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Rights of Nature laws are becoming a vital tool for addressing environmental injustice. From New Zealand and India to Ecuador and Bolivia, advocates have successfully secured legal rights for rivers, forests, and mountains. Granting rights to nature has the potential to expand environmental protections, strengthen indigenous rights, promote sustainable development, and alter how humans relate to nature. Despite these promises, rights of Nature laws have met with greater resistance in some countries than in others.

Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from foraging to the agrarian revolution and then to a capitalist way of life, Worster brings us face to face with a third transformation of human society that is beginning to take shape in China: an ecological civilization.

 Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against our own interests and the interests of others without fully realizing what we are doing.  

In The Man Who Made Plants Write, internationally renowned poet and critic Sumana Roy translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on the environment. Bose (1858-1937), a scientist and polymath, devoted much of his time to presenting a sophisticated vision of plant communication. He...

When we are outside, studies show evidence of significant improvements to our mood, stress levels, confidence and self worth, relationships and physical and mental health. And yet many of us aren’t making use of the myriad benefits the natural world can offer us. Bear Grylls is here to change...

Welcome to The Ecological Bestiary, the podcast that treats the D&D Monster Manual like a real-world field guide... because the real world is magical too.Join host Kevin Matteson (PhD in Ecology) and his adventuring party—Mike (Forever DM & Science Teacher), Rachel (Climate Educator), and Cassie (Wildlife Expert)—as they bridge the gap between tabletop roleplaying games and real-world science.Each expedition, the party tracks down a classic fantasy creature to dissect its fictional ecology and connect it to real-world biology and conservation. How would a Gelatinous Cube actually digest ...

This podcast explores creative intelligence, the integration of cognitive and somatic awareness that represents our return to full human capacity. As a creative intelligence researcher, I'm investigating what we once had but lost, and what some of us still carry despite every effort by our systems to break our creative intelligence.Many people who've been labeled as having disabilities, learning differences, or who simply don't fit into current systems are actually carrying intact creative intelligence. What looked like a liability in rigid systems becomes essential capacity when those systems...

Sea Change is the captivating, deeply-human tale of how fishermen —along with some unlikely allies —helped carry out the biggest conservation success story you've never heard of. Exploring a victory for the world's most vital ecosystem, Sea Change tells the story of unlikely partnerships and surprising solutions that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry. Like in other ocean areas, the Gulf Coast fisheries were being fished out to the detriment of wildlife and the people whose livelihoods and communities hinge on sea catch.

NeuroData Lab es un espacio de divulgación científica dedicado a explorar cómo funciona la mente humana. A través de investigaciones, libros, estudios y expertos en neurociencia, psicología, neurología y ciencias del comportamiento, analizamos temas como emociones, dopamina, neuroplasticidad, toma de decisiones, hábitos, memoria, atención y sesgos cognitivos. Contenido basado en evidencia, explicado de forma clara y accesible para comprender mejor el cerebro, la conducta humana y la vida cotidiana.

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by Richard Folkard is an expansive compendium of the myths, customs, superstitions, symbolism, medicinal beliefs, religious associations, and traditional stories connected with plants across many cultures. Moving from flowers, trees, herbs, and fruits to sacred, magical, and ominous vegetation, Folkard traces how the plant kingdom has shaped folklore, poetry, ritual, healing, divination, and everyday life.

Wejdź do niezwykłego świata natury z „Drzewnikiem”–wyjątkowym ćwiczeniownikiem dla miłośników przyrody. Odkryj fascynujące tajemnice drzew, poznaj ich terapeutyczną moc i wpływ na zdrowie oraz samopoczucie. Przeczytaj drzewne historie, opowiedziane przez Agnieszkę Antosik, dendroterapeutkę, autorkę bestsellera „Leśna terapia”, znaną także jako Szepcząca z Drzewami. Miesiąc po miesiącu wzbogacaj swoją wiedzę na temat drzew, ich symboliki, właściwości leczniczych i znaczenia w kulturze. Dowiedz się, dlaczego drzewem stycznia jest sosna, lutego–wierzba, a marca–brzoza.

O CafeterIA é um local de conversa e troca de ideias, onde nossos apresentadores conversam e debatem sobre os mais diversos assuntos enquanto aproveitam um bom café.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Hyperplan is a bold architectural audiobook about designing cities as living organisms rather than fixed masterplans. Through the charged landscape of Mitzpe Ramon and the edge of the desert crater, Moshe Katz develops a new way of thinking about urban...

Using a blend of nature writing, reporting, and poignant personal narrative, this debut memoir explores how interaction with the natural world—namely, foraging, both literally and metaphorically—has the power to vitalize and restore our lives, bolster resilience, and kindle joy. In the early...

Welcome to Trash(ed), the podcast for the trash-curious. Hosted by three members of the University of Texas at Austin community, Trash(ed) brings together perspectives from advertising, sustainability, and science to explore our trash. Join Ashlee Neumann, an advertising researcher studying consumer culture and overconsumption, Daryl Barth, a recent UT Austin graduate researching ways to break down plastics like nylon and PET, Kasia Dinkeloo, a scientist searching for plastic-eating microbes and exploring how plants, insects, and microorganisms might help solve our plastic problem, as they dig...

'I can't remember the last book I read that I could say with absolute assurance would save lives. But this one will' Chris Packham When Joe Harkness suffered a breakdown in 2013, he tried all the things his doctor recommended: medication helped, counselling was enlightening, and mindfulness...

As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the question: ‘Why didn’t you do something?’ The Carbon Club reveals the truth behind Australia’s two decades of climate inaction. It’s the story of...

Journey to eight states, three national parks, and three countries to experience the life-changing education and adventures that led Trent A. Romer to finding sustainability for his plastic-bag-manufacturing business and himself.

Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the “why” of his fishing identity before, more recently, becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman, in large part, because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible. In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands.

From the big bang to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why Are We Here?, by author Bruce Brodie, offers a look at evolution and the future of life on the planet.