More is Less? - Michael Grunwald

More is Less? - Michael Grunwald

Up next

The Afterlives of Coal

Even as efforts to transition Appalachia out of coal receive broad policy support, the fate of the landscape is ultimately driven by incumbent actors used to getting what they want. Dr Lindsay Shade and Dr Karen Rignall discuss their research about how legacies of land ownership ...  Show more

An Alibi for Ecocide

An apparent "success story" of Amazonian forest conservation motivates a 6-years investigation of the land sparing hypothesis. Dr. Gregory Thaler's new book, Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World, reveals a tragic belief that agricultural intensification will solve our problem ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

281. Ryland Engelhardt and Finnian Makepeace Discuss Soil Health and Kiss The Ground's Regenerate America Campaign
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)

Dani talks with Ryland Engelhardt and Finnian Makepeace about their organization <span class="il">Kiss</span> <span class= "il">the</span> <span class="il">Ground</span> and their 2020 documentary. <span class="il">Kiss</span> <span class= "il">the</span> <span class="il">Grou ...

  Show more

Roberta L. Millstein, "The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
New Books in Environmental Studies

Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic has been both hugely influential in the environmental conservation movement – and also often misinterpreted. In The Land is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millenium (University of Chicago Press), Roberta Millstein aims to s ...  Show more

Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement | Lindsey Schneider
TED Talks Daily

Land thrives in Indigenous hands, and there are real, tangible ways you can help return what was stolen by colonizers from tribes across North America. Indigenous scholar Lindsey Schneider addresses the ill-gotten legacy of settler colonialism with an introduction to the Land Bac ...  Show more

David E. Gilbert, "Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography" (U California Press, 2024)
New Books in Public Policy

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, rep ...  Show more