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:

Bryan Alexander, "Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

May 9, 2023

Universities on Fire

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…

Brenden W. Rensink, "The North American West in the Twenty-First Century" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

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 i…

Peter S. Alagona, "The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities" (U California Press, 2022)

September 5, 2022

The Accidental Ecosystem

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 wen…

J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, "The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945" (Harvard UP, 2016)

August 10, 2022

The Great Acceleration

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, t…

Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)

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, 202…

Ellen Griffith Spears, "Rethinking the American Environmental Movement Post-1945" (Routledge, 2019)

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 ne…

Sarah Mittlefehldt, "Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics" (U Washington Press, 2013)

June 2, 2022

Tangled Roots

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 an…

Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)

June 1, 2022

Freedom Church of the Poor

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 le…

Christopher W. Wells, "Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader" (U Washington Press, 2018)

May 20, 2022

Environmental Justice in Postwar America

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 developmen…

Konden Smith Hansen, "Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907" (U Utah Press, 2019)

May 19, 2022

Frontier Religion

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…

Susan J. Dunlap, "Shelter Theology: The Religious Lives of People without Homes" (Fortress Press, 2021)

February 28, 2022

Shelter Theology

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 w…

Jennifer Scheper Hughes, "The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas" (NYU Press, 2021)

January 31, 2022

The Church of the Dead

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 Americ…

Margaret D. Jacobs, "After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands" (Princeton UP, 2021)

November 29, 2021

After One Hundred Winters

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…

Gavin Van Horn et al., "Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set" (Center for Humans and Nature, 2021)

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 stor…

Todd LeVasseur, "Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future" (Lexington Books, 2021)

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 investigat…

Laura Paskus, "At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)

September 23, 2021

At the Precipice

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 a…

Robin Globus Veldman, "The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change" (U California Press, 2019)

September 17, 2021

The Gospel of Climate Skepticism

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…