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Prior to reading our text in this chapter, we invite you to spend a few minutes listening to and watching this video–https://youtube/SnoQ u7B7 bVs. What we present here is a conversation between five authors, each residing in different places in Australia and the UK. Sharing, listening and conversing about our everyday rambles, we set out on a collective task of recording a short ‘audio walk’through our individual local environments. As a creative act, the chapter unfolds through the experimental, creative and collaborative form of a ‘conversation’as a way to listen to ‘ecocide’within and through the often overlooked, seemingly banal and mundane spaces of everyday life. In this era of ecocide, a ‘passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals and plants is opening up new understandings, relationships, and accountabilities’(Van Dooren, Kirksey and Münster 2016: 1). This experimental, emergent …