Podcasts about Edge effects

Bethany Wiggin speaks with Nathaniel Otjen and Juan Rubio on the significance of public-facing environmental humanities via their podcast MINING FOR THE CLIMATE. They discuss the local experiences of lithium mining, the value of narrative, community-driven work in an academic setting, and the futures they envision for the university as a whole. The post Podcasting for the Climate: A Conversation with Nathaniel Otjen, Juan Manuel Rubio, & Bethany Wiggin appeared first on Edge Effects.

In this first-of-its-kind special episode, environmental humanities authors Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their newly published books, connections between their disparate topics, and the importance of nuance in environmental justice. The post Of Supermarkets, Shipwrecks, and Seasons: A Conversation with Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley appeared first on Edge Effects.

Prerna Rana speaks with Sarah Robert and Jennifer Gaddis about their new book, Transforming School Food Politics Around the World. They discuss school food programs' catalytic potential in the betterment of global health, agriculture, and care. The post Cafeteria Care around the World: A Conversation with Jennifer Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert appeared first on Edge Effects.

CHE Director Will Brockliss sits down with documentary filmmaker Jeff Spitz to reflect on the twenty fifth anniversary of his film THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY. Their conversation spans partnering with the Navajo Nation, ethical filmmaking, and the significance this film had not only on uranium cleanup in Monument Valley, Utah, but on one family who lives there. The post THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY, 25 Years Later: A Conversation with Jeff Spitz appeared first on Edge Effects.

Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. They discuss the contamination of the Tucson aquifer as an origin for understanding the mutual injury of humans and the environment. The post Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor appeared first on Edge Effects.

Angeline Peterson interviews Jill Jarvis on her forthcoming book project Signs in the Desert through her journey into studying the Sahara. Discussing a variety of sources, they challenge the view of deserts as empty spaces and highlight the Saraha as a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem suffering the aftermath of colonial violence. The post Living Deserts and Colonial Afterlives: A Conversation with Jill Jarvis appeared first on Edge Effects.

Jagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonial translation, and rage across personal, political, and environmental scales. The post Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka appeared first on Edge Effects.

Cathleen McCluskey speaks with Andrea Brower on the intersections of colonialism, neoliberalism, and plantations in agricultural systems—from Hawai'i and beyond. How might possibilities of a better future be imagined through political and social resistance? The post Resisting and Reimagining Agricultural Systems in Hawai'i: A Conversation with Andrea Brower appeared first on Edge Effects.

On this week's episode, we talk with Pioneer Field Agronomist Matt Montgomery about the Edge Effect on corn fields and other yield robbers. Also, we've heard a lot about the dwindling honey bee population over the past few years, but, is it really dwindling? We'll hear from a Washington state bee expert. Then, time is ticking to put a new farm bill in place. We'll hear some thoughts from Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall. In our “Meat Monitor” segment, we learn about classes being held in the Middle East to teach chefs and culinary students new ways of preparing U.S. beef, and in “Bushels and Cents,” Ray Bohacz stresses the importance of having a copy of as-built schematics for your farm equipment. The episode also features the music of Clarksville Creative Sound singer/songwriter Terry Lemaster. Timestamps Intro/news: 0:00 Goatlifeclothing.com advertisement: 5:51 Matt Montgomery, Pioneer: 6:10 Todd Myers, Washington Policy Center: 19:30 Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas): 20:58 German Navarette, U.S. Meat Export Federation: 23:23 Ray Bohacz, “Bushels and Cents”: 25:47 Terry Lemaster: 27:19

The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin. The post Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin appeared first on Edge Effects.

Rob Ferrett from Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interviews Kaitlin Moore to talk about why the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 is such a highly anticipated event. The post What's Special about this Solar Eclipse? A Conversation with Kaitlin Moore appeared first on Edge Effects.

Elijah Levine speaks with Celeste Winston about marronage as a placemaking practice. By drawing on connections across time, the conversation reveals how Black folks in the United States build lasting infrastructures to disrupt power structures. The post Maroon Geographies, Black Placemaking, and Abolitionist Futures: A Conversation with Celeste Winston appeared first on Edge Effects.

What does death denial say about American culture? How can dying be dignified and humanized? Bri Meyer interviews Adam Kaul about his anthropological research on death and dying and its intersections with leisure and tourism. The post Death, Leisure, and “Feeling Alive”: A Conversation with Adam Kaul appeared first on Edge Effects.

Heather Swan speaks author and poet, Nickole Brown about her relationship with animals, the more-than-human world and the Hellbender poetry conference. The post Goats, Bees, and Poetry: A Conversation with Nickole Brown appeared first on Edge Effects.

Paul Sutter interviews Simone Müller about the famous case of the Khian Sea, a "renegade ship" carrying waste and trying to dock in different countries. The ship reveals the many contradictions within environmental movements and policies. The post From Trash Trade to Waste Colonialism: A Conversation with Simone Müller appeared first on Edge Effects.

If you've ever called yourself a recovering perfectionist, then you know that overcoming perfectionism isn't easy. And maybe that's because perfectionism, in and of itself, isn't all bad. In fact, adaptive perfectionism (as written about by Katherine Morgan Schafler, psychologist and author of Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control) can actually be used to gain momentum, reach your cutting edge, and live a gratifying life. In today's episode, we'll also break down the Edge Effect and how pursuing it, with the help of perfectionism, can help you reach greater and greater heights in...anything. TAKE THE QUIZ: https://www.perfectionistsguide.com/quiz READ THE BOOK: https://www.perfectionistsguide.com -------------------------------- For you, Dear Listener: If you're listening on Spotify — we want to hear from you: Answer this week's Q&A and poll Leave us a voice message and tell us your thoughts about this episode If you liked today's episode, please consider leaving a rating & review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! FREE GUIDE: Trigger List: Green Light Your Next Project — You've got a million ideas. This is how to green light them. Download the trigger list here: https://queensbirdfilms.myflodesk.com/80fd34c4-0c37-45d2-b92e-8711ef6ad57d⁠ Let's Go Again is hosted by Courtney Romano. This is a project from Queens Bird Films. ABOUT QUEENS BIRD FILMS: Queens Bird Films is a production company telling stories to make life fun. With irreverence, depth, and a bit of whimsy, we make things for people who want to fall back in love with life. See the films, series, and podcasts we made for you here: queensbirdfilms.com Subscribe to the NEWSLETTER: https://bit.ly/QBlist Follow on INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/queensbirdfilms Follow Courtney on TIKTOK: tiktok.com/@courtney.romano --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lets-go-again/message

Click here for link to the article discussing ideas to manage edge effect in corn:Addressing Edge Effect in Corn  

Samm Newton interviews Dr. Christina Gerhardt about her 2023 book Sea Change, which is a collection of essays, a history of connection, and a window into island nations facing an uncertain future. The post Centering Islands in a Rising Ocean: A Conversation with Christina Gerhardt appeared first on Edge Effects.

Yesterday, While cutting an upper meadow pasture to harvest the grass for winter feeding of elk I was able to watch the edge effect play out. A mule deer fawn in the meadow I was cutting at first felt no pressure as I entered the field but with each pass and more fragmentation, I witnessed the negative effects of both an increase of edge and an increase in habitat fragmentation. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/your-adrenaline License code: QWS1TG5BYTFK2PCL

Writer, rancher, and farmer Bryce Andrews discusses his newest book Holding Fire, which traces his personal story of grappling with the history of guns and violence in the American West. The post Reforging Gun Culture in the American West: A Conversation with Bryce Andrews appeared first on Edge Effects.

Prison Agriculture Lab directors Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca discuss the ubiquity of carceral agriculture in the United States, its structuring logics of racial capitalism, and possibilities for abolitionist food futures. The post Mapping the Unfree Labor of Prison Agriculture: A Conversation with Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca appeared first on Edge Effects.

Edge effect refers to the changes in species composition, habitat structure, and ecosystem processes that occur at the boundary between two different habitats. The concept of edge effect has been widely studied in ecology, as it can have both positive and negative impacts on wildlife, biodiversity, and ecosystem function. Understanding the effects of edge can inform conservation and management strategies for fragmented landscapes.   Edge and other wildlife concepts - Oklahoma State University (2017) Edge and Other Wildlife Concepts | Oklahoma State University. Available at: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/edge-and-other-wildlife-concepts.html (Accessed: March 20, 2023). Turner, M.G. "Landscape Ecology: The Effect of Pattern on Process." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20, no. 1 (1989): 171-197. Robinson, W.D., and R.J. O'Connor. "The Ecology of Edge Effects." Journal of Applied Ecology   Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/paul-yudin/your-adrenaline License code: QWS1TG5BYTFK2PCL

In this episode of the "Social Protection for Prevention of and Response to Gender-Based Violence" series, our guests discuss how economic factors can drive gender-based violence at the community level, and why this is important for social protection programming. The focus is on designing social protection programmes that can prevent gender-based violence against women and people with diverse gender identities, expressions, and sexual orientations (SOGIESC). The guests draw on available evidence and practical experience to discuss various aspects of the social protection delivery chain, including targeting, registration, payment, and the unique risks and issues related to people with diverse SOGIESC. Guests for this episode include Shalini Roy, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Emily Dwyer, Founder and Co-Director of Edge Effect. In the "Quick Wins" segment, two guests from the World Bank—Alessandra Heinemann, Social Protection Specialist, and Gender Lead, and Palak Rawal, Gender and Social Protection Consultant—offer practical advice on designing social protection programmes that can safeguard and prevent gender-based violence. They also share additional resources for further reading on the topic. The joint webinar and podcast series "Social Protection for Prevention of and Response to Gender-Based Violence" is produced by socialprotection.org and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), with support from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Tune in for the first webinar of the series, Girls Deserve Better: Countering Violence Against Adolescents through Social Protection, taking place on 28 March at 8.30 AM EDT.   Episode links: Publication: Cash transfers and intimate partner violence: A research view on design and implementation for risk mitigation and prevention Publication: We don't do a lot for them specifically: A scoping report on gaps and opportunities for improving diverse SOGIESC inclusion in cash transfer and social protection programs, during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond Podcast: How can social protection impact gender-based violence?   Quick Wins links Publication: Safety first: How to leverage social safety nets to prevent gender-based violence Online course: How to leverage social safety nets to prevent gender-based violence Publication: Invisible women: exposing data bias in a world designed for men

Historic ocean protection treaty, plus global river rights revisited, and “Edge Effects” Magazine!

How do certain temperatures come to be normalized and idealized in Hawai'i? Dr. Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart shares critical insights at the intersection of Indigenous dispossession and resistance. The post The Cold Never Bothered Native Hawaiians Anyway: A Conversation with Hi'ilei Julia Hobart appeared first on Edge Effects.

Migration gives workers in South-East Asia with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expression (SOGIE) the opportunity to seek a better quality of life. However, according to a recent UN study 'A very beautiful but heavy jacket: The experiences of migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression in South-East Asia' they experience discrimination at multiple levels. Emily Dwyer, Co-Director of Edge Effect joins us to talk about the complexity of migrant work experiences for people with diverse SOGIE and why it's important to support them.

Nathan Kiel investigates the potential for post-fire forest recovery across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in a warming world. The post Studying Yellowstone's Burn Scars to Reveal its Future appeared first on Edge Effects.

Hello everyone, This is Mirko Guerrini, and I welcome you to the Jazz Transcription Clinic, a monthly interviews podcast where we talk with accomplished jazz doctors about their lives, careers and their personal transcription secrets.  On this episode of the Jazz Transcription Clinic Podcast Mirko Guerrini interviews the guest jazz doctors: Jorre Reynders and Timothy Pedone from Sharp Eleven Music. Listen to Barney's answers to the questions below:  Why do you transcribe? 03:11 What do you expect to learn from a transcription? 11:34 How do you choose solos? 25:43 What is your transcribing methodology? 29:30 Do you write it down? 38:28 How do you practise the solos? 53:41 How do you incorporate transcriptions into your playing? 01:00:13 Who was the most difficult one to transcribe? 01:05:38 What is your favourite solo that you transcribed? 01:12:09 Jorre Reynders After finishing his Master studies in Jazz saxophone at the Conservatory of Maastricht, Jorre decided to publish his transcriptions to the rest of the world through Youtube, naming it after how he named all his musical projects: "Sharp Eleven Music". Driven since teenage years by the awesomeness of a saxophone sound and soloing in particular, it has lead to an endless stream of motivation to dig deeper into everything saxophonist (and by extension other instruments) have to offer, uncovering it to the world simultanously. Publishing consistently a transcription ever two weeks since 2016 plus practicing and analyzing it has lead to a much deeper unstanding of everything saxophone, improvisation and music in general. This is now applied in the teaching courses and his own musical explorations. Jorre is as a saxophonist active in the international acclaimed latin band Mambisimo Big Band, The Jack Million Big Band, his own Fusion project consisting of original material named the Sharp Eleven Electric Band with an album "Donkey Dance" released in 2020, several independ productions under Sharp Eleven Music like the Charlie Parker 1942 version of "Cherokee" for 5-part sax soli amongst others, and active as a working musician in Belgium and the rest of Europe. He also founded an indoor soccer (Futsal) club called FC Sharp Eleven, keeping fysically poor musicians off the streets. They lose all their games.  Timothy Pedone Just like Jorre, Timothy finished his Master studies in jazz guitar at the Conservatory of Maastricht. After that he went back to his first love, composition and developed a solo project, called Introvert. Not much time went by before he founded a music production company together with Jorre in 2016, called Edge Effect. Of course, studying guitar never stopped and transcribing became an increasingly bigger part of that. Fast forward to today and we have over 150 guitar transcriptions and lots of insights gained. Additionally, Timothy is currently studying conducting at the conservatory of Leuven, he's assisting composers with orchestrations and engraving and every two weeks or so he goes and loses a game of indoor soccer. You can check Sharp Eleven Music here: https://www.sharpelevenmusic.com/ You can check Mirko Guerrini's music here: https://mirkoguerrini.bandcamp.com or here https://www.mirkoguerrini.com Mirko Guerrini is a D'Addario artist, playing D'Addario mouthpieces and reeds. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel. You can download this podcast episode, or any other episode here: Apple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../jazz..... Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1oQqf6m... Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/.../8b6f521b... I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which this podcast is being recorded. I pay my respect to their Elders, past and present, and the Aboriginal Elders of other communities who may be here today.

Liz Carlisle shares stories from her latest book, which uncovers the history of regenerative agriculture and the farmers of color who practice it. The post Unearthing the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming: A Conversation with Liz Carlisle appeared first on Edge Effects.

In this episode, Jeff Grignon takes us through stories from the Menominee Nation, showing how the rocks and geology we've learned about all season fit into the traditions of a group that has been living on Wisconsin's landscape since the beginning.    For more from Jeff, check out this podcast from Edge Effects, and this essay cowritten with Robin Wall Kimmerer. https://edgeeffects.net/jeff-grignon/ https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7208/9780226444970-010/pdf   Music in this episode is the song Arizona Moon, by the Blue Dot Sessions.

We talk about SEX and the R WORD. Yes, it is EXACTLY what you were not thinking. We are joined by the fabulous Lana Woolf, Co-founder and Director of Edge Effect, an organisation that assists humanitarian and development organisations to work in genuine partnerships with sexual and gender minorities or LGBTIQ+ people. Lana's passion for her work echoes across this episode, where we discuss four underlying norms that cause discrimination against sexual and gender minorities: 1) Hetronormitivity 2) Cisnormitivity 3) Gender Binarism 4) Endo-sexism You can find out more about Edge Effect and its fantastic work here. Things we mention:CSOs: Civil Society OrganisationsSOGIESC: stands for sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, and sexual characteristics. You can find an explanation of the terminology they use here.WASH: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Get Premium Content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Streets are political spaces. Bob Giordano tells why bikes and other modes of sustainable transportation make them safer and more equitable. The post There's Something About the Bike: A Conversation with Bob Giordano appeared first on Edge Effects.

Sung Hwa Kim (b. 1985 in Seoul, South Korea) received his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his BFA from The Art Institute of Boston. Kim has held solo exhibition at Hesse Flatow (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Gone Was the Glow at 1969 Gallery (New York, NY); At the Table, The AAPI Awareness Charity Exhibition at Christie's (New York, NY); You Had Me At Hello: New American Paintings 2022 Review at Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston, MA); The Views at Moskowitz Bayse (Los Angeles, CA); Shifted Horizon at HESSE FLATOW (New York, NY); 36 Paintings at Harper's Books (East Hampton, NY); NOCTURNE on Galleryplatform.LA, M+B (Los Angeles, CA); The Edge Effect curated by Akili Tommasino at The Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY). Sung Hwa Kim lives and works in New York City.  Sung Hwa Kim, Nocturne: My love, hope, and sweet dreams. I'm still here and that is all that matter. acrylic, flashe, and gouache on canvas, 60 x 48 in, 2021 Sung Hwa Kim, Nocturne: On the day when your long night ends, I will be there acrylic, flashe, and gouache on canvas, 30 x 24 in, 2021 Sung Hwa Kim, Nocturne: You were told to suppress emotions, so no one sees you had a heart till your chest is openacrylic, flashe, and gouache on canvas, 48 x 36 in, 2021

In the final episode of the Ground Truths podcast series, Clare Sullivan, Carly Gittrich, and Ben Iuliano talk to urban agriculture leaders in Dane County, Wisconsin about how their programs serve Black communities and other communities of color. The post Growing Food Justice Through Urban Farming appeared first on Edge Effects.

In Portage County, Wisconsin, 95 percent of the nitrate in groundwater comes from agriculture, and it's having major health consequences for residents. Ground Truths editors Ben Iuliano and Carly Griffith find out how community members have used scientific and legal advocacy to fight for cleaner drinking water. The post Farms, Fertilizer, and the Fight for Clean Water appeared first on Edge Effects.

Wisconsin is home to some of the best sand in the country, making it a key player in the oil and gas industry. For this episode of Ground Truths, Justyn Huckleberry and Clare Sullivan take a close look at frac sand mining in the state—the lack of regulation and oversight, environmental and health consequences for local residents, the volatility of oil and gas markets, and how some activists are fighting back. The post What Happens in the Wake of Frac Sand's Boom and Bust? appeared first on Edge Effects.

The InterPride podcast series, InterPod, is proud to launch our 10th Special episode, Lesbian Visibility Week: Indigenous LGBTQIA+ and Humanitarian Work Intersectionality. The LGBTQIA+ community has come a long way in the fight for acceptance. Our voices matter and will be heard. Many of our LGBTQIA+ community members have fought for decades for the right to be seen and heard. With UN Women and its partners, Asia-Pacific Transgender Network, APCOM, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, Edge Effect, and International Planned Parenthood Federation, our guest speaker, Matcha Phorn-In, supported the organization of the first Pride in the Humanitarian System consultation in June 2018, which brought together civil society organizations working for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) rights along with humanitarian actors. She joins us in this special series for Lesbian Visibility Week 2022 to discuss integrating diverse SOGIESC perspectives in humanitarian crisis prevention and response. Listen in to Matcha Phorn-In talk about human rights and LGBTQIA+ indigenous community members. Follow us on social media: Facebook (InterPride) | Facebook (WorldPride) Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Apple | Google | Eventbrite | Medium | Twitch

In 2021, rates of childhood lead exposure in Milwaukee were nearly double the state average. In this episode of Ground Truths, Juniper Lewis and Carly Griffith learn more about this public health crisis. The post Living with Lead in Milwaukee appeared first on Edge Effects.

With the future of wolf protection being debated on the national stage, Ground Truths editors Clare Sullivan and Marisa Lanker speak with local experts and advocates about wolf stewardship in Wisconsin. The post Who's Afraid of Wisconsin Wolves? appeared first on Edge Effects.

For this special bonus episode, Nan and Lisa sit down with Season 1 producer Richelle Wilson to talk about her experience as a first-gen college student, the challenges of student loan debt and getting a PhD in a collapsing academic job market, and why she loves higher ed even though it doesn't always love her back. Stay tuned for Season 2, coming your way soon! About our guest Richelle Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is writing a dissertation about IKEA. She is the managing editor of Edge Effects, a digital magazine about the environment, and producer of the talk show A Public Affair on WORT 89.9 FM. Produced and edited by Richelle Wilson Theme music by Josh Wilson Show cover art by Margaux Parker Episode cover art by LwcyD on Pixabay A special thanks to Wisconsin Humanities for their support of Season 1. Want to get in touch? Email us at collegelandpod@gmail.com or send us a voice memo on Anchor.fm.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, video games offered Nat Mesnard and many others an escape from isolation. But the false promise of endless productivity in factory building games like Satisfactory ensnared them in a myth of capitalist "progress." The post Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming appeared first on Edge Effects.

In this episode, Craig Allaman (Lead Agronomist at Cornelius Seed) shares his post harvest thoughts and discusses some of the variability we may have seen in our harvest along with the reasons behind it.  We cover corn emergence, wind events, continuous corn issues, "Edge Effect" and 2020 soybean issues.  Tune in to listen to our discussion around key events during the 2020 growing season. 

How did Dr. Timothy Cobb go from being an electrician and a truck driver to a primary care provider in Deer Isle Stonington, Maine? Why did a move to Maine win out over a move to Alaska when his family was deciding where to live? What is Osteopathic Manipulation Therapy? What can we all do today to improve our overall health? These answers and more are contained in our conversation. Phone number for Northern Light Primary Care Stonington (to make an OMT appointment): 207-367-2311 Link to the book "The Edge Effect" by Dr. Eric Braverman https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Effect-Longevity-Balanced-Advantage/dp/1402722478/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WIFZHGGS3EWD&dchild=1&keywords=the+edge+effect+by+eric+braverman&qid=1601571493&sprefix=The+Edge+Effect%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1

Very early in my career, way back in the 90's I received the gift of a book, South of Haunted Dreams by Eddy Harris. As a young Black man venture out into a professional environment that was mostly white I took great comfort in this remarkable story of a person with a background similar to my own who was successfully leading a life of travel and adventure. In his book, Harris recounts his experiences of making his way through the Southern United States on motorcycle while enjoying occasional stops on trout streams to do a little fly-fishing. Though concerned that he might subjected to the mistreatment of racism Harris said his ability to navigate through places that are unfamiliar or even a bit frightening hinges upon his willingness to be vulnerable and receptive to the kindness of complete strangers. As writer myself I ask him, is that also a way to be an effective storyteller? "I never actually thought of it that way. But it's something that I do as a literary device. I'm a traveler. I've been a traveler since I was 16 years old. The way I travel is not organized. I have no plan when I go someplace. Whatever happens happens," Harris told me in an interview. "When I meet people and they invite me in for coffee or drinks or dinner, I almost never say no. I'm receptive to generosity, and I just put myself out there. I've discovered that that if you want people's stories, you make yourself available to them and they will in fact tell you're their stories." I believe that in many ways Harris's attitude toward travel and to how find one's place in the world directly influenced my own. Over the years that followed after reading that first book I went on read his other titles that include Mississippi Solo about his adventures paddling a canoe down the Mississippi River and Native Stranger that details a trip he made through the continent of Africa. But it was in article that he wrote for Outside Magazine 1997 on the disparities among people color as active participants in outdoor recreation that really got my attention. It was through the work of Eddy Harris that I first began to explore the divisions of diversity, equity and inclusion that I call “The Adventure Gap”. Now more than 20 years later I have a wonderful opportunity to learn from one of my favorite literary heroes. In 2018 I had the great pleasure of hosting a visit with Eddy Harris at the University of Wisconsin Madison. As adjunct faculty at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies it was my honor to speak with him as a guest interviewer on the Edge Effects Podcast. After 30 years of reading the work of Eddy Harris as a fan I now count him among my friends. It's that same spirit of humility and vulnerability that makes him such an endearing person and very compelling writer. You can find more of his work online at Eddyharris.com.   Thanks again to my colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Department of History podcast Edge Effects. New music this week by Ilya Truhanov and Brick Fields courtesy of Artlist.   The Joy Trip Project is made possible thanks to the generous support of American Rivers, The National Forest Foundation and Patagonia.      

The first wealth is health, according to Emerson. Among health's riches is its political potential. Few know this better than environmentalists. In her debut book, The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health (UNC Press, 2019), historian Jennifer Thomson revisits canonical figures and events from the environmental movement in the United States and finds everywhere talk of health. At its best, viewing the environment through the lens of health encouraged decentralized organizing and a sense of collective responsibility. At its worst it supported technocracy and uninspired paeans to green consumerism. With shrewd analysis, Thomson gives the movement its own check-up as she reassess the careers and political imaginations of many of the its luminaries, including David Brower, Wendell Berry, Dave Foreman, and Bill McKibben. Dispensing with the habit of thinking of environmentalism as responding only and ever to itself, Thomson sets its history within the larger context of American political development. So the book is full of unexpected historical crossovers, such as Love Canal residents responding to the Mariel boatlife or the OPEC embargo-era U.S. oil industry championing the Gaia hypothesis. Few books on environmentalism's past are a better guide for envisioning its future. Jennifer Thomson is Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell History. She also hosts the radio program Bucknell: Occupied, which airs Thursday at 6:00 pm on WVBU. Brian Hamilton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he is researching African American environmental history in the nineteenth-century Cotton South. He is also an editor of the digital environmental magazine and podcast Edge Effects.  

We cannot learn from disasters we do not yet understand. That conviction motivated historian Kate Brown to conduct groundbreaking research into nuclear energy's most infamous chapter and write Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Norton, 2019). By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl's reactor No. 4. From the initial reports of doctors that were concealed by Soviet officials to a careful examination of the way radioactive isotopes move through ecosystems, Brown's research suggests the official death toll of 54 is an undercount—perhaps by more than three orders of magnitude. Even more haunting is her contentious claim that we still know too little about the ecological and health consequences of chronic exposure to low-dose radiation. Nuclear states were, in Brown's view, insufficiently interested in studying such consequences in Chernobyl's wake, at a time when they were being sued for reparations by communities living on landscapes on which they had spent decades dropping atomic weapons. In the end, Brown calls not for the shuttering of nuclear power plants or a moratorium on the construction of new ones. Instead, she hopes if we exact full look at Chernobyl's worst, we can better plan for how to live in our contaminated world full of uncertainty and risk. Kate Brown is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her three previous books are Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten (2015), Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (2013), and A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (2004). Brian Hamilton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he is researching African American environmental history in the nineteenth-century Cotton South. He is also an editor of the digital environmental magazine and podcast Edge Effects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It wasn't always this way. From the Theodore Roosevelt's leadership on natural resource conservation to Richard Nixon's creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and Ronald Reagan's singing of the Montreal Protocol banning ozone-depleting chemicals, Republicans have a proud tradition of environmental stewardship. Why have they seemingly abandoned it? That question animates The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump (Harvard University Press, 2018), a collaborative effort by acclaimed environmental historians James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg—who have produced an accompanying website for educators. They draw from the latest scholarship on the rise of postwar conservatism to explore how corporate interest groups, libertarian think tanks, evangelicalism, and the GOP power center's shift southward and westward encouraged frustration with the broadly popular legislative achievements of the 1970s and resistance to mounting a similarly robust federal response to subsequent environmental problems. The authors explore the party's shifting positions on the management of federal lands, the protection of air and water quality, and the mitigation of climate change. They observe how discourse prizing local control, prioritizing economic concerns, and questioning scientific expertise and international cooperation grew louder and louder and helped produce a political landscape where environmental issues are defined less by technical data and more by voters' values. But party leaders' anti-environmentalist rhetoric has often found them out of step with their constituents, and Republican administrations from Reagan to Trump have had to scale back their assaults on the environmental state. James Morton Turner is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. His first book was the award-winning The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964 (University of Washington Press, 2012). Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. His previous books includes Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (Hill and Wang, 2013), Mining California: An Ecological History (Hill and Wing, 2005), and The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Brian Hamilton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin—Madison where he is researching African American environmental history in the nineteenth-century Cotton South. He is also an editor of the digital environmental magazine and podcast Edge Effects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Civil War was even more disastrous than we thought. Joan Cashin, already a distinguished scholar of the period, looks afresh at the war through the lens of environmental history and material culture and finds only more terrors and even greater suffering. War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2018) draws from a dizzying cache of research from nearly four dozen archives to capture the brutality and desperation of the wars that raged beyond the battlefield—over food, timber, shelter, and the control of people themselves. Most of these struggles were not between the armies, but between soldiers and civilians. Despite Lost Cause slurs against Sherman and his ilk, Cashin finds both armies fully capable of emptying the stores, robbing the woodlots, and torching the homes of white noncombatants. To have two massive armies with nearly inexhaustible appetites for resources crisscrossing the South ensured widespread devastation. But the destruction was all the greater because soldiers on both sides paid little attention to military codes regulating pillage and plunder, and their commanders were usually unwilling or unable to reign them in. So, Cashin argues, the war caused starvation, deforestation, the razing of villages, and an underappreciated amount of hostage-taking and abuse of civilians. After the war, there was no reckoning, no recompense for the toll both armies took on white southerners, and the scars were bandaged with myths that deceive us still. Brian Hamilton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he is researching African American environmental history in the nineteenth-century Cotton South. He is also an editor of the digital environmental magazine and podcast Edge Effects.

advancedbeginnerchallenge.com The Advanced Beginner Challenge – I built a course to get your first job in web development, or upgrade from Junior to mid-level! ---- Don't worry, I am never saying "okay" again ;) On this episode we cover some mindsets around freelancing that I thought about often to grow my business. We also talk about how the ability to solve your own problems is the most important skill you can possess. This episode ends with a huge rant on this topic. Thank you so much for your support, and if you have yet to leave a rating or review, please leave me an honest one on iTunes, YouTube or below on the blog. I appreciate it! Connect with me on instagram @dainmiller or @starthere.fm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startherefm/message