Luminaries: Series Trailer

Spring Creek Podcast

Welcome to "Luminaries," a new podcast series produced by the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University.

Sometimes we come across a piece of writing, art, or music so vivid and brilliant it leaves us unequivocally changed. “Luminaries” invites guests who love the planet to share a personal story about a piece of writing or art that inspires or sustains their environmental thinking or work.

We are inviting guests to choose a piece that makes their heart glow. The pieces range from essays, books, and poems, to artwork, music, and film. The guests will explore how the piece changed their thinking or life, how it sustains them, how it challenges them, or how it invites them to reimagine their relationship with the natural world.

“Luminaries” will be an open-ended series. We will dip in and out of it over the months and years ahead. As a whole, the episodes will offer a radiant collection of creative work that people can tune into for inspiration, resolve, and respite as they do the critical work of loving and protecting the Earth.