The Art of Reconnection: Lee Emma Running and Ben Goldfarb
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Lee Emma Running and Ben Goldfarb discuss the impact of roads on the environment and non-human beings.
In part three of "The Art of Reconnection," series co-host Lee Running speaks with guest Ben Goldfarb to take us on an exploration of roads. Their conversation invites us to see these in-between places in new ways. Ben is a conservation journalist and award-winning author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including The Atlantic, National Geographic, and "The Best American Science and Nature Writing." His first book "Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter" won the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. And his latest book "Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet" was named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times. Lee creates arresting objects using cast iron, enamel, glass, bone, and handmade paper. Her work intimately explores the impact of human-built systems on the natural world, often incorporating the bodies and bones of animals killed on roads. She invites her audiences to renew their sense of kinship with non-human beings. Lee and Ben have each spent a great deal of time thinking about, walking along, and studying roads. Throughout this conversation, the two discuss this edge landscape…
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