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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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
179
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
180
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
181
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
184
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
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The Forest of Orchids – Heather Swan
As Colombia continues to suffer violence and unrest, one family is cultivating resiliency and healing by planting thousands of native orchids across a restored mountainside.
34 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.
51 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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We’re Gonna Carry That Weight a Long Time – Dav...
David Farrier reflects on the immense burden of materials that mark our place on Earth.
25 min
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Turn Towards the Dark – Hala Alyan
In reckoning with a precarious world, Hala Alyan reluctantly steps into the realm of fear.
41 min
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Ravens and Doves – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Jul...
In the face of present-day environmental catastrophe and social injustice, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates examine the opposing narratives of survival in the story of Noah’s Ark.
39 min
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Finding the Mother Tree – a conversation with S...
Suzanne Simard, the renowned scientist who discovered the “wood-wide web,” speaks about mother trees and how to heal our separation from the living world.
64 min