In Tune to Nature Podcast

By cpfreeman

What's In Tune to Nature Podcast about?

In Tune to Nature is an eco & animal protection weekly radio show broadcast from Atlanta on Radio Free Georgia Wednesdays from 6:30-7pm EST on wrfg.org and 89.3FM. 25-minute podcasts featuring interviews with activists, scientists, and authors who help us protect living beings and our shared habitats. Hosted by Carrie Freeman (Communication Professor and Human Animal Earthling). Studio photography by Ann Packwood.

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In Tune to Nature Podcast episodes:

05.28.2024
Cowspiracy Filmmakers Discuss Impact and Activism for Animals 10 Years Later
A decade after the release of the 2014 award-winning documentary Cowspiracy, filmmakers Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn come together with Atlanta animal activists and scholars in a webinar on May 21st 2024 to discuss the impact of the film and...
05.04.2024
Nourishing all Species with Veganic Farming and AgroEcology: Atlanta Farmer Eugene Cooke of Grow Where You Are
Food justice activist and veganic farmer Eugene Cooke shares an aspirational vision for why he practices agro-ecology in urban ag at Grow Where You Are farms around Atlanta and how (and why) this can be scaled up for widespread regenerative agricultural...
04.21.2024
Working for Wildlife into their 90s: Interviews with the Inspirational Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. E.O. Wilson
To honor primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall's 90th birthday (April 3 2024) and her continuing conservation work, I am playing part of a recent Mongabay News interview with her, hosted by Rhett A. Butler, followed by a PBS News Hour interview...
04.05.2024
The Emotional Lives of Animals: Dr. Marc Bekoff Explains Why Animal Wellbeing Matters
Renowned animal ethologist Dr. Marc Bekoff shares insights from the newly revised edition of his classic book: “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A leading scientist explores animal joy, sorrow, and empathy, -- and why they matter” with a foreword by...
02.24.2024
Defending the Atlanta Forest & Stopping Cop City: Dr. Jackie Echols on Civil Rights Act and Clean Water Act Legal Actions
We discuss the latest in the 2024 fight against environmental racism and stream water degradation as part of the "Save The Atlanta Forest" movement also knowns as the "Stop Cop City" movement, in Southeast Atlanta, comprised of many allied groups...
01.27.2024
A Compassionate Conservation Approach to US Wildlife Policy: Dr. Anja Heister author interview
In this double-show we explore problems and solutions for transforming America’s flawed model of wildlife management that is oddly human-centric (hunter-centric), undemocratic, and often cruel, by speaking with wildlife advocate and author Anja Heister, PhD, about her recent book “Beyond...
01.14.2024
The Loveliness of Being Animal: Philosopher Melanie Challenger on her book ”How to be Animal”
Today it's one of my favorite topics -- the benefits of humans starting to embrace our animality and kinship with other animals, instead of falsely repressing our animality and continuing to think of ourselves as exceptional and above all animal...
12.18.2023
Creating Song, Story and Film to Support Wildlife Safe Road Passageways: Artists Frances Figart & Ted Grudowski
We focus on the creative process of several artists in the road ecology movement who have promoted safe passageways for wildlife to cross over and under human highways, via song, children’s literature, and documentary film. Our guests are writer Frances...
11.28.2023
Wild Atlanta: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Wildlife, Forests, & Parks
We enjoy the poetry and photography in a new book Wild Atlanta: Greenspaces and Nature Preserves of “The City in the Forest” with the book author and poet Stephen Wing and the book’s photographer Luz Wright. Their 98-page full color...
11.22.2023
EcoFriendly Holiday Gift Giving: Experiences Over Items
To have a more meaningful holiday season and avoid buying a bunch of stuff, this is a replay of my 28-minute annual green gift giving show -- this time focusing not on eco-friendly products but more on eco-friendly experiences in...
10.24.2023
The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds: Interview with Book Author Anders Gyllenhaal
Did you know one third of North America's birds have vanished over the last 50 years -- on our watch? That's 3 Billion fewer birds in our ecosystems, skies, trees, farms, and backyards! In their book "A Wing and a...
09.12.2023
Designing Health-Promoting Landscapes Inspired by Nature: David Kamp, Biophilic Landscape Architect
Discussing his book "Nature, Design, and Health: Explorations of a Landscape Architect," David Kamp describes his nature-inspired design philosophy, and we specifically concentrate on garden project elements designed to enhance the wellbeing of older adults and people with special needs....
08.25.2023
Advice on Effective Environmental Advocacy: Interview with Author & Lobbyist Sue Inches
This double-length show explains tips from the book "Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action" by environmental lobbyist, public servant, teacher, and author Sue Inches from Maine. https://sueinches.com/ After meeting at the 2023 Conference on...
08.17.2023
Sustainable Marine Policy Viewing Fishes as Ecological Beings not Food/Resources: Interview with Dr. Jennifer Jacquet
We discuss the need for marine eco policies and "sustainable fishing" policies to move toward a non-industrial discourse that treats fish as subjects and as ecological beings rather than primarily objectifying them as human food/stock/seafood – basically sustainable fisheries rhetoric...
08.03.2023
Protecting Yellowstone’s Wild Bison Herds from Slaughter: The Buffalo Field Campaign
The Buffalo Field Campaign has worked for decades restoring rights to the wild Bison of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to live and freely migrate in and outside of Yellowstone National Park in their rightful territory. Carrie Freeman's radio guests Mike...
07.21.2023
Climate News Coverage of Animal Agriculture: What’s Missing and How to Improve Journalism
We discuss findings from a 2023 report “Animal Agriculture is the Missing Piece in Climate Change Media Coverage”. Given the policy agenda-setting role of the news media, this report details what coverage improvements are warranted to facilitate needed farming and...
06.23.2023
Ecoflix wildlife advocacy nonprofit entertainment streaming service: Interview with founder David Casselman
Ecoflix.com is the first not-for-profit streaming channel of entertainment and educational shows and podcasts dedicated to saving animals and the planet. We talk with founder and CEO David Casselman about why he founded Ecoflix, how the non-commercial global programming is...
06.12.2023
Protecting the Okefenokee Swamp Refuge from Mining: Ecologist Rena Ann Peck of GA River Network
Due to the threat of titanium mining, the biologically rich and unique Okefenokee Swamp habitat at the GA/FL border has unfortunately been named one of America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2023 (by the organization America Rivers). But there's a wide...
05.15.2023
Coexistence with Coyote Family Neighbors: With Dr. Chris Mowry, Atlanta Coyote Project
To help us understand how coyote families live among us in urban/suburban areas as productive members of ecosystems, Berry College Professor of Biology, Dr. Chris Mowry (and co-founder of the Atlanta Coyote Project) tells us about the natural history of...
04.24.2023
Removing Harmful Wild Animal Social Media Posts: Nicola O’Brien of Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition
From taking selfies with wild animal individuals, to promoting them as pets, to faking animal rescues for clicks, content harmful to animals abounds on social media platforms like YouTube, Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. To help us identify what...
04.10.2023
Stop Cop City to Save the Atlanta Forest for Eco and Racial Justice: Interview with Dr. Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance
On behalf of Atlanta's biggest in-town forest, its resident wildlife, and nearby human neighbors, we discuss the 'Save The Atlanta Forest' movement also known as the 'Stop Cop City' movement, in Southeast Atlanta, comprised of many allied groups of citizens,...
03.26.2023
The Industrial Ag Accountability Act’s Needed Improvements for Farmed Animals & Workers: Explained by Farming Activist Leah Garces
In this double-show, Leah Garces, President of Mercy for Animals, discusses initiatives to protect taxpayers, farm workers, chickens, and pigs in an unprecedented and long-overdue marker to the 2023 Farm Bill -- the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act -- to be...
03.17.2023
Bird flu outbreak’s impact on factory farmed birds and wild/free animal species: Mercy for Animals interview
Mercy for Animals' Managing Director AJ Albrecht updates us on the state of the Avian Influenza crisis and the tens of millions of factory farmed birds who have been inhumanely killed/suffocated in an attempt to stop the spread (largely at...
03.06.2023
Evolving together toward an animal-free food system: Pax Fauna study of appealing to American meat-eaters
Guest Eva Hamer discusses a recent study of American attitudes toward using animals for food that suggests how best to strategically frame campaign messages promoting a path to evolving together toward animal freedom and plant-based food systems. We discuss what...
02.17.2023
The Smell of Money documentary: Pig Factory Farming & Environmental Racism in North Caroliina
The stench and pollution of pig factory farms is devastating Black rural neighborhoods, but, despite intimidation, NC residents are fighting back in court against the world's largest pork corporation, as documented in "The Smell of Money" a full-length documentary film...
02.06.2023
Wild Souls: Eco Writer Emma Marris on Animal Ethics for Introduced Species in Nature
We take on some tricky ethical dilemmas in how we should treat animals in nature, especially “non-native” species (more respectfully called 'Introduced species'), and when and how we should interfere in the lives of animals in a 'post wild' world,...
01.09.2023
The Creative Lives of Animals: Dr. Carol Gigliotti on the Culture and Ethics of Fellow Animal Species
We should begin to see multiculturalism as including the creativity and morality found in the cultures of fellow animal species (besides just us humans). In this 27 minute interview, host Carrie Freeman talks with Dr. Carol Gigliotti who shares insights...
12.24.2022
A Fish’s Perspective on Fishing: With Biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe
How are individual fish (as sentient beings) affected by industrial and recreational fishing practices? We find out by talking with the best selling author of “What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of our Underwater Cousins.” biologist, Dr. Jonathan Balcombe,...
12.13.2022
Clean Energy Future in Georgia: What would it look like and how to get there? Sierra Club GA Chapter
What would a clean, renewable energy future look like in Georgia? Neil Sardana, Beyond Coal rep from the Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club provides a hopeful yet feasible vision. For energy independence and less pollution and less greenhouse gas...
11.05.2022
What’s Wrong with Wool? And What Materials are More EcoFriendly? The Shear Destruction report by the Center for Biological Diversity
In time for winter wardrobe & gift-giving, we review the many eco problems with the wool industry and what materials fashion-makers and consumers can support instead (like organic cotton and bamboo). The role of raising, killing, and processing farmed animals,...
10.23.2022
GA Voter Rights & Access for November Election: Georgia Conservation Voters’ Director Brionte McCorkle
In support of eco-friendly candidates who are climate champions, Georgia Conservation Voters advocates for all citizens in GA to exercise their right to vote, with their "Democracy for All" initiative. In this 28-minute podcast, host Carrie Freeman interviews Brionte McCorkle,...
10.05.2022
State of the World’s Birds and How to Prevent Further Species Declines: A Birdlife International Report
Lead report author Lucy Haskell explains BirdLife International’s State of the World’s Birds 2022 report (it comes out every 4 years), finding that nearly half of the world’s bird species are in decline, painting the most concerning picture yet for...
09.21.2022
AgroEcological & Veganic Farming as a Path to Regenerative Food Systems with Eugene Cooke
Food justice activist and veganic farmer Eugene Cooke shares an aspirational vision for why he practices agro-ecology in urban ag at Grow Where You Are farms around Atlanta and how this can be scaled up for widespread regenerative agricultural practices...
09.09.2022
Working in Cooperation (rather than Competition) with Nature: Interview with ”Sweet in Tooth & Claw” award-winning author
An interview with Kristin Ohlson, author of "Sweet in Tooth & Claw," showcasing examples of how nature (including we human animals) thrive on cooperation and mutual aid between species, rather than focusing on the competitive or violent elements in nature...
08.08.2022
Coyote Killing Contests: Transcending urban rural differences in debates over bans, with Dr. Debra Merskin
Communication Professor Dr. Debra Merskin discusses her study of arguments for and against a ban on Oregon's coyote killing contests, including her recommendations for animal advocates to use approaches that are more likely to resonate with the rural residents arguing...
07.27.2022
Saving the Georgia Coast: Paul Bolster Tells a Political Success Story for Wilderness Protection
From Cumberland Island up through Tybee Island, the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 is the reason the Georgia coast is largely a protected natural marshland and not a polluted, exploited, and/or commercialized tourist trap. Historian & former GA congressperson...
07.02.2022
Misuse of Land for Cattle Grazing: Transitioning to Sustainable Ag to Feed a Growing Population
The large proportion of agricultural land (the majority) allocated for grazing of farmed animals doesn't equate to a large amount of nutrients/calories produced and is thus a misuse of land that could be re-wilded or used to grow nutrient dense...
06.22.2022
”Eating animals is biting us back”: News Coverage of Pandemic Prevention to Reduce Future Zoonotic Diseases
Is the news helping us prevent future zoonotic disease pandemics by facilitating needed policy changes in animal and eco protection (namely the wildlife trade/hunting and agribusiness)? In Tune to Nature radio host and researcher Dr. Carrie Freeman, a professor of...
06.06.2022
Animal Farming Whistleblower Vet Dr. Alice Brough on Pandemic Prevention and ”The End of Medicine” as we know it
This 25-minute interview features the whistleblower from The End of Medicine documentary (on Apple TV and itunes), former pig farm industry veterinarian Dr. Alice Brough in the UK who shares why she quit trying to reform animal ag from within,...
05.09.2022
Preventing Pandemics & Mistreatment of Animals via the Convention on Animal Protection, a global treaty (interview with Dr. Raj Reddy)
Law professor Dr. Raj Reddy explains an important new global treaty for animal welfare and pandemic prevention called “Convention on Animal Protection” found at https://www.conventiononanimalprotection.org/ This is a first draft of a treaty prepared by Lawyers for the Convention on...
04.27.2022
Bird Flu outbreak mass killing methods in industrial farms: An interview with Farm Sanctuary’s animal welfare expert
A highly pathogenic bird flu is causing the premature deaths of millions of birds in 2022, including wild birds but especially domesticated birds on industrial egg farms, since U.S. factory farms are conducting horrific mass killings of tens of millions...
04.12.2022
Wild Animal Trapping Investigation by Born Free USA: Dr. Liz Tyson Exposes Cruel Reality and Calls for a Ban
We discuss an undercover investigation (in Iowa) of the wild animal trapping industry in the U.S., conducted by Born Free USA and the Humane Society of the U.S., where the investigator witnessed how animals are beaten to death, if not...
03.21.2022
Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network: An interview with founder Osprey Orielle Lake
Women, especially women of color, are highly impacted by the climate crisis and the fossil fuel industry and also are leaders (and increasingly should be) in promoting a clean energy transition and healthy communities. Osprey Orielle Lake discusses the nonprofit...
02.13.2022
Cattle Grazing on Public Lands: We all Pay as Ecosystems & Wildlife Suffer
Chris Bugbee, SW Conservation Advocate of the Center for Biological Diversity, discusses the ecological problems with cheap permits allowing cattle grazing across so many millions of acres of public lands in the U.S. West -- the largest commercial use of...
01.22.2022
”Like an Animal” Dehumanization & Speciesism in Immigration Discourse: Interview with Dr. Natalie Khazaal
This provocative discussion on Dr. Khazaal's book "Like an Animal" explores the intersection of immigration, discrimination, the problematic human/animal divide, and speciesism, within the context of advancing a mutual concern for human rights and nonhuman animal rights. In this 27-minute...
12.15.2021
Humanity‘s Quest for Immortality Triggering Denial of Animality: An Interview with Dr. Lori Marino
Based on humanity's subconscious anxiety at admitting we are mortal animals, we seek immortality through a denial of death and our animality. Dr. Lori Marino discusses this topic in her research paper with Michael Mountain on terror management theory explaining...
11.15.2021
Forecasting nightly bird migrations to go Lights Out to save lives: Julia Wang of Birdcast
Did you know that birds tend to migrate at night, and light pollution from our homes and buildings can mess up their navigation and cause deadly collisions? Birdcast.info is a website and a research/outreach project that has maps that forecast...
10.10.2021
Wildlife Corridors Connecting Yellowstone USA to Yukon Canada: Y2Y with Hannah Rasker
North America’s animals can’t be restricted to living within park boundaries and must migrate freely. The vision of Y2Y is an interconnected system of wild lands and waters stretching 2,000 miles from Yellowstone National Park in Montana to the Yukon...
09.28.2021
An ecofeminist take on interspecies justice and animal law with rhetoric scholar Dr. Marek Muller
We talk about interspecies justice, animal rights, personhood, and earth jurisprudence from a legal and ecofeminist perspective, putting animal rights in context of intersectional social justice activism, with guest Dr. S. Marek Muller, Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Florida Atlantic...
09.17.2021
We are Human and So Much More: An Interview with ”Four Fifths a Grizzly” Author Doug Chadwick
Wildlife biologist and journalist Doug Chadwick talks with host Carrie Freeman about his latest conservation book “Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just might Save us All" promoting the genealogical kinship we have with fellow animals...

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In Tune to Nature Podcast episodes:

Cowspiracy Filmmakers Discuss Impact and Activism for Animals 10 Years Later

Nourishing all Species with Veganic Farming and AgroEcology: Atlanta Farmer Eugene Cooke of Grow Where You Are

Working for Wildlife into their 90s: Interviews with the Inspirational Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. E.O. Wilson

The Emotional Lives of Animals: Dr. Marc Bekoff Explains Why Animal Wellbeing Matters

Defending the Atlanta Forest & Stopping Cop City: Dr. Jackie Echols on Civil Rights Act and Clean Water Act Legal Actions

A Compassionate Conservation Approach to US Wildlife Policy: Dr. Anja Heister author interview

The Loveliness of Being Animal: Philosopher Melanie Challenger on her book ”How to be Animal”

Creating Song, Story and Film to Support Wildlife Safe Road Passageways: Artists Frances Figart & Ted Grudowski

Wild Atlanta: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Wildlife, Forests, & Parks

EcoFriendly Holiday Gift Giving: Experiences Over Items

The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds: Interview with Book Author Anders Gyllenhaal

Designing Health-Promoting Landscapes Inspired by Nature: David Kamp, Biophilic Landscape Architect

Advice on Effective Environmental Advocacy: Interview with Author & Lobbyist Sue Inches

Sustainable Marine Policy Viewing Fishes as Ecological Beings not Food/Resources: Interview with Dr. Jennifer Jacquet

Protecting Yellowstone’s Wild Bison Herds from Slaughter: The Buffalo Field Campaign

Climate News Coverage of Animal Agriculture: What’s Missing and How to Improve Journalism

Ecoflix wildlife advocacy nonprofit entertainment streaming service: Interview with founder David Casselman

Protecting the Okefenokee Swamp Refuge from Mining: Ecologist Rena Ann Peck of GA River Network

Coexistence with Coyote Family Neighbors: With Dr. Chris Mowry, Atlanta Coyote Project

Removing Harmful Wild Animal Social Media Posts: Nicola O’Brien of Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition

Stop Cop City to Save the Atlanta Forest for Eco and Racial Justice: Interview with Dr. Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance

The Industrial Ag Accountability Act’s Needed Improvements for Farmed Animals & Workers: Explained by Farming Activist Leah Garces

Bird flu outbreak’s impact on factory farmed birds and wild/free animal species: Mercy for Animals interview

Evolving together toward an animal-free food system: Pax Fauna study of appealing to American meat-eaters

The Smell of Money documentary: Pig Factory Farming & Environmental Racism in North Caroliina

Wild Souls: Eco Writer Emma Marris on Animal Ethics for Introduced Species in Nature

The Creative Lives of Animals: Dr. Carol Gigliotti on the Culture and Ethics of Fellow Animal Species

A Fish’s Perspective on Fishing: With Biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe

Clean Energy Future in Georgia: What would it look like and how to get there? Sierra Club GA Chapter

What’s Wrong with Wool? And What Materials are More EcoFriendly? The Shear Destruction report by the Center for Biological Diversity

GA Voter Rights & Access for November Election: Georgia Conservation Voters’ Director Brionte McCorkle

State of the World’s Birds and How to Prevent Further Species Declines: A Birdlife International Report

AgroEcological & Veganic Farming as a Path to Regenerative Food Systems with Eugene Cooke

Working in Cooperation (rather than Competition) with Nature: Interview with ”Sweet in Tooth & Claw” award-winning author

Coyote Killing Contests: Transcending urban rural differences in debates over bans, with Dr. Debra Merskin

Saving the Georgia Coast: Paul Bolster Tells a Political Success Story for Wilderness Protection

Misuse of Land for Cattle Grazing: Transitioning to Sustainable Ag to Feed a Growing Population

”Eating animals is biting us back”: News Coverage of Pandemic Prevention to Reduce Future Zoonotic Diseases

Animal Farming Whistleblower Vet Dr. Alice Brough on Pandemic Prevention and ”The End of Medicine” as we know it

Preventing Pandemics & Mistreatment of Animals via the Convention on Animal Protection, a global treaty (interview with Dr. Raj Reddy)

Bird Flu outbreak mass killing methods in industrial farms: An interview with Farm Sanctuary’s animal welfare expert

Wild Animal Trapping Investigation by Born Free USA: Dr. Liz Tyson Exposes Cruel Reality and Calls for a Ban

Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network: An interview with founder Osprey Orielle Lake

Cattle Grazing on Public Lands: We all Pay as Ecosystems & Wildlife Suffer

”Like an Animal” Dehumanization & Speciesism in Immigration Discourse: Interview with Dr. Natalie Khazaal

Humanity‘s Quest for Immortality Triggering Denial of Animality: An Interview with Dr. Lori Marino

Forecasting nightly bird migrations to go Lights Out to save lives: Julia Wang of Birdcast

Wildlife Corridors Connecting Yellowstone USA to Yukon Canada: Y2Y with Hannah Rasker

An ecofeminist take on interspecies justice and animal law with rhetoric scholar Dr. Marek Muller

We are Human and So Much More: An Interview with ”Four Fifths a Grizzly” Author Doug Chadwick