FE3.3 - Nature, by Design? Freakological Fallacies (Part 3)

12/30/20 • 63 min

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a garbageosphere – an ecosystem of trash and detritus. But despite the extent of anthropogenic impacts, life is resilient and infinitely creative.

Hyper-ecologies, novel ecosystems, freakosystems – different names for the same thing: never-before-seen assemblies of lifeforms, born of human disturbance. These profoundly weird ecologies are persistent, and (through a certain lens) often functional.

In this final chapter of "Nature, by Design?", we meet again with Oliver Kellhammer and Eric Higgs to discuss what we can learn from these ruderal places, and how they can empower a new way of thinking about ecological restoration.

This episode is the last in a 3-part series. Before listening to this one, you may want to catch up with Part 1: Taking the Neo-Eoscenic Route [FE3.1] & Part 2: The Path to the Wilderness Lodge [FE3.2]

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Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a garbageosphere – an ecosystem of trash and detritus. But despite the extent of anthropogenic impacts, life is resilient and infinitely creative.

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Two announcements for World Soil Day

Tomorrow (Saturday Dec 5) is World Soil Day, and there are many exciting things underfoot!

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of A Fish: The Understory of the Understory

The 4th annual festival from the Serpentine Galleries
Live streaming Saturday and Sunday (12pm - 5:45pm GMT)
Register and attend for free: themind.fish
Festival trailer: https://youtu.be/6_vz_avr8Js

Life in the soil

A new podcast collaboration by Anja Krieger and the Plant, Fungus, and Soil Ecology Lab at the Freie Universität Berlin
Episode 1 launches Saturday
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Soundcloud
Or listen online at https://rilliglab.org/podcast/
Podcast teaser: https://soundcloud.com/mrillig/teaser-life-in-the-soil-podcast

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FE3.4 - Dama Drama

Guest producers Sadie Couture and Russell Gendron explore the concept of invasive species through a look at a small island community, a species doing some serious damage to the ecosystem, and the complex issues at play when a plant or animal moves into a new territory.

Sadie and Russell talk to current and former residents of Mayne Island, Indigenous elders, and conservation professionals to think through what it means to call something an “invasive species,” how to manage our ever-changing relationships to plants and animals, and how we might prepare for the certainty of change in the future.

This episode was originally a short piece on the Mayne Island Sound Map, entitled “The Joy of Cooking Fenison.”

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