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Future Ecologies

Future Ecologies

Made for nature lovers and audiophiles alike, Future Ecologies explores our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders. The format varies: from documentary storytelling to stream-of-consciousness sound collage, and beyond. Episodes are released only when they"re ready, not on a fixed schedule (but approximately monthly). This

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03:14

Sojourning: the music of Future Ecologies Season 3

Future Ecologies ·

2021/08/29

A few quick announcements!Get in touch with us: https://www.futureecologies.net/#contact-sectionMeet the musicians we've featured: https://www.futureecologies.net/musicDownload the Official Soundtrack of Season 3: https://www.futureecologies.net/season-3-ost💖Support the show and join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/futureecologies

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FE3.10 - Goatwalker: An Open Wound (Part 4)

Future Ecologies ·

2021/08/04

What is a border? Is it simply an edge: a sharp transition between one state and another? Or does it stretch beyond a single dimension, warping land and people through a self-perpetuating 'otherness'?In this final chapter of Goatwalker, we uncover the ties that bind ecosystems, identities, and communities of all sorts – migrant or otherwise. We'll walk a path to restorative justice: a way to foster new livelihoods through conservation programs and the many uses of an oft-overlooked keystone species

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FE3.9 - Goatwalker: Saguaro Juniper (Part 3)

Future Ecologies ·

2021/07/07

Having finished his work in the Sanctuary Movement, Jim Corbett allowed his focus to broaden, bringing his system of ethics to the land itself. Jim had gathered many people around him throughout the Sanctuary days: a group that shared a deep, abiding love for the more-than-human world. Together they would establish a herding community – a herd in which they would all be members – grounded in a practice of ‘pastoral symbiotics’, and guided by a prescient ecological covenant: a bill of rights for the

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FE3.8 - Goatwalker: Sanctuary (Part 2)

Future Ecologies ·

2021/06/02

In the early 1980s, the outbreak of civil war across Central America forced unprecedented numbers of refugees to seek asylum in the United States, putting the recently passed 'Refugee Act' of 1980 to the test. There was just one catch: the Reagan Administration was providing funding to right-wing governments that most of these refugees were fleeing. As a result, Central American refugees making the dangerous journey to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands were being intercepted, denied asylum, and summarily

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FE3.7 - Goatwalker: On Errantry (Part 1)

Future Ecologies ·

2021/05/05

Jim Corbett was not your typical rancher.Over the course of decades roaming the borderlands of the desert southwest, he developed a practice that he referred to as 'goatwalking' - a form of prophetic wandering and desert survival based on goat-human symbiosis.For Jim, 'goatwalking' provided both physical and spiritual sustenance, and allowed him to become at home, for a time, in wildlands.To many, this modern-day Don Quixote would seem an unlikely figure to have sparked one of the most important

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FE3.6 - Making Sense of Each Other

Future Ecologies ·

2021/04/07

Mushrooms that smell? Fungi can be pungent, provocative, and at times irresistible. While we might not always recognize it, we're in constant chemical communication with the world around us through olfaction. For those with the senses to discern them, aromas, perfumes, stinks, and stenches can all convey useful information. Some scents are warnings, and others are deterrents, but the most alluring are expert portraits of our animal fascinations, honed through evolution to attract, captivate, and

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FE3.5 - The Story of the Understory of the Understory

Future Ecologies ·

2021/02/26

In collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries, Future Ecologies presents a choral, poetic collage featuring the voices of The Understory of the Understory: a virtual symposium bringing together practitioners from many disciplines to consider the ground beneath our feet across ecologies, politics and spiritualities. With vignettes ranging from co-evolution to condensation, from medicine to mycomorphism, and from death to dust and back again, and all generally rooted in a question of earth, soil, and

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FE3.4 - Dama Drama

Future Ecologies ·

2021/01/27

Guest producers Sadie Couture and Russell Gendron explore the concept of invasive species through a look at a small island community, a species doing some serious damage to the ecosystem, and the complex issues at play when a plant or animal moves into a new territory.Sadie and Russell talk to current and former residents of Mayne Island, Indigenous elders, and conservation professionals to think through what it means to call something an “invasive species,” how to manage our ever-changing

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FE3.3 - Nature, by Design? Freakological Fallacies...

Future Ecologies ·

2020/12/30

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a garbageosphere – an ecosystem of trash and detritus. But despite the extent of anthropogenic impacts, life is resilient and infinitely creative.Hyper-ecologies, novel ecosystems, freakosystems – different names for the same thing: never-before-seen assemblies of lifeforms, born of human disturbance. These profoundly weird ecologies are persistent, and (through a certain lens) often functional.In this final chapter of "Nature, by Design?", we meet again

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45:18

FE3.2 - Nature, by Design? The Path to the Wilderness...

Future Ecologies ·

2020/11/25

This episode is the second in a 3-part series. Before listening to this one, you may want to catch up with FE3.1 - Nature, by Design? Part 1: Taking the Neo-Eoscenic RouteAs we continue to discuss the practice of ecological restoration, an important question emerges: is wilderness itself an illusion? We all have a picture of wilderness in our minds, but how did that image come to be? Join us for a tale of two simulacra.For musical credits, citations, and more, click here.Please consider adopting an

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19:33

[UNLOCKED] Seaweed Sojourning 1: Light and Colour

Future Ecologies ·

2020/11/13

For a new season of bonus Patreon mini-episodes, we’re going beyond kelp worlds to meet the rest of our seaweed sojourners.Today, we’re stepping into a world of colour – of light, and shadow. Our first algal introduction is a stunning seaweed, known to some as rainbow leaf (or Mazzaella).We're unlocking this first episode of of our Patreon-exclusive series: “Seaweed Sojourning”, as we explore The Curious World of Seaweed with Josie Iselin. Pay what you can – as little as a $1 per month – to get the

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52:46

FE3.1 - Nature, by Design? Taking the Neo-Eoscenic...

Future Ecologies ·

2020/10/30

Is “Nature” a real thing, or is it just an idea? When we talk about restoring ecosystems, what are we restoring them to? Or more precisely, when?This episode is the first part of a conversation between Mendel, Adam, and two of Adam’s mentors, wherein we explore what it means to practice ecological restoration as a form of art.Click here for photos and details of Oliver’s artwork / restoration project in the Grandview Cut.For musical credits, citations, and more, click here.Two corrections for this

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49:13

Future Ecologies presents: Back to Earth - Queer...

Future Ecologies ·

2020/10/08

What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation and queerness together?Victoria Sin welcomes guest host Serpentine Assistant Curator, Kostas Stasinopoulos to dive into transformation, queerness, the natural and unnatural, wild, decolonial and submerged perspectives. Together with guests Ama Josephine Budge, Macarena Gómez-Barris and Jack Halberstam they ask: “where does wildness live?” and they

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59:29

Future Ecologies presents: Life in the Plastisphere

Future Ecologies ·

2020/08/19

While we work on Season 3, we're featuring an episode from one of our favourite podcasts: Plastisphere–––We want to know what you want to listen to! Take our 2020 Listener Survey and help shape the sound of Future Ecologies Season 3.–––Finally, we're releasing 2 albums: the official soundtracks of Season 2 and our Scales of Change series, featuring the instrumental compositions of Sunfish Moon Light (a.k.a. Adam Huggins), Loam Zoku, and Vincent van Haaff. We hope these help you pass the time before

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44:22

Scales of Change - Chapter 7: A Form of Life

Future Ecologies ·

2020/07/09

This is our final chapter, and our last genus of Dragon: Immobilis – the dragons of Limited Behaviour. This genus contains only two species: Immobilis signum, or the Dragon of Tokenism, and Immobilis jevonsii, or the Rebound Effect. They are among the most pernicious dragons, especially for people who already care deeply about the climate.As we unpack this small but important genus, we discover how they are tied to the global movement to divest from fossil fuels. Once again we find ourselves with

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55:22

Scales of Change - Chapter 6: Relatives of the Deep

Future Ecologies ·

2020/07/02

In our sixth genus, we dive deep into the Dragons of Sunk Cost – the investments that work against our climate interests.Some of these may simply be financial, but they may also be emotional: our goals and aspirations, our patterns of behaviour, and our attachments to the places around us.In this episode, we focus our attention on Place Attachment, as we tag along with the ṮEṮÁĆES Climate Action Project: a W̱SÁNEĆ-led eco-cultural revitalization project.To learn more about the Dragons of Climate

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34:56

Scales of Change - Chapter 5: Force Majeure

Future Ecologies ·

2020/06/25

Our fifth genus includes the Dragons of Perceived Risk: functional, temporal, financial, social, and physical. These dragons are at the root of all fears – steering our decisions in a continuous assessment of risk versus reward.When it comes to climate change, the risks are global, but distributed unequally. In this chapter, we explore what physical risk can mean to the people dedicated to the health of the planet, as we follow one woman’s journey to becoming a force of nature.To learn more about

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32:16

Scales of Change - Chapter 4: Driving Decisions

Future Ecologies ·

2020/06/18

The Dragons of Discredence are agents of mistrust – the species of this genus are responsible for climate deniers, contrarians, and conspiracy theorists. But it’s not only the fringe that suffers from the dragons of discredence. They can act in subtle ways on all of us: casting doubt on well-intentioned policy, and dissuading us from aligning our self-interest with the interests of our environment. To tip the scales, we have to prove that there’s plenty of honey to go around.Many of the Dragons of

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Scales of Change - Chapter 3: Writing on the Wall

Future Ecologies ·

2020/06/11

Our third genus contains the Dragons of Social Comparison and Social Norms.Every aspect of who we are is mediated by these Dragons: we adjust to the norms of our communities – the people we interact with, and the people we consider to be our peers around the world. As with everything, these norms are subject to change. Their flexibility is based on our collective willingness to share, and to listen.When it comes to the climate crisis, community conversations – in whatever form they may take – are

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00:52

In Solidarity

Future Ecologies ·

2020/06/03

So long as police exercise violence with impunity, we will never be safe.So long as a badge is a license to murder without accountability, it will be sought by those who desire tyranny.So long as the agents of enforcement are from outside the communities they patrol, they will never understand its needs.So long as our governments choose to fund aggression over nourishment, healthcare, & education, we will never have justice and we will never have peace.We reject fascism. We call for the

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