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#27 Vicki Hird: Rebugging the Planet
Muse Ecology - February 02, 2022 07:28 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBugs are foundational to life on Earth, and their numbers are plummeting due to human activity. In this conversation with Vicki Hird, author of Rebugging the Planet, we explore the wonders of bugs and how we can restore our relationship with them. You can find more information about rebugging, a...
#26 Addressing the Other Leg of Climate Change, 2nd Panel
Muse Ecology - January 23, 2022 22:33 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"Water begets water, soil is the womb, and vegetation is the midwife." -Prof. Millan M. Millan This last episode, for now, in the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series, was a great panel conversation with 6 people from 3 different organizations, each working from distinct approaches to r...
#25 Addressing the Other Leg of Climate Change, 1st Panel
Muse Ecology - January 12, 2022 19:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe understanding that we can restore weather and climate systems by protecting and restoring the living surface of the Earth is an idea whose time has come. In these final two episodes in this Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series, we'll hear discussions of how this understanding is beg...
#24 Renewables and Accountability: A Panel Discussion
Muse Ecology - August 16, 2021 20:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis episode is a diverse panel discussion on the implications of renewable energy supply chains on life, water, and local communities, and how we might address them. Saad Youssefi has a background in finance and economics and works in the renewable energy sector, consulting governments and inter...
#23 Life and Lithium at Thacker Pass
Muse Ecology - July 13, 2021 16:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode in the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series, we hear diverse voices from the resistance to the proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, on Paiute and Shoshone ancestral lands. To learn more about and support the blockade camp at Thacker Pass, you can go t...
#22 Judith Schwartz and Walter Jehne: Climate Change Narrative Shift
Muse Ecology - April 25, 2021 18:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this conversation with author Judith Schwartz and scientist Walter Jehne, we discuss the importance of the shift from seeing the Earth as a resource base to seeing ourselves as enmeshed in a web of life that both manages and depends on natural processes. In particular, we focus on how this pe...
#21 Paul Cereghino Part 2: Bioregional Restoration and Social Complexity
Muse Ecology - April 19, 2021 03:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this conversation with Paul Cereghino, we discuss some of the challenges of collaborating in groups and groups of groups to protect and restore the Earth, including such topics as the role of online interactions, the importance of place-based reality, benefits and pitfalls of systems like soci...
#20 Paul Cereghino Part 1: Ecosystem Guild and Restoration Camping
Muse Ecology - March 25, 2021 01:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode in the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series, we explore one of the great challenges on our way back to harmony: humans. Through the lens of his Ecosystem Guild and Restoration Camping project in western Washington State, Paul Cereghino and I discuss some of the interhum...
#19 The Mangrove Action Project
Muse Ecology - February 13, 2021 19:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we continue the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series with Alfredo Quarto, co-founder and international program director of the Mangrove Action Project. In our conversation with Alfredo, we discuss the importance of mangrove ecologies, their devastation by the shrimp farm...
#18 Neal Spackman; The Business of Restoring the Earth
Muse Ecology - January 30, 2021 01:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we continue the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization series with Neal Spackman, ecological restoration designer, regenerative entrepreneur, and bold visionary. In previous episodes in this series, we’ve heard how agriculture and development having long been destroying ecology a...
#17 Felipe Pasini, Syntropic Farming
Muse Ecology - December 13, 2020 19:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSince millennia before the early states of Mesopotamia, farming has been a complexity-destroying process. In this episode, we'll hear from Felipe Pasini about an agricultural approach called Syntropic Farming that reverses this process, facilitating greater ecological complexity while providing ...
#16 Li An Phoa, Drinkable Rivers
Muse Ecology - November 15, 2020 17:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this second episode in the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization Series, I'm grateful to be able to share this inspiring conversation with Li An Phoa, creator of the Drinkable Rivers movement. Li An is a scientist, activist, and river walker, working to mobilize watersheds to engage in citiz...
#15 Professor Millan Millan: The Second Leg of Climate Change
Muse Ecology - October 30, 2020 16:50 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"Water begets water, soil is the womb, and vegetation is the midwife." -Professor Millan Millan In this episode we learn about what Professor Millan Millan calls "the second leg of human-induced climate change": how our land use changes lead to major disruptions of weather and climate patterns, ...
#14 Prelude to the Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization Series
Muse Ecology - August 12, 2020 19:49 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this prelude to the upcoming series dealing with the interrelated processes of Water, Life, Climate, and Civilization, we take a look at the historical and mythological roots of civilization's discord, and set the tone for the series with a new song and some poignant clips from the next three ...
#13 Quail Springs, There's Music in the Walls
Muse Ecology - March 29, 2020 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we visit Quail Springs in the Cuyama Valley of Southern California, a place and community dear to my heart. We'll hear useful knowledge about building with natural materials, and learn of exciting recent developments in the international legalization of cob construction. This epi...
#12 Grandma Aggie, Voice for the Voiceless
Muse Ecology - December 07, 2019 04:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we hear the voice of Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim. She passed on, but her light lives on in so many of us water babies. These recordings of Grandma Aggie are from this past year: a panel at the Global Earth Repair Conference in Washington state, a prescribed fire training exch...
Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture - November 29, 2019 19:39 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratings“Market Landscape” is an investigation into the urban ecologies of two major financial districts: Hong Kong’s Central District and London’s Canary Wharf. Entangled by histories of empire stretching from the early stages of industrial capitalism up to the present day, this project explores how se...
#11 David Bronner and the All-One Legacy
Muse Ecology - July 13, 2019 15:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn spring 2018 I visited the headquarters of the Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Company in Vista, California, where the Bronner family carries on the legacy of 5 generations of traditional soapmaking and the quirky and passionate All-One vision of Emmanuel Bronner (Dr. Bronner). You are probably famil...
#10 Worth a Dam and the Tale of the Martinez Beaver
Muse Ecology - June 28, 2019 07:42 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhile later this year there will be an in depth Muse Ecology series on the beaver, in this episode we hear one one the more inspiring beaver stories I've come across: the tale of the Martinez Beaver. When the beaver moved in to downtown Martinez, CA, the city originally intended to exterminate t...
#9 Peia; Songs of The Old Ways Restored
Muse Ecology - June 25, 2019 19:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this inspiring episode of Muse Ecology, we hear songs and conversation from my visit early spring of this year with musical artist Peia. While many restoration ecologists and regenerative agriculturalists are working to restore harmony at the ecosystem level, Peia is one of the bards doing im...
#8 Holistic Management, The Savory Institute, and Wild Bison
Muse Ecology - June 22, 2019 17:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this fifth and final episode in this series on the bison in the Great Plains, we visit the Savory Institute Headquarters in Colorado and speak with Daniela Howell, Director of the Savory Institute, and Allan Savory, inventor of the Holistic Management framework. We also hear some collaborative...
#7 Wild Idea Buffalo Company
Muse Ecology - April 15, 2019 20:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWild Idea Buffalo Company is a bison ranching business that exists to conserve and restore the prairie ecosystem of the northern Great Plains. With no roundup, and an innovative field harvesting method, they care for the well-being of the bison, and as much as possible allow them to express the...
#6 777 Bison Ranch
Muse Ecology - April 06, 2019 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we continue our investigation of the Great Plains Bison with a visit to 777 Bison Ranch near Rapid City, South Dakota. Owner Mimi Hilenbrandt and fellow operations manager Moritz Espy gave us a tour of the pastures and corrals. Along the way, we discussed differences and simila...
#5 Bonus Episode: Protecting the Black Hills
Muse Ecology - February 10, 2019 06:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn our visit with Mark Tilsen in the Black Hills for Episode 5 about Tanka Bar, our interview happened to take place right before a prayer walk to a proposed gold mining site up the creek from Mark's place. As I began to include this synchronous content in the Tanka Bar episode, I realized that ...
#5 Tanka Bar: for the Bufalo, the Land, and the People
Muse Ecology - January 20, 2019 20:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, the second of four in this series on the bison in the Great Plains, we visit the lands of the Oglala Lakota in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota, where we met with Mark Tilsen, cofounder of Tanka Bar. Tanka Bar, a company owned and operated by the Oglala Lakota of the Pin...
#4 The Buffalo Field Campaign, Protecting the Last Wild Bison
Muse Ecology - December 09, 2018 01:28 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis episode of Muse Ecology is the first in this four part series beginning to explore humankind's relation to the bison in the Great Plains of North America. This buffalo series features diverse voices of folks involved in the bison's return that Alison and I met on our buffalo investigation jo...
#3 A Bonn Voyage with John D. Liu
Muse Ecology - August 28, 2018 21:06 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEpisode 3 closes out Muse Ecology's inaugural series recorded in December 2017, about ecosystem restoration and the work of John D. Liu. In this episode, John and I have a conversation on the way to the airport that weaves through many topics currently affecting our global situation, and we discu...
#2 Global Landscapes Forum V, Economy and Indigenous Sovereignty
Muse Ecology - August 16, 2018 20:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis is the fifth and final part of episode 2 at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, Germany with John D. Liu. In this part we hear two conversations about the important but historically ignored voices from indigenous nations, including their long history of oppression by globalizing civilizati...
#2 Global Landscapes Forum IV, Economy and Peatlands
Muse Ecology - August 01, 2018 02:36 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhile largely unfamiliar to many, peatlands perform crucial funcions in Earth's carbon and water cycles. For many centuries we have been draining peatlands to free up land for commodity agriculture, destroying these important living systems. We now are growing aware of the effects of draining p...
#2 Global Landscapes Forum III, Economy and Trees
Muse Ecology - July 09, 2018 05:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn Part 3 of this episode at the Global Landscapes Forum in Bonn, Germany, we will hear conversations between John Liu and folks who are working to restore degraded forest lands around the world through research, international business, and volunteer initiatives. John D. Liu is Ecosystem Ambassad...
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