The Earth's Story with Marcia Bjornerud

07/12/19 • 37 min

I talk with Marcia Bjornerud about her recent book, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. We discuss how to read rocks (“rocks are not nouns but verbs”), the “developmental novel” in which the Earth is the main character, and the geologist’s perspective on climate change.

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A companion to the first episode with Doug Tallamy, this episode features Carolyn Summers, landscape architect, adjunct professor at the Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College and author of Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East. She helps us understand how to put Doug Tallamy's call to "Bring Nature Home" into practice. For pictures of the plants we discuss see in-the-weeds.net

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The Violin Maker

In my quest to understand the relationship between trees and music, I seek out Brian Skarstad, an expert violin maker (he scoffs at the term "luthier") who makes violins by hand, employing many of the same techniques that violin makers have been using for hundreds of years. I talk to him about tonewood, how a violin is made and the myriad details that affect a violin’s sound and quality. It’s like opening a portal to a secret world.