Polyculture Podcast

Welcome to the Polyculture Podcast, where hosts Gabriel Coleman and Lena Greenberg talk about all kinds of culture, from permaculture to pop culture! Check out our other episodes to dive deep into big environmental topics and discover how they relate to our daily lives and shape our culture.

Have a question, comment or some music to feature your music on the podcast? Shoot an email to polyculture(at)gabriel.town to get in touch!

Lena and Gabriel look at Ireland and Vermont as examples of how the materiality of energy sources impacts patterns of energy use and efforts to transition to zero-carbon sources.

A transcript of this episode can be found here: https://gabriel.town/podcasts/2024/11/11/energy-infrastructure-transcript/

Have a question, comment or some music to feature your music on the podcast? Shoot an email to polyculture(at)gabriel.town to get in touch!

Bibliography:
Margarita Balmaceda – Russian Energy Chains
Routes of Power – Christopher Jones
The Shock of the Anthropocene – Christophe Bonneuil & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Feeding an Insatiable Monster – Patrick Bresnihan & Patrick Brodie

Lena and Gabriel discuss how climate politics and other issues play out in different democratic structures in Vermont and Ireland.

A transcript of this episode can be found here: https://gabriel.town/podcasts/2024/04/02/cultures-of-democracy-transcript/

Have a question, comment or some music to feature your music on the podcast? Shoot an email to polyculture(at)gabriel.town to get in touch!

Bibliography:
Routes of Power – Christopher Jones

Lena and Gabriel discuss permacultural case studies, from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to the Amazon Rainforest and chat with permaculture practitioners at Nuts & Bolts Nursery Co-Op.

The transcript for this episode can be accessed here: https://gabriel.town/podcasts/2022/03/20/permaculture-transcript/

Interlude by Merle Schuster

Find out about Nuts & Bolts, Andy, Conner, and Merle on their website!

Want to feature your music on the podcast (and get paid a tiny bit) or just say hi? Shoot an email to [email protected] or reach out on Twitter (Gabriel is @yaypurplecheese and Lena is @zealousobserver). We would love especially to feature submissions from BIPOC and queer artists!

Bibliography:
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
The One Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka
Was There Ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics? Plant Familiarisation and biodiversity in the Amazon – Carlos Fausto & Eduardo G. Neves

Lena and Gabriel talk through the history of industrial monoculture, from 19th century British high farming, to the Dust Bowl and the modern day and take a look at how farm simulator video games construct agricultural systems.

The transcript for this episode can be accessed here: https://gabriel.town/podcasts/2021/11/23/monoculture-transcript-polyculture-podcast/

Interlude: Send Us Your Song by Gabriel Coleman

Want to feature your music on the podcast (and get paid a tiny bit) or just say hi? Shoot an email to [email protected] or reach out on Twitter (Gabriel is @yaypurplecheese and Lena is @zealousobserver). We would love especially to feature submissions from BIPOC and queer artists!

Bibliography:
The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift – John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s – Donald Worster
European Episodes, The Rural New-Yorker, 18 Mar 1950 – Herman A. Bennick
Animal Crossing New Horizons – Nintendo
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Stardew Valley – ConcernedApe
Farmville – Zynga Games

Lena and Gabriel discuss the practice of queer ecology and what it means to be queer outdoors with special guests Leigh Brown, Alysse Riordan, and Jonathan Williams.

Interlude: Ginkgo by Jonathan Williams

The transcript for this episode can be accessed here: http://gabriel.town/podcasts/2021/02/24/queer-cultures-transcript-polyculture-podcast/

Find out more about Jonathan, Alysse, and Queer Out Here at queerouthere.com

Dig deeper into Leigh Brown’s research at distancedifference.com/leigh

Want to feature your music on the podcast (and get paid a tiny bit) or just say hi? Send us an email at [email protected]. We encourage submissions from BIPOC and queer artists encouraged!

Bibliography:
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire – Edited by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Ericson
Queer Ecology | Keywords for Environmental Studies – Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands
Queering Nature: The Liberatory Effects of Queer Ecology – Caitlin Doak
Cruising Utopia – José Esteban Muñoz
Green Porno – Isabella Rossellini

Lena Greenberg and Gabriel Coleman discuss the perceived divide between nature and culture and how nature appears in popular media!

Interlude: Scaffolding by Gabriel Coleman
listen to more of Gabriel’s music at gabriel.town/audio

Bibliography:

brown, adrienne maree. 2017. Emergent Strategy. Oakland: AK Books.

brown, adrienne maree, and Walidah, ed. Imarisha. 2015. Octavia’s Brood. Oakland: AK Press.

Cameron, James. Avatar. 2009. Produced by 20th Century Fox.

Ho, Bong Joon. 2013. Snowpiercer. Produced by Moho Films.

Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Malm, Andreas. 2019. “Against Hybridism.” Historical Materialism 27 (2): 156-187.

McKibben, Bill. 1989. The End of Nature. New York: Anchor Books.

Singh, Julietta. 2018. No Archive Will Restore You. Santa Barbara: punctum books.

Tsing, Anna. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Vogel, Steven. 2011. “Why “Nature” Has No Place in Environmental Philosophy.” In The Ideal of Nature: Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment, by Gregory E., ed. Kaebnick, 84-97. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ariza, Mario Alejandro. 2020. Disposable City. New York: Bold Type Books.

Suess, Dr. 1971. The Lorax. New York: Random House.