Season 3's finale highlights common themes from places visited in the US, Ukraine, Panama, Kenya, and Brazil

S3 Episode 10: Dignity and Banditry

Wildlife as government cattle in Kenya, colonialism and conservation, experts Dr. Cynthia Moss, Dr. Winnie Kiiru, Dr. David Western, Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Nobel Laureate Dr. Elinor Ostrom, and Kenyan musicians Winyo and Suzanna Owiyo

S3 Episode 9: Elephants Grow Grasslands, Cows Grow Trees (Pt. 2)

Elephant talk, populations decimated from ivory poaching, the Maasai as ecologists, and Waza

S3 Episode 8: Elephants Grow Grasslands, Cows Grow Trees (Pt. 1)

Community based management and biodiversity in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains

S3 Episode 7: Gems of Ukraine

The Panama Canal's dependence on forests, a red phone, toucans, and US imperialism

S3 Episode 6: I Took the Isthmus

Race, catadores, garbage transport, and innovation in Italy and Maine

S3 Episode 5: Garbage In, Garbage Out, and Charlottesville

The Berlin Wall fall effect, German citizens as renewable energy investors, and a soy field

S3 Episode 4: Breaking Even With Nature

Germany's energy transition, a pathbreaking court decision on intergenerational climate justice, and a coffee mug

S3 Episode 3: Some Germans Wake Up Earlier

Coal dust pollution, racism, and the many faces of power

S3 Episode 2: The Power Game

Vulnerable communities fight for clean air in Appalachia and in Norfolk, Virginia

S3 Episode 1: Coal Dust Is Black

Linking environmental problems, like the coronavirus and climate change, with solutions.

Magical water delivery systems in Brazil and in the US.

S3 Preview: Flying Rivers

Carbon taxes around the world and public skepticism about economists' claims

Silver Bullet: Earth Day Bonus Episode

Spillovers, farmers who resist, and the singing revolution

S2 Episode 10.1: Resistance

Season finale, part 1: unequal burdens, democracy in America, Earth rules, and global connections

S2 Episode 10.0: Community

S2 Ep 10 Sneak Peek: Irish-Native American lifelines by Dr. Vivian Thomson

S2 Ep 10 Sneak Peek: Irish-Native American lifelines

Reimagining Thanksgiving and progress, achieving the good life, COVID-19 and air pollution in India, and "stuff"

Season 2 Episode 9: Pilgrims and Progress

George Carlin

Esther Duflo

S2 Ep9 Sneak Peek: Consuming and the Good Life by Dr. Vivian Thomson

S2 Ep9 Sneak Peek: Consuming and the Good Life

How citizens get control of their government in an age of polarization and over-promising, fall leaves and freedom, and moderates in America

Season 2 Episode 8: Citizen Power

Molly Ivins

S2 Ep8 Sneak Peek: Molly Ivins' cheerful take on US politics by Dr. Vivian Thomson

S2 Ep8 Sneak Peek: Molly Ivins' cheerful take on US politics

Wendell Berry on affection for the land, industrialized farming, Prof. Delia Grace Randolph on virus spillover, racism and the USDA, and the "Vietnam of entomology"

Season 2 Episode 7: "Adapt or Die" and Industrialized Agriculture

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