Location:
United States
Genres:
Science Podcasts
Description:
A Podcast About Cities, Nature and People
Language:
English
Contact:
3129530734
Website:
http://shapeoftheworldshow.com/
Episodes
Episode 33: Can Listening Be a Political and Moral Act?
12/22/2022
Biologist David George Haskell says this collective inattention is a huge loss for each of us. It's like leaving money on the table because paying attention to the living world is a source of beauty, joy and renewal—one we can access at anytime from anywhere.
Duration:01:01:40
Episode 32: What Should We Fix First?
11/18/2022
Margaret Renkl's new book "Graceland at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South is mix of graceful observations and practical solutions.
Duration:00:28:52
Episode 31: Who Trashed My River?
10/12/2022
The organization Nick Wesley co-founded, Urban Rivers, is creating The Wild Mile, the first-ever floating eco-park of its scale in the world.
Duration:00:23:58
Episode 30: Privilege & Inequality in Animals
8/2/2022
Guest Jenn Smith says that human concepts of intergenerational wealth and inequality occur also in the behaviors of animals.
Duration:00:32:07
Episode 29: Disruption & Resilience
7/25/2022
When Jane Watson encountered a ruined meadow of seagrass in the ocean, instead of getting furious, she grew curious.
Duration:00:24:17
Season Five Coming Soon
6/23/2022
Season Five Will Launch July 2022 New episodes, new guests, new insights about nature and our built environments are coming soon. And more on how we can live together--with nature, with cities and with one another. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app or check back here.
Duration:00:01:50
Episode 28: The Wild Card
6/16/2021
Sarah Cowles encourages radically rethinking the synthetic landscapes found in cities. When welcoming nature to our human cities, do we aim for an...
Duration:00:40:25
Episode 27: The World Is Not Static
6/3/2021
Dr. Caitlin Rankin’s research shows that a long-held theory about why an ancient civilization passed out of existence was wrong. Cahokia Mounds in...
Duration:00:32:23
Episode 26: Bees Understand the Concept of Zero
5/20/2021
Dr. Scarlett Howard’s research on cognition of honeybees got a lot of media attention when in 2018, she published a paper that showed bees can...
Duration:00:30:44
Episode 25: Think Beyond the Possible
5/13/2021
Tony Hiss’s new book, “Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth,” lays out both the urgency for and possibility of protecting...
Duration:00:22:49
Episode 24: Humans Need Nature
8/14/2020
Jeanne Gang has an explicit intention to make the human built environment as kind as possible for birds, nature, wildlife and the Earth’s atmosphere...
Duration:00:43:55
EPISODE 23: Cutting Through the Noise On Climate: How to Do Something That Matters, Do It Consistently, and Then Move On with Your Life
7/24/2020
Climate change is scary. The magnitude of the problem makes it hard for people to commit to direct action to solve it, hoping instead (reasonably but perhaps impractically!) that government will do the work...
Duration:00:46:22
Episode 22: The Grace of Going Unseen
5/27/2020
Akiko Busch is well-known for her writing on design, culture and the natural world. Her essays continue to touch on those subjects although increasingly, it incorporates—or directly addresses—the natural world...
Duration:00:25:32
Episode 21: The Coat & the Goat
5/13/2020
Andrew Robichaud explores the peculiar coexistence of people and farm animals in America’s cities. In the 1800s, it wasn’t unusual for men wearing top hats and formal attire to stride down tony Manhattan avenues right next to goats and cows...
Duration:00:31:35
Episode 20: The Weirdest Way
5/6/2020
Dr. Katy Greenwald has a longstanding interest in puzzling out the success and persistence of North America's "gene thieves," the unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders...
Duration:00:26:43
Episode 19: Different Kinds of Aliveness
4/29/2020
David Sibley started drawing birds at age five and never stopped. Having an ornithologist father and being around his father’s friends, all of whom were also interested in birds, made birdwatching seem an ordinary thing all grown men did...
Duration:00:42:22
EPISODE 18: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Change the World
4/22/2020
Structural geologist Marcia Bjornerud was raised by free-thinking parents who instilled in her a love of books and nature. She’s published many professional papers (read mainly by experts in the field) and two popular books that, in the opinion of this podcast, ought to be read by every inhabitant of our planet...
Duration:00:35:21
EPISODE 17: How To Stay Safe From Coronavirus In The Outdoors
4/7/2020
Even though the coronavirus pandemic is keeping 226 million Americans sheltering in place, stepping out for fresh air is still allowed. But what’s safe?
Duration:00:15:56
Episode 16: It’s Not All Going the Wrong Way
6/22/2019
In Openlands, Jerry Adelmann joined an organization whose interests aligned perfectly with his own: nature, culture, historic preservation, social equity. Since then, Jerry has been a ninja nature practitioner who’s…
Duration:00:21:01
Episode 15: Promiscuity & Polka Dots
6/15/2019
Janet Voight grew up in Iowa, far from the ocean. Yet as a young adult, she found her way to the study of marine organisms, especially the cephalopods: that strange and wonderful system that includes snails, clams, squids, nautilus, and octopuses...
Duration:00:30:31