Emergence Magazine Podcast
Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more. We feature new podcast episodes weekly on Tuesdays.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 312
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Woods Work – William Bryant Logan
After visiting a two-thousand-year-old Linden tree in England, William Bryant Logan explores the nearly forgotten practice of coppicing, or cutting back a tree to stimulate growth, and discovers a sy…
00:38:07 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
One Hundred and Eleven Trees – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that reclaims a vital and ancient relationship between trees and women.
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00:59:49 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
On Survival: the Dead, the Sapling, and the Ancients – Lauren E. Oakes
In this narrated essay, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes looks beyond the scientific lens of subject-object while studying the consequences of climate change on a dying community of yellow cedars in the Ala…
00:35:55 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
The Church Forests of Ethiopia – Fred Bahnson
Nearly all of Ethiopia’s original trees have disappeared, but small pockets of old-growth forest still surround Ethiopia’s churches, living arks of biodiversity amongst the brown grazing fields. In t…
01:12:57 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
Dead Wood – Nick Hunt
Nick Hunt visits Białowieża, Europe’s largest surviving primeval forest, where life and death transform into one another with vigorous entanglement. Here, he traces the history of the European forest…
00:30:56 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Felling Light – Amaud Jamaul Johnson
In this essay, Amaud Jamaul Johnson returns to his poem “The Maple Remains” for the centennial anniversary of the Red Summer of 1919. Through historical witnessing we see the deep ties between racial…
00:32:18 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree – David G. Haskell
In this multi-sensory essay, David George Haskell invites us into the unique, and sometimes surprising, aromas of eleven different species of trees. David is author of The Songs of Trees: Stories fro…
01:00:49 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Kinship, Community, and Consciousness – a conversation with Richard Powers
In this extensive interview, Richard Powers discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory and his intention to tell a story in which humans are not separate from the living world around t…
01:04:46 |
Mon 03 Feb 2020
On Time and Water – a conversation with Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker. In this interview, Andri discusses his new book On Time and Water and our relationship to time in an age of ecological crisis. Wi…
00:59:37 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
A Radical Reimagining of the Novel with Richard Powers and Forrest Gander
In this vibrant conversation, poet and author Forrest Gander interviews Richard Powers about his acclaimed new novel The Overstory. Recorded during a live event co-presented by Emergence Magazine and…
00:54:01 |
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Reseeding the Food System – Rowen White
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and an activist for seed sovereignty. In this in-depth interview, Rowen shares what seeds—her greatest teachers—have shown her: tha…
00:48:07 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
The Pull of the Sky — Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
In this narrated essay from our first issue on Perspective, medievalist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen examines the history of our attraction to see Earth from above. He wonders what an enlarged perspective mi…
00:19:07 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Tending Soil — Emma Marris
From her own backyard compost pile in Oregon to the dark earths of the Amazon and Liberia, Emma Marris explores the possibility that there is more to our ancient kinship with soil than nutrient extra…
00:34:56 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
The Seeds of Ancestors: A Day at Soul Fire Farm – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist. This profile explores her work to create spaces for people of color to heal and reconnect to the land—an effort to end America’s food…
00:35:02 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Praise Song for the Kitchen Ghosts — Crystal Wilkinson
Raised on her grandmother’s jam cake, biscuits, and sweet black tea, Crystal Wilkinson evokes a legacy of joy, love, and plenty in the culinary traditions of Black Appalachia. Crystal is the author o…
00:32:07 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Dwelling on Earth — Jay Griffiths
Marveling at worms, fungi, and the pioneering water bear, Jay Griffiths brings our attention to what dwells beneath our feet, inviting us to remember that soil is what turns the Earth’s barren rock i…
00:36:06 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
We Learned to Fear Tiger and to Love Squirrel – Lisa Lee Herrick
In the storied universe of Hmong cosmology, Squirrel is revered for its ability to outsmart the hunter. In this narrated essay, Lisa Lee Herrick recalls her grandfather—a master squirrel hunter—bring…
00:44:34 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Fermenting Culture – David Zilber
In this in-depth interview, David Zilber, director of the fermentation lab at Noma—named the best restaurant in the world—discusses how food is culture, but fermentation is culture on a deeper level.…
00:46:54 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Speaking the Anthropocene – Robert Macfarlane
In this in-depth interview, writer Robert Macfarlane takes listeners on a journey through language and landscape, exploring how a precision of utterance and a grammar of reciprocity can summon wonder…
01:16:07 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
The Language of the Master – Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth faces his suspicion that modern written language is in fact a tool of ecocide. Paul is the author of the novels “The Wake” and “Beast,” the essay collection “Confessions of a Recoveri…
00:27:28 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
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