Emergence Magazine Podcast
Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more. We feature new podcast episodes weekly on Tuesdays.
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Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Mem...
Theresa Harlan shares the story of her Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay—an uprooting which ended her family’s time there but did not sever their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa.
48 min
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From Dirt – Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy reflects on the legacy and journey, triumph and trauma, of seeds.
16 min
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The Ecology of Perception – a conversation with...
In this interview, David Abram discusses our current moment of ecological and societal instability and calls on us to remember the animacy of our bodily senses and our participation in the collective, embodied flesh of the Earth.
49 min
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An Unbroken Grace – Fred Bahnson
Fred Bahnson reflects on the life of Barry Lopez, a storyteller whose encounters with mystery and the more-than-human informed his practice of writing stories that illuminate and heal.
35 min
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A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migrati...
Tristan McConnell journeys across Turkana in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a place whose long story is still being written by a shape-shifting landscape and changing patterns of human and nonhuman migration.
51 min
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Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Jo...
Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy read a selection of poems from Rainer Maria Rilke’s "Book of Hours: Love Poems to God," reminding us of our role in loving the world.
21 min
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Beings Seen and Unseen – a conversation with Am...
In this wide-ranging conversation, Amitav Ghosh calls on storytellers to lead us in the necessary work of collective reimagining: decentering human narratives and re-centering stories of the land.
42 min
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Reseeding the Food System – a conversation with...
In this in-depth interview, Rowen White discusses how seeds—her greatest teachers—hold the link between cultural revitalization and the restoration of traditional foodways.
48 min
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They Carry Us With Them – Pt. 2: Sugar Maple, P...
The migrations of sugar maple, paper birch, and red spruce are shared here as short vignettes, each offering a glimpse of just one facet of tree migration.
19 min
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They Carry Us With Them – Pt. 1: Introduction a...
Around the world, scores of species of trees are moving north, or west, or upslope. What is at stake as the forests change around us? Experience four stories of tree migration.
59 min
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Making Relatives – Diane Wilson
Endeavoring to restore balance between the native and invasive plants around her home, Diane Wilson makes a relationship with the most aggressive species, asking: what does it mean to be a good relative to the land?
29 min
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Finding Joy in the Unknown – a conversation wit...
In this interview 17 year-old Dara McAnulty—author and naturalist—speaks about his identity as an autistic person, his award-winning book, and the necessity of staying rooted in joy.
42 min
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A Little More Than Kin – Richard Powers
Reflecting on whether there is a genetic basis for altruism, Richard Powers looks at how human beings find kinship with other creatures.
19 min
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Invasives: Unknitting Despair in a Tangled Land...
As invasive plants proliferate around her home in Toronto, Catherine Bush considers her family’s own history as transplanted immigrants and how acts of reciprocity and care for the land might unknit despair.
30 min
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Language Keepers, Episode 4: Wukchumni
In honor of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language.
28 min
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Atascosa Borderlands – Jack Dash and Luke Swenson
In the Atascosa Highlands, the silverleaf oak and saguaros have no sense that the land around them is divided between the US and Mexico. But as the border wall imposes a hard boundary, this ecological crossroads faces an increasingly fragmented future.
23 min
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Living in the Bones – Bathsheba Demuth
On a moose hunt north of the Arctic Circle, Bathsheba Demuth observes two contrasting narratives manifest along the banks of the Ch’izhìn Nji: one of conquest, another of quiet knowing and restraint.
26 min
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Speaking the Anthropocene – a conversation with...
In this interview, Robert Macfarlane articulates the consequence and responsibility, as well as the pleasure, of naming the living world.
76 min
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Against Nature Writing – Charles Foster
Seeking to express communion with the more-than-human world, Charles Foster begins to wonder if language can do anything other than constrain and tame the tangled wild.
31 min
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Paradise Extended – Natalie Rose Richardson
As Natalie Rose Richardson searches for her great-grandfather’s grave in a historically segregated cemetery, she confronts the American notion of paradise and the walls erected to protect it.
36 min
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Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves – J. Drew ...
In this poem, J. Drew Lanham celebrates radical acts of joy by lifting up liberation, reparations, justice, and deep connection to ancestors and the living world.
12 min
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Meltwater: A Timepiece for the Arctic – Stephen...
As Stephen Lezak explores the paradoxical human narratives that overlay the Arctic landscape, he bears witness to a place that is teetering in an uneasy balance between eternity and loss.
34 min
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A Forest Walk – a guided practice by Kimberly R...
This guided practice by Kimberly Ruffin offers ways to connect to the living world through a walk in the forest.
47 min
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The Life Story of a Recipe – Gina Rae La Cerva
Through legacies of wild food gathering and feasting, Gina Rae La Cerva traces the traditions that have brought her family joy and sustenance, even in times of grief, conquest, and migration.
35 min
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Return of the Foreigners – Nick Hunt
Nick Hunt ventures into the Forest of Dean seeking the unruly, twilight realm of the boar—a creature who brings him to the boundary between wildness and civilization, history and myth.
32 min