Caring for the Prairie

Episode 12 February 09, 2020 00:59:21
Caring for the Prairie
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Caring for the Prairie

Feb 09 2020 | 00:59:21

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Show Notes

Sustainability Now! February 9, 2020, Caring for the Prairie, with Professor Jenny Reardon of the UCSC Sociology Department talks about “Caring for the Prairie,” a “project involving biking through the prairies and small towns of Kansas, designed to develop embodied knowledge of the land and to find out more about attitudes towards contemporary US politics from the denizens of the prairies.” You can hear a podcast about her experiences in Kansas here.

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