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The Progressive Page Turner

The Progressive Page Turner

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Conversations about books with the people who wrote them. Hosted by Marianne Barisonek

Copyright 2025 The Progressive Page Turner Politics & Government
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  • Episode 16: Eleanor Finley - Practicing Social Ecology

    Episode 16: Eleanor Finley - Practicing Social Ecology
    Aug 16 2025

    As we watch climate chaos and the rise of fascism fundamentally change our world we need to find new ways of structuring society. In her book 'Practicing Social Ecology' Eleanor Finley uses examples of grassroots movements that are rethinking our relationship to the natural world and each other.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 15: Mariah Blake - They Poisoned the World

    Episode 15: Mariah Blake - They Poisoned the World
    Aug 1 2025

    PFAS is a group of chemicals that didn't exist in the world until humans created them in the 1940's. They're highly toxic endocrine disruptors that affect the thyroid, liver, kidney and reproductive organs. Now they are everywhere. They're found in the bloodstreams of polar bears and the rain falling on the Tibetan plateau. How did this happen? In her book They Poisoned the World Mariah Blake traces PFAS from the Manhattan Project to the Trump regime.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 14: Eiren Caffall - The Mourners Bestiary

    Episode 14: Eiren Caffall - The Mourners Bestiary
    Jul 18 2025

    In Eiren Caffall's memoir she pairs her private grief over learning she has a genetic disease that will end her life prematurely with the collective grief for the collapsing ecosystem.

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    30 mins
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