Threshold Conversations: Climate Emotions with Audrey Martin
All over the world, small groups of complete strangers are getting together to share their feelings about climate. These gatherings are called Climate Cafes, and they’re carving out space for some big emotions we might prefer to avoid. But what if talking about our feelings can also help us address the climate crisis? Audrey Martin is a Bay Area psychotherapist and one of the leaders of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. She also happens to be Amy Martin’s sister. Audrey joins us to unpack some of our complicated, scary emotions around climate, and to make the case for why this kind of self-reflection isn’t just comforting—it’s crucial. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donating today. To stay connected, sign up for our newsletter.Credits: Threshold Conversations is produced by Sam Moore. Our music is by Todd Sickafoose. Amy Martin is our host and executive producer. Resources and Links: Climate Psychology Alliance of North AmericaMentioned in this episode:Threshold needs your help. To keep making this work and sharing it with audiences for free, we have to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re almost 50% of the way there!
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Threshold Conversations: The Roadless Rule with Ben Goldfarb
Last June, the U.S. the Secretary of Agriculture announced that the Trump administration intends to repeal something called the “Roadless Rule”—a policy implemented in 2001, which protected some of the Forest Service’s wildest lands from logging, mining, and road-building. Author Ben Goldfarb examined the impacts of road and roadless areas in his 2023 book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. We talk with Ben about why our Forest Service lands already have so many roads, and what building more would actually mean for wildlife and for people. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donating today. To stay connected, sign up for our newsletter.Credits: Threshold Conversations is produced by Sam Moore. Our music is by Todd Sickafoose. Amy Martin is our host and executive producer. Resources and Links: Ben’s book, “Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet” at W.W. Norton To read more of Ben Goldfarb’s ecological writing, go to his website, bengoldfarb.comA map of Forest Service Roadless Areas in the United StatesThe Forest Service website about Roadless Areas and the new rule40 Years a Forester by Elers Koch Mentioned in this episode:Threshold needs your help. To keep making this work and sharing it with audiences for free, we have to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re almost 50% of the way there!
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Giving TuesdayTo continue making Threshold and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year. Thanks to your support, we are 80% of the way there! If you haven’t chipped in yet, please consider supporting our work by donating today.
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Something New Coming Next Week
Something new is coming to your feed next week.Threshold is made possible by our listeners. To keep making our show, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re already 15% of the way there! Support real journalism, powered by real listeners.Make a donation today and your gift up to $1,000 will be doubled. DONATE NOWMentioned in this episode:Giving TuesdayTo continue making Threshold and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year. Thanks to your support, we are 80% of the way there! If you haven’t chipped in yet, please consider supporting our work by donating today.
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Hark | 16 | Country is Speaking
In this final episode of Hark, we think about listening with Indigenous storytellers on three different continents—and we have one more encounter with those magical Shark Bay dolphins.Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donating today. To stay connected, sign up for our newsletter.Mentioned in this episode:Giving TuesdayTo continue making Threshold and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year. Thanks to your support, we are 80% of the way there! If you haven’t chipped in yet, please consider supporting our work by donating today.
Threshold needs your help. To keep making this work and sharing it with audiences for free, we have to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re almost 50% of the way there!
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Hark | 15 | Whynotamus
New technologies like artificial intelligence have helped to accelerate and open up the entire world of bioacoustics, launching us into a new era of communication with the more-than-human world. In this episode, we explore the promise and perils of using AI in bioacoustics.Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donating today. To stay connected, sign up for our newsletter.Mentioned in this episode:Threshold needs your help. To keep making this work and sharing it with audiences for free, we have to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re almost 50% of the way there!
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Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed.
In our latest season, Hark, we hand the mic over to our planet-mates and investigate what it means to truly listen to nonhuman voices—and the cost if we don't. With mounting social and ecological crises, what happens when we tune into the life all around us?
Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.