
LENS.cast
Stories of environmental justice and imagination in California and beyond, from UCLA's Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies. LENS.cast tells stories about environmental art, activism, policy, and imagination, with a focus on questions of environmental and multispecies justice. How do built and natural environments embody histories of oppression and possibilities for change? How do different communities value and protect the nonhuman beings they live with? How do artists and activists push us to think differently about our more-than-human relations? How can communities ensure that marginalized people and places are at the center of plans for ecological futures? What should you think when you see a coyote? What does it think of you?
Podcasting since 2021 • 9 episodes
LENS.cast
Latest Episodes
White-Golden State: Extracting Futures in Lithium Valley
California’s Imperial Valley is home to one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—a mineral that may be crucial to engineering a low-carbon economy. Companies and governments interested in extracting Imperial’s lithium promise that the pro...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:01

Also, Satan
In this episode, Christopher Kelty explores the rather surprising background to the No Kill Movement in LA. (It's Satan.) This is the sixth episode produced as part of
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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53:11

Coyotes in the Cloud
You just saw a coyote on the street. Or maybe you read about it on Nextdoor. What should you think? In this episode, Spencer Robins asks whether you really saw that coyote, or whether you’ve followed a ghost—a cloud coyote—into a surprising pol...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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37:54
