s2e4 REPLAY Imagine Earth Without Capitalism
featuring LAURA LENGNICK, scientist, policymaker, educator, activist and farmer. SPOKEN WORD by Climbing PoeTree and Baba Brinkman featuring Gaia’s Eye
SHOW NOTES
s2e4 REPLAY December 26, 2024
Originally Aired February 11, 2024
Martha Cinader speaks with author Laura Lengnick in this replay of our Winter Climate Special. The conversation ranges from alternatives to capitalism to Earth’s best practices. Laura is 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. FEATURED SPOKEN WORD: Climbing PoeTree and Baba Brinkman featuring Gaia’s Eye. 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. Living It! is from the CD, Living It!, Martha Cinader’s Po’azz Yo’azz. Recorded live at WPVM Radio in Asheville, NC.
GUEST
Laura Lengnick
Author, award-winning soil scientist, researcher, policymaker, educator, activist and farmer
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 SPOKEN WORD
“I Told You What I Know”
“They Are Selling the Rain”
by Climbing PoeTree
“I.P.C.C.”
“Makin Waves”
by Baba Brinkman featuring Gaia’s Eye
From The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos [Bandcamp]
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.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Laura Lengnick – Resilient Agriculture
Read more: Laura Lengnick – Resilient AgricultureReal 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…
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Ishmael
Read more: IshmaelOne 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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My Grandmother’s Hands
Read more: My Grandmother’s HandsThe 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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Braiding Sweetgrass
Read more: Braiding SweetgrassUpdated 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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The Broken Earth Trilogy
Read more: The Broken Earth TrilogyA 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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Making Money
Read more: Making MoneyThe 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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Four Ways to Forgiveness
Read more: Four Ways to ForgivenessAt 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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Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat Handbook
Read more: Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat HandbookEthical 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…
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Moving Beyond Capitalism with Nature-Based Economics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589791819300040
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