Tonal – Rivers Beyond Sewage
Tonal - Rivers Beyond Sewage
Podcast Description
TONAL - Rivers Beyond Sewage explores water issues nationally with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have different and profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us on a deep dive into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor. Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself.Artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. They work to explore and expand our relationship to other species and the living earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast covers a range of themes including environmental advocacy, water quality, community initiatives, and artistic interpretations of water issues. Specific episodes feature topics such as the historical relationship of woolen cloth making with local waterways, the campaign for bathing water status in French Weir Park, the intersection of queerness and biodiversity in river ecosystems, and a deep dive into river pollution and its repercussions.
TONAL – Rivers Beyond Sewage reaches behind the headlines to explore water issues in the UK, through the lens of the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have profound relationships with water, artist Feral Practice leads us into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor.
Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself. Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. Their work explores and expands our relationship to other species and the natural world.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
When we heard that Mónica Feria Tinta was coming to Bath to promote her new book ‘A Barrister for the Earth’, we grabbed our chance to meet her for a conversation on the banks of the Avon. Mónica is a leading expert on environmental and climate change law. She has crafted daring new legal arguments that draw on constitutional, human rights, and international legislation.
We talk about her winning cases have hit the headlines, such as the protection of the Los Cedros cloud forest in Colombia against a Canadian mining company. With no indigenous people inhabiting the forest to represent, Mónica’s client became the forest itself. On the basis of detailed scientific research that showed how irreplaceable the forest was in terms of biodiversity, she successfully claimed them as a legal personality, able to take up law against their own destruction. Los Cedros has become a beacon of hope for people in Britain, as we fight to end the pollution of rivers and desecration of lands and trees. Many groups now look to Rights of Nature law with hope, and in the case of Love Our Ouse (see earlier podcast with Matthew Bird) Mónica was a key advisor.
What are we doing to the world? A lot of harm. Why do we seek happiness in the acquisition of things instead of living a good life? Mónica brings passion to the legal process with values that draw on her Andean ancestry (she moved to the UK as a refugee from the civil war in Peru) and her love of nature in England. She lives in Surrey and speaks movingly about her grief at the loss of her friend the oak tree outside her bedroom window, and how it helped her understand the fight for Chester, a London Plane tree in a coastal town in Essex that was under threat of felling for development.
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