The Progressive Page Turner

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  • Conversations about books with the people who wrote them. Hosted by Marianne Barisonek
    Copyright 2024 The Progressive Page Turner
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Episodes
  • Episode 19: Justin Nobel - Petroleum -238

    Episode 19: Justin Nobel - Petroleum -238
    Sep 10 2024

    Justin Nobel has spent seven years investigating the way the oil and gas industry deals with the enormous amount of waste products it produces. All of it is toxic but some of it is also radioactive. Lax regulation and legal loopholes expose workers and people living near the wells to levels of radiation far in excess of legal limits. Waste from the fracking process is dumped into watershed where it will become more radioactive over time as elements like radium and radon decay into daughter elements. His book is Petroleum 238.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 18: Brea Baker - Rooted

    Episode 18: Brea Baker - Rooted
    Aug 28 2024

    In her book Rooted Brea Baker looks at how land theft from black and indigenous people has shaped not only the economic landscape but also the natural environment. Baker makes a case for reparations based on documented cases where stolen land robbed not only the historical people involved but also robbed their descendants of generational wealth.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 17: Zoe Weil - The Solutionary Way: Transform Your Life, Your Community, and the World for the Better

    Episode 17: Zoe Weil - The Solutionary Way: Transform Your Life, Your Community, and the World for the Better
    Aug 16 2024

    Zoe Weil has been a humane educator for decades. In her book The Solutionary Way she has developed a system for bridging divides, addressing the causes of complex and persistent problems and creating a framework for doing the most good and the least harm for people, animals and the environment.

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    30 mins
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