If you haven’t heard of it before, I think NPR does a really nice job putting together their podcast, TED Radio Hour.  As the title suggests, it’s a selection of related TED talks, but also mixes-in interviews with each of the featured speakers. The show translates well to an audio podcast but the video for each talk is easily accessible from the NPR website.

The episode from last week was titled, Everything is Connected, where the theme was based on “…how everything in nature is connected, and how we can restore its delicate balance.”  If you only had time to listen one segment, I would suggest, What Listening To Nature Teaches Us About Changing Habitats.   The segment features Bernie Krause, who has been recording the sounds of nature for over 45 years.  From the NPR link:

Bernie Krause is a bioacoustician whose recordings have uncovered nature’s rich sonic tapestry — along with some unexpected results. Krause captures the fading voices of nature, studying sonic interplay between species as they attract mates, hunt prey and sound out their roles in the ecosystem. His documentation of vanishing aural habitats is a chilling reminder of shrinking biodiversity.