Given that collectively, plants form more than 80% (80!) of the living world’s terrestrial weight, and that, today, we humans are the largest evolutionary and geologic force on Earth, how we people think about plants matters. Many botanists, geographers, and anthropologists are paying increasing attention to how our species’ history of ‘replanting’ the world has… Continue reading Carbon
Author: lybaldwin
Planning for Plants and Peoples
What format and why? A monologue. My interest in podcasts is to use them to celebrate the stories shared by plants and people. Most often, it is some practice (drawing, gardening, farming, basket-weaving, canning) that gives people the time and space to think alongside plants rather than just viewing them as background or as… Continue reading Planning for Plants and Peoples
Podcast as Radio Extension
I love stories. I love listening to stories. Together my need for good stories told well brought me to podcasts. When I looked at the podcasts in the queue on my phone, I was started to see how many of them come from public radio–both Canadian and American. My recent favorite is one called “Cultivating… Continue reading Podcast as Radio Extension