Podcasts
Who are they?
Scientists and Environmentalists,
Indigenous Leaders and Activists,
Teachers and Artists
Hosted by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
11. Breakthrough Communities
Carl Anthony, Co-founder, Breakthrough Communities Project, Oakland, CA
Carl tells how the universe story expanded his own understanding of social and environmental justice. With a focus on urban areas, he explains how sustainable community development can be enhanced within an inclusive universe story.
11. Breakthrough Communities
Carl Anthony, Co-founder, Breakthrough Communities Project, Oakland, CA
Carl tells how the universe story expanded his own understanding of social and environmental justice. With a focus on urban areas, he explains how sustainable community development can be enhanced within an inclusive universe story.
12. Eco Cities
Richard Register, Founder, Ecocity Builders, Berkeley, CA
Richard emphasizes the importance of organic and whole-city perspectives for creating liveable cities. He highlights the imaginative ways in which cities are being rethought and rebuilt around the planet for a flourishing future.
12. Eco Cities
Richard Register, Founder, Ecocity Builders, Berkeley, CA
Richard emphasizes the importance of organic and whole-city perspectives for creating liveable cities. He highlights the imaginative ways in which cities are being rethought and rebuilt around the planet for a flourishing future.
13. Ecological Economics
Richard Norgaard, Emeritus Professor of Ecological Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Dick surveys the history of economics and the mistaken assumptions of current ecological principles and practices, such as unrestrained growth. In place of our ecologically destructive practices, he endorses an ecological economics that emphasizes care, co-evoluion, and protection of the environment.
13. Ecological Economics
Richard Norgaard, Emeritus Professor of Ecological Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Dick surveys the history of economics and the mistaken assumptions of current ecological principles and practices, such as unrestrained growth. In place of our ecologically destructive practices, he endorses an ecological economics that emphasizes care, co-evoluion, and protection of the environment.
14. Permaculture
Penny Livingston, Regenerative Design Institute, Commonweal, Bolinas, CA
Penny leads viewers through the history and significance of permaculture. She discusses permaculture as an agricultural practice that increases biodiversity and helps us to understand our place in the story of the universe.
14. Permaculture
Penny Livingston, Regenerative Design Institute, Commonweal, Bolinas, CA
Penny leads viewers through the history and significance of permaculture. She discusses permaculture as an agricultural practice that increases biodiversity and helps us to understand our place in the story of the universe.
15. Indigenous Ways of Knowing
David Begay, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University
Nancy Maryboy, President and Founder of the Indigenous Education Institute
David and Nancy invite us to understand Navajo ways of knowing. They describe a worldview that is place-based, emphasizes kinship and connection, and intimately orients the human within an interrelated and unified cosmos.
15. Indigenous Ways of Knowing
David Begay, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University
David and Nancy invite us to understand Navajo ways of knowing. They describe a worldview that is place-based, emphasizes kinship and connection, and intimately orients the human within an interrelated and unified cosmos.
16. Sustainable Energy
Paula Gonzalez, SC, Emerita Professor, Biology, College of Mt St Joseph, Cincinnati; Founder, EarthConnection Center
Paula Gonzalez narrates the efforts of Catholic sisters to harness solar power and other natural systems as a means of protecting the Earth community and participating in the story of the universe.
16. Sustainable Energy
Paula Gonzalez, SC, Emerita Professor, Biology, College of Mt St Joseph, Cincinnati; Founder, EarthConnection Center
Paula Gonzalez narrates the efforts of Catholic sisters to harness solar power and other natural systems as a means of protecting the Earth community and participating in the story of the universe.
17. Healing and Revisioning
Belvie Rooks, Co-founder, Growing a Global Heart
Belvie describes how teaching the story of the universe has empowered African American youth to contextualize slavery, envision healing and reconciliation, and imagine a better future through a broader sense of self and place.
17. Healing and Revisioning
Belvie Rooks, Co-founder, Growing a Global Heart
Belvie describes how teaching the story of the universe has empowered African American youth to contextualize slavery, envision healing and reconciliation, and imagine a better future through a broader sense of self and place.
18. Arts and Justice
Marya Grathwohl, Writer and Founder, Earth Hope, Wyoming
Drew Dellinger, Poet and Founder, Planetize the Movement
Marya Grathwohl and Drew Dellinger explore poetry and activism, along with the study of ecology and ritual as shared visions of creative transformation that are inspired by the journey of the universe.
18. Arts and Justice
Marya Grathwohl, Writer and Founder, Earth Hope, Wyoming
Marya Grathwohl and Drew Dellinger explore poetry and activism, along with the study of ecology and ritual as shared visions of creative transformation that are inspired by the journey of the universe.
19. Myths, Metaphors, and Identities
Nancy Abrams, co-author with Joel Primack, View from the Center of the Universe
Sachiko Kawaura, Department of Psychology and Human Relations, Nanzan University, Japan
Nancy and Sachiko highlight the role of myth, metaphor, and art in broadening and deepening our understanding of human identity within a cosmological context.
19. Myths, Metaphors, and Identities
Nancy Abrams, co-author with Joel Primack, View from the Center of the Universe
Nancy and Sachiko highlight the role of myth, metaphor, and art in broadening and deepening our understanding of human identity within a cosmological context.
20. Teaching Journey of the Universe
Tom Collins, teacher, Religion and Philosophy, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
Bindhu Mohanty, writer and teacher, Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India
Tom and Bindu describe how learning the universe story has allowed high school and college students to experience an expanded sense of self and to transform despair into a sense of hope and empowerment.
20. Teaching Journey of the Universe
Tom Collins, teacher, Religion and Philosophy, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
Tom and Bindu describe how learning the universe story has allowed high school and college students to experience an expanded sense of self and to transform despair into a sense of hope and empowerment.