Emily Voigt
Radiolab, "Cyberternity""Happy 87th Birthday. It's been 22 years since my death. I hope your life is proceeding delightfully."This American Life, "Who Can You Save?" (co-producer)"She gave birth in her bedroom by herself with her mother and father sleeping at the other end of the house. She handed the baby off to us at the side of the building and told us to leave."
Radio OnEarth, "The Frog with Fifteen Legs: Artist Brandon Ballengée on the Amphibian Crisis""Amphibians are literally very sculpted — to use an artistic term — by the environment, which is one of the reasons why I choose to work with them."Radio OnEarth, "Why Birds Sing: Talking with Interspecies Musician David Rothenberg"
"I wanted to make a different kind of music by listening to the sounds that animals make and changing the music I do in relation to what I hear — which, at first, people are not necessarily going to like, because it's not entirely human music."Radio OnEarth, "Thousand Mile Song: Further Adventures in Interspecies Jazz""A humpback whale song takes about twenty-five minutes to sing. Then they start over and sing it again. They might do this for up to twenty-three hours. If you want to play that to someone, nobody has the time. They want it sped up. They want a quick thing. They say, 'What's going on? Let's listen to human and whale here!'"Radio OnEarth, "Green Beyond the Grave""The cornerstones of American deathcare came out in the late nineteenth century. Abraham Lincoln's funeral really put embalming and the casket on the map." Radio OnEarth, "Lessons of the Buffalo: Author Steven Rinella on a Hunter's Conservation Ethic"
"If I had been an 18-year-old in 1872, I can assure you, I guarantee you, I would've been a hide hunter."Radio OnEarth, "The Coal Ash Disaster: A Voice from the Ground""More than a billion gallons of water mixed with toxic coal ash exploded from a storage pond in eastern Tennessee. The spill is the largest the United States has ever seen. "Radio OnEarth, "Protecting the Journalists Who Protect the Earth""He exposed a corrupt land deal, and he was badly beaten, almost killed. He's currently in a coma."Radio OnEarth, "Why the Planet Needs a Free Press" "If there's one thing we need in the fight against global warming, it's global glasnost."Radio OnEarth, "What Makes an Eco-Town Green: Rethinking Main Street with Kaid Benfield" "Sprawl may not be dead, but it is surely not well. We are already seeing the beginning of its end."Radio OnEarth, "A Farmer's Quest for a Truly Local Brew"
"I'm the first one to try growing commercial hops east of the West Coast."
Radio OnEarth, "Dreaming of a Paperless Life""Partly it's an obsession with gadgetry. Partly it's an increasing inability to let go."Radio OnEarth, "Alan Burdick: Welcome to My Paperless World" "It used to be that we were judged by the stuff we created and left behind. Who needs that?"Radio OnEarth, "Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen""I don't really understand why animals have such a profound effect on us, but I know they do. And I know we bring that into our care of children, our education of children. We use animal stories all the time, animal movies all the time. But when it comes to adults, we get either natural history or political activism. We don't so often get animal stories that are just kind of fun and interesting and reveal that strange space that will always exist between us and other species."Radio OnEarth, "A Not-So-Crazy Scheme for Solving Global Warming""The prototype will be a fifty-foot-high tower, six to eight feet in diameter, packed with a special plastic which picks up CO2 from the air."Radio OnEarth, Audio Slideshow: "Bangladesh Before the Flood""The basic problem is that most of Bangladesh is a flood plain of the Ganges and two other big rivers. Most of the country is less than ten feet above sea level."Radio OnEarth, "Bangladesh Before the Flood: Part II""Minimum, over the next fifty years, twelve to fifteen percent of the land area is gone. And that means — at a minimum — nine million people displaced."Radio OnEarth, "Hard Choices: George Black on Compromise and the Conservation Ethic""Think of Yellowstone. There it is still, in all its freakish magnificence, and we've agreed (more or less) that there's a price to pay for that: three million visitors a year, phalanxes of RVs, highway spaghetti at Old Faithful."Columbia Radio News, "Children of Hope""Two days before September 11th, he got a call from a 17-year-old college student at 3 a.m. and met her on the rocks in Central Park. where she gave birth to a baby girl who was later adopted. The mother refused to go to the hospital, so Tim put her up in a motel. When the towers came down, she disappeared and was never heard from again."Columbia Radio News, "The True Life Story of [YOUR NAME HERE]""She not only stabbed me with that one table knife in the thumb, she stabbed me with a fork, which leaves very distinctive puncture marks."
Radio OnEarth Poetry Series (Producer)Radio OnEarth, "Poet Kimiko Hahn on the Voyage Home""Insects do such weird things. When I read about them in science textbooks and so forth, it almost feels as though I'm reading about little fairies in fairy-tales."Radio OnEarth, "Poet David Wagoner on the Wilderness Inside Us" "Men think they are better than grass."Radio OnEarth, "City Girl in the Country: A Conversation with Poet Roberta Swann" "I felt privileged noticing this fly. How beautiful it was. How beautiful the wings were. How much like a Gucci dress it looked like, and how basically original nature is. I don't think I try to do anything in my poems except record them. It all stems from emotion. I'm more an emotional being than anything else. I don't think I could buy a broccoli without an emotion behind it."Radio OnEarth, "A Worm's Eye View of Global Warming: Talking with Poet Elton Glaser"
"It was very difficult for me to write about Katrina and the post-Katrina events. It was months before I attempted. I think I did need some distance, and to find the words. You can only write the poems you have the words for."Radio OnEarth, "Writing Nature Poetry in Brooklyn: A Conversation with Poet Colin Cheney" "In a city like New York it doesn't take very much rain at all for the sewage treatment plants to get overloaded. You’ll start to have mixed rainwater and raw, untreated sewage flowing out of those pipes." Radio OnEarth, "Poet Kevin Stein on Changing the Course of the Environmental Nightmare""I think of writing poems as discoveries and quests. I feel like I sit down with my pencil and scratch paper, I might as well be sitting there with some wood and a hammer, some nails and a saw. I know I'm going to make something, but I don't know what. It may be a chair. It may be a table. It may be just toothpicks that day."Radio OnEarth, "Revenge of the Weeds: Talking with Poet John Bensko""Poetry helps remove 'the film of familiarity.' You go through life, and you get so used to things that you stop noticing them, you stop feeling deeply, you stop experiencing deeply. Modern civilization is very bad about increasing that problem. It makes us insensitive, and getting back to nature is important." Radio OnEarth, "Poet Pattiann Rogers: 'Everything out there is saying 'Yes'" "I just get confident, and kind of full of faith, or uplifted, being outdoors. You can't walk out your house very many places, at least in my experience, without being hit by everything out there saying, 'Yes.'"Radio OnEarth, "At the Crosswords of Observation and Imagination: Talking with Poet Brendan Galvin"
"One of my rules of thumb, which sounds simple, but really isn't, is: try not to say anything dumb."Radio OnEarth, "Memory, Age, and Love Poetry: Talking with Poet Daniel Mark Epstein""I've always thought of myself as a love poet. And being a love poet is not simply writing poems about adolescent crushes or poems about marital love. There's a spirit of love that animates even a poem about a garden. There's a passion there."Radio OnEarth, "A Conversation with Poet Chard deNiord" "The actual creatures -- as well as flowers and trees and the things of this world -- are stranger than whatever we could imagine, because they actually exist. They've actually come into being in a way that we've almost come to take for granted. We think of a bird or a tree as commonplace, and we forget its miraculousness and its strangeness."Radio OnEarth, "A Conversation with Poet Mark Halperin" "One can at least hope, since we're all going to die anyway, that our deaths aren't any more painful than one suspects that this bird's was."Radio OnEarth, "A Conversation with Poet Floyd Skloot" "Because my word finding capacity was so compromised by the neurological damage, I had to learn how to receive and work with the mistaken word choices that come up when I'm doing the intial acts of composition. Sometimes the word I'm looking for I can't find, but I find something close to it, and it turns out to be a richer vein than the one my intention would have led me to. So I had to learn how to live with accidents and discoveries."Radio OnEarth, "A Conversation with Poet Eamon Grennan"
"We try to acknowledge the shadow. The very fact of our attending to what by our inattention we can destroy seems to me to be a useful thing to do."