James Faupel specializes in Restoration Ecology at the Litzinger Road Ecology Center (LREC), a division of the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St Louis, MO. With a background in horticulture and arboriculture, James is part of a growing movement championing the ecological benefits of cultivating native plant species. In this episode, James discusses the alarming loss of natural prairie from the American Midwest, its vital role in the preservation of wildlife and plant species, and how 'Urban Prair...
Jan 15, 2024•31 min
Gary Paul Nabhan is an agricultural ecologist, ethnobotanist, and award-winning author whose work focuses primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert American Southwest. Considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement, he is the author of many books including Agave Spirits, which explores the world of Mezcal production. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Gary introduces us to mezcal’s sacred dimensions, ceremonial uses, probiotic benefits, and its d...
Jan 08, 2024•34 min
Jeffrey H Ryan is an author, adventurer, photographer, and historian. He has written several books about his outdoor exploits, his fascination with hiking trails and the people and places found just off the beaten path. In this episode of Nature Revisted, Jeffrey talks about the colorful history of the Appalachian Trail and the parties involved in its creation. He also recounts some of his own personal experiences on the AT, as well as some notable stories and anecdotes that have caught on over ...
Jan 02, 2024•40 min
Susan Poizner is an award-winning author, journalist, urban orchardist, and fruit tree care educator based in Toronto, Canada. She trains arborists, master gardeners, and community and home orchardists in fruit tree maintenance. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Susan delves into the value of fruit trees in city landscapes, highlighting the aesthetic and health benefits that urban orchards contribute to city living, and how urban orchards provide direct access to fresh produce while bolsterin...
Dec 26, 2023•27 min
Kris Primacio is the co-founder and CEO of the International Surf Therapy Organization, a collective of the world’s leading surf therapy practitioners, clinicians, researchers, and influencers. ISTO works together as an information hub for surf therapy prescriptions and a place for sharing in the practitioner community. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Kris shares how she discovered the power of surfing as a source of personal healing and connection with nature. Paying that passion forward, ...
Dec 18, 2023•33 min
Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is a scientist, activist, community organizer, and author helping people reestablish healthier, more creative and regenerative relationships with themselves, each other and their environment through water, wonder, wellness and wildlife. His work has been broadcast on NPR, BBC, PBS, National Geographic and Animal Planet, as well as numerous popular periodicals. His most recent work is Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Ma...
Dec 11, 2023•29 min
Dekila Chungyalpa is the founder and director of The Loka Initiative, a capacity-building and outreach program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for faith leaders, religious institutions, and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions. Its mission supports faith-led environmental efforts around the world through collaborations with faith and Indigenous leaders on environmental protection, sustainable development, and climate issues. In this episode Dekila addresses the dualistic faith/science...
Dec 04, 2023•40 min
Linda Hogan is an American poet, writer, academic, environmentalist and member of the Chickasaw Nation. Intimately connected to her political and spiritual concerns, Hogan’s poetry deals with issues such as the environment and eco-feminism, the relocation of Native Americans, and historical narratives, including oral histories. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Linda recites some of her poems and talks about being raised as part of the Chickasaw community, her discovery and pursuit of contemp...
Nov 27, 2023•29 min
Matt Lutz is an architect (RA), a certified passive house consultant (CPHC), and an associate professor of architecture in the School of Architecture + Art at Norwich University in Vermont. He is active in the passive house community, which works to further high-performance sustainable building practices. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Matt discusses the intersection of sustainable, affordable housing with its relationship to its natural surroundings. [Originally published May 3 2022, Ep 6...
Nov 20, 2023•37 min
Colton Carlson is a retired US Marine who lost his legs from injuries sustained during a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Originally from Colorado, home of The Rocky Mountains, Colton joins us from his home in Vermont, where he and his family settled after Colton earned a degree in Mathematics from Dartmouth. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Colton talks about his life before and after his assignment, his life-changing incident on duty, and how his love of nature helped him overcome immense chal...
Nov 13, 2023•25 min
Roy Diblik is an American perennial garden designer, plant nurseryman, and author of The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden. He co-owns the Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington, Wisconsin and has collaborated with Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf on projects such as the Lurie Garden in Chicago. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Roy describes a different way of looking at plants than we're used to, how plants can thrive together in communities, and why we need more gardeners. [Originally pub...
Nov 06, 2023•33 min
Rue Mapp is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro, a national not-for-profit organization that has become the nation's leading, cutting-edge network in celebrating and inspiring Black connections and leadership in nature. She is also the author of Nature Swagger, a book showcasing Black joy and strength in spaces from which they have either historically been excluded, or less represented, and makes for an inventive and uplifting celebration of Black joy in nature. In this episode of Nature Revisit...
Oct 30, 2023•32 min
Stephanie McEvoy is Operations Director for Farming Carbon - a Northern Ireland initiative creating environmental and social impact through sustainable 'carbon farming'. Carbon farming is an approach to agricultural practices that result in increased storage of atmospheric carbon in the soil. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Stephanie explains how employing this regenerative approach to farming promotes biodiversity and carbon sequestration while also supporting rural communities and food se...
Oct 23, 2023•27 min
James Canton is an author and lecturer whose writing is mainly concerned with the ties between nature, literature and the environment. Often involving exploring the distant past, his books include Ancient Wondering, From Cairo to Baghdad, and The Oak Papers. His most recent book Grounded takes him on a journey through England, considering the private markers in the landscape which are sacred to individuals and which connect us to the people from our past. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Jam...
Oct 16, 2023•32 min
Kathy Wicks has been a nature lover, writer, and artist since childhood. She has an academic background in fine art, environmental education, marketing, and library science. She now focuses on her passion for the serenity of the outdoors and capturing life through the camera lens in the form of environmental photography. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Kathy talks about her personal approach and philosophy to capturing nature in such a way that the viewer not only sees as she sees, but sens...
Oct 09, 2023•30 min
Joseph Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, naturalist, writer, and poet combining conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature. Lanham's research and teaching focuses on the impacts of forest management on birds and other wildlife. He brings this ecological knowledge as well as his perspective as a Black man living in the South to bear on his work as a storyteller, poet, and passionate advocate for bird-watching, outdoor recreation, and environmental conservatio...
Oct 02, 2023•37 min
Established in 1982 by the five children of Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella, The Aldo Leopold Foundation is a conservation organization whose vision is to weave a land ethic into the fabric of our society; to advance the understanding, stewardship and restoration of land health; and to cultivate leadership for conservation. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Stefan talks with Senior Fellow Stanley Temple and Jackson Newman (from the Future Leaders Program) about how they work to celebrate th...
Sep 25, 2023•35 min
Scott Chaskey is a farmer, poet, and pioneer of the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Weaving together his passion for farming and prose, Scott has penned multiple books on the community farming movement, creating a road-map for Americans who want to live off the land as a community. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Scott recounts the formative events of his life which led him to his love of gardening, farming, and the land - experiences recounted in his collectio...
Sep 18, 2023•33 min
Bron Taylor is professor of religion and environmental ethics at the University of Florida and author of 'Dark Green Religion - Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future'. His research focuses on the affective and spiritual dimensions, and political impacts, of grassroots environmental movements around the world, as well as upon the complex relationships between human beings, their religions, and the environments they inhabit. In this episode of Nature Revisited, the topic at hand is the noti...
Sep 11, 2023•30 min
Sara Gagné is an author and associate professor of landscape ecology in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina. Her research, teaching, and writing is dedicated to understanding and communicating how people and nature interact in cities. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Stefan and Sara discuss her book 'Nature at Your Door: Connecting with the Wild', which explores how what we do in our yards matters just as much as the way our local parks and natu...
Sep 04, 2023•32 min
Alan Bergo is most widely known as a culinary personality and authority on wild Midwestern food, especially mushrooms. In 2012 he launched his website Forager | Chef which now reaches over 1000 people per day, and allows him to connect with mushroom hunters and foragers from around the world. His recent book The Forager Chef's Book of Flora features 180 recipes and over 230 of his own beautiful photographs, inviting us to explore the edible plants we find all around us. In this episode, Alan tal...
Aug 28, 2023•32 min
Tony Hiss is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years, was a visiting scholar at New York University for twenty-five years, and has lectured around the world. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Tony discusses his latest work Rescuing The Planet - Protecting Half The Land To Heal The Earth. Covering topics including the vast Boreal Forest, global animal tracking, the origin of the Appalac...
Aug 21, 2023•39 min
Richard J. King is the author of Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick and other books of nonfiction, as well as articles, reviews, and interviews. His works often explore the history of our relationship with marine life and the sea, and Rich has been sailing on tall ships for over twenty years, traveling throughout the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as both a teacher and a sailor. In this episode, Richard discusses the historical context of Moby-Dick, its place in the fabric of ...
Aug 14, 2023•37 min
Christopher J. Preston is a writer, public speaker, and environmental philosopher based in Missoula, Montana. His new book Tenacious Beasts takes an inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Christopher talks about an optimistic future with wildlife, envisioning a fresh way to live alongside the natural world in the Anthropocene age. Touching on different facets of ecological resto...
Aug 07, 2023•51 min
Jonathan Segal is an avid traveler and naturalist, drawn to remote locations and aboriginal cultures. His various explorations include travels to Costa Rica, the Peruvian Amazon, the Pacific islands, the Red Sea, Nepal, Bhutan, and Papua New Guinea. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Stefan sits down with an old friend and asks what compels him to go to these places, what he has learned, and what these cultures that exist off the beaten path have to offer all of us. [Originally published Jan 1...
Jul 31, 2023•33 min
Steven Hawley is an environmental journalist who writes about rivers, dams, and the ecological impacts they have on salmonids in the American West. He is the author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World (2023), Recovering a Lost River (2011), and the writer and co-producer of an award-winning documentary, Dammed to Extinction (2019). In this 100th episode of Nature Revisited, Steven walks us through the history of extensive, misguided dam building in the United States and the re...
Jul 24, 2023•43 min
Doug Tallamy is a professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he studies the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. In his book 'Bringing Nature Home', Tallamy explains why everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. This episode- pulled from an interview conducted during the production of ...
Jul 17, 2023•23 min
Charlie Bluett is an abstract and expressionist artist whose works are driven by his overriding passion for nature and the natural world. His contemporary abstract colorfield paintings focus on the natural scenes & objects we are exposed to within the Earth's vast and varied outdoor environments. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Charlie walks us through his early life in England and eventual discovery of New England in the US - Vermont in particular - which he chose as his home and an essent...
Jul 10, 2023•30 min
Richard Louv is a non-fiction author and journalist best known for his seventh book, 'Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder', which investigates the relationship of children and the natural world. In this episode of Nature Revisited, Stefan asks Richard to revisit the central topics in this notable book within the context of today's cultural landscape of climate crisis, pandemic, loss of biodiversity, and human isolation. [Originally published Nov 30 2021, Ep ...
Jul 03, 2023•31 min
Founded in 1995, The Wildlands Conservancy is dedicated to preserving the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and providing programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature. TWC has established the largest nonprofit nature preserve system on the US West Coast, open to the public, and encompassing nearly 200,000 acres of diverse landscapes. In this episode of Nature Revisited we meet Executive Director Frazier Haney who explains the founding and mission of TWC, as well as its core...
Jun 26, 2023•38 min
