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Future Ecologies podcast
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A podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes.

Listen on your podcast app: https://future-ecologies.captivate.fm/listen
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It's time for a bumper crop of podcasts about (or inspired by) the perplexing phenomenon known as masting: where plants somehow synchronize their seed production across staggering distances.
An illustration of a bicycle with a basket full of acorns, with many more acorns scattered across a forest floor. Many animals (acorn woodpeckers, scrub jays, mice, band tailed pigeons, deer) are enjoying the bounty.
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Our guests are author Jordan Abel (Nishga, Empty Spaces), multi-disciplinary artist S F Ho (Green Lines), and poet Cecily Nicholson (Wayside Sang, Harrowings)

Music by Thumbug

Cover art by Alé Silva
September 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Summing up our next episode in one picture.

(Early access out now on Patreon and Apple Podcasts)
The classic trolley problem meme: a person stands ready to pull a lever to switch the tracks carrying a trolley. On one set of tracks sits a Spotted Owl, which the trolley will hit if the person does nothing. On the other set of tracks are two Barred Owls.
May 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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@theguardian.com 👀❕
Excerpt from The Guardian culture listings from March 1, 2025. It reads: Future Ecologies podcast, looking at the natural world through a leftfield and often microscopic lens, this fascinating series combines artful sound design with documentary reporting on everything from sea gardening to the majesty of monarch butterflies.
March 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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44% of the Top 16 Nature Podcasts in the USA are about bigfoot / cryptids.

Help us change this.
A list of the top podcasts in the "Nature" category for the USA (Dec 13, 2024), from Apple Podcasts. The podcasts ranked number 1, 4, 6, 10, 14, 15, and 16 all refer to Bigfoot or Cryptids more generally.
December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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Can you guess what FE6.2 is about? Describe what this diagram is for (with emoji only)
November 11, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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Did you miss us?

We’re back! Well, almost. Check your podcast feed tomorrow for the 1st episode of Season 6.

Or, if you’re one of our dear supporters (or if you’d like to become one at futureecologies.net/join), you can find episode 6.1 already waiting for you on the bonus feed.
October 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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OUT NOW: FE5.10 - Everything Will Be Vine

On this episode: @zoeschlanger.bsky.social
takes us to the misty rainforests of Chile and back to report on what might just be the world’s most extraordinary plant — hidden in plain sight.

www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-5-...
June 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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OUT NOW: FE5.8 - The Beef and the Butterflies

Our series on cows and rangelands continues in the weeds and in the thorns, looking at a specific piece of public land where livestock are being employed to give some endangered species a new lease on life.

www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-5-...
March 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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OUT NOW: FE5.7 - Home on the Rangelands: Welcome to Cowlifornia (pt 1)

The introduction of cattle to western North America has undeniably contributed to massive ecosystem change. But could cows be as much a part of the solutions as they are the problem?

www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-5-...
An illustration of two cows eating cereal grasses in a field of wildflowers. A California tiger salamander is in the foreground, near the edge of a pond.
February 9, 2024 at 5:28 PM