Helen (@hkopnina) is Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Business at the University of Northumbria & also lectures at The Hague University. Her research focuses on environmental education, biodiversity & corporate sustainability. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is “evidence, reason …continue
We speak with Dr Bill Lynn and Dr Fran Santiago-Avila about Multispecies Justice, an alternative approach to negotiating the complex realitives of human other animal coexistence. An approach which centres animal needs, as well as humans, when determining how to create a just world. Fran is the Big River Connectivity Science and Conservation Manager for …continue
Vegan Outreach India’s Richa Mehta joins us this week to talk about the spread of veganism in India. As Director of Programs, Richa tells us how Vegan Outreach is focusing on college students and explains in detail what they are doing to educate those students about the atrocities of the …continue
Enero de 2021. Dos cachorros de menos de tres meses aparecen muertos a golpes en el monte en Arraia-Maeztu, en Vitoria. Su agresor, propietario de la madre de ambos animales, fue condenado gracias a la investigación realizada por el Guarda Forestal de Medio Ambiente Andoni Díaz y a las pruebas …continue
Do non-human animals really laugh? Listen to some samples collected by researchers Greg Bryant and Sasha Winkler from UCLA and decide for yourself. A delightful and insightful conversation about the nuances of play vocalization (and other sounds) that challenges the notion that laughter is a gift exclusive to humans. Plus, …continue
This episode of The Animal That Changed You is not only close to my heart, but it was one that was hard to record. My husband Eric sits down to interview me all about my sweet Ophelia. There comes a time when every pet owner has to say goodbye to …continue
On this episode we talk with Sarah Lazare, who finished writing the novel Testimony after the passing of her father Peter Lazare, who had written the first draft. We discuss how the novel continues political conversations she had held with her father in life, and how to turn wonky topics …continue
