“Stuck on Utopia Parkway”
Vital City, October 18, 2023.
https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/stuck-on-utopia-parkway
Authors in the Tent, hosted by Ona Russell
Interview series, posted to LitHub and YouTube:
https://lithub.com/wade-graham-on-our-responsibility-to-our-own-communities/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouX8K_RDu1w
“Only 25 years ago, draining Lake Powell was dismissed as ‘looney’ — A group of environmentalists plotted the end the the Glen Canyon Dam decades before a megadrought made it look like a strong possibility.”
by Zak Podmore.
Salt Lake Tribune, May 18, 2022.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/05/18/twenty-five-years-ago/
Podcast: “Is Lake Powell Doomed?”
“On today’s episode, managing editor Grant Burningham talks with Wade Graham, the vice president of the Glen Canyon Institute, about the future of the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.”
Salt Lake Tribune, May , 2022.
Book Review: Richard White’s “California Exposures”: Father and Son Offer an Eye-Opening History of California
California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History. by Richard White, photographs by Jesse Amble White
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
Santa Barbara Independent, April 16, 2020.
https://www.independent.com/2020/04/16/california-exposures/
Huntington lecture: “California and the Birth of the Modern Garden”
March 9, 2020. The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Sponsored by the California Garden and Landscape History Society.
https://cglhs.org/upcoming-events
https://www.huntington.org/events/talk-book-signing-california-and-birth-modern-garden
Turkish edition of Dream Cities:
Review: Braided Waters: Environment And Society In Molokai, Hawai'i
By Frank Zelko, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 50, Number 3, Winter 2020.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/741634
“Compellingly argued, theoretically robust, and deeply researched, Braided Waters is an invaluable contribution to the historical literature about Molokai and the Hawaiian Islands in general that deserves a wide readership. Hopefully, it will spark more research into the environmental history of these stunningly beautiful and ecologically ravaged islands.”
Article: “Why Molokai is the Least Developed of Hawai’i’s Islands”
Zocalo Public Square, August 30, 2019:
Smithsonian magazine online:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-molokai-least-developed-hawaiis-islands-180973019/
Blue Sky Metropolis documentary airing
On Thursday, August 1st, Blue Sky Metropolis will be available to watch nationwide via the PBS Plus steaming service, as well as televised on PBS SoCal. Click here: https://www.pbs.org/show/blue-sky-metropolis/
This series, which is comprised of four 1-hour episodes, covers the history of aviation and aerospace in Los Angeles from 1910 to the present.
Review: “Water And Empire In Hawai’i: ‘Braided Waters’ Reveals Deep History On Molokai”
By Charles Donelan. Santa Barbara Independent, July 10, 2019.
https://www.independent.com/2019/07/10/reading-issue-between-the-pages/
“L.A. Foodways: Food at the intersection of history”
A new documentary on KCET. Premieres February 8, 2019.
Streaming Link: KCET.org/LAFoodways
“California Wildfire: Learning to Live With the New Abnormal”
Town Hall event, hosted by Madeleine Brand. KCRW Annenberg Theater, Santa Monica, CA. December 13, 2018.
Broadcast: KCRW 89.9 FM, “Press Play With Madeleine Brand,” December 14, 2018: https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/california-wildfires-learning-to-live-in-the-new-abnormal
Talk at Huntington Library: Wade Graham in conversation with Daniel Lewis
Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2018, 4:00 – 5:00P.M. THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | AHMANSON ROOM, BOTANICAL CENTER
"Big Tent" on DnA: Design and Architecture, KCRW 89.9 FM, June 26, 2018.
Interview with Frances Anderton included on part one of a three-part series airing on KCRW
world design capital mexico city. March 5, 2018
World Design Capital Mexico City 2018, International Design Forum, talk: “Dream Cities: The (History of the) Future of Cities,” Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, March 5, 2018.
Watch online: https://www.facebook.com/wdccdmx2018/videos/1119218711563933/
Glocal Design Magazine:
university of missouri–kansas city, mo. august 15, 2017
Cockefair Lecture, University of Missouri-Kansas City, talk: “American Eden,” Pierson Auditorium, 12:30 pm, Kansas City, MO. August 15, 2017.
A special edition of the KCET documentary series "Lost L.A." exploring the history of one of Southern California's most beloved public gardens. Also streaming on kcet.org, linkTV, appleTV, hulu, and roku.
Watch online: kcet.org/descansogardens
"Lost LA: Descanso Gardens" premieres on KCET, july 18, 2018
KCRW: "there goes the neighborhood,” September 26, 2017.
Today the first of eight parts of an excellent new radio documentary about urban issues in LA aired on "Press Play" with Madeleine Brand. Digging into gentrification, in places like Echo Park, where I live.
Press Play: http://www.kcrw.com/latest/all-these-people-moving-in-new-buildings-new-apartments
Podcast: http://www.kcrw.com/latest/hows-gentrification-changing-la-get-the-podcast
kansas city public library, april 25, 2017
Kansas City Public Library, talk: “Dream Cities,” 6:30 pm, Kansas City, MO. April 25, 2017.
signs of life in the usa: readings on popular culture for writers
Op-ed essay, "Are We Greening Our Cities, or Just Greenwashing Them?" included in 9th ed. of compilation Signs Of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers (Macmillan, 2018). Originally appeared in Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2016.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-graham-folly-of-green-buildings-20160306-story.html
Wade on The Colbert Report
Link to show: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/r7zj9a/the-colbert-report-wade-graham
New York Times profile, september, 2011.
American Eden on C-SPAN Book TV
Link to segment: https://www.c-span.org/video/?318931-7/american-eden