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S5 E11: Change Everything

  • January 24, 2022
Season 5 art by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Merriam-Webster online Dictionary, image editing by Mara Guevarra.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make—in the West, and the U.S. in particular—to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other?…

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S5 E8: Last Orders

  • January 24, 2022
Episode image: In the Cromarty Firth at the edge of Nigg, Scotland, retired oil rigs, left, and, to the right, wind turbine supports, or “jackets,” waiting to be towed out to sea. Photo by Victoria MacArthur. Image editing by Mara Guevarra.

Among the wealthy, industrialized Western countries that created the climate crisis, Scotland is one of the leaders in pivoting away from fossil fuels—or promising to. Just how quickly will Scots be willing to cut off…

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S5 E6: “We Don’t Have the Power to Fight It”

  • January 24, 2022

Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence—for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeria. Part 6 of The Repair, our series on the climate…

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S5 E3: “Managing” Nature

  • January 24, 2022
Season 5 art and image editing by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Photo of a painting of Gifford Pinchot by artist Stan Galli, 1955, with image editing by Mara Guevarra. The painting was commissioned by the Weyerhauser Timber Company for an ad campaign promoting “productive” forest management. Image courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.

If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? Did newer cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed up our race toward ecological suicide? Part 3…

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S5 E2: To the Victor

  • January 24, 2022
Christopher Columbus landing at Hispaniola in 1492. Engraving from Herrera, 'Historia General De Los Hechos De Los Castellanos,' 1601. Edited photo highlights the ships, weapons, seamen, and the Christian cross in bright red.

How Western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, starting in the Middle Ages. Part 2 of The Repair, our series on the climate crisis. By host and…

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S5 E1: In the Beginning

  • January 24, 2022
A photo taken of Genesis 1:28 in the Christian Bible with several words glowing red. Photo: John Biewen. Edit: Mara Guevarra.

The climate emergency is here. In the first four episodes of our series, we explore the questions: How did we break so bad? How did we become the kind of society that would unleash so…

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2x Peabody-nominated podcast by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 8: The News, exploring America's journalism and information crisis, w/ Chenjerai Kumanyika.

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As always, this season of @SceneOnRadio is a great one. Anyone interested in (perceived) bias in journalism and the loss of local news should give it a listen.

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8 Jul

We've spent more than a decade testing one answer to this in New Jersey. NJ News Commons is a network of local outlets that share training, coaching and content instead of competing for scraps alone.

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8 Jul

If we wanted a news media system that would actually serve people, communities and democracy, what might that look like?

Thoughts and concrete ideas in the conclusion of our 8th season, The News. With @catchatweetdown, @VWPickard, Les High of @BeltBorder.

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vwpickard Victor Pickard @vwpickard ·
8 Jul

NYT headlines really have been atrocious during the Trump 2.0 era and @Sulliview nails it here: https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-yin-and-yang-of-the-new-york

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1 Jul

New episode: As it turns 250, the American republic is in a precarious state, a danger to itself and others.

Can we blame the state of our news media for THIS?

With @catchatweetdown, @pastpunditry, @froomkin, @mtomasky
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