The other day, my friend Karam sent me an old podcast episode that the two of us made together in 2018 for a course in “Environmental Values” at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. I tend to think that there is an enormous archive of lost material in the world locked up in “class assignments” that never makes it out into the world. I think the world might be better if that potential energy of ideas locked up in Files sections of Canvas was into some kind of kinetics.
This isn’t an episode of anything. It’s just a standalone thing that Karam and I made as we learned to use recording equipment. There are things about it that are good, others that are bad, and others that are just very 2018. But I think its worth being out in the world.
In it, we cover bits and pieces of a more critical set of perspectives on the legacy of Aldo Leopold and a few other turn-of-the-century environmentalists. It is also is a bit of a time capsule for 2018 at Yale and the conflicts that precipitated the eventual name change of the school from the “School of Forestry and Environmental Studies” to “School of the Environment.”
The Legacy of Aldo Leopold (with Karam Sheban)