Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From

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Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From

Interviews with nature lovers on plants & ecology. Special focus on the “invasive plant” narrative and on threats to habitat from “green energy." Plus agriculture, wildtending, plant consciousness and more.

Episodes

  1. Ep. 3: Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation

    SEP 16

    Ep. 3: Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation

    Ep. 3: Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation Nikos Giannakis is a biologist with the University of Leeds, currently working in Greece. His graduate work was in environmental pollution control and agricultural chemistry, and his PhD was on soil microbiology. His national service requirement in Greece led to environmental consulting including impact assessment. Currently he is living with his wife (an architect specializing in natural building techniques) and six cats in an abandoned village in a national park in northwestern Greece. His activism focuses on defending nature from "green energy" projects and on bringing land use into the climate conversation. Our interview hit many topics including "green energy" projects in Europe; land use as the "other leg" of climate change (besides the greenhouse effect), as highlighted by Spanish climatalogist Millán Millán; carbon reductionism in the climate change narrative; the hijacking of the environmental movement by the carbon conversation; land use and fire mitigation; the necessity to be wholistic in our relationship with nature; the all-too-material reality of the digital realm; increasingly extreme weather; conservation efforts worldwide (which Nikos is involved with); future directions for agriculture; public vs. private land; humans as keystone species in ecology; the importance of community; opportunities for young people to find new answers; the power of media to control narratives and hence public perception, and much more! LINKS called out in interview: Millán Millán, climatologist: Publications on Academia.edu: https://independent.academia.edu/Mill%C3%A1nMill%C3%A1n1 Rob Lewis' three part series, "Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms," on land use as the "other leg" of climate change: Part I: https://theclimateaccordingtolife.substack.com/p/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of Part II: https://theclimateaccordingtolife.substack.com/p/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-526 Part III: https://theclimateaccordingtolife.substack.com/p/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-0e9 Meghan Walla-Murphy, bear tracker: http://www.meghanwallamurphy.com/ FOLLOW / SUPPORT Kollibri: Substack: https://kollibri.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Paid subscribers to Substack & Patreon get early access to new episodes, in their full unedited form, longer than the public versions. Venmo: @kollibri CREDIT: Intro & outro narration: Sarah Beth Reiss Support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/speaking-for-the-trees-no-matt This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From.

    1h 25m
  2. Ep. 3: "Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation" [TEASER]

    SEP 7

    Ep. 3: "Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation" [TEASER]

    Bringing Land Use into the Climate Conversation [TEASER] A teaser for the forthcoming episode 3, to be released Sept. 16, 2024. Nikos Giannakis is a biologist with the University of Leeds, currently working in Greece. His graduate work was in environmental pollution control and agricultural chemistry, and his PhD was on soil microbiology. His national service requirement in Greece led to environmental consulting including impact assessment. Currently he is living with his wife (an architect specializing in natural building techniques) and six cats in an abandoned village in a national park in northwestern Greece. His activism focuses on defending nature from "green energy" projects and on bringing land use into the climate conversation. FOLLOW / SUPPORT Kollibri: Substack: https://kollibri.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Paid subscribers to Substack & Patreon get early access to new episodes, in their full unedited form, longer than the public versions. Venmo: @kollibri CREDIT: Intro & outro narration: Sarah Beth Reiss Support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/speaking-for-the-trees-no-matt This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From.

    6 min
  3. Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort

    AUG 19

    Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort

    Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort In this episode, Kollibri is joined by co-host Nikki Hill for a conversation with Calyx Liddick, founder of the Northern Appalachia School. Calyx has taken a deep dive into the common origins of the eugenics and conservation movements in the US in the early 20th Century, and what she has found is alarming. The boosters of race science, white supremacy, forced sterilization of "lesser" people and other now discredited concepts were the same who founded conservationism, and their odious residue remains. Conservationism must now be re-thought so that what is good can be kept and what is bad dismissed. In our far-ranging discussion, we talked about all this history plus "invasive species" (a central pillar of eugenics as expressed through anti-immigration sentiment and law); the futility of "fortress conservation"; how the wilderness ideal erases Indigenous people and their relationship to ecology; the importance of reciprocity, integration and coexistence in our interactions with nature; our disagreement with the characterization of "invasive plants" as agents of settler-colonialism; climate change, and more. Calyx Liddick is a bioregional herbalist, ethnobotanist, holistic nutritionist, wildcrafter, writer, wildlife tracker and a mother of two. She is strongly interested in exploring the relationships between plants and people. Find out more about her and the school she runs at: https://www.northernappalachiaschool.com/ Subscribers to Kollibri's Substack or Patreon enjoy early access to all episodes in their full length. (Public episodes are edited for length and clarity.) Substack: https://kollibri.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Interview with Calyx on Kelly Moody's Groundshots podcast: https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/podcastblog/calyx Support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/speaking-for-the-trees-no-matt This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From.

    2h 35m
  4. Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort [TEASER]

    AUG 10

    Ep. 2: Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort [TEASER]

    Eugenics & Conservation: Too Close for Comfort In episode 2 of the "Speaking for the Trees No Matter Where They're From" podcast, Kollibri is joined by co-host Nikki Hill for a conversation with Calyx Liddick, founder of the Northern Appalachia School. Calyx has taken a deep dive into the common origins of the eugenics and conservation movements in the US in the early 20th Century, and what she has found is alarming. The boosters of race science, white supremacy, forced sterilization of "lesser" people and other now discredited concepts were the same men who founded conservationism, and their odious residue remains. Conservationism must now be re-thought so that what is good can be kept and what is bad dismissed. In our far-ranging discussion, we talked about all this history plus "invasive species" (a central pillar of eugenics as expressed through anti-immigration sentiment and law); the futility of "fortress conservation"; how the wilderness ideal erases Indigenous people and their relationship to ecology; the importance of reciprocity, integration and coexistence in our interactions with nature; our disagreement with the characterization of "invasive plants" as agents of settler-colonialism; climate change, and more. Calyx Liddick is a bioregional herbalist, ethnobotanist, holistic nutritionist, wildcrafter, writer, wildlife tracker and a mother of two. She is strongly interested in exploring the relationships between plants and people. Find out more about her and the school she runs at: https://www.northernappalachiaschool.com/ Subscribers to Kollibri's Substack or Patreon enjoy early access to all episodes in their full length. (Public episodes are edited for length and clarity.) Substack: https://kollibri.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Interview with Calyx on Kelly Moody's Ground Shots podcast: https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/podcastblog/calyx Support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/speaking-for-the-trees-no-matt This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From.

    8 min
  5. Ep. 1: Plant Advocacy

    JUL 16

    Ep. 1: Plant Advocacy

    Ep. 1: "Plant Advocacy" An interview with with Paul Moss, Executive Director of the Plant Initiative, a plant advocacy organization. In this far-ranging and intriguing conversation,we talk about plant intelligence, agriculture, "invasive" plants, anthropocentrism, and more. Support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/speaking-for-the-trees-no-matt This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From.

    56 min

  6. JUL 6

    Plant Intelligence [Ep. 1 teaser]

    Plant Intelligence [Ep. 1 teaser] From the upcoming debut episode of the "Speaking for the Trees No Matter Where They're From" podcast: an interview with Paul Moss, Executive Director of the Plant Initiative, a plant advocacy organization. Subscribers to Kollibri's Substack or Patreon will have access to the episode on July 8th. It will be publically available July 15th. Substack: https://kollibri.substack.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kollibri The Plant Initiative: https://www.plantinitiative.org This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They're From.

    3 min
  7. Introduction / Trailer

    JAN 21

    Introduction / Trailer

    Episode Notes Introducing "Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They’re From"--the podcast. Featuring interviews with nature lovers on plants & ecology, with a special focus on “invasive plant” mythologies and the threat to wildlife habitat from “green energy" development. Plus agriculture, wildtending, plant consciousness and more. Paying subscribers on SubStack and Patreon will get early access and exclusive content. https://kollibri.substack.com/ https://www.patreon.com/kollibri The SubStack also features free blog posts, so head over and read. If you’re someone who loves plants and the planet, join us!

    1 min

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