Future Ecologies
Episodes
FE2.1 - Enlichenment and the Triage of Life
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lichens: ecosystems unto themselves. They’re diverse, apparently ubiquitous, and foundational to life on terrestrial earth. But this episode isn’t...
[UNLOCKED] Meet Your Jellyfish Overlords
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We've unlocked our 11-episode Patreon series – Dr. Lisa-ann Gershwin, and occasionally the two of us, dive deep into jellyfish species and phyla. Fi...
True Dreams: The Music of Season 1
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve dropped an album. Those in the know might recognize the prolific Sunfish Moon Light as the musical alter-ego of Future Ecologies co-host, Adam...
FE1.11 - Funerary Ecologies
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Forever is a really long time. This episode is about death, and its transformative power on the landscape. It’s also the last episode of Season 1.It...
FE1.10 - Dams: Rushing Downriver (Part 2)
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this conclusion to our series on dam removal, we travel from the Klamath up to the Olympic Peninsula, and the site of the former Elwha and Glines C...
FE1.9 - Dams: Swimming Upstream (Part 1)
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dams remain one of the ultimate demonstrations of human power over nature. Wild rivers can be tamed to deliver energy for industry, lakes for recreati...
FE1.8 - Jellyfishing for Answers
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How are human activities changing our oceans, and why do these changes all seem to support a new age of jellyfish? What are these ancient, diverse bei...
FE1.7 - Help Not Helping
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the fall of 2017, a series of devastating earthquakes rocked southern Mexico. But what if it’s not the earthquakes themselves that pose the great...
FE1.6 - On Fire: Combustible Communities (Part 2)
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this second part of our two-episode series, On Fire, we look at ways to move our civilization forward – without continuing to deny the role of fi...
FE1.5 - On Fire: Camas, Cores, and Spores (Part 1)
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The past two years have been the worst fire years on record across the west coast of North America, with whole communities being engulfed in flames an...
FE1.4 - Luces en el Cielo
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
During the devastating September 9, 2017 earthquake off the coast of southern Mexico, residents of Mexico City and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala witnessed...
FE1.3 - The Loneliest Plants
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you find the last individual of a species previously thought to be extinct? The two rarest plants on earth both live in the Presid...
FE1.2 - This is Where it Begins
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The story of modern-day North America begins with the systematic genocide and displacement of indigenous peoples. The social and ecological consequenc...
FE1.1 - Decolonize this Podcast
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Future Ecologies is recorded on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm) Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil- Waututh (Səl̓ílwə...