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Chrysalis with John Fiege
by John Fiege
I’m a professor, filmmaker, and storyteller interested in the question of how we can transform ourselves—as individuals, as societies, as an entire species—in ways that allow our planet’s ecological systems to thrive.I began this work through the study of environmental history and cultural geography. I then became a filmmaker and photographer focused on stories of transformation in the face of ecological peril.Most recently, I launched the Chrysalis newsletter and podcast to have conversations with a wide variety of environmental thinkers, as well as to share my writing on our relationship with the natural world.My newsletter, podcast, and photographs are available for free to anyone. By becoming a paid subscriber on johnfiege.earth—what we call a Butterfly Subscriber—you can also stream my films and post on the community comments section of the newsletter. Your support provides essential resources for the newsletter and podcast to grow and remain free and ad-free for everyone.Huma
Episodes
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37. Isabel Duarte-Gray — “Tennessee Valley Authority”
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/37-isabel-duarte-gray-tennessee-valley-authority Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Isabel Duarte-Gray’s poem, “Tennessee Valley Authority,” takes its title from the...
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36. Matt McPherson — Apple Ketchup
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/36-matt-mcpherson-apple-ketchup Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. It’s not everyday that you encounter a new recipe for ketchup. Most people wouldn’t even think of...
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35. Jennifer Huang — “From the Taiwan Cypress in Alishan”
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/35-jennifer-huang-from-the-taiwan-cypress-in-alishan Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. There is so much going on Jennifer Huang’s poem, “From the Taiwan Cypress in...
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34. Anne Haven McDonnell — “The Study”
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/34-anne-haven-mcdonnell-the-study Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. When she was in her twenties, Anne Haven McDonnell worked on an organic farm on an island in...
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33. Jenny Rosenstrach — Miso-Mushroom Tacos with Pickled Vegetables
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/33-jenny-rosenstrach-miso-mushroom-tacos-with-pickled-vegetables Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Jenny Rosenstrach writes about food and how food can bring us...
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32. Jennifer Elise Foerster — “Leaving Tulsa”
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/32-jennifer-elise-foerster-leaving-tulsa Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Poet Jennifer Elise Foerster writes in her poem, “Leaving Tulsa,” about a warning from…
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31. Joan Naviyuk Kane — “Exceeding Beringia”
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/31-joan-naviyuk-kane-exceeding-beringia Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. The poet Joan Naviyuk Kane ends her poem, “Exceeding Beringia,” with a call “to make our...
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30. Carey Thornton — Tilth Alliance
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/30-carey-thornton Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. See my series of photographs from Rainier Beach Urban Farm & Wetlands. Tilth is a word that’s not used much...
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29. Henri Cole — “Haiku”
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/29-henri-cole-haiku Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Henri Cole wrote his poem, "Haiku," after visiting a jellyfish exhibit at an aquarium. In the poem, he places...
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28. Beth Osnes — Shine: A Climate Musical
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/28-beth-osnes-shine-a-climate-musical Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Young people are a crucial part of transforming the climate crisis into a more promising...
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27. Alina Simone — Siberia's Black Snow and the Environmental Threat of Authoritarianism
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/27-alina-simone-siberias-black-snow-and-the-environmental-threat-of-authoritarianism Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Imagine going up against a coal company to...
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26. Christi Cooper — The Biggest Crime Against Humanity Ever
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/26-christi-cooper-the-biggest-crime-against-humanity-ever Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. The oil industry is scared. The impacts of climate change are upon us…
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25. Abraham Joffe — The Polar Bear Trade
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/25-abraham-joffe-the-polar-bear-trade Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Why is there an international trade in polar bear body parts, despite their iconic status as…
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24. Laura Dunn — Live! Prophets! Live!
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/24-laura-dunn-live-prophets-live Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. If you’re concerned about what we’re doing to the climate and ecosystems around the planet and...
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23. Christy Rupp — From Rubble Rats to Plastic Pangolins
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/23-christy-rupp-from-rubble-rats-to-plastic-pangolins Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Waste is often invisible—or at least many people work hard to make it...
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22. Revisiting Poisoned Ground at Love Canal with Luella Kenny – Photographs and Upcoming Live Event
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/22-revisiting-poisoned-ground-at-love-canal-with-luella-kenny-photographs-and-upcoming-live-event Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. See Luella Kenny Tour Photos In...
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21. Ken Baker — Rethink Food
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/21-ken-baker-rethink-food/ Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. New York City is one of the wealthiest cities in the world–and the financial capital of the world. And...
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20. Todd Scott — Detroit Greenways Coalition
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/20-todd-scott-detroit-greenways-coalition 20. Todd Scott – Detroit Greenways Coalition Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. The ways we live our lives, design our...
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19. Jim Morris — Don't Worry, Nothing Here Will Hurt You
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: www.johnfiege.earth/19-jim-morris-dont-worry-nothing-here-will-hurt-you/ 19. Jim Morris — Don't Worry, Nothing Here Will Hurt You Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. You may have Goodyear tires…
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18. Lois Gibbs — The Legacy of Love Canal
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/18-lois-gibbs-the-legacy-of-love-canal/ 18. Lois Gibbs — The Legacy of Love Canal Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. When Lois Gibbs moved into the Love Canal...
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17. Transformation for a New Era
Subscribe to Chrysalis at https://www.johnfiege.earth/ Show notes: https://www.johnfiege.earth/17-transformation-for-a-new-era/ 17. Transformation for a New Era Listen to Chrysalis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Captivate. Today, I’m relaunching the Chrysalis newsletter and podcast with…
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16. Sean Dixon — Puget Soundkeeper
The tires of your car have a chemical in them, called 6PPD, that slows tire degradation by binding with oxygen and ozone that could break down the rubber. But these same reactions that protect the rubber are also creating a new chemical, called 6PPD-quinone, which scientists just found in 2020 to...
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15. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke — "When the Animals Leave this Place"
There is a line in Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s poem, “When the Animals Leave this Place,” that I find haunting: “They said no one belongs here.” She’s writing about land that used to flood cyclically but that settlers used for farms and pastures, against the advice of Indigenous elders and…
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14. Kara Maria — Precious and Precarious
I love beautiful pictures of animals surrounded by their natural habitats. It’s exhilarating to see idyllic environments and the animals so amazingly well-adapted to live in them. It’s also comforting to know those places still exist, despite what we’re doing to the planet. Listen on Apple…
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13. Brian Teare — "Doomstead Days"
Before I read Brian Teare’s poem, “Doomstead Days,” I had never heard of a doomstead. It’s a clever portmanteau, combining homestead with doomsday: an alternative universe where the homestead is a preparation for the climate apocalypse. Listen on Apple Podcasts The poem Brian weaves around his...
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12. Layel Camargo — Queer Ecology, Indigenous Stewardship, and the Power of Laughter
What is our relationship to the land, to its other-than-human inhabitants, and to the rest of humanity? These are fundamental questions for thinking through how we can transform ourselves in ways that allow a multiplicity of ecologies and human communities to thrive alongside one another. And…
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11. Forrest Gander — "Forest"
Lichen is a strange presence on this planet. Traditionally, scientists have understood lichen as a new organism formed through symbiosis between a fungus and an algae. But the science is evolving. It seems that there may be more than one species of fungus involved in this symbiosis, and some...
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10. Dave Cortez — The Education of a Chicano Climate Warrior
Our love for the world around us and our passion for protecting that world can come from many different places. It can come from a connection to the land, or a magical experience we had with other people in a particular place, or our sense of awe from the beauty of the living creatures that…
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9. Elizabeth Bradfield — “Plastic: A Personal History”
When we’re gone from this Earth, what will we leave behind? What will we pass down to those who come after us? Plastic. If nothing else, lots of plastic. A plastic bag might take 20 years to break down, but harder, thicker plastics, like toothbrushes, might take 500 years or more to break down....
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8. Salma Arastu — We Are All One
Art can show us the pain and trauma and suffering of the world, and often it does. But art can also go the other direction. It can reveal the beauty, harmony, and unity of the world. The canvasses in Salma Arastu’s series of paintings, We Are All One, are full of soft colors, continuous lines,...
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7. John Shoptaw — “Near-Earth Object”
I’m continually amazed by the immensity of the world that a small poem can conjure. In just a few lines or words, or even just a line break, a poem can travel across time and space. It can jump from the minuscule to the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. And in these inventive leaps, it…
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6. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder — Tasting the Wind, Talking to Rocks, Listening to Rainbows
Official camarones ban season poster in Lunahuana, Peru. Photograph by V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder © 2021. Modern society has removed many of us from an intimate connection to the land, the water, and the elements. Air conditioning in cars and artificial light in our homes allow us to carry on...
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5. Vernon Haltom and Junior Walk — Coal River Mountain Watch
Many assaults on the environment happen slowly and continually, almost invisibly to us: starting a car engine, buying meat at the grocery store, throwing away a plastic straw. Mountaintop removal is different. It is sudden and violent and intentionally, unmistakably destructive. Coal companies…
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4. Heather Houser — Deluged by Data in the Climate Crisis
Here’s something we hear all the time: if only more people knew more about environmental problems, then they would certainly act in some ecologically beneficial way. But the problem is, it’s not true. We’re now deluged with data about the climate crisis; and yet, this abundance of available...
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3. Adam Rome — An Historical Perspective on Our Environmental Future
The full-page ad for the first Earth Day, published in The New York Times on January 18, 1970. Each year, we celebrate Earth Day; and each year, our collective actions lead to more greenhouse gas emissions, more habitat destruction, and more species extinctions. It’s hard for Earth Day not to…
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2. Rev. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap — The Biblical Call for Ecological Care
Martin Luther Hammers His 95 Theses to the Door, by Ferdinand Pauwels Environmental activists often focus on facts and data, as if more climate information will lead to more climate action. That strategy may be effective with some communities, but overall it hasn’t prevented global emissions from...
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1. Jacqui Patterson — Envisioning Eco-Communities amidst Toxic Legacies
From the South Side of Chicago, to Jamaica, to South Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Jacqui has continually asked what deep, transformative change looks like. She grounds her theory of change in community-led advocacy. She envisions a world of eco-communities and works with real communities...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I’m a professor, filmmaker, and storyteller interested in the question of how we can transform ourselves—as individuals, as societies, as an entire species—in ways that allow our planet’s ecological systems to thrive.I began this work through the study of environmental history and cultural geography. I then became a filmmaker and photographer focused on stories of transformation in the face of ecological peril.Most recently, I launched the Chrysalis newsletter and podcast to have conversations with a wide variety of environmental thinkers, as well as to share my writing on our relationship with the natural world.My newsletter, podcast, and photographs are available for free to anyone. By becoming a paid subscriber on johnfiege.earth—what we call a Butterfly Subscriber—you can also stream my films and post on the community comments section of the newsletter. Your support provides essential resources for the newsletter and podcast to grow and remain free and ad-free for everyone.Huma
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