Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Origins are conversations with thought-leaders across an eclectic mix of disciplines (science, engineering, art, and design), crafted specifically for the category-defying society that we live in. We explore the thoughts, passions, and stories that defined these pioneers’ fascinating trajectories, arriving at the origins of the pivotal moments across their lives. Draw inspiration for your own trajectory from the intellectual and spiritual electricity of these eclectic conversations.
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan
Brandon Ballengée - Biodiversity, muscular hope, and the persistence of life
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Ryan McGranaghan
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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Brandon Ballengée has a unique quality of attention, one that is not constrained by traditional distinctions between art & science and working & living. He wants to share that capacity to witness to liberate everyone's imagination of what this world can be, a world we are of rather than just in. This ecological consciousness informs his work as a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator.
Show Notes:
- biodiversity (07:00)
- trophic networks (13:10)
- ethnography and buffer zones (15:00)
- citizens getting involved to help biodiversity
- participatory and co-creative nature of his work
- commons spaces (16:00)
- Garret Hardin Tragedy of the Commons (16:20)
- antiform and antidisciplinary (17:00)
- complexity (17:10)
- Malamp project (19:50)
- evince empathy not fear (21:30)
- consilience (23:15)
- the myth of either/or (24:00)
- the complexity in us
- how do you do both art and science? (24:30)
- how we might approach conservation - connection (27:30)
- Ghosts of the Gulf exhibit (28:40)
- Stan Sessions (29:00)
- Taylor Energy Spill (32:30)
- What adaptation looks like (33:45)
- how we persist (35:00)
- giving yourself over to culture (38:30)
- Atelier de la Nature(39:00)
- Newton Harrison and ecological art (44:30)
- the impact of our actions (47:30)
- Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark
- Poetry Unbound: Yusef Komunyakaa Praising Dark Places
- long view of time, the long arc of change (47:45)
- muscular hope (48:00)
- superorganisms and cooperation (50:00)
- civic engagement (50:30)
- Lightning round (55:00)
- Book: Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (and EO Wilson's the Future of Life)
- Passion: food as a way to educate
- Heart sing: learning about gardening
- Screwed up: process to make crude oil paintings
- Find Brandon online:
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series