Adding further to the on-going discussion of his essay “Crash on Demand“, David Holmgren appears on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith. Also on the same program is Nicole Foss from the Automatic Earth (who had written Crash on Demand? A Response to David Holmgren). The dynamic duo explains some of the controversial points raised in the debate (including ”The best way to address climate change is not to talk about it”).
The show can be heard on 76 stations all around the world including CFRO in Vancouver (Friday at 1 pm), WPFW in Washington D.C. (Monday 1 pm), Resonance in London (Tuesday Noon), KNEW 960 in San Francisco (Sunday 10:30 pm), PRN in New York (Saturday 10 am), 3CR in Melbourne (Sunday 6 am), 4ZZZ in Brisbane, NIM-FM in Nimbin, NSW, and so on. Check the syndication station list for your local area.
For those living outside the radio broadcast zones or those who missed the broadcast, the entire program is available for download here.

2026 Venie Prize winner
Here is what judge Peter O’Mara had to say about all of the poems entered in this year’s Venie Prize: In such a conjectural, estranged times, this year’s entries arrived, not coincidentally, from a multifarious array of the environmental poetry index — the polemical, the elegiac, the embodied, the observed, the incidental, the expansive, the



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