Disquiet Voices

 Radio Shows & Podcasts from the Left Coast

...this website is bare bones so... turn off your screen and open your ears...


Disquiet Voices is the project of Chad Swimmer.  

This website is an archive of old shows, usually in original broadcast format.

Please email me at cswimmr@gmail.com for permission to use any content.  Shukran!

 All new shows (2024 and on...) are easily streamable as podcasts at Buzzsprout

Check in there for easy access and better quality sound.... Disquiet Voices is fiscally sponsored by 

the Cloud Forest Institute

...for environmental education, queer & social justice, and forest restoration...

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The Ecology Hour and Disquiet:

Episodes of Direct and Legal Activism to Save the Climate and the Recovering Forests of the West

Queer Voices, Music, Opinions, & Lives   from Highway 101 to the World....

The Trail Stewards Radio Hour--Ecology, Politics, and Policy of the Redwood Region     

December 2022: The Ecosystem of the Soul, readings, ramblings, and musings from activists and our families about the fraught relationship of humans with the natural world.

November 2022: Save the Redwoods League Conservation and Science Director Joanna Nelson, PhD, and the Friends of Little Bear

October 2022: Thirty Years of Greenwashing, looking at the Forest Stewardship Council with Gary Hughes, and backwoods preparedness with Marc Jensen

September 2022: The Mushroom Economy with Eric Schramm, the JAG with Charlie Schneider, and the Coalition with Megan Wolf

August 2022: The Unforeseen Impacts of Trails and the History of Equestrian Use in JDSF with Chad Swimmer and Lari Shea

July 2022: Prescribed Fire with the Stewards of Emerald Earth Sanctuary and Kyle Farmer of UC Cooperative Extension in Hopland

June 2022: A Celebration of the Life of Bill Lemos

May 2022: Redwood forest ecology and recovery with Environmental Scientist Will Russell and Ecologist Teresa Sholars

April 2022: Forest carbon, carbon offsets, and exposing more hot air, with Gary Graham Hughes, Stephen Sillett, Evan Mills, Matt Simmons, Marc Jensen, Ravel Gauthier, and more.....

March 2022: The Pomo Rally in Ukiah

February 2022: A rebroadcast of the Gallery Bookshop/Book Arts Mendo Zoom event for the Mendocino Trail Stewards' Book

December 2021: Natural Building with Colin Gillespie and Direct Activism with Anna Marie Stenberg

November 2021: The Jackson Advisory Group and the Old Woodlands, with Chris Blencowe, Charlie Schneider, and Bill Lemos

October 2021: Tribal co-management with Polly Girvin, our allies Gransel and Hetel, Michelle McMillan, Sara Constance Rose, and Vince Taylor on the Mendocino Woodlands

September 2021: Forest Activism 

July 2021: How to save a forest with Bill Lemos and Naomi Wagner

June 2021: Climate change and sustainable forestry, with JP O'Brien and Teresa Sholars

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