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Alan Burdick: Welcome to My Paperless World

By Emily Voigt

Listen above or download mp3. Running time: 4 minutes, 45 seconds.

Science writer Alan Burdick reads his humorous essay, "Welcome to My Paperless World."

Related:
» OnEarth Podcast: A Talk with Alan Burdick

Comments (0) | November 17, 2008 | permalink
Dreaming of a Paperless Life

By Emily Voigt

Listen above or download mp3. Running time: 4 minutes, 35 seconds.

Author Alan Burdick talks with Emily Voigt about his ongoing fantasy of leading a paperless life and his upcoming book about finding, saving and wasting time.

Related:
» Listen to or read Burdick's contribution to OnEarth's Fall 2008 issue, "Welcome to My Paperless World"

Comments (0) | November 17, 2008 | permalink
Poet Kevin Stein on Changing the Course of the Environmental Nightmare

By Zachary Sussman

Listen above or download the mp3 file. Running time: 13 minutes, 11 seconds.

Poet Kevin Stein recites his poem, “Mowing the Lawn,” and talks with Zachary Sussman about summertime, politics, and the global repercussions of our everyday lives.

Mowing the Lawn

Putt putt, I ride on fossil fuel, the juice of fern and leaf, 
the muck of once-was. Putt putt, I warm our globe 
one green acre at a time. As a boy, I mowed without gas power 
as does my buddy Dean: Green Dean. Back then as now
it...

Comments (0) | November 10, 2008 | permalink
Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen

By Emily Voigt

Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming reads her essay "Brief Encounter on The Savanna," and talks with Emily Voigt about interpreting elephants, the importance of animal stories, and how our better intentions can be fueled by the simple contemplation of natural beauty.

Comments (1) | August 16, 2008 | permalink
A Not-So-Crazy Scheme for Solving Global Warming?

By Emily Voigt

Emily Voigt talks with Columbia University earth scientist Wallace Broecker, co-author of Fixing Climate, the latest in a spate of books on the seemingly intractable problem of global warming. Broecker and his co-author Robert Kunzig embrace a techno-fix to carbon dioxide emissions that was pioneered by physicist Klaus Lackner. The plan: scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and bury it deep within the ground in liquid form.

More Info
» Read review of Broecker and Kunzig's "Fixing Climate," from O...

Comments (0) | July 20, 2008 | permalink
Revenge of the Weeds: Talking with Poet John Bensko

By Zachary Sussman

Poet John Bensko recites his poem, "Weeds," and talks with Zachary Sussman about karma, conflict, and seeing beyond the film of familiarity.

Weeds

How we love your legs, how
in the midst of plenty
we have learned to know

the hardship of hatred.
How your blade cuts us,
and the hooves of your stock tread

our stalks to mud. In spring's
gentle sunlight we emerge from clover
and grow lush beside that other spring,

the one of water you would wish
to lie down beside
were it not for us.

When you burn us in...

Comments (0) | June 25, 2008 | permalink
Poet Pattiann Rogers: Everything out there is saying 'Yes.'

By Zachary Sussman

Pattiann Rogers recites her poem, "This Day, Tomorrow, And The Next," and talks with Zachary Sussman about how science is expanding the range of poetic possibilities.

This Day, Tomorrow, And The Next
When the blind and the deaf walk
together into the forest, one of them
understands the blackness of light
on a clear day. The other understands
the deep reach of stillness in a riot of green.

Both alike feel on their faces
the floating threads and tatters
of occasional sun passing through
the canopy o...

Comments (0) | June 6, 2008 | permalink
Bangladesh Before the Flood, Part II

By Emily Voigt

OnEarth Articles Editor George Black traveled through Bangladesh for this summer's cover story, The Gathering Storm. Hear more of Emily Voigt’s interview with Black about changing environmental and political climates in one of the world’s most at-risk nations.

» Read The Gathering Storm
» Watch Audio Slideshow: Bangladesh Before the Flood

Comments (0) | June 2, 2008 | permalink
Audio Slideshow: Bangladesh Before the Flood

By Emily Voigt

As global warming deepens its grip on the world, Bangladesh -- where tens of millions live just a few feet above sea level -- faces a grim prognosis. George Black, author of OnEarth Summer 08 cover story The Gathering Storm, says that Bangladesh “is really where everything converges. Not just topography, but also politics, because this is a Muslim country, it’s an incredibly poor country, it’s a very politically unstable country.... If this plays out as we foresee, you could be talking ...

Comments (0) | May 28, 2008 | permalink
At the Crossroads of Observation and Imagination: Talking with Poet Brendan Galvin

By Zachary Sussman

Brendan Galvin recites his poem, "Nest" and talks with Zachary Sussman about naturalism, observation, and the fine line poets walk between the perfect poem and going off the edge.

Nest
I found it near that corner where
some Septembers a skinny apple tree
hangs fruit the size of stoplights,
the nest itself a palmful,
fallen intact, the bottom so thin
I'd be thinking about
the faith of scarlet tanagers
had I looked up through it
and counted four blue-green eggs
mottled brown, and the nest itself
like a r...

Comments (0) | May 19, 2008 | permalink