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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025* From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity *An Economist Book of the Year* 'An astonishing story...

Wild in the City is a podcast created for all the people in urban cities who care deeply about the environment and are concerned by the rapid disappearance of their wild places. If you are looking to learn, make connections with like-minded citizens, and be inspired to have local impact, look no further. Wild in the City’s focus is on preserving and restoring tree canopy, streams, springs, wildlife, pollinators, habitat, biodiversity and nature preserves. You will be exposed to best practices from thriving urban cities around America who have successfully flipped the mindset on the cost of ...

The focus of the podcast is on discussions with guests that are related to the topic of the recently published book “Exiles in New York City” (cup.columbia.edu/book/exiles-in-n…y/9780231559348/), authored by Philip Yanos, which broadly relates to the the exclusion of marginalized groups within urban areas. Philip Yanos, a professor of psychology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, hosts the podcast.

"Sustainable in the City" is a podcast co-hosted by Urban Green Lab and the Nashville Department of Waste Services that highlights the small sustainable actions that are making a big impact on Nashville. We chat with everyday Nashvillians like your neighbors, coworkers, and fellow community members. From reducing waste to planting trees, our guests share their stories about the benefits, barriers, and motivators behind everyday choices.Episodes air on the third Tuesday of each month. Sustainable in the City can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Tune in ...

Relax to a space where everything and nothing is happening. It is a slow symphony of organic sound. My name is Ron Cowie and I'm interest in everyday beauty of the world. These recordings are made in places where nature and people tend to overlap. I'm interested in what that intersection sounds like.

The 'Chatting in the City' podcast is an initiative by the V-TRaC (Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience, and Culture) Laboratory at the University of Ottawa to explore mental health in the Black community. The podcast is part of the larger BeCoMHeal Project, which is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United States is going in the era of mass migration and climate crisis we must understand where the...

In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.

A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than...

With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual. DNA does not make us who we are. “Forget everything you think you know about...

Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and uncovers the geological mysteries that burst up through the pavement and bubble to the surface of our streets. From Roman ruins to a submerged playhouse, from an abandoned Tube station to underground rivers, Chivers leads us on a journey into the depths of the city he loves.

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how were going to avoid a hotter future but how were going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the worlds foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives.

In de Boldcast bevragen wij* technologie in de publieke ruimte. Dit doen we in gesprek met onderzoekers, politici, burgers en publieke organisaties. Zo willen we ervoor zorgen dat de inzet van technologie geen gegeven is, maar een democratische en weloverwogen keuze. * het Centre for Bold Cities is een onderzoeksgroep van Universiteit Leiden, Erasmus en TU Delft

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten...

The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities—the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems—grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this paradox mean for people, wildlife, and nature on our increasingly urban planet?

Explore the fascinating world of medieval life in a bustling city, as illustrated through the lens of 15th-century York. This captivating overview touches on the social hierarchy, local governance, guilds, vibrant pageantry, and the nature of punishment. With a melodic and engaging narrative style, the author leaves you eager to delve deeper into this intriguing historical period. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there? Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in Japan, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often problematic roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are.

An exploration of wild food and its habitats for aspiring foragers and nature lovers - from the expert who taught Mary Berry how to forage. Nestled by the roadside, peeking through the hedgerows, hidden in the woods and even in city streets and parks, wild food is all around us - if you know...

Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot "micro-apartment" in Greenwich Village.

A guide to 40 of the most well-known, surprising, notorious, mythical, and sublime non-human citizens of New York City, and love letter to its surprising ecological diversity. From refugee parrots and prodigal beavers to gorgeous Fifth Avenue hawks and vengeful groundhogs, Wild City tells the...