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"Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation" is a new and unique podcast focusing on the hallucinogenic plants and fungi whose impact on world culture and religion – and healing potential - is only now beginning to be appreciated as never before. Unlike other podcasts relating to these issues, "Plants of the Gods" is hosted by renowned ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin, a Harvard and Yale-trained scientist who has been studying the healing plants and shamans of the Amazon rainforest for almost four decades. An award-winning scientist and best selling author, Dr, ...

Air pollution kills over a million Indians every year, albeit silently. Families are thrown into a spiralling cycle of hospital visits, critically poor health and financial trouble impacting their productivity and ability to participate in the economy. Children born in regions of high air...

Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : il se passe quelque chose de nouveau sous le soleil. Les majestueux processus physiques et chimiques qui organisent le système Terre, la trajectoire évolutive du vivant, la composition des sols, des eaux, tout cela porte désormais la marque des activités humaines.

Brought to you by Penguin. Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world. In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain’s southern shoreline. They belonged to no...

We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shopped before. And whilst we can do it more responsibly, the scale of our consumption remains the biggest factor in the ruination of the planet. Yet our reliance on stuff continues to grow. But what would our world look like if we stopped? Would civilisation collapse? Would the planet's ecology be reborn? What would happen to the way we think, make products, use time, express our individuality? Would life be better - or worse?

A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today’s artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta...

What you eat doesn’t just impact you – it shapes the world around you. Wonderfully enlightening and engagingly written. Dr Idz If you are looking at ways to combat the exploitation of the planet this book is for you. Rhiannon Lambert Well Fed is a vital tool in the ongoing battle against...

I lupi stanno tornando. Negli ultimi anni la loro popolazione in tutta Europa è aumentata in modo esponenziale. In Italia è più che decuplicata superando i duemila esemplari. Sempre più spesso vengono avvistati intorno ai centri abitati, nei pascoli, al limitare del bosco. Insieme alle tracce riemergono paure antiche, mai placate del tutto. Nemico da perseguitare, incarnazione del male, pericolo per raccolti e greggi: man mano che avanzava l'urbanizzazione e le foreste lasciavano spazio ai campi, i lupi sono stati cacciati, dagli eserciti o dagli stessi contadini.

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.

From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery.

Bees of all sorts are the engines of agriculture and the glue of ecology. Join us as we explore everything About Bees, Culture, and Curiosity.

This podcast explores the natural and human history of the Canadian Rockies as well as its attractions and culture. We'll look at the ecology and wildlife, as well as the plants and birds that make the Canadian Rockies home. Looking back through our history, we'll share the stories behind the scenery. This is the place for all things Rockies.

The Cell Culture Dish (CCD) podcast covers areas important to the research, discovery, development, and manufacture of disease and biologic therapeutics. Key industry coverage areas include: drug discovery and development, stem cell research, cell and gene therapy, recombinant antibodies, vaccines, and emerging therapeutic modalities.

Two Homes, the podcastwhere we explore the relationshipbetween our inner world and theplanet we live on. Becausesustainability that isn’t embodieddoesn’t last - and wellbeing that stayssurface-level doesn’t change anything.​This podcast is an invitation to lookdeeper. To understand how ournervous systems, beliefs, and patternsshape the systems we’re trying toreform - and how real change startscloser to home than we think.​

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Reveals the enormous physical possibilities of happy, healthy human populations on Earth, using only current technologies and their expectable developments. Go beyond gloomy population limits of 4 - 10 billion to see exactly how we can support trillions with this series of limit analyses.

Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we ...

Murmuration est un podcast d'interview donnant la parole aux militants des causes environnementales, aux défenseurs de la nature et aux activistes du vivant. Anonymes et figures emblématiques y racontent leurs parcours, leurs combats pour la sauvegarde la planète, leurs espoirs et leurs déceptions sans filtres et sans tabou. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

ARTEETUDE is a West Cork-based podcast by visual artist Detlef Schlich, exploring the shifting intersections of art, culture, technology and the creative mind.Together with Sophia, his AI Co-Host, Detlef enters a conversational space where art history meets neuroscience, shamanic ritual meets digital culture, and human imagination meets artificial intelligence. Each episode unfolds as a reflective, sometimes humorous, sometimes intimate journey into the forces that shape creativity, perception and contemporary life.Drawing from his practice in performance, photography, sound, installation and ...

You’re juggling meetings, meals, and motherhood, but your body feels like it’s running on empty. I get it. I’m Ruby Saharan, health scientist and triple-certified nutrition practitioner, and Health Insider is your backstage pass to what really matters for your health. In each episode, I’ll share science-backed insights and real conversations with guests who also understand our struggles, so you can feel energised, focused, and like yourself again, without adding more to your plate. It's time to step inside!