s2e4 Imagine Earth Without Capitalism
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SHOW NOTES
s2e4
February 11, 2024
Laura Lengnick returns for our Winter Season Special for a conversation with Martha Cinader about alternatives to capitalism aligned with Earth’s best practices. An award-winning soil scientist with 30 years of experience working as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist and farmer to put sustainability values into action in U.S. food and farming.
HOST: Martha Cinader. GUEST: Laura Lengnick ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray.
GUESTS
Laura Lengnick
Laura Lengnick has worked for decades to put sustainability values into action as a researcher, policymaker, educator, activist, and farmer. She led award-winning soil health and sustainable farming research at USDA and served as a lead author of the USDA report, Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation. Laura founded and owns Cultivating Resilience, LLC, and serves as the Director of Agriculture at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming. She lives in Asheville, NC.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat Handbook
Ethical Meat is meat from an animal that had a good life, a good death, a good butcher, and a good cook. Ethical Meat is a movement that seeks to repair entire regional meat supply chains, and much work is underway by brave hardworking farmers, butchers, processors, chefs and cooks. Working to create the capacity…
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Four Ways to Forgiveness
At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into “assets” and “owners,” tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully…
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Making Money
The hero of Going Postal returns in the 36th installment of Sir Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld series! Moist von Lipwig, condemned prisoner turned postal worker extraordinaire, is now in charge of a different branch of the government: overseeing the printing of Ankh-Morpork’s first paper currency. Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get…
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The Broken Earth Trilogy
A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.This is the Stillness,…
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon,…
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My Grandmother’s Hands
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans…
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Ishmael
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
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Laura Lengnick – Resilient Agriculture
Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes capture the headlines, but more subtle changes caused by hotter summer nights, warmer winters, and a longer growing season have…
FEATURED SPOKEN WORD
Music and Spoken Word by Climbing PoeTree, Baba Brinkman, DJs for Climate Change
Notes from DJ Jeannie Hopper
“I Told You What I Know” and “They Are Selling the Rain” by Climbing PoeTree from their 2017 album Intrinsic. Climbing PoeTree is Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman. With the conviction that creativity is the antidote to destruction, Alixa and Naima’s artistry is deeply rooted in social justice movements. Their performances have been featured alongside visionaries such as Angela Davis, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Sonia Sanchez, Vandana Shiva, Danny Glover, and The Last Poets.
“I.P.C.C.” and “Makin Waves” by Baba Brinkman featuring Gaia’s Eye from his album The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos recorded back in 2016 and made available on Soundcloud. Baba Brinkman is a New York-based rap artist, science communicator, and award-winning playwright. He’s best known for his “Rap Guide” series of science-themed plays and albums including an adaptation of his “Rap Guide to Climate Chaos” performed at the SoHo Playhouse in New York. In addition to his science rap, Baba is a pioneer in the genre of “lit-hop” or literary hip-hop, with rap adaptations of Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
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