Posts in More Than Human Kin
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288

K’asheechtlaa shares the oral history of herring abundance in context to what a typical herring harvest looks like today, industry’s inability to act with reverence, and how Herring Protectors are working to protect the herring and the culture tied to them.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean Communities, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The WildHerring fish, alaska herring season, alaska herring eggs, alaska herring run, alaska herring fishing, southeast alaska herring fishery, herring in alaska, herring protectors sitka, herring rock water protectors, K’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, Pacific marine ecosystems, pacific ocean ecosystem food chain, fishery mismanagement, history of herring fishing, sitka sac roe herring fishery, sitka sac roe herring fishery 2021, sitka sac roe, sac roe fishery, Yáa at Wooné, Alaska Board of Fish, alaska board of fishering, alaska board of fish meeting, Sitka Tribe of Alaska herring, subsistence fishing alaska, subsistence fishing examplesComment
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275

Ayana and Mike touch on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restoration as an antidote to species loss.

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Conservation RestorationFor The Wildnational park, restoration, recovery, conservation, Yellowstone National Park, evolution, predators, trophic cascade, gray wolf, extinction, extinction crisis, bison, coyote, American mythology, the West, coexistence, cattle ranching, grazing rights, biological diversity, conservation model, Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund, endangered species, Endangered Species Act, Anthropocene, Song of the Dodo, beyond-human, Rocky Mountains, american plains bison, ecological literacy, Western ColoradoComment
Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272
Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272

Along with Dr. Kate Stafford, we listen to the many songs the ocean body sings, asking; how does a warming climate alter the Arctic’s soundscape? Why are the waters of the Arctic becoming louder, and what does this mean for kin like the bowhead?

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Ancient Ice, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Globalization, Climate Change, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The WildAcoustic monitory, migratory movements, blue whales, climate change, sea ice decline, subarctic marine mammals, oceanography, University of Washington, bowhead whales, humpback whales, narwhals, belugas, underwater soundscapes, arctic soundscape, global warming, north Atlantic right whales, Susanna Blackwell, Roz Rolland, University of Washington Applied Physica Laboratory, oil spills, Arctic shipping routes, noise pollution, sonar, military sonar, black carbon, More-Than-Human-Kin, More Than Human KinComment
BATHSHEBA DEMUTH on a More-Than-Human History /264
BATHSHEBA DEMUTH on a More-Than-Human History /264

Bathsheba joins us to consider a future outside of apocalyptic visions, rooted in the understanding that the shape of the world today is neither permanent nor pre-destined.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Political Ideology, Radical Imagination, Sacrifice Zones, The Cost of Capitalism, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildBathsheba Demuth, Environmental History, Historian, Bathsheba Demuth Floating Coast, Communism, Capitalism, USSR, Whales, Bowhead Whales, Mining, Hunting, Whaling, History, Coal, Arctic, Bering Strait, Apocalypse, Yupik, Iñupiat, Chukchi, Russia, Consumption, Energy, Colonization, Bathsheba Demuth Brown University, Ways of Knowing, EcologyComment
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262

Dr. Patricia Kaishian encourages us to think of mycology as a revolutionary and political practice. Diving into queer mycology, we see the ways that fungi challenge binaries of gender, family structure, and even traditional biological classification.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Climate Solutions, Climate Change, Sexual Body Liberation, Activism Allyship, Conservation Restoration, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildDr. Patricia Kaishian, Mycology, Queer, LGBTQ, Mushrooms, Foraging, Science, Ways of Knowing, Queer Science, Biodiversity, Binary-Breaking, Armenian, Queer Ecologies, Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing, Conservation, Purdue, SUNY, Queer Theory, Mycellium, Academia, Linneaus, Inquiry, Congress of Armenian Mycologists Comment
KERRY KNUDSEN on Lichen and Life after Capitalism [ENCORE] /258
KERRY KNUDSEN on Lichen and Life after Capitalism [ENCORE] /258

Kerry spans the dreamiest of worlds, from the surreal and psychedelic presence of lichens to the magic of creating life post-capitalism and speaks to the times we are living in, “just like the butterfly that beats its wings and causes a rainstorm around the other side of the world, we have to embrace the chaos of our lives.”

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Climate Change, Conservation RestorationFor The WildKerry Kent Knudsen, Kerry Knudsen, Lichens of North America, lichen and moss, lichen and limestone, lichen adaptations in temperate deciduous forest, lichenification, lichen herbarium at the University of California at Riverside, Acarosporales, lichenologist, Jana Kocourkov, Southern California lichen, endangered plants, Kerry Knudsen lichenologistComment
CHRIS ZIMMER on a River Ethic /257
CHRIS ZIMMER on a River Ethic /257

Chris Zimmer invites us to imagine what clean, healthy rivers can bring us, and to propel love for these rivers towards ethical action. Calling into question international agreements, futures of mining, and responses to climate change, this enduring conversation unsettles and uproots our conceptions of borders.

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More Than Human Kin, Colonial Violence, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Transition Transformation, Activism Allyship, Direct Action, Design+Strategy, Conservation Restoration, Food Sovereignty, GlobalizationFor The WildChris Zimmer, Rivers Without Borders, Salmon, Acid Mine Drainage, Taku River System, Alaska, British Columbia, River Cleanup, Fish, Watersheds, Transboundary Rivers, Canada, Downstream Politics, Teck Mining, Tulsequah Chief, Mining, Gold, Silver, Copper, Coal, Ethic, Water Protectors, Green Energy, Toxins, Environmental Regulation, Green New Deal, FishingComment
SAMUEL GENSAW III on the Restorative Revolution /256
SAMUEL GENSAW III on the Restorative Revolution /256

Samuel, a Yurok fisherman and activist, guides us to explore the length of Klamath River restoration and the work that follows in the aftermath, both in terms of ecological restoration and the remediation of ancestral territories.

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More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, For The Forests, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Food Sovereignty, Conservation Restoration, Activism Allyship, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildSamuel Gensaw, Samuel Gensaw III, Ancestral Guard, Gather film, Gather film netflix, Yurok tribe facts, Yurok tribe, Klamath River California, Klamath River basin, Klamath River dam removal, Klamath River salmon, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, UC Davis Yurok, California water, California drought, Indigenous sovereignty United States, Indigenous sovereignty movements, Nature Rights Council, Sanjay Rawal, food justice, food sovereignty, victory gardens, Yurok food sovereigntyComment
STEFANIE BRENDL on Being Humbled by Sharks /242
STEFANIE BRENDL on Being Humbled by Sharks /242

Stefanie shares how sharks regulate the ocean’s ecosystem, the ramification of dwindling shark populations, and the many reasons that the market for shark, ray, and skate meat has more than doubled since the early 1990s.

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More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean Communities, Direct Action, Multispecies Justice, Conservation RestorationFor The WildStefanie Brendl, Stefanie Brendl Shark Allies, Shark Allies campaign, shark extinction facts, shark extinction movie, shark extinction rate, shark extinction article, global shark fin trade, global shark, coastal sharks supply the global trade, what is the shark fin trade, shark fin soup, shark squalene in cosmetics, shark squalene products, shark squalene supplement, is squalene harmful, squalene shark liver oil australia, squalene vaccine, podcast on sharks, globalization and oceans, a sharks habitat, sharks life cycle, sharks body parts, sharks endangered species, shark endangered facts, shark endangered reasons, shark endangered effectsComment
Xʷ IS Xʷ ČAA and MAIA WIKLER on Indigenous Sovereignty at Fairy Creek Blockade /240
Xʷ IS Xʷ ČAA and MAIA WIKLER on Indigenous Sovereignty at Fairy Creek Blockade /240

An on the ground interview between Maia Wikler and xʷ is xʷ čaa that goes beyond old-growth logging and big tree activism to explore Indigenous sovereignty, the responsibility of bearing witness, the importance of distinguishing between short term actions and more…


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Colonial Violence, Activism Allyship, Conservation Restoration, Decolonization, Direct Action, For The Forests, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Sacrifice Zones, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildFairy Creek blockade, Fairy Creek blockade location, Fairy Creek blockade news, Fairy Creek blockade 2021, Fairy Creek blockade arrests, Fairy Creek blockade pacheedaht, Fairy Creek blockade bc, Fairy Creek blockade camp, Fairy Creek blockade canada, vancouver island logging history, vancouver island logging protests, vancouver island logging old growth, logging blockade vancouver island, old growth logging bc, old growth logging canada, old growth logging british columbia, old growth logging protest, old growth forests and logging, Kati George-Jim, Kati George-Jim instagram, Bill Jones, Bill Jones Pacheedaht elder, rainforest flying squad website, rainforest flying squad gofundme, rainforest flying squad vancouver island, Maia Wikler, teal cedar ltd, teal jones group, teal jones logging, teal jones protect, teal jones old growth, Indigenous sovereignty Canada, stand for old growth, ancient forest allianceComment
GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution /239
GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution /239

We slow down to acknowledge the beauty and power of fungal decomposition with guest Giuliana Furci who shares a lesson in divine time, the transformation of energy, and the necessity of decomposition.

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, For The Forests, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Deep Ecology, Climate Change, Conservation Restoration, Global SouthFor The WildGiuliana Furci, Giuliana Furci wikipedia, fungi foundation, fungi foundation chile, fungi perfecti, fungicide, fungi kingdom, fungi characteristics, fungal decomposition of wood, fungal decomposition, mushrooms climate change, climate change affecting mushrooms, biodiversity loss fungi, climate change and fungi, climate change affecting fungi, history of fungi in medicine, fungicides bad, paul stamets mushroom, paul stamets agarikon, amanita muscaria, agarikon, fungi conservation, mushroom cultivation, mushroom community, radical mycology, mycophilia, mycology society, mycology degree, mycology booksComment
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred /230
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred /230

K’asheechtlaa shares the oral history of herring abundance in context to what a typical herring harvest looks like today, industry’s inability to act with reverence, and how Herring Protectors are working to protect the herring and the culture tied to them.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean Communities, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The WildHerring fish, alaska herring season, alaska herring eggs, alaska herring run, alaska herring fishing, southeast alaska herring fishery, herring in alaska, herring protectors sitka, herring rock water protectors, K’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, Pacific marine ecosystems, pacific ocean ecosystem food chain, fishery mismanagement, history of herring fishing, sitka sac roe herring fishery, sitka sac roe herring fishery 2021, sitka sac roe, sac roe fishery, Yáa at Wooné, Alaska Board of Fish, alaska board of fishering, alaska board of fish meeting, Sitka Tribe of Alaska herring, subsistence fishing alaska, subsistence fishing examplesComment
ENRIQUE SALMÓN on Moral Landscapes Amidst Changing Ecologies /225
ENRIQUE SALMÓN on Moral Landscapes Amidst Changing Ecologies /225

We begin by looking at how kincentricity is different from many other ecological teachings that remain mired in the historical legacy of environmentalism and science, a legacy which has historically disavowed the human as a way to exalt their respective fields, instead, Enrique provides examples of humans being “keystone species”.

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Multispecies Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate Solutions, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildKincentricity, Kincentric Ecology, Iwígara, Dynamism, ethnoecology, traditional ecological knowledge, American Indian Studies Program at Cal State University–East Bay, ethnobotany of Native North America, ethnobotany, Eating The Landscape by Enrique Salmon, enrique salmon kincentric ecology, enrique salmon phd, enrique salmon rate my professor, kincentric ecology definition, ethnobotany articles, iwigara meaning, iwigara amazon, ethnoecology definition, ethnoecology example, traditional ecological knowledge (tek), traditional ecological knowledge vs western science, traditional ecological knowledge and climate change, traditional ecological knowledge and natural resource management, traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable development, SalmonComment
QUEER NATURE on Reclaiming Wild Safe Space /223 ⌠ENCORE⌡
QUEER NATURE on Reclaiming Wild Safe Space /223 ⌠ENCORE⌡

So and Pinar explore how tracking and trailing answers the call of our ancestral bodies and the land, what deep intimacy with the more than human world looks like, how place-based skills are tools of liberation, and how to heal community; we cannot solely be in reciprocal relationships, we must be in accountable ones as well.

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Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Wisdom Keepers, Cultural Strategy, Deep Ecology, Radical Imagination, Sexual Body Liberation, Transition TransformationFor The WildQueer, queerness, belonging, tracking, nature skills, bushcraft, primitive skills, survival skills, pachakutic, pachacuti, pachakuti, queer ecology defintion, queer nature podcast, queer nature pinar, queer nature meaning, bushcraft usa, bushcraft survival, queer studies journals, queer studies defintion, queer studies, Donna Haraway, liminal and gender, animal tracking, trailing animals, QariwarmiComment
Dr. SAMUEL RAMSEY on Bee Population in Peril /210
Dr. SAMUEL RAMSEY on Bee Population in Peril /210

Dr. Ramsey gives us an in-depth explanation as to what parasitic mites like Varroa destructor and Tropilaelaps mean for bee health, how climate change impacts the nutritional quality of pollen, and how human design and development has strengthened and spread parasitic mites to the disadvantage of bees globally.

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More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Multispecies JusticeFor The Wildvarroa destructor, honeybees, honey bee, colony collapse disorder, native bees, murder hornets, giant murder hornets, neonicotinoids, climate change, extinction, entomology, Tropilaelaps mite, parasitic mites, apiculture, fight the mite initiative, Samuel Ramsey, Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Black entomologists, Project Apis.m, pollinator gardens, pesticidesComment
Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204
Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204

Natasha discusses the necessity of finding non-human guides, the responsibility we have to make room for plants, anthropomorphism, restoration ecology, and reconfiguring our relationship to the future.

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Multispecies Justice, Cultural Strategy, Deep Ecology, Radical Imagination, Theory Scholarship, Media ArtFor The WildEcology, Restoration Ecology, Becoming Sensor, Anthropocene, Planthropocene, Toronto, Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle, Botany, Sustainability, Green Technology, Meditation, High Park, Urban Forestry, Eco-Philosophy, Oak Savannahs, Nature, Apocalypse, Apocalypse Imaginary, Happy Heart Salve Bright FuturesComment
Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear /198
Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear /198

Dr. Stafford has spent years listening to the sounds of climate change in the Arctic and learning how anthropogenic sounds, like ship propellers and oil and gas exploration, are changing marine mammals’ capacity to communicate.

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Ancient Ice, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Globalization, Climate Change, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The WildAcoustic monitory, migratory movements, blue whales, climate change, sea ice decline, subarctic marine mammals, oceanography, University of Washington, bowhead whales, humpback whales, narwhals, belugas, underwater soundscapes, arctic soundscape, global warming, north Atlantic right whales, Susanna Blackwell, Roz Rolland, University of Washington Applied Physica Laboratory, oil spills, Arctic shipping routes, noise pollution, sonar, military sonar, black carbon, More-Than-Human-Kin, More Than Human KinComment
DeeplyRooted: Declaring Interdependence with MILLA PRINCE /170
DeeplyRooted: Declaring Interdependence with MILLA PRINCE /170

Milla invites us to root ourselves through the very soil, minerals, water and air of our own bodies. Listen in as we shed what is old and give ourselves to the stream of life pulsing through the body of nature.

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Deeply Rooted, Radical Imagination, More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Deep Ecology, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildDeeply Rooted, manifesto, declare interdependence, poetry, grounding practices, deep ecology, animism, rewilding, plant intelligence, body of nature, nature’s body, seasons, earth, soil, more than human kin, mycelial networks, connection, interdependence, state emergence, embodying earth, regenerative cycles, natural cycles.Comment
KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea⌠ENCORE⌡ /162
KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea⌠ENCORE⌡ /162

We are honored to once again share this episode with you as a profound reminder of the place we share with the qwe 'lhol mechen, their capacity for memory, grief, and love, and the many ways that the Lummi Nation continues to protect, defend, and restore the Salish Sea.

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Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The Wildmother Orca, Tahlequah, tour of grief, Lummi Nation, Salish Sea, Indigenous Medicine, sacred duties, endangered marine species, marine ecology, biodiversity loss, marine mammal detention, critical species lossComment
CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ on the Sublime World of Fungi /158
CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ on the Sublime World of Fungi /158

Beginning with fungal diversity, our conversation with Christian grows to discuss the global mushroom market, migration patterns, and invasive versus native fungi.

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For The Forests, More Than Human Kin, Plant IntelligenceFor The WildMushrooms of the Redwood Coast, Mushrooms, Fungi, Fungal Diversity, Climate Change, Citizen Science, Christian Schwarz, Redwood Coast Tours, Biodiversity, Mycology, Fungal Pathogens, UCSCComment