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 Juli 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Maj 20231h 12min
Toward an Interspecies Democracy, with Eva Meijer
Part 2 of a series on animal agency! An interview with Eva Meijer, author of When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy.For more on the book: https://nyupress.org/9781479863136/when-animals-...
9 Maj 20231h 6min
