Future Ecologies

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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 ad-free, independent podcast is supported by our community on Patreon: https://www.futureecologies.net/patrons

  1. FOREST / TREE

    OCT 30

    FOREST / TREE

    Season 6 kicks off in the deep dark woods: the simplified, post-industrial forests of the world — the only forests that many of us have ever known. Join us as we meet foresters in British Columbia, Vermont, and Scotland, all working to embrace the messy art of ecological forestry. Because if we want our forests to be old growth-ier, we might not be able to just wait and leave them alone. It might mean challenging some assumptions and getting out of our comfort zone, but that's what it'll take to see the forest for the trees. — — — With the voices of Ethan Tapper, Brian Duff, Keith Erickson, and Herb Hammond Music by Thumbug, Spencer W Stuart, Nathan Shubert, and Sunfish Moon Light See also: FE3.4 - Dama DramaGaliano Conservancy AssociationNNRG's "A Forest of Your Own"FernGully: The Last Rainforest For photos from our time in the ancient old growth, citations, a transcript, and more, click here. – – – 🌱 If you like what we do, you can help us to do it ✨ Support the production of Future Ecologies by contributing any amount at futureecologies.net/join Our entire community of supporters get early episode releases, bonus content, discord server access, and a 50% discount on all merch. Our biggest supporters get to show off with stickers, patches, and now toques (aka beanies). Thanks for keeping us independent and ad free!

    1h 2m
  2. Season 6 starts tomorrow

    OCT 29 · BONUS

    Season 6 starts tomorrow

    Hey y’all. Did you miss us? We’re back! Well, almost. Check your podcast feed tomorrow for the first episode of Season 6. [EDIT FROM THE FUTURE] it's here: futureecologies.net/listen/fe-6-1-forest-tree (or in your favourite app) Or, if you’re one of our dear supporters on Patreon or Apple podcasts (or if you’d like to become one at futureecologies.net/join), you can find episode 6.1 already waiting for you on the bonus feed.

    1 min

  3. OCT 3 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Sneak Peek: S6 Theme

    Thank you all for waiting so patiently as we lined up the pieces for Season 6. We're going to go deep this season, and we're so excited to be back in your feed soon. But for now, just to whet your appetite, please find enclosed the most important ingredient of any season of Future Ecologies: our latest reimagining of the opening theme.

    1 min
  4. Auditory Compost / Convergence: The Music of Season 5

    AUG 23 · BONUS

    Auditory Compost / Convergence: The Music of Season 5

    As is tradition, we're releasing all the original music we composed for the latest season of Future Ecologies as a set of soundtracks. For the first time ever, they are also available on all major music streaming services. Enjoy! Auditory Compost by Sunfish Moon Light Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music Convergence by Thumbug Bandcamp, Spotify (Side A | Side B), Apple Music (Side A | Side B) – – – Find all of our seasonal soundtracks at futureecologies.net/albums And get free download codes on our Patreon ✨

    2 min
  5. Future Ecologies presents: The Merry Monarchs

    AUG 19 · BONUS

    Future Ecologies presents: The Merry Monarchs

    We're excited to share another beautiful guest episode with you today. In this piece, originally broadcast in 2 parts on The Wind (one of our favourite podcasts), producer Eleanor Qull is taking us on a pilgrimage in honour of, and in tribute to that most collective monarch — the monarch butterfly. Through those lepidopteran migrants, it’s a story of scale, agency, and spiritual offering in a changing world. Eleanor cooked up a special ~1 hour version just for us. It's spacious, equal parts silly and deadpan, with a big scoop of mono no aware. If you’d like to see pictures of the pilgrimage offerings from each stop, you can find them at thewind.org/episodes/the-merry-monarchs, along with complete list of citations, plus the original unabridged 2-part version — where the tour makes an additional stop (in space).

    1h 8m
  6. Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 2 — Eulogies)

    JUL 17 · BONUS

    Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 2 — Eulogies)

    Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis. The second and final episode, “Eulogies,” is based on fictional writing from the class. Students imagine and eulogize something that could be harmed by the climate emergency, and then imagine a speculative future in which action was taken to mitigate that harm. Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories. “The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel — — — Part 2: Eulogies 02:15 – Clione by Annika Ord 12:49 –The Abundance Will Be Forever by Judith Burr 24:03 – A Eulogy for Wolves by Niki 33:33 – Return of the Hidden Worlds by Sadie Rittman 44:59 — Eulogy for the Bees by Rhonda Thygesen

    55 min
  7. Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 1 — Climate Feelings)

    JUL 17 · BONUS

    Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 1 — Climate Feelings)

    Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis. This first episode, “Climate Feelings,” is a collection of students’ non-fiction essays and reflections on their personal realities of living with and researching the climate crisis. The first episode opens with an introductory conversation between Naomi Klein and series producer Judee Burr that contextualizes how this class was structured and the writings it evoked. Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories. “The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel — — — Part 1: Climate Feelings 2:38 — Introduction by Judee Burr and Naomi Klein 19:05 — Connection to Jericho Willows by Ali Tafreshi 22:27 — Connection to the Water by Foster Salpeter 27:06 — Connection to Family and Land by Sara Savino 31:01 — Scientists and Feelings by Annika Ord 36:00 — Biking away from the Smoke by Ruth Moore 39:32 — Climate Sensitivity on the Bus by Nina Robertson 43:13 — Grief and Climate Change Economics by Felix Giroux 46:36 — The Age of Sanctuary by Melissa Plisic 52:04 — Age of Tehom by Maggie O’Donnell

    58 min
  8. Everything Will Be Vine

    JUN 6

    Everything Will Be Vine

    Vision without eyes? Intelligence without a brain? Are plants more akin to us than we have been prepared to acknowledge? Or are they different in ways we will forever strain to imagine? One way or another, a vine with some unusual abilities is shaking the field of botany to its foundations. On this episode: Zoë Schlanger (author of the newly-released, New York Times bestselling book The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth) takes us to the misty rainforests of Chile and back to report on what might just be the world’s most extraordinary plant — hidden in plain sight. — — — With music by Modern Biology, Mort Garson, Hotspring, Thumbug, and Sunfish Moon Light. For credits, citations, transcript, and more, visit futureecologies.net/listen/fe-5-10-everything-will-be-vine — — — 🌱 Future Ecologies is an independent, ad-free, listener-supported podcast. Be the first to hear new episodes, and get exclusive bonus content, behind the scenes updates, and access to our discord server, plus stickers, patches, and toques @ futureecologies.net/join

    47 min
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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 ad-free, independent podcast is supported by our community on Patreon: https://www.futureecologies.net/patrons

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  • Creator
    Future Ecologies
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    136
  • Rating
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    © Copyright 2024 Future Ecologies
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