This podcast is produced by the Spring Creek Project, an organization at Oregon State University that sponsors readings, lectures, conversations, residencies, and other events and programming on issues and themes of critical importance to the health of humans and nature. Our mission is to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word and the arts to envision and inspire just and joyous relations wit ...
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An experiment in deep thoughts, focus, relaxation and meditation. We aim to help with any of these mind exercises by presenting you with high quality, long length recordings of the Australian wilderness. Wear headphones to hear sounds all around you in a 3D, immersive space. Subscribe for regularly updated recordings and leave a review to help us spread the word. Have a request for an episode? Send it to hello@thequietpod.com
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Who do we have to become, in order to preserve the chance of a wild and beautiful world that includes humans? Join me as I try to understand this, in conversation with some of the most thoughtful and visionary people I know, all of whom have spent decades, in myriad ways, working to save what’s precious. Guests include Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Lent, Craig Santos Perez, Sonia Shah, David Abram, Kathleen Dean Moore, Jerome Foster II, Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin Dorjee, Lise Van Sustere ...
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The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Ben Goldfarb
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In part three of “The Art of Reconnection,” series co-host Lee Running speaks with guest Ben Goldfarb to take us on an exploration of roads. Their conversation invites us to see these in-between places in new ways. Ben is a conservation journalist and award-winning author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including The Atlantic, National G…
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Billions in new projects expected to increase utility bill base rates in Colorado Springs
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The average homeowner’s cost has recently grown by about $9 a month to cover rising fuel prices. Now the city owned Colorado Springs Utilities, which handles power, gas, water and sewer, is about to ask for another type of increase called a base rate increase.
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42 films shine at this year’s Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival in Colorado Springs
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North America's longest-running women's film festival is celebrating its 37th year at Colorado College.
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Man killed in Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine elevator malfunction honored with memorial procession in Cripple Creek
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A procession down main street in the town Thursday honored Patrick Weier, 46, who was killed after an elevator malfunctioned last week.
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The Art of Reconnection: Daniela Naomi Molnar and Marcia Bjornerud
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In part two of “The Art of Reconnection,” series co-host Daniela Naomi Molnar speaks with guest Marcia Bjornerud about the narratives, notions of time, and deep wisdom embedded within rocks. Marcia is a writer and a structural geologist whose scientific research, which focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, has taken her aroun…
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The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar
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In part one of “The Art of Reconnection” our series hosts, Lee Emma Running and Daniela Naomi Molnar, engage in a rich conversation about the ways their place-based practices of artmaking have transformed the quality of attention they bring to a place and their appreciation for the deep memory that is carried by the botanical, animal, and mineral e…
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The Art of Reconnection: Series Trailer
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Welcome to “The Art of Reconnection,” a new podcast series produced by the Spring Creek Project, an initiative of the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University. The series was created in collaboration with The Arts Center in Corvallis, Oregon. During this four-part series, place-based artists Lee Running and Dani…
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Southern Colorado bluegrass festival recognized by international music association. Hear about legendary performers and how it helps kids
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For more than two decades, musicians have gathered in Westcliffe for the annual High Mountain Hay Fever festival. Now, it's a finalist for the International Bluegrass Music Association's event of the year award.
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Penrose funeral home owners accept plea deal in federal case, vacating trial
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The owners of the Return to Nature funeral home, where 190 decomposing bodies were found, have told the federal court hearing their case they want to change their plea.
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How water in Southern Colorado’s rivers gets divvied up before crossing state lines
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The Rio Grande and Arkansas Rivers are critical resources providing water for homes, farms, industry and recreation.
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Fairplay’s ‘Burro Days’ clops along into its 75th year
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Teams of two—one donkey and one human—took on the 30-mile course for the final event of the weekend known as Burro Days.
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Colorado Springs Ford Amphitheater agrees to changes to address noise complaints
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Mayor Yemi Mobolade and city staff met with the venue’s operators to discuss additional measures after backlash from neighboring residents.
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Colorado Springs mayor, city staff will meet with operators of Ford Amphitheater after widespread noise complaints
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A city councilmember who lives near the venue said residents “are speaking truth.”
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More than 100 people were treated for heat illnesses during a Colorado Springs air show. Could more have been done to prevent it?
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Organizers said the Club Q shooting taught them how to better track patients on site with a new app-tracked wristband system.
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Why do people compete in the Colorado State Fair? For some it’s continuing tradition, for others it means trying new things
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Baking, fine arts, livestock shows and more – people of all ages vie for blue ribbons in hundreds of different competitions at the Colorado State Fair.
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A list of the best trees to plant on the Front Range as recommended by experts
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The Front Range Tree Recommendation List includes over 200 varieties of tree that were evaluated and rated by experts in the industry based on decades of experience. It aims to serve as a single reference point for professionals to use and share with customers.
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So you want to plant a tree on the Front Range? A new list can help you choose the right one
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A recently updated list that recommends Front Range trees was put together by CSU academics, staff at the Denver Botanic Gardens and tree care professionals.
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Remembering the night The Doors shook Colorado Springs, half a century later
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Fans can listen to a bootleg recording of the concert in an underground archive at Colorado College.
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Ludlow Massacre site receives restoration grant from National Park Service
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An attack by national guard troops on mine workers north of Trinidad is considered a turning point in the history of the U.S.
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Collective Climate Action: Osprey Orielle Lake on women leading the way in climate justice organizing
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Because of unequal gender norms globally, women are impacted first and worst by climate change, and yet, one of the untold stories is how incredibly vital women are to local and global solutions. In this episode, Osprey Orielle Lake joins colleague Ashley Guardado to explore the ways in which empowering women worldwide is essential to climate justi…
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Are there turquoise mines in Colorado? Yes! Hear more from a Cripple Creek turquoise miner
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Clint Cross of North Star Turquoise has been mining turquoise near Cripple Creek for decades.
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Collective Climate Action: Diego Arguedas Ortiz on lessons from climate journalism as we look for climate hope
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Where is the space for hope in a world where it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken? In that "almost," argues journalist Diego Arguedas Ortiz. In this episode, Diego argues that climate hope is linked with action: both ours and that of others alongside us. He follows the case of climate journalism, which was traditionally a domain …
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Collective Climate Action: Francesca Polletta on three misconceptions about social movements
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People often think that social movements emerge when people get so frustrated with the state of things that they cannot not act. They think that only people who really believe in the cause join social movements. And they think that social movements only have an impact when they change the hearts and minds of the public. In this episode, Francesca P…
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Historic carousel at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs starts turning again
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The carousel was removed last summer as part of plans for an ongoing $50 million construction project.
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Trinidad exhibition explores the creative process behind the art of illustration
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‘Character in Context’ continues the legacy of pulp illustrator A.R. Mitchell at the museum dedicated to his work.
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Colorado Springs clothier on a mission to help ‘worst-dressed city in America’
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Haberdasher’s ultimate goal is to stitch together a tighter community.
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Collective Climate Action: Aisha Shillingford on audacious visioning to shape the future
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In this episode, Aisha Shillingford invites us into a practice of imaginative world-building that involves thinking far into the future, deep intuition, and bold dreaming. She says we have the right and the responsibility to imagine another future, and what comes next depends on our ability to imagine. Aisha asks us to imagine not just changing our…
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Ursula Goodenough: Science and the Sacred
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"Cultural understandings can be very rapid, they can also be sometimes very resistant to change, which is part of the problem, but the evolution of culture is something we can and should think about in a very different way from biological evolution, which takes a long time--and the fact that cultural evolution can turn on a dime can be very encoura…
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Collective Climate Action: Jeremy Lent on climate breakdown as a symptom of a deeper malaise
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While we need urgent responses to climate breakdown, we will only make meaningful progress once we recognize that it is a symptom of a deeper underlying malaise affecting our society. Climate must be understood as one aspect of a multifaceted process of global ecological degradation caused by problematic characteristics of our socioeconomic system.…
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Luminaries: Fred Swanson on Robert Michael Pyle's essay "The Long Haul"
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Today’s “Luminaries” guest is Fred Swanson, a former research geologist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, and a Senior Fellow of the Spring Creek Project. He is co-editor of the books “Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest” and “In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens.” F…
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Collective Climate Action: Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. on immersive storytelling and intersectionality in climate justice organizing
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In this episode, Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. addresses the interconnected issues of climate change, poverty, economic injustice, and other social injustices affecting vulnerable communities. He explains that it takes collective organizing around the deeper problems of inequality to effectively address the climate crisis and he shares strategies the Hi…
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Colorado Springs is first in the state to deploy blood medics
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The city will become the first urban area in Colorado to provide transfusions of whole blood to critically ill patients in the field.
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Fossil found near Colorado Springs identified as new species of mammal
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A new study said the small, chinchilla-sized omnivore belonged to a group of mammals that eventually gave rise to all hoofed mammals.
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Pueblo City Council votes to ban syringe exchange programs
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The decision eliminates two programs in the city.
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Collective Climate Action: Peter Friederici on reframing the possibilities of climate breakdown
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In this episode, Peter Friederici explains that societal responses to climate breakdown have been closely tied to the dominance of large-scale narratives that promote passivity and inaction. Close examination shows that these narratives follow the structure of classical tragedy as they support the status quo and inhibit creative change. We can do b…
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Just Me: The Spring Creek Project lecture
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This week I have something a little different. I was asked to take part in the Collective Climate Action lecture series for the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. These are the same folks who asked me to do a keynote five years ago, which turned into the essay that’s in the wonderful book All We Can Save. I struggled with this one, as…
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Collective Climate Action: Tory Stephens on collective visioning for a just future
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Climate change often feels overwhelming, leaving us with a sense of despair. To move forward, we need positive visions of a clean, green, and just world — yet these depictions are often lacking. In this episode, Tory Stephens explores why collective visioning and hopeful climate storytelling is a useful tool to creating a better future for all. Fro…
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Michael Eliason: What Our Cities Could Look Like
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"If we had a climate leader like Anne Hidalgo, the Pike/Pine network itself, going from Capitol Hill, which is dense enough to support its own pedestrian zone and car-free streets, could be car-free or mostly car-free down to the water, there'd be this wonderful green interchange between Capitol Hill and downtown and there's really wonderful opport…
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Luminaries: Brooke Kuhnhausen on Joy Harjo’s poem “Remember”
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Today’s “Luminaries” guest is Brooke Kuhnhausen, a psychologist who deeply values creativity and collaboration as portals of transformation and imagination so vitally needed for new ways of being together and caring for our living Earth. She practices depth and relational therapy in her private practice and also trains and consults with other thera…
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Collective Climate Action: Emily Johnston on using our social nature to work for a thriving world
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In this episode, Emily Johnston explains that the life we're living now isn't just on a collision course with Earth's limits; it's also historically abnormal in the extreme. How can we ensure that our social nature begins to work far more for a thriving world, than against one? Emily Johnston is an essayist (anthologized in “All We Can Save”) and p…
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Collective Climate Action: Jennifer Atkinson on channeling eco-anxiety into climate action
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In this episode, Jennifer Atkinson explains that the age of climate consequences is upon us, and anxiety and despair are rising along with global temperatures. To successfully face the challenges ahead, we need to build more than solar panels and sea walls — we also need to build the emotional resilience to stay engaged in climate work over the lon…
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Collective Climate Action: Series Trailer
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Welcome to "Collective Climate Action: Inspired Organizing for Our Future," a speaker series produced by the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. This series includes talks from a wide range of speakers. They invite us to imagine a world that centers climate justice and inspire us to find our role in creating that future. We examine why…
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Luminaries: Robert Michael Pyle on Ann Haymond Zwinger’s “Beyond the Aspen Grove”
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Today’s “Luminaries” guest is Robert Michael Pyle, a renowned environmental writer, conservation biologist, butterfly expert, and Guggenheim Fellow. Bob is the author of nearly 30 books, including “Sky Time in Gray’s River,” “Chasing Monarchs,” “Butterflies of the Pacific Northwest, ”and “Wintergreen,” which received the John Burroughs Medal. Durin…
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This small synagogue in Trinidad, Colorado was almost lost to history. Now it’s a National Historic Landmark
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Temple Aaron has been a place of worship for Jewish people in Southern Colorado and northern New Mexico for 135 years.
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Luminaries: Leah Wilson on Bill Viola’s “The Crossing”
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Today’s “Luminaries” guest is Leah Wilson, a place-specific visual artist and writer. Leah’s artwork is informed by physical engagement with the environment, keen observation, and a curiosity toward ecological research. Her art has been exhibited at galleries throughout the West Coast and her work is in public and private collections, including the…
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Tiny specialized bugs may help with the expensive and rising tide of toilet flushes in rural Colorado
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As more people move into small communities, some like Westcliffe and Silver Cliff, struggle to keep pace with infrastructure requirements, including the good old-fashioned toilet flush.
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Summer Storm with Rain, Thunder and Birds
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This episode was recorded in Wyangala, NSW in December 2021. We're setup at a covered picnic table and the rain has just set in. Hear the rain pouring down, and then as it eases, the birds come out while thunder rolls on in the distance. This recording was made with a Binaural Enthusiast dummy head, and processed with just a little reduction in the…
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Luminaries: Kathleen Dean Moore on W. S. Merwin’s “Unchopping a Tree”
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Our inaugural guest on “Luminaries” is Kathleen Dean Moore, a climate activist, philosopher, celebrated environmental writer, and one of the co-founders of the Spring Creek Project. She co-edited the collection “Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril” and is the author of several books, including “Wild Comfort,” “Holdfast,” “Great Tide …
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Whimsy and movement: 24-foot-tall puppet honors local artist Charles Rockey at Manitou Springs Carnivale parade
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Meet the artist behind the giant puppet in this year's Manitou Springs Carnivale parade that honors the legacy of the late Charles Rockey.
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Fewer livestock at Bent’s Old Fort? These and other changes could come to the national historic site in southeastern Colorado
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Parts of the decades-old reconstructed adobe trading post near La Junta are failing. This led to the decision to close the upper level until the risks can be resolved and the structure restored. Also, the living history presentations there could undergo some changes, including how livestock may be managed.…
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