What are we doing here?
A few years ago I created a podcast called You Can’t Eat Money about our human relationship with the planet through the medium of food. If you haven’t listened, I highly recommend the Chef Sean Sherman episode (aka The Sioux Chef and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People for 2023) in which he talks about indigenous foodways and the utter waste of space that is the game of golf.
That core idea got me interested in exploring other dimensions of our human relationship with nature and the more-than-human world. The Ecosystem Member podcast (follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or here at ecosystemmember.com) was born out of that curiosity. We’ve talked with business professionals, foragers, scientists and artists, with a particular focus on the arts as a ‘critical thinking generator’ to explore these relationships.
And while I love having these conversations for the podcast, I also really dig writing every now and then.
The newsletter will read a lot like what you hear on the podcast. We’ll share perspectives, interesting material we find and maybe even have a guest or two. It might be a deep dive on an upcoming episode. All of which I hope you’ll find valuable, or at least worthy of a tiny little bit of space in your inbox or Substack app.
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Ever grateful for this green and blue ball -
Rick