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From Hobart’s Beaker St Festival Tim Flannery and Robyn Williams tackle the problem of how to approach people who despite overwhelming evidence, won’t be convinced. 

We've got a wild card this week: Fresh, the new Hulu rom-com-turned-horror movie about a woman named Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) who has a meat-cute, ahem, with a man named Steve (our fave hunk Sebastian Stan) in a grocery store but he doesn't turn out to be the seemingly nice dude she thought he was. You wouldn't think there'd be a lot of looks, but in fact, there are! Including some smart choices with hidden meanings, courtesy of the film's costume designers Christina Flannery and Athena Theny. 

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A moving tribute to Flannery O'Connor.

Floyd Skloot's poetry and prose have won three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, and been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing. Poets & Writers named him "One of 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World." His books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory and The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press); the poetry collections The End of Dreams, The Snow's Music, Approaching Winter, and  Far West (all from LSU Press, ), and the novel The Phantom of Thomas Hardy (University of Wisconsin Press). He lives in Oregon with his wife, Beverly Hallberg. Skloot's daughter Rebecca is the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown, 2010). They co-edited The Best American Science Writing 2011 (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2012).

 “O’Connor at Andalusia,” first appeared in The End of Dreams LSU Press 2006. Permission to read poem granted by LSU Press.

As our seventh season enters its final third, Bart and Chris join guest host Sonali Gulati, a filmmaker and faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a review of Jacqueline Olive’s searing look back at America’s violent history of lynching, Always in Season. Then, Bart interviews Elizabeth Coffman, co-director of Flannery, a documentary about the late, great southern writer Flannery O’Connor, which was just awarded the inaugural Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. Inspiring artists deserve inspiring discussions, and that’s what we bring to the podcast. Enjoy!

Group Review Documentary:

ALWAYS IN SEASON (Jacqueline Olive, 2019)

In theaters and film festivals now

Film Featured in Interview Portion:

FLANNERY (Elizabeth Coffman/Mark Bosco, 2019)

Currently playing in festivals

Other Films and Sites Mentioned:

• Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (Pamela B. Green, 2019)
• Diary of a Harlem Family (Gordon Parks, 1968)
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Gordon Parks exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum
• I Am (Sonali Gulati, 2011)
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2019)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)
• True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (George Kunhardt/Peter W. Kunhardt/Teddy Kunhardt, 2019)
• The World of Piri Thomas (Gordon Parks, 1968)

Link to review by Christopher Llewellyn Reed:

• Film Festival Today review of Always in Season

Timestamps:

• 00:38 – Intro
• 05:02 – Group Discussion of ALWAYS IN SEASON
• 20:14 – Bart interviews Elizabeth Coffman of FLANNERY
• 38:01 – Doc Talk

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Have you heard the bad news? God is dead. But in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, you can't keep a good god down—even when you murder a consumptive flim-flam man, seduce a fifteen-year-old, and blind yourself with quicklime. So put glass shards in your shoes, turn up your headphones, and drink every time we say "nihilism." 

(This episode’s summary was written by our guest, Kathleen Founds.  Before she found herself dreaming up nihilism-themed drinking games on a classic literature podcast, Founds wrote the novel When Mystical Creatures Attack!, which won the 2014 University of Iowa Press John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book.)

In this latest installment of the Books of Some Substance podcast San Francisco State University English Professor Sarita Cannon returns to talk about the violent grace (or graceful violence?) of Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find.  Listen in as Nick and Sarita talk about the curious relationship between Catholicism and the grotesque, how O’Connor can keep a live audience laughing right up until a story plunges into mass murder, and the intriguing, dark-prophet nature of The Misfit.  Somewhat surprisingly, zero Glenn Danzig references were made.

Gillespie and Riley go back to O’Connor’s short story, Good Country People to discuss faith, humility, and the uncomfortable truth about ourselves. 

Our Text: Good Country People, Flannery O’Connor

Show Notes: 

• Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
• Link to Part 1: #46
• Biography (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
• Mark Twain - Letters from Earth

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This week, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Flannery O’Connor’s short story, Good Country People. What does it mean that someone is a good Christian? 

Our Text: Good Country People, Flannery O’Connor

Show Notes: 

• Biography (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

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This week we head to the appendix of our encyclopaedia of heroic failure and talk about some stone cold heroes.

Way back in early 2017 we talked about the worst board games, fairy tales, professional wrestlers, TV comedies and first dates - now Ben and Barry return to the scene of the crimes to laud some champions.  On our way we uncover the real story behind Beauty and the Beast, why Calvin Coolidge was a hit with the ladies and laud a big, battle-scarred bear with a scabby heart of gold.

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Charlie Veron, recognised as a world authority on coral reefs- reads from his memoir : 'A Life Underwater'; Tim Flannery , famous environmentalist says we can still be optimistic in 'An Atmosphere of Hope' while Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty tells us how to sort fact from fiction in 'The Knowledge Wars'.In their interviews these noted authors and environment experts give us much food for thought.

Music track is Miriam Lieberman with 'Falling' from her CD 'Full Circle'.

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How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate

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Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World

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This is the World Organic News for the week ending 7th of August 2017.

Jon Moore reporting!

This week we are focussing upon a piece entitled: How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate from the blog Kevin's Walk on the Wild Side. This covers a new book by Tim Flannery: Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World. Links in the show notes.

In the past, I’ve been surprised at some of Flannery’s statements. A while back he was surprised at how quickly solar rooftop panels had taken off in Australia. After all, he’s projected 2030 or thereabouts for the level of usage we achieved by 2015. Little did he realise that price signals, rising power bills and increasingly cheaper solar panels, would drive the uptake of this technology.

In this book young Flannery seems to have cottoned onto the possibilities of price signals combined with science. The sort of thing which created the Industrial Revolution and should reverse its unpleasant side effects, just in time, we all hope.

So to the article.

Kelp, a form of seaweed much less studied than it should be. You will recall the huge drop off in cattle methane production when fed seaweed as part of their diet from a few shows back. The phenomena discussed on this occasion continues the greenhouse gas abatement line.

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The kelp draw in so much carbon dioxide that they help de-acidify the water, providing an ideal environment for shell growth. The CO₂ is taken out of the water in much the same way that a land plant takes CO₂ out of the air. But because CO₂ has an acidifying effect on seawater, as the kelp absorb the CO₂ the water becomes less acid. And the kelp itself has some value as a feedstock in agriculture and various industrial purposes.

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The kelp then becomes part of the solution to our current situation. But it is a supercharged part of that solution. The startup problems are enormous and subject to the vagaries of weather. The example cited in the article and the book is that of an enterprise off the coast of New Haven, Connecticut. Beginning in 2011 the kelp farmer, Bren Smith, was wiped out by storms, twice, Hurricanes Irene and Sandy. His enterprise 3D Ocean Farming is now profitable and ecologically stable.

Because once a critical mass is achieved, kelp forests will survive these storms. They are have further useful effects as the Chinese have been aware for centuries.

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The general concepts embodied by 3D Ocean Farming have long been practised in China, where over 500 square kilometres of seaweed farms exist in the Yellow Sea. The seaweed farms buffer the ocean’s growing acidity and provide ideal conditions for the cultivation of a variety of shellfish. Despite the huge expansion in aquaculture, and the experiences gained in the United States and China of integrating kelp into sustainable marine farms, this farming methodology is still at an early stage of development.

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There are other advantages to ocean cropping beyond those already discussed is the relative speed of growth. Seaweed grows like bamboo in the wet w=season and every season is the wet season for seaweed. Growth rates 30 times those of land based agriculture are common. This provides many opportunities. As trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to create timber so the growth rates of seaweeds suck much more carbon dioxide from the oceans than do trees from the atmosphere. As the oceans are huge carbon sinks, absorbing carbon as a buffer to excessive atmospheric carbon, they are also somewhat supercharged to feed seaweed. One of the consequences of ocean carbon absorption is the acidification of oceans. This in turn leads to shellfish suffering thinning shells and weakening of already threatened coral reefs.

The benefits keep piling up.

And there has been academic work on the potential of kelp farming for biomass production of methane at the University of the South Pacific way back in 2012.

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…could produce sufficient biomethane to replace all of today’s needs in fossil-fuel energy, while removing 53 billion tonnes of CO₂ per year from

the atmosphere… This amount of biomass could also increase sustainable fish production to potentially provide 200 kilograms per year, per person, for 10 billion people. Additional benefits are reduction in ocean acidification and increased ocean primary productivity and biodiversity.

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They further calculated that 9% of the ocean surface area would need to be converted to kelp farms. This is not inconsiderable area but a smaller area combined with terrestrial regenerative agriculture could still achieve useful results.

Dr Brian von Hertzen has gone as far as to design kilometre square arrays for creating oceanic permaculture structures:

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...a frame structure, most likely composed of a carbon polymer, up to a square kilometre in extent and sunk far enough below the surface (about 25 metres) to avoid being a shipping hazard. Planted with kelp, the frame would be interspersed with containers for shellfish and other kinds of fish as well. There would be no netting, but a kind of free-range aquaculture based on providing habitat to keep fish on location. Robotic removal of encrusting organisms would probably also be part of the facility. The marine permaculture would be designed to clip the bottom of the waves during heavy seas. Below it, a pipe reaching down to 200–500 metres would bring cool, nutrient-rich water to the frame, where it would be reticulated over the growing kelp.

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The possibilities this technology provides are only limited by our imaginations. The key is to avoid a monoculture of kelp which, in the wilds of the ocean, would be even more difficult to achieve than it is on land. Remembering that terrestrial monocultures are created with the use of herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertiliser, it seems financially prohibitive to grow anything other than a polyculture in the ocean. Win/win! I recommend you read both the article quoted from and Flannery’s monograph. There is hope in this time. The forces which created the industrial pollution, the rising levels of carbon dioxide, the possible release of methane from the tundra and rising sea levels will fight to maintain their entrenched positions of privilege within the economy but the alternatives are developing and developing in such a cost effective manner that price signals will overwhelm the rent seeking trenches being held by the remnants of the old order.

There is indeed nothing more powerful than idea whose time has come.

And on that happy note we will end this week’s episode.

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How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate

https://kevinswildside.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/how-farming-giant-seaweed-can-feed-fish-and-fix-the-climate/

Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World

"G.G. Allin could have been a Flannery O'Connor character." Charlie & Chris discuss the murderous short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and the difference between an author's intent and a reader's response. Why isn't this considered a horror story? And is it punk rock?

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Additional Resources:

• Flannery O'Connor Reads “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1959)
• Flannery O'Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: Who’s the Real Misfit?
• Flannery O'Connor: Journey through the South, Old and New

Chapter 39: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) proves a good woman is easy to snatch up in a machine that can travel through time and space! And Flannery O'Connor (Lennon Parham) proves that all of us can be a peacock. All of us.

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Cody and Ranjit are pleased to be joined by writer, improviser, actor, sketch comedian, and lady of the stage, Mary Jo Bolduc to discuss the foreshadowy nature of Flannery O’Connor. It was a hoot of semantics and game shows, the likes of which can be enjoyed by all! The story can be found online and also in short story collections available on Amazon.

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Yeah - HUP. Episode 136 in a series of ONE THOUSAND podchats with your friends Ben "Split Enz" Pobjie and Cam "Crowded House" Smith.

In this thrilling installment, we are sitting in a bus stop in Northcote at midnight. Will the bus ever come? Find out!

But also, it includes:

• The actual, real-life conversation we had with Tim Flannery just before recording.
• Why you should follow @AlexinaRose on Twitter.
• Askance looks from passers-by.
• Celebrity guest appearances by Benjamin Law, Jess McGuire and Angie Hart.
• Sesame Street.
• Our power over the State Government.
• Sick spoilers.
• Beautiful Kate.
• IMDb goofs.
• Stuff on the wall in front of the bus stop.

ENJOY!