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Death in The Garden

Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan

“Death in The Garden” is a multimedia project that explores the complex intersection of the cycle of life and death, holism, climate change, civilization, ecology, and health from the perspective of two incredibly curious millennials on a journey to make sense of a very complicated world. In addition to those listed above, our podcast highlights topics like regenerative agriculture, food, psychology, spirituality, politics, society, and our overall relationship with Nature and the ecosystems we are

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#29 Dr. Tro Kalayjian - Reversing Obesity and...

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2021/12/21

On this episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren share their interview with Dr. Tro Kalayjian, a board certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine Physician. He co-hosts the podcast Low Carb MD. Dr. Tro had a long journey of obesity throughout his life and career as a physician, and was finally able to tackle obesity and lose 150 lbs with a low-carb diet. Now he treats patients using an incredibly holistic model, remotely monitoring his patients biometrics with CGMs and other

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#28 Nina Teicholz - A Deep Dive Into Dietary Science...

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2021/12/09

On this episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren share their interview with author and science journalist, Nina Teicholz. She is also a member of the Global Food Justice Alliance, an amazing organization that advocates for the rights of all people to have access to nutrient dense animal foods. Nina’s book, The Big Fat Surprise, is an instrumental compilation of scientific research, interviews, and history which describes how we’ve been profoundly misled about dietary fat for over 100 years

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#27 Simon Counsell - The Authoritarian...

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2021/11/20

On this episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren share their interview with Simon Counsell, executive director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, an organization “which supports indigenous and traditional peoples of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their rights.” We were lucky enough to meet Simon at the Our Land, Our Nature congress in Marseille, France. Simon breaks down for us the fallaciousness of “nature-based solutions” and how they serve

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#26 Dr. Mordecai Ogada – A Case for Scrutinizing the...

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2021/11/13

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” as COP26 ends in Glasgow, Jake and Maren share their second interview with Dr. Mordecai Ogada, carnivore ecologist, activist for the Decolonization of Conservation, and co-author of The Big Conservation Lie. In our previous conversation with Mordecai, he mentioned the “Our Land, Our Nature” congress in Marseille, which we were lucky enough to attend and acquire this interview in person. This time we go deep into speculating about the more nefarious side of

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#25 Fiore Longo - The Fallacies of the Big Green Lie

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2021/10/28

On this episode of "Death in The Garden", we share our interview from early September with Fiore Longo, Director of Survival International France and Spain, and fearless leader of the campaign to Decolonize Conservation through the Our Land, Our Nature congress we were lucky enough to attend in Marseille. We talk with Fiore about a number of prescient topics, most notably exposing the fallacies and human rights violations that are rampant in global conservation, the overall lack of scientific basis

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#24 Will Falk - Defending Thacker Pass and the...

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2021/10/20

On this episode of “Death in The Garden”, we interview biophilic author and attorney, Will Falk. Will began his career as a public defender and eventually transitioned to environmental law and activism, participating direct action encampments at the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Canada and Mauna Kea, protecting the sacred lands from pipelines and a telescope respectively. Recently, Will has been working with the People of Red Mountain, the coalition of indigenous peoples from the Duck Valley and Fort

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#23 Dr. Sylvia Karpagam - The Problem of Ideology in...

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2021/10/18

On this episode of “Death in The Garden", we interview Dr. Sylvia Karpagam, a public health doctor with an MD in Community Medicine in India. Sylvia is a champion at advocating for the rights of all people to have access to quality nutrition, a sharp critic of the caste system, and an advocate for food sovereignty. She is a member of the Global Food Justice Alliance, an organization pushing back against the unjust and unethical campaigns against animal food availability being perpetuated by the

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#22 Death with Dignity - An Update from Jake and Maren

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2021/10/15

On this episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren break their two month hiatus with an update about the events of the past months during production of the film. We talk more about being robbed in Ecuador, the Ancestral Health Symposium that we attended in Los Angeles, the protest against the proposed lithium mine in Thacker Pass, the Our Land, Our Nature counter-congress to the IUCN World Conservation Congress in France, our time at Fjällbete in Sweden, and deeply personal encounters with

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#21 Terry Collingsworth - Child Slavery and the True...

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2021/08/10

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we interview human rights lawyer, Terry Collingsworth. Terry has worked for decades as an advocate for people all around the world who have suffered human rights abuses by corporations, and is the Executive Director for International Rights Advocates, an organization that promotes human rights and corporate accountability through legal advocacy. Terry and his organization have worked tirelessly to hold cocoa companies accountable for the child labor and

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#20 Dr. Mordecai Ogada - The Big Conservation Lie and...

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2021/07/11

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren interview carnivore ecologist and conservation writer Dr. Mordecai Ogada. He is the Executive Director of Conservation Solutions Afrika, which aims to transform conservation in Africa to a model that includes humans in relationship to the land and wildlife. Ogada, alongside journalist John Mbaria, wrote the book The Big Conservation Lie in 2017, which details the problems in African conservation that stem from a racialized hero system that

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#19 Charles Eisenstein - Climate Change and the Myth...

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2021/06/20

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren interview renowned author Charles Eisenstein. Charles has written a number of incredibly impactful books, such as Sacred Economics, Ascent of Humanity, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, and, most recently, Climate: A New Story. He also writes incredible essays available on his website, such as “Extinction and the Revolution of Love” which is mentioned in the show.In this episode we discuss what Charles calls “The Story of

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#18 Jesse Smith - The Complex Framework of Regeneration

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2021/05/31

This week on “Death in The Garden” we return from our hiatus to share our interview with Jesse Smith, Director of Land Stewardship at White Buffalo Land Trust, a Savory Hub in Santa Barbara, CA. This was a pivotal interview which planted innumerable seeds in our heads, all of which have since germinated into such a deeper understanding about the direction of our project: "regeneration as self-preservation"; what regeneration truly means; what sustainability truly means; the reconciliation and

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#17 Steven Donziger - The Battle for Accountability...

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2021/04/24

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we had the honor to interview Steven Donziger in his Manhattan apartment on his 623rd day of house arrest for the baseless misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt.For 27 years, Steven has been fighting for the indigenous & rural peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon who, from 1967 to 1992 suffered cancer causing abuses and atrocities at the hands of the oil company Texaco, which has since merged with Chevron. Texaco executives had made deliberate decisions to cut

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#16 Paul Kingsnorth - Wisdom from a Recovering...

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2021/04/18

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we interview Paul Kingsnorth, author (The Wake, Beast, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, and most recently, Alexandria, to name but a few) and creator of The Dark Mountain Project. The Dark Mountain Project is a cultural movement through storytelling, writing and art, centered around the Dark Mountain Journal.We spoke with Paul about what it means to be honest with ourselves in these times of social, ecological, and spiritual breakdown. We

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#15 Abbey Smith - The Pitfalls of Industrial Thinking...

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2021/03/21

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we share our interview with Abbey Smith, an amazing mother, Global Network Coordinator for the Savory Institute, and director of the Jefferson Center for Holistic Management. We talked to Abbey about holism and the necessity of viewing life as complexly as possible — whether it be a question of our physical/mental health, the health of the land, the health of community, and the health of the planet. We speak about the difference between “industrial thinking”

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#14 Bobby Gill - Understanding the World with a...

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2021/03/08

On this episode of “Death in The Garden,” we share our interview with our friend Bobby Gill, Director of Development and Communications at the Savory Institute. We talk about regenerative agriculture, and how a holistic management & having a holistic context can (and should) be translated to all aspects of life — from managing livestock, to our mental and physical health, and ultimately to the trajectories of our lives. We talk about the necessity of death, the importance of embracing its existence

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#13 Unpacking Cultural Memes about the World with...

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2021/02/21

On this episode of "Death in The Garden," Jake and Maren talk about the cultural memes and mythologies that permeate every aspect of modern life. Drawing inspiration from Ishmael and The Invisibility of Success by Daniel Quinn, we discuss the narratives and fallacies that have driven our culture to devour planet Earth, and we challenge our audience to confront the mythologies that dominate our world views.Check out our website and Instagram for more information about our project! Editing: Jake

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#12 Dr. Greg Stone - The Ocean Renaissance

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2021/02/11

This week on “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren share their interview with Dr. Greg Stone, a renowned oceanographer, deep sea diver, conservationist, author (Ice Island, Soul of the Sea), and host of the podcast “The Sea Has Many Voices.” Greg founded the Ocean Health Index and created the world’s first ocean protected area, the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site the size of California! Currently, he serves as the Chief Ocean Scientist for DeepGreen Resources, a

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#11 James Connolly - On Science, Education, and Our...

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2021/01/29

This week on “Death in The Garden,” Jake and Maren had a deep conversation with James Connolly, producer of the documentary Sacred Cow (Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf, 2020) and guest host of the podcast “Sustainable Dish” also by Diana Rodgers. We talk about the mythos of civilization, critiques of the commodifying education system, the designed hierarchy of society, the religion of science, our propensity to seek out gurus & unintegrated spirituality, and so many other nuances of the world’s

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#10 Evan Walbridge - Designing Our Lives Closer to...

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2021/01/23

This week on the “Death in The Garden” podcast, we’re sharing our interview with Evan Walbridge, project coordinator & land steward at White Buffalo Land Trust, an up-and-coming Savory hub in Southern California. We talk about how designing the built world in relation to ecology is one of the greatest changes we can make as a species, the importance of having a continual relationship with the cycles of life and death, and the nuances of regenerative agriculture. You can find him on Instagram

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