Biocitizen Banter

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.What can we do to improve the vivacity of the Connecticut River? In this episode, Kurt Heidinger listens as Connecticut River Defenders Theresa Turner, Gary Selden, Dodo Melnikov and Priscilla Lynch explain how decommissioning the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station will bring health to our

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.Was Aldo Leopold a racist? In this episode, Kurt Heidinger raises the question with  TT Wright, an advanced PhD candidate in the Religion and Philosophy department of the University of North Texas. This profound question is precipitated in general by the cultural crisis caused by global warming,

Lugar son historias en las que vivimos. Y algunos lugares nos gustan más que otros. ¿Por qué? Ricardo Rozzi  nos cuenta una historia sobre un lugar que ama. —secundo de la serie. Si tienes un lugar que te encanta, envíanos tres párrafos y cuatro fotos y lo compartiremos. ¿POR QUÉ AMO EL CAJON DEL MAIPO? Con mi hermano menor, Aldo, en los cerros de SanJosé de Maipo en 1972 Mis raíces están en el Cajón del Maipo. Crecí entre los años 1960s e inicios de los 1980s pasando largos períodos en San

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode Executive Director Kurt Heidinger discusses the meanings of Aldo Leopold's "biotic citizen" and "land organism" with foremost ecosophists: Baird Callicott is a founder of the field of environmental philosophy, a distinguished professor and influential educator on the global level, a

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode, The Biopolitics of COVID-19, Kurt Heidinger interviews Dr. Jerry Phillips, literature professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Our contexts: 1) "[The UN agency’s director general, Guy Ryder] said he hoped governments would recognise that they needed to reconstruct their

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode Ex. Director Dr. Kurt Heidinger interviews Javiera Malebrán Muñoz who has been teaching Field Environmental Philosophy for the past 5 years at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Cape Horn archipelago in southernmost Chile. She has worked closely with our friends Drs. Ricardo Rozzi

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode, Kurt Heidinger interviews Eugene Hargrove, who founded the journal Environmental Ethics, authored  Foundation of Environmental Ethics, and played a major role in establishing Environmental Philosophy as a subject of study from the elementary school- to the graduate degree- level. We

Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. Our first podcast features an interview of Ricardo Rozzi by Kurt Heidinger.