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Histories of Nature

39. The Knowing Inside
Or why sovereignty of mind is the first requirement of democracy
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Priscilla Stuckey
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24:04
52. What the Honeybees Know
About who we are
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Priscilla Stuckey
12
25:42
The Animate World: NSFW
Exploring an old taboo
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Priscilla Stuckey
6
A Better World Is Waiting
When we shift our story of nature
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Priscilla Stuckey
12
47. Trusting the Waters of Life
Listen now | On rivers, the secret river, and what one very early project to drain a lake can tell us about both
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Priscilla Stuckey
4
22:45
43. Where Water Wants to Go
Lahaina, conquering water, and mālama ʻāina
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Priscilla Stuckey
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23:00
37. The Logic of Sameness
Listen now (25 mins) | Authoritarianism all the way back to the Roman Empire—and why it is fundamentally at odds with democracy, and with nature
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Priscilla Stuckey
4
24:37
36. Living Your Animal
How animal morality could help us chart a better path through a pandemic
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Priscilla Stuckey
2
20:43
34. Facing the Past
Listen now (24 min) | An ancient law code from 2000 BCE and its template of class and gender hierarchy shaping law and attitudes to this day. On facing…
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Priscilla Stuckey
3
24:27
29. Where Did We Go Wrong?
On historian Lynn White's famous thesis about Western culture's disconnect from nature and how he didn't get the genesis quite right—literally
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Priscilla Stuckey
22:10
28. Seeing Each Leaf
Insights from a Yurok man, shared with an anthropologist, for learning from the spirit of a tree
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Priscilla Stuckey
19:36
25. Why Doesn't Everyone Love Diversity?
Ecologists say that diverse communities are the most resilient. So why are so many white people afraid of diversity?
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Priscilla Stuckey
21:06
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