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Wild TalkLife Among the Dead at Green-Wood Cemetery [Wild Talk Short]Green-Wood Cemetery, in the middle of Brooklyn, feels unexpectedly wild. The 478 acres are alive with big old trees, flowers, bees, fungus, birds, wild and feral animals. Yes, it's also full of dead people — the “permanent residents” of Green-Wood, as they refer to them, comprise a Who’s Who of 19th century New York: famous actresses and Civil War generals, industrialists, businessmen, developers. There's Boss Tweed, there's Samuel Morris, inventor of the Morse code. But a visit to Green-Wood makes it clear that this cemetery is for the living. It's not just a burial ground. It's a breeding ground. A place of...2022-01-0620 minWild TalkResilient Cities, with Jainey BavishiJainey Bavishi is the director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Climate Resiliency — overseeing more than $20 billion worth of investments to prepare New York City for the impacts of climate change. This includes bolstering the city’s coastline against coastal storms and high-tide flooding, preparing for intense rainstorms, and protecting New Yorkers against deadly heat waves.
We met with Jainey the spring of 2021, well before the current hurricane season provided a dramatic demonstration for why these efforts are so critical to the city’s future. She brought us to the newly rebuilt boardwalk of Edgemere, an oceanfro...2021-09-1753 minWild TalkRivers, Castles & Kayaks [Wild Talk Short]The pandemic has created a tremendous amount of isolation and distance between people. While digital tools and ways of gathering have helped us stay somewhat connected, they lack the capacity to help us relax, have fun, build trust and rapport and get to know each other in our more full selves.
Organizations are struggling to find ways to gather that feel safe and meet this moment which is leading us to a new normal. It can be important to gather, at least occasionally, in person and what better way to do that than safely outdoors in the c...2021-08-1219 minWild TalkMelanin & Medicine, with Dr. Omolara UwemedimoAs the country continues to grapple with the impact of racism in our communities, we wanted to understand how an institution like healthcare - which prides itself on scientific objectivity - was coming to terms with the impact racism has on doctors and patients alike. We reached out to Dr. Omolara Uwemedimo, a leading voice in advocating for black women physicians, to talk about her experiences as a doctor, as a patient and as a community builder seeking to heal with more than just medicine.
We sat with Dr. Uwemedimo on a canal separating her Lo...2021-06-011h 00Wild TalkA Summer for Justice, with Chloe CockburnChloe Cockburn is a lawyer, an activist, and an organizer. She currently leads strategy on criminal justice reform for Open Philanthropy, a research and grant-making foundation that identifies giving opportunities, makes grants, and publishes its findings publicly. Prior to joining Open Philanthropy, Chloe oversaw state policy reform efforts at the ACLU’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration, and before that she worked with the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy movements, which led her to better appreciate her role as a connector between funders and activists.
We spoke to Chloe last summer, when those connected worlds were in...2021-04-2157 minWild TalkApples and Honey: Sweetness in Dark Times [Wild Talk Short]What can the wild world teach us about how to push through in tough times? And how can we use those lessons to help ourselves, and our kids, look towards a future none of us can yet define? In this episode, host Emily Kagan-Trenchard goes on a deeply personal journey to craft a new ritual for finding ways to keep going.
Starting from the Jewish tradition of eating apples dipped in honey, Emily explores the strange and beautiful ways that bees and apple orchards survive from generation to generation. Emily calls upon her family, co-host Jay Erickson...2021-03-2236 minWild TalkLanguage as Medicine, with Dr. Sandeep KapoorDr. Sandeep Kapoor is a physician, a teacher, and healthcare innovator. As the Associate Vice President of Addiction Services for Northwell Health, he is on the frontlines of the fight against opioid addiction — at a time where substance use and abuse is on the rise.
Dr. Kapoor has taken a different approach to this fight than many others — he’s starting with words. He trains clinicians on the power of language, how the terms we use around addiction can reinforce the shame and silence that keep people from seeking care, or can open up new conversations that destigm...2021-03-0850 minWild TalkHow To Winter [Wild Talk Short]In this short episode, co-host Jay Erickson explores the value of embracing winter. He explores how winters can show up for us as individuals, organizations and social movements through three separate conversations in the wild with Josh Viertel, co-founder of Harlem Valley Homestead; Chloe Cockburn, lead for social justice at Open Philanthropy; and Zainab Salbi, renowned humanitarian and founder of Women for Women International.
This winter, in the middle of the cultural winter we have been plunged into by the pandemic, how might we learn to slow down and cultivate the healing, repair and contemplation that winter can...2021-02-0131 minWild TalkWar and Trees, with Zainab SalbiHumanitarian, activist, writer and TV host Zainab Salbi has become a leading voice for women’s rights. A survivor of struggles both geopolitical and personal, Zainab has taken her hard-won insights about conflict and healing, and used that empathy to organize and inspire. Along the way, she’s developed a deep connection to the natural world, where she finds rich metaphors that inform her work.
Zainab grew up in Iraq, in the shadow of Saddam Hussein’s regime, before fleeing to the United States at the age of 19. In 1993, she founded Women for Women, a global hu...2021-01-1857 minWild TalkA Magic Trick [Wild Talk Short]Magic is sometimes said to be the only honest profession - the magician promises to deceive you, and then they do. But we love these slights of hand and fantastic illusions, even when we know we’re being fooled, because there is a joy in having our minds set off balance. They shake up our expectations of the way the world works and think differently about what’s possible. In this episode, Emily Kagan-Trenchard pulls apart a magic trick to show us how it’s done.
2020-12-2115 minWild TalkGood Chemistry: The Science of Connection, with Dr. Julie HollandWhat do forests, psychedelics, and breathing through one side of your nose all have in common? They’re good medicine, according to Dr. Julie Holland, for repairing our connection to ourselves, each other and to the wider world around us. Dr. Holland is a psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist who has spent a lot of time understanding what pulls our brains away from a shared reality, and what helps bring them back to reconnect.
We talked with Julie in the woods behind her house about her latest book, “Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection from Soul to Psychedelics”, and why thi...2020-12-0747 minWild TalkIntroducing: Wild TalkIntroducing a new podcast: Wild Talk.
Wild Talk is a podcast recorded outdoors that explores what nature can teach us about navigating the unknown. By asking experts from far-flung disciplines to wander the world with them, Emily Kagan-Trenchard and Jay Erickson explore the relationship we have to the natural world, and how it might help us set the course through our uncertain times.
No powerpoints, no business attire, no filters between these ideas and the natural world in which they must take root. Episodes follow either a guest or an idea as they lead us t...2020-11-2001 min