University of Montevallo professor Christine Sestero talks about microbes and microbiology.

Production credits:  Andrew Battista and Cassie Wallace

Assistant Professor of Game Studies Cathlena Martin talks about serious games, our ecological crisis, and the potential for games to instill an ethic of environmental care.

Production Credits: Mike Price, Andrew Battista, and Hunter Tinsley

Kelly Wacker talks about eco art and landscape installations of various kinds.

Production Credits: Mike Price

Professor of Political Science Scott Turner talks about the history of environmental legislation in the United States and wonders if we have a reason to be optimistic about our environmental future.

Production Credits:  Mike Price

University of Montevallo Assistant Professor of Social Work Laurel Hitchcock talks about environmental justice and how issues pertaining to the environment segue into our larger concern with social justice and basic human rights.

Production Credits: Mike Price and Andrew Battista

Doug Fine, author of Farewell, My Subaru, talks with Andrew Battista about climate change, environmental writing, and the role of a liberal arts education in a culture of environmental crisis.

Production Credits: Andrew Battista and Cassie Wallace

Nancy Bell, Professor of Business, talks about the internal contradictions of capitalism and the drive for businesses to practice more sustainable models.

Production Credits: Mike Price and Andrew Battista

Middlebury College Emeritus Professor John Elder visits the University of Montevallo and talks about sugar bush farming, global climate change, racial injustice in New Orleans, and the need to reinvent the environmental movement.

Production credits: Andrew Battista and Emily Johnson

In this special podcast update, Andrew Battista speaks with a former student of John Elder and promotes Elder's upcoming visit to the University of Montevallo.

University of Montevallo Professor of Biology Mike Hardig talks about mutualisms and other forms of symbiotic relationships in nature.

Production Credits: Mike Price and Andrew Battista

Andrew Battista talks about ecocriticism and the role of ecology and the biological sciences in literary scholarship. Can the principles of evolutionary biology inform our interpretations of literature? What do ecocritics do, and why should they do it?

Production credits:  Andrew Battista and Mike Price