-the-scenes conversation with Gabes Torres, a contributor and the program advisor of alchemize, and Green Dreamer's team members Anisa Sima Hawley and Kamea Chayne. We explore the themes of imagination, escapism, dissociation, and discomfort when it comes to dreaming, sensing, re...
Ang Roell: Collective care and responsiveness in the hives of honeybees
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - December 26, 2023 22:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“One in four bites of our food is pollinated by honeybees, but at what cost in the system that we are in now? How could that look different if our agriculture was more localized, regionalized, and sustainable?” In this episode, we warmly welcome Ang Roell—founder of They Keep Bees—to discuss th...
Hilding Neilson: Astro-colonialism and honoring the stories of our night skies
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - December 14, 2023 23:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn Green Dreamer's episode 413, we welcome Dr. Hilding Neilson, who shares with us his knowledge of the night skies and expertise as an astronomer traced by his Mi’kmaw lineage. Trained in the Western-scientific sphere of astrophysics and shaped by Mi'kmaq methodologies, Dr. Neilson aims to disr...
Laurie Palmer: Lessons from lichen worlds
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - November 30, 2023 00:15 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we are joined by A. Laurie Palmer: a writer, artist, and author of the book The Lichen Museum. In paying attention to lichen, Laurie looks to these symbiotic organisms as a template for enriching human and multi-species relationality. How might lichen, and their refusal to be ...
Dekila Chungyalpa: Engaging faith leaders for planetary healing
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - November 11, 2023 09:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we welcome our guest Dekila Chungyalpa, who reminds us of our intra-dependant existence with all of life. Traced by a lineage of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, Dekila weaves together teachings from her cultural and religious upbringing with her work as an environmental program ...
Zoe Todd: Embodied listening for freshwater fish futures
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - October 27, 2023 22:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“My life goal is to get our governments to understand that Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures are completely linked.” In this episode, we welcome Dr. Zoe Todd, who invites us to think alongside a critical lens of Indigenous fish philosophy and examine relationships between Indig...
Charlotte Wrigley: Respecting permafrost and moving beyond their stories of apocalypse
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - October 13, 2023 10:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we welcome our guest Charlotte Wrigley, who invites us to contemplate the upheaval of extinction as a discontinuous process—a becoming, rather than an end. Charlotte’s inquiry into this matter straddles the edges of human relations, geography, climate science, and ethics against...
Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - September 29, 2023 05:35 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“Once folks start to pick away at that scab of understanding how much of a role microbes play in the lives of other things in good ways and bad ways temporally, spatially, physically, and spiritually, it really does open up a rich vein of a new dimension — to start considering the world around u...
408) Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - September 29, 2023 05:35 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“Once folks start to pick away at that scab of understanding how much of a role microbes play in the lives of other things in good ways and bad ways temporally, spatially, physically, and spiritually, it really does open up a rich vein of a new dimension — to start considering the world around u...
407) Patricia Kaishan: Lessons from fungi as queer companions
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - September 14, 2023 17:35 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we are joined by Dr. Patricia Kaishian, a mycologist, writer, and educator who gestures to mycology as a queer discipline. Situated as a queer member of Armenian diaspora, Patricia threads connections between the often misunderstood and mis/under-represented displacement of myce...
Patricia Kaishan: Lessons from fungi as queer companions
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - September 14, 2023 17:35 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we are joined by Dr. Patricia Kaishian, a mycologist, writer, and educator who gestures to mycology as a queer discipline. Situated as a queer member of Armenian diaspora, Patricia threads connections between the often misunderstood and mis/under-represented displacement of myce...
Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - August 25, 2023 17:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn the episode, we welcome Dr. Eshe Lewis to discuss her life and learnings as an activist, anthropologist, and storyteller. Eshe walks us through glimpses of her time with Afro-Peruvian women as part of her doctoral research and how this experience transfigured beyond the siloed parameters of a...
406) Eshe Lewis: Black anthropology and streamlining storytelling
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - August 25, 2023 17:35 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn the episode, we welcome Dr. Eshe Lewis to discuss her life and learnings as an activist, anthropologist, and storyteller. Eshe walks us through glimpses of her time with Afro-Peruvian women as part of her doctoral research and how this experience transfigured beyond the siloed parameters of a...
Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - August 10, 2023 17:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“[...] The United States started to heavily invest in subsidizing growing wheat for exporting purposes. That resulted in flooding international markets, including Jordan’s markets. Cheap American wheat left many of the small-scale farmers unable to compete under record prices.” In this episode,...
405) Lama Khatieb: Reclaiming local knowledge for food interdependence
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - August 10, 2023 17:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“[...] The United States started to heavily invest in subsidizing growing wheat for exporting purposes. That resulted in flooding international markets, including Jordan’s markets. Cheap American wheat left many of the small-scale farmers unable to compete under record prices.” In this episode...
404) Danel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - July 27, 2023 17:35 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we welcome anthropologist Daniel Ruiz-Serna, whose work, situated in the Choco region of Colombia, aims to expose the entanglement of political and ecological violence whereby echoes of conflict/healing reverberate through place. In light of the enmeshment between war and land, ...
Danel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - July 27, 2023 17:35 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratingsIn this episode, we welcome anthropologist Daniel Ruiz-Serna, whose work, situated in the Choco region of Colombia, aims to expose the entanglement of political and ecological violence whereby echoes of conflict/healing reverberate through place. In light of the enmeshment between war and land, ...
403) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The political questions of science and technology
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - July 14, 2023 17:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“I think the bigger question is not necessarily specifically about physics, but generally speaking, about how we culturally engage with science and the role of science in our communities and how it shapes our mindset and what our mindset about science is. ” Joining us in this episode is theore...
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: The political questions of science and technology
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - July 14, 2023 17:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“I think the bigger question is not necessarily specifically about physics, but generally speaking, about how we culturally engage with science and the role of science in our communities and how it shapes our mindset and what our mindset about science is. ” Joining us in this episode is theoret...
402) Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - June 29, 2023 17:35 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“The legacy of Earth colonization… is still [in its] early days. We can protect this shared environment and also what I see as the intangible heritage of humanity. Space belongs to us all.” In this episode, we are joined in conversation with Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, a cosmologist working on stud...
Aparna Venkatesan: Protecting space as ancestral global commons
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - June 29, 2023 17:35 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“The legacy of Earth colonization… is still [in its] early days. We can protect this shared environment and also what I see as the intangible heritage of humanity. Space belongs to us all.” In this episode, we are joined in conversation with Dr. Aparna Venkatesan, a cosmologist working on studi...
Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - June 17, 2023 17:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“It’s very important that we translate how different knowledge systems have been privileged and others have been marginalized and repressed and erased. To have true knowledge symbiosis, where there is harmony and balance and inter-relationality and each contributing respectfully with care, thoug...
401) Melissa K. Nelson: Living in storied and moral landscapes
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - June 17, 2023 17:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 433 ratings“It’s very important that we translate how different knowledge systems have been privileged and others have been marginalized and repressed and erased. To have true knowledge symbiosis, where there is harmony and balance and inter-relationality and each contributing respectfully with care, thoug...
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