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Biocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #10: A Discussion with Connecticut River DefendersWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
What can we do to improve the vivacity of the Connecticut River?
In this episode, Kurt Heidinger listens as Connecticut River Defenders Theresa Turner, Gary Selden, Dodo Melnikov and Priscilla Lynch explain how decommissioning the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station will bring health to our living river.
The Defenders are, in their own words, “a nascent and informal group (“formalized” in 2022) of seasoned social...2024-03-3158 minBiocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #9: Was Aldo Leopold a Racist? A Discussion with TT WrightWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
Was Aldo Leopold a racist?
In this episode, Kurt Heidinger raises the question with TT Wright, an advanced PhD candidate in the Religion and Philosophy department of the University of North Texas.
This profound question is precipitated in general by the cultural crisis caused by global warming, and struggles and conflicts arising as we evolve out of the fossil fuel era—and it summ...2024-02-1843 minBiocitizen Banter¿POR QUÉ AMO EL CAJON DEL MAIPO?Lugar son historias en las que vivimos. Y algunos lugares nos gustan más que otros. ¿Por qué?
Ricardo Rozzi nos cuenta una historia sobre un lugar que ama.
—secundo de la serie. Si tienes un lugar que te encanta, envíanos tres párrafos y cuatro fotos y lo compartiremos.
¿POR QUÉ AMO EL CAJON DEL MAIPO?
Con mi hermano menor, Aldo, en los cerros de SanJosé de Maipo en 1972
Mis raíces están en el Cajón del Maipo. Crecí entre los años 1960s e inicios de los 1980s pasand...2022-03-2200 min
Biocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #8: Baird Callicott and Ricardo Rozzi on Leopold’s “Biotic Citizen” and “Land Organism”
Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
In this episode Executive Director Kurt Heidinger discusses the meanings of Aldo Leopold’s “biotic citizen” and “land organism” with foremost ecosophists:
Baird Callicott is a founder of the field of environmental philosophy, a distinguished professor and influential educator on the global level, a former president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and author of many essential t...2021-02-2000 minBiocitizen BanterNative Plants, Community Activism, and Ecological Restoration with Parker DavisWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode Program Director of Biocitizen LA, Benny Jacobs-Schwartz interviews Parker Davis, the Director of Marketing and Communications at the Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery. Davis is […]2020-10-1300 minBiocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #6: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 with Jerry PhillipsWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
In this episode, The Biopolitics of COVID-19, Kurt Heidinger interviews Dr. Jerry Phillips, literature professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Our contexts:
1) “[The UN agency’s director general, Guy Ryder] said he hoped governments would recognise that they needed to reconstruct their economies around better working practices and “not a return to the pre-pandemic world of precarious work for the majority”.
He said: “Th...2020-09-1700 minBiocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #5: Interview with Filmmaker Samantha Bode, Creator of The Longest Straw!Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode California Ex. Director Jesse Carmichael interviews filmmaker Samantha Bode whose documentary, The Longest Straw, tells the story of the real impact of the LA […]2020-05-2501 minBiocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #4: Interview with Javiera Malebrán Muñoz, Educator at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in Cape Horn!Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
In this episode Ex. Director Dr. Kurt Heidinger interviews Javiera Malebrán Muñoz who has been teaching Field Environmental Philosophy for the past 5 years at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Cape Horn archipelago in southernmost Chile. She has worked closely with our friends Drs. Ricardo Rozzi and Francisca Massardo and also with LA director Jesse Carmichael and Chile director Vicente Aguirre Diez.
Javi was supposed to...2020-05-1300 minBiocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #3: Interview with Lila Higgins, Author of Wild LA!Welcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth. In this episode Co-Director of Biocitizen LA, Benny Jacobs-Schwartz interviews Lila Higgins, the Senior Manager of Community Science at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, founder […]2020-05-0601 minBiocitizen BanterBiocitizen Banter #2: Interview with Eugene Hargrove, Founder of Environmental EthicsWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
In this episode, Kurt Heidinger interviews Eugene Hargrove, who founded the journal Environmental Ethics, authored Foundation of Environmental Ethics, and played a major role in establishing Environmental Philosophy as a subject of study from the elementary school- to the graduate degree- level. We hear what drove Dr. Hargrove to create the field of study, and why it remains an essential subject as we enter the Anthropocene.
As a...2020-04-2200 min
Biocitizen BanterBiocitizen BanterWelcome to Biocitizen Banter, a podcast dedicated to environmental philosophy featuring lively discussions between people active in the effort to bring biotic health to our communities and commonwealth.
Our first podcast features an interview of Ricardo Rozzi by Kurt Heidinger.
A dynamic speaker and whirlwind of energy, Ricardo has devoted the last 20 years to researching and teaching biocultural conservation in Chile and the United States, published many articles and books on this subject (including Tracing Darwin’s Path in Cape Horn), and been a principal agent in the establishment of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park, the Ca...2020-04-0500 min
Barnard Center for Research on WomenDorothy RobertsSome writers have celebrated a new biological
citizenship arising from individuals' unprecedented ability to manage
their health at the molecular level. In this year’s Helen Pond McIntyre
'48 lecture, Dorothy Roberts examines the role of race and gender in the
construction of this new biocitizen in light of the current expansion of
race-based, reproductive, and genetic biotechnologies along with
neoliberal reliance on private resources for people's welfare. Roberts
argues that science, big business, and politics are converging to
support a molecularized understanding of race, health, and citizenship
that ultimately helps to preserve inequities. An internationally
recognized scholar, public intellectual, an...2012-10-1600 min