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About Brady McCartney

Brady McCartney is an educator and the Consortium Director of the EcoLeague, an environmental education consortium currently based at Dickinson College's Center for Sustainability Education.

Brady McCartney is an educator and the Consortium Director of the EcoLeague, an environmental education consortium currently based at Dickinson College's Center for Sustainability Education.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Brady:

Environmental Studies May 9, 2023

Universities on Fire

Higher Education in the Climate Crisis

Bryan Alexander

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), futurist Bryan Alexander explores higher education during an age of unfolding climate crisis. Powered by real-world …
American West December 21, 2022

The North American West in the Twenty-First Century

Brenden W. Rensink

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century …
Environmental Studies September 5, 2022

The Accidental Ecosystem

People and Wildlife in American Cities

Peter S. Alagona

Hosted by Brady McCartney
The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities (U California Press, 2022) tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically …
Environmental Studies August 10, 2022

The Great Acceleration

An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke

Hosted by Brady McCartney
The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas …
Environmental Studies July 14, 2022

Climate Politics and the Power of Religion

Evan Berry

Hosted by Brady McCartney
How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change? Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2022) is an edited collection that explores …
Environmental Studies June 15, 2022

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945

Ellen Griffith Spears

Hosted by Brady McCartney
Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945 (Routledge, 2019) turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the …
Environmental Studies June 2, 2022

Tangled Roots

The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics

Sarah Mittlefehldt

Hosted by Brady McCartney
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and …
Religion June 1, 2022

Freedom Church of the Poor

Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign

Colleen Wessel-McCoy

Hosted by Brady McCartney
When The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. looked over into the promised land and tried to discern how we would get there, he called the poor to lead the …
Environmental Studies May 20, 2022

Environmental Justice in Postwar America

A Documentary Reader

Christopher W. Wells

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developments came at the cost of a host of …
American West May 19, 2022

Frontier Religion

The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907

Konden Smith Hansen

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907 (U Utah Press, 2019) Konden Smith Hansen examines the dramatic influence these perceptions of the frontier had on …
Religion February 28, 2022

Shelter Theology

The Religious Lives of People without Homes

Susan J. Dunlap

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In Shelter Theology: The Religious Lives of People without Homes (Fortress Press, 2021), Susan J. Dunlap offers the theological fruits of time spent working as a chaplain with people without homes …
Environmental Studies January 31, 2022

The Church of the Dead

The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas

Jennifer Scheper Hughes

Hosted by Brady McCartney
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (NYU Press, 2021) tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the …
Environmental Studies November 29, 2021

After One Hundred Winters

In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs

Hosted by Brady McCartney
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton UP, 2021) confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of …
Environmental Studies November 22, 2021

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set

Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer

Hosted by Brady McCartney
From The Center for Humans and Nature, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a five-volume collection of essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity that highlight the interdependence …
Environmental Studies November 3, 2021

Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future

Todd LeVasseur

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future (Lexington Books, 2021), Todd LeVasseur explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on …
Environmental Studies September 23, 2021

At the Precipice

New Mexico's Changing Climate

Laura Paskus

Hosted by Brady McCartney
At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate (U New Mexico Press, 2020) explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our …
Environmental Studies September 17, 2021

The Gospel of Climate Skepticism

Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change

Robin Globus Veldman

Hosted by Brady McCartney
Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to …