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There's a word for the grief and anger people feel when their environment is ravaged -- solastalgia. It's what Gulf Coast residents may be feeling right now, as they watch oil wash up onto their beaches. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the psychology of our attachment to the places we love. Why we suffer when forests are cut down, air is polluted, rivers and oceans fouled – the link between the environment and human happiness.
SEGMENT 1:
In 2004 Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term "solastalgia." It was his way of describing the combination of grief and longing people feel when a place they love has been damaged. He tells Anne Strainchamps when he first began to notice the phenomenon, about ten years ago. Indiana author Scott Russell Sanders understands the feeling. He worries that most of America is becoming the same. He tells Steve Paulson that the best way to fight the homogenization of America is to reclaim its particularity.
SEGMENT 2:
Novella Carpenter was thrilled when she and her boyfriend found an affordable apartment in the Bay Area, and even more when she discovered it had a vacant lot next door. She immediately began to imagine a garden, more like a farm, but the author of "Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer" tells Jim Fleming that there was a drawback to her urban farm dream – the apartment was in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
SEGMENT 3:
For writer Adam Nicolson, attachment to place goes deep. He grew up in Sissinghurst Castle, one of the most beautiful places in England, home to the celebrated garden of his grandmother, the poet Vita Sackville-West. When he returned as an adult he was astonished and saddened to see that the working farm at the garden had disappeared. He tells the story in a book called "Sissinghurst - An Unfinished History." He tells Anne Strainchamps it was a magical place to grow up.
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| Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst,
an Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita
Sackville-West's Legendary Garden (Viking) |
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Scott Russell Sanders, A Conservationist
Manifesto (Indiana) |
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| Novella Carpenter, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (Penguin) |  |
- Novella Carpenter's Ghost Town Farm site: http://ghosttownfarm.wordpress.com/
- Scott Russell Sanders website
http://www.scottrussellsanders.com/
- Open: “Pockets” by
Biko, on the CD “Solastalgia”. (p) 2009 Biko
- Intro to Glenn Albrecht: from Dejan Cosic’s CD
“Solastalgia” -- free download on his site www.jukeen.com
- After Glenn Allbrecht: “Hide and Seek,”
by Time for Three on their CD “3 Fervent Travelers” www.timeforthree.com
- After Scott Russell Sanders: “Don Don” by
Time for Three on their CD “3 Fervent Travelers” www.timeforthree.com
- After Novella Carpenter: “Rumor Mill” by
The Gentle Guest, on the CD “Cast Off Your Human Face.” ©
2010 Amble Down Records www.ambledown.com
- Under Adam Nicolson reading: “Of Time and Three
Rivers” by Time for Three on their CD “3 Fervent Travelers”
www.timeforthree.com
- After Adam Nicolson: Francois Couperin, “Troisieme
Lecon de Tenebres a 2 voix, from the CD soundtrack for the film “Tous
Les Matins du Monde” (Auvidis Distribution)
- Show close: Marin Marais, “La Brillante”, on the CD Marin Marais, “Pieces De Viole du 3me Livre” performed by Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman and Hopkinson Smith. (Auvidis Distribution
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