Looking Back on Storytelling Animals, with The Real Dancing Eagle
In this bonus episode of Storytelling Animals, I look back on what I've learned from almost two years of the podcast with my brother Kyle Martindale, who designed my logo. We also talk about his new c...
27 Nov 202358min
Crossings: Ben Goldfarb on How Roads Devastate Wildlife
Today's guest is Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. It's the last episode in my series on the trouble with car dependency, and a nice companion to...
29 Aug 20231h 7min
Toward Better, Greener Public Transit and Trucking, with Kevin Shen
Part 3 of my series on car dependency, my guest today is Kevin Shen of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who researches transit policy and electrification of large vehicles.Read some of his work here...
3 Aug 20231h
How Science Fiction Depicts Cars and Bikes, with Jeremy Withers
Today's guest is Jeremy Withers, author of Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American Science Fiction. We discuss authors from Ray Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin to Octavia Butle...
11 Jul 20231h 4min
Carmageddon: Daniel Knowles on Real and False Solutions to Our Car Crisis
This week I talk with Daniel Knowles, author of Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What To Do About It. Part 1 of a new series on transforming our car-dependent culture. Listen to part 2 by sta...
27 Jun 202359min
"Let Birds Be Birds": On VINE Sanctuary, with pattrice jones
Part 4 of my 4-part series on animal agency! An interview with pattrice jones of VINE Sanctuary. We talk about building a just multispecies community, the trouble with effective altruism, and the sexi...
6 Jun 202357min
De-extinction and Jurassic Park, with Matt Haugen
I talk about Jurassic Park--both the book and the movie--with Matt Haugen of Terrain. It's a joint episode of our two podcasts, and part 3 of my 4-part series on animal agency. Part 4 of that series i...
23 Mai 20231h 12min
