Public-Private Paradox: Colin Jerolmack
We're revisiting our conversation with Colin Jerolmack, an environmental sociologist and author of Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town. We discuss the public-private paradox and the tragedy of the commons, as well as the undemocratic aspects of Americ…
(Ep 11.5) TAKE ACTION: Stop Sacrificing Each Other w/ Grace Tuttle from POWHR Coalition (WV & VA)
ALL HANDS ON DECK, WE NEED YOU TO STAND FOR APPALACHIA, NOW!Sign up for POWHR’s newsletter to learn how you can act in solidarity against the MVP: https://powhr.org/sign-up-for-powhrs-newsletter/We’re taking the Redneck Resistance to DC!Climate deals can’t afford to cut corners. This side deal that…
Who owns the sky?
If you own land in the United States, do you also own the airspace above it? In other words, who owns the sky?
The answer begins with a medieval Roman principle of property rights, which made it all the way to American courts: “Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."
We…
Who owns the sky?
If you own land in the United States, do you own the air above it, too? Justine Paradis, Senior Producer at Outside/In from NHPR brings us the airy truth of property rights in air and space in this special collaboration.
The answer will take us from Ancient Rome (as it occasionally does) to the Un…
Privilege, with Shamus Khan
What does privilege look like today? How do the advantaged perform “ease”? And why do some of us feel at home in elite spaces, while others feel awkward? Princeton sociologist Shamus Khan joins Uncommon Sense to reflect on elites, entitlement and more. Reminding us that “poor people are not why the…
Public-Private Paradox: Colin Jerolmack
We're revisiting our conversation with Colin Jerolmack, an environmental sociologist and author of Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town. We discuss the public-private paradox and the tragedy of the commons, as well as the undemocratic aspects of Americ…
Public-Private Paradox: Colin Jerolmack
Public-Private Paradox: America has clearly delineated public and private domains: the public domain is regulated, and the private domain is not. A public-private paradox occurs when a decision made in the private domain creates issues in the public domain. In the case of fracking, choosing to allo…
Feral Care: with James Powell (Feral Partnerships) & Eliot Haworth
Should the Corona Virus have rights? And why did the pigeon have a generational fall from grace?
In this episode, we speak to James Powell of Feral Partnerships and Eliot Haworth about their work in and around multispecies collaboration, what chimes with us about the pigeon's dive in reputation, a…
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