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Episode 35 - Witnessing the Lives and Deaths of Animals Among Us

We live in relationship with the animals, our neighbours and creaturely kin, and when the convenience of our modern life causes animals great violence, we seek ways to grapple with and grieve their deaths.

Guest Amanda Stronza is an environmental anthropologist who creates powerful and poetic animal memorials that bring beauty to the deaths of the animals who live among us.

This conversation invites us to pay attention and bear witness to animals, and to see their deaths in a way that honours animal life while also redeeming us – the human animal.

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Episode 25 - Rejecting Fossil Fuel Narratives, Rewriting Climate Futures

Fossil fuel narratives seep into our culture, media, politics, and minds, and it can be hard to extricate them from our lives. Fortunately, we can create our own hopeful narratives of possible climate futures that run like fast-moving rivers from person to person.

Grace Nosek is a climate justice scholar, community organizer, and storyteller. Grace has spent years studying and deconstructing the narratives and tactics of the fossil fuel industry - as well as creating her own hopeful climate narratives.

We can find the veins and rivulets of care that already exist in the growing climate movement, and together rewrite the future.

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Episode 17 - Generation Dread’s Search for Emotional Resilience

How do we courageously face our eco anxiety and grief, and cultivate the emotional resilience that we need to weather ecological crises? Britt Wray - science communicator, researcher, and author of Generation Dread - talks about climate change, mental health, and channeling our climate emotions so we become good stewards of the Earth.

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