On The Environment

On The Environment


Latest Episodes

Grasslands, Compost and Climate Change Mitigation: a Conversation with Whendee Silver
November 19, 2014

In this podcast, Whendee Silver outlines how the use of composted organic material (agricultural and green waste) on rangeland soils can increase carbon storage and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Examining the Cultural Meaning of Place: a Conversation with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
November 07, 2014

In this podcast Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and founding president of the Central Park Conservancy, discusses her work as a landscape design historian and a writer examining the cultural meaning of place.

Building a Social Network for Climate Action: a Conversation with Alexander Verbeek
November 06, 2014

In this podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how to build an robust social network.

An Integrated Approach to Climate Action: a Conversation with Alexander Verbeek
November 06, 2014

In this podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how we might address some of the most critical environmental issues.

Politics and Environment in Iceland: a Conversation with Thora Arnorsdottir
October 29, 2014

In this podcast Thora Arnorsdottir, senior news editor at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, documentary film producer, and 2014 Yale World Fellow, discusses her 2012 candidacy for the Presidency of Iceland, and environmental issues.

Bottom-up Energy Production and Supply: a Conversation with Erik Christiansen
October 27, 2014

In 2013, Denmark produced more than 40 percent of its electricity from renewable energy -- with more than 85 percent of this renewable energy produced by co-operatives owned and managed by ordinary citizens.

Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change: A Conversation with George Marshall
October 02, 2014

Climate change does not exist for people in terms of the evidence, however strong it is; it exists in the socially constructed narratives that we have around it.

Controlling Invasives: Is the Fork Effective?
September 16, 2014

In this podcast University of Tennessee Professor Dan Simberloff and Yale postdoc and invasion biologist Sara Kuebbing discuss their concerns with the tactic.

Theory of Change: a Conversation with Greenpeace’s Matt Daggett
July 25, 2014

Matt Daggett, Greenpeace International's global campaign leader for forests, visits with Amy Mount, Yale F&ES '15, about the organization's theory of change and climate policy in the US.

Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier: a Conversation with Tom Kizzia
April 23, 2014

Tom Kizzia's recent book, Pilgrim's Wilderness, details the strange (but true) journey of the self-proclaimed Papa Pilgrim, who established his wife and fifteen children in America's largest national park in south-central Alaska.