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The Authentically Detroit Podcast Network Presents... Amplify Outside!The Amplify Outside Podcast is greening Detroit’s Narrative.In a city where we are so often dispelling outside perspectives, Amplify Outside presents an undertold story of Black environmentalism from recreation to liberation; Detroit’s not new to this, it’s true to this. Sitting at the unique axis of Blackness and Climate Resilience, Detroit’s environmental story presents a case study like no other. From the automobile to motown, we know what it means to set a foundation, so let’s paint ‘The Great American City...

Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings. Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes in the Earth's environment.

From the global impact of the coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bush fires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment Homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, ‘You can’t use old maps to explore a new world.’ 

Geologist and writer Ian Jackson reads a selection of stories from pages of his five books about northern rocks and their connections with our landscape ….and us. The stories of this first series – Time travelling - begin almost 500 million years ago and end with the Roman conquest of the north.