Spring Creek Podcast

Dec 06 2024 30 ep. 32 mins 8
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This podcast is produced by the Spring Creek Project, an organization at Oregon State University that sponsors readings, lectures, conversations, residencies, and other events and programming on issues and themes of critical importance to the health of humans and nature. Our mission is to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word and the arts to envision and inspire just and joyous relations with the planet and with one another.

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The Art of Reconnection: Daniela Naomi Molnar and Danielle Vogel

Dec 06 2024 67 mins  
In the final episode of “The Art of Reconnection” series, co-host Daniela Naomi Molnar speaks with poet and ceremonialist Danielle Vogel about the scope, power, and possibility of language. Danielle is an experimental poet who is committed to an embodied, ceremonial approach to poetics and relies heavily on field research, cross-disciplinary studies, inter-species collaboration

The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Ben Goldfarb

Oct 24 2024 40 mins  
In part three of “The Art of Reconnection,” series co-host Lee Running speaks with guest Ben Goldfarb to take us on an exploration of roads. Their conversation invites us to see these in-between places in new ways. Ben is a conservation journalist and award-winning author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including The Atlantic, National Geographic, and “The Best Ame

The Art of Reconnection: Daniela Naomi Molnar and Marcia Bjornerud

Oct 11 2024 58 mins  
In part two of “The Art of Reconnection,” series co-host Daniela Naomi Molnar speaks with guest Marcia Bjornerud about the narratives, notions of time, and deep wisdom embedded within rocks. Marcia is a writer and a structural geologist whose scientific research, which focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, has taken her around the globe. She is a contrib

The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar

Oct 04 2024 54 mins  
In part one of “The Art of Reconnection” our series hosts, Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar, engage in a rich conversation about the ways their place-based practices of artmaking have transformed the quality of attention they bring to a place and their appreciation for the deep memory that is carried by the botanical, animal, and mineral elements found there. Daniela i

The Art of Reconnection: Series Trailer

Sep 26 2024 2 mins  
Welcome to “The Art of Reconnection,” a new podcast series produced by the Spring Creek Project, an initiative of the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University. The series was created in collaboration with The Arts Center in Corvallis, Oregon. During this four-part series, place-based artists Lee Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar invite us to

Collective Climate Action: Osprey Orielle Lake on women leading the way in climate justice organizing

Jul 12 2024 30 mins  
Because of unequal gender norms globally, women are impacted first and worst by climate change, and yet, one of the untold stories is how incredibly vital women are to local and global solutions. In this episode, Osprey Orielle Lake joins colleague Ashley Guardado to explore the ways in which empowering women worldwide is essential to climate justice work. Study after study shows t

Collective Climate Action: Diego Arguedas Ortiz on lessons from climate journalism as we look for climate hope

Jun 19 2024 19 mins  
Where is the space for hope in a world where it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken? In that "almost," argues journalist Diego Arguedas Ortiz. In this episode, Diego argues that climate hope is linked with action: both ours and that of others alongside us. He follows the case of climate journalism, which was traditionally a domain of science and environment reporte

Collective Climate Action: Francesca Polletta on three misconceptions about social movements

Jun 14 2024 30 mins  
People often think that social movements emerge when people get so frustrated with the state of things that they cannot not act. They think that only people who really believe in the cause join social movements. And they think that social movements only have an impact when they change the hearts and minds of the public. In this episode, Francesca Polletta draws on research about so

Collective Climate Action: Aisha Shillingford on audacious visioning to shape the future

Jun 06 2024 21 mins  
In this episode, Aisha Shillingford invites us into a practice of imaginative world-building that involves thinking far into the future, deep intuition, and bold dreaming. She says we have the right and the responsibility to imagine another future, and what comes next depends on our ability to imagine. Aisha asks us to imagine not just changing our current system by knocking down w

Collective Climate Action: Jeremy Lent on climate breakdown as a symptom of a deeper malaise

May 31 2024 34 mins  
While we need urgent responses to climate breakdown, we will only make meaningful progress once we recognize that it is a symptom of a deeper underlying malaise affecting our society. Climate must be understood as one aspect of a multifaceted process of global ecological degradation caused by problematic characteristics of our socioeconomic system. In this episode, author Jeremy Le