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
Creatures That Don’t Conform – Lucy Jones
In this essay, author Lucy Jones brims with awe upon discovering slime molds in the woods near her home. As she is increasingly drawn down to the forest floor and into their world of nonconformity, s…
00:42:04 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Sanctuaries of Silence – A Listening Journey
In this immersive listening journey from our archive, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton guides us into the Hoh Rain Forest—one of the quietest places in North America. In a world drowned out by the d…
00:13:42 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
An Ethics of Wild Mind – a conversation with David Hinton
David Hinton is a poet, translator, and author whose works are informed by ancient Chinese philosophy and deep ecological thought. In this interview, David discusses his latest book Wild Mind, Wild E…
00:41:16 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Kinship, Community, and Consciousness – a conversation with Richard Powers
This week we revisit our conversation with Richard Powers, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Overstory, a story that reweaves the fabric of our reality by entangling us within “plant con…
01:06:23 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Finding Joy in the Unknown – a conversation with Dara McAnulty
This week we’re re-sharing our interview with Irish teenage author, naturalist, and conservationist Dara McAnulty. His debut book, Diary of a Young Naturalist—which he wrote at the age of fourteen, a…
00:43:21 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Prophecies of Possibility: A Ripening of the Next World – Jamie Figueroa
Jamie Figueroa is Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and a long-time resident of northern New Mexico. She is the author of the novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer. In this narrated essay, Jamie …
00:49:38 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Ten Love Letters to the Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh read by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
The Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh died nearly one year ago, on January 22, 2022. To honor his passing, we are re-sharing his “Ten Love Letters to the Earth,” a series of med…
00:50:54 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
A Primordial Covenant of Relationship – An Evening in London with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
In this talk given at St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, Sufi teacher and Emergence Executive Editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks about what it looks like to live in an un…
00:52:50 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
After the End – Ben Okri read by Colin Salmon
As we come to the end of Living with the Unknown, we begin again at the beginning. For the final story of our third volume, we journey into the fictional, post-apocalyptic landscape of acclaimed Nige…
01:20:12 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
An Ecological Technology – A Conversation with James Bridle
In this expansive interview, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle seeks to widen our thinking beyond humancentric ways of knowing. In questioning our fundamental assumptions about intelligen…
00:57:26 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times – Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is an Australian Aboriginal author and member of the Waanji people from the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. As the world falters, threatening native ecosystems and Indigenous lifeways, Al…
00:40:56 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As we look to an uncertain future, what systems of exchange might we embrace that support and deepen our interdependence? In this essay, Potawatomi scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests s…
00:47:03 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Coming into Being: Reflections on Mothering in the Apocalypse – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
In this meditative exploration, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder witnesses her daughter learning to speak and wonders how to listen for a language of mothering that is in service to all of life’s beings.
Em…
00:35:57 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Finding the Mother Tree – A Conversation with Suzanne Simard
Suzanne Simard is known for her groundbreaking research on the belowground fungal networks that connect trees and facilitate inter-tree communication and interaction. We continue to explore Futures t…
01:04:46 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
The Spirit of the Wetlands – Julian Hoffman
Julian Hoffman lives in a mountain village beside the Prespa lakes in northwestern Greece. He is the author of The Small Heart of Things and Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. In this …
00:52:14 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves – J. Drew Lanham
We close our exploration of the theme of Roots by taking a step into joy. This week, we bring you another piece by birder and writer J. Drew Lanham. In this powerfully recited poem, Drew celebrates t…
00:12:42 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 3
This three-part series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their home and one woman’s determination to bring the living history of her family back to the land. This…
01:04:03 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 2
This three-part series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family's eviction from their ancestral home—on a cove in Tomales Bay in Northern California—and one woman's effort to bring the …
01:03:54 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 1
Across the United States, Indigenous communities are calling for sweeping revisions to stories commonly told as “history”—stories that, even today, neglect and erase Indigenous peoples and serve as j…
00:48:03 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Beings Seen and Unseen – A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh
How can stories return us to what is essential as we navigate an uncertain future? In this conversation with Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, he calls on s…
00:41:58 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
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