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The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components.

Gretchen Sorin recovers a forgotten history of black motorists, and recounts their creation of a parallel, unseen world of travel guides, black only hotels, and informal communications networks that kept black drivers safe. At the heart of this story is Victor and Alma Green's famous Green Book, begun in 1936, which made possible that most basic American right, the family vacation, and encouraged a new method of resisting oppression.

Dr Gretchen Miller has been making audio documentaries and explorations of the human relationship with the natural world for over 20 years. This is a retrospective, ranging in location from the Tanami Desert to Cooper Creek, from the dreamscapes of climate anxiety and hope, to the intimacy of relationships with trees, and the way birds speak with us.  Gretchen works with academics and activists, experts and so-called ‘ordinary’ people, finding grace and beauty in their gentle, custodial care, their living, and their passing. She implies, but never bludgeons, the importance of the choices ...

A podcast looking to highlight endangered species on the not-so cute side.

Hello map fans! We're two leading cartographers who chat about maps: historic, contemporary, and everything in between! Join us to learn more about maps and have some fun along the way. To learn more about us, see urherepodcast.com.