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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When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.
41 min
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Of Wandering Angels and Lost Landmarks – Daegan...
Daegan Miller considers how our historical landmarks have shifted in meaning, leaving us adrift and disoriented in the Anthropocene.
35 min
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They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migrati...
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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Giantstone – Andri Snær Magnason
In this short story by Andri Snær Magnason, time expands and collapses as an architect in Reykjavík struggles against the soulless design of urban landscapes in the Anthropocene.
49 min
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Sanctuary – Camille T. Dungy
In an encounter between a man and an elephant, poet Camille T. Dungy bears witness to a moment in which past harm gives way to an expansive recognition of love.
3 min
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War on the Air: Ecologies of Disaster – Daisy H...
Daisy Hildyard examines three stories of atrocity that demonstrate how whiteness has inscribed itself onto the land through violence and how human history blurs into the nonhuman world.
49 min
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To See Beyond: A Hoping in Three Pictures – Ann...
Recalling histories of imperial collapse, Anna Badkhen wonders how we come to terms with the world we have made and how to make space for hope and sanctuary.
22 min
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Noiseless Messengers – Rebecca Giggs
Very small beings are often responsible for vast surges of life. Rebecca Giggs follows the mass migration of the bogong moth in alpine Australia: a story of superabundance and apocalypse.
60 min
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The Vagrants: Butterfly Land Grabs and Other Cl...
As plants and animals migrate northwards on an unprecedented scale, Cal Flyn observes new species of butterflies arriving in Scotland's Orkney Islands and faces the haunting knowledge that some voices are rising as others fade away.
24 min
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Living with the Unknown Soundtrack – Volker Ber...
This week, we’re excited to share the soundtrack of Living with the Unknown. Sit back and enjoy this contemplative sonic experience.
25 min
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Chasing Cicadas – Anisa George
Amid the cacophony of a cicada emergence, Anisa George reflects on her choice to leave the Bahá’í faith. Following her own rhythms of becoming, she seeks unity in a new chorus of voices.
36 min
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Where the Horses Sing – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Witnessing a growing wasteland, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee seeks the threshold that could bring us back to the place where the land sings—to a deep ecology of consciousness that returns our awareness to a fully animate world.
20 min
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Widening Circles – a conversation with Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy discusses her personal journey into the worlds of activism, Buddhism, and deep ecology.
34 min
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The Creatures of the World Have Not Been Chaste...
As she bears witness to the decomposing body of a deer, Lia Purpura considers the forces of restoration at play: the processes which transform bodies from one state to another and the beginnings that emerge from endings.
17 min
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Navigating the Mysteries – Martin Shaw
As we walk our questions into a troubled future, storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw invites us to subvert today's voices of certainty and do the hard work of opening to mystery.
29 min
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The Nightingale's Song – a conversation with Sa...
Singer Sam Lee speaks about the transformative experience of creating songs in collaboration with nightingales and the space for communion that is opened with silence.
52 min
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Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time – R...
Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.
36 min
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Finding the Mother Tree – a conversation with S...
64 min
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Watering the Dead and the Unseen – Sumana Roy
At her home in Siliguri, India, Sumana Roy and her nephew reflect on the continuance of all that has vanished from our sight.
29 min
170
Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt
In this essay from Boyce Upholt, a coalition of Indigenous voices speak on behalf of the rooted beings of the desert as legal protections for the saguaro cactus come up against the push to build a border wall.
39 min
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The Eternal Tree – Jori Lewis
Jori Lewis is drawn to the wisdom and resiliency of Africa’s baobab trees—ancient arks of biodiversity that have endured for millennia—and bears witness to these elders in a rapidly changing world.
38 min
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False Passives – Anna Badkhen
Anna Badkhen considers failed migrations and the impossibility of escape as the forces of climate catastrophe and colonial greed combine to trap the world's most vulnerable populations.
30 min
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On Death and Love – Melanie Challenger
As Melanie Challenger examines the belief in human exceptionalism that has devastated life on this planet, she wonders if our desire to outrun death is hindering our capacity to love.
26 min
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Birder to Birder – J. Drew Lanham
Through an imagined exchange of letters between two pillars of conservation, J. Drew Lanham asks: In the ongoing response to racism, how might reckoning with history help us weave better futures?
30 min
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When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
This sonic journey narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.
41 min