In this episode I speak with podcast hero Erica Heilman, host of Rumble Strip, and beloved Vermont Public Radio regular. Erica is working on a level different from most podcasters. She brings a poetic, sometimes near-mystical, clarity to her work. Erica has the ability (and craft) to get to the heart of things. In an era where noise and crushing BS threaten to drown out genuine human encounters, Rumble Strip is an island of sonic sanity. We discuss many things, including when the podcaster is swamped, what keeps us going, and the possible gift inherent in every human.

On this episode I speak with speculative fiction author, participle physicist, polymath, and wonderful person, Vandana Singh. She discusses how she came to see the enormity of the climate crisis, and how it transformed her teaching, writing, scientific practice--and life. We also talk about uncertainty, colonization, the cosmos and the beyond human world.

Sometimes things literally go off the charts. Especially with the climate in recent years. In this episode Michael Wehner, recently retired Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, talks about why he and his team decided it was time to change the Saffir-Simpson hurricane rating scale. Instead of category 5 hurricanes should now go to category 6, they argue! Michael also discusses climate modeling, uncertainty, risk, prediction, and the perils of inequality, poverty and life on warming planet.