Latest Environment Non-Profit Podcast Episodes
Honoring Mud Lake This Earth Day
People Places Planet - April 22, 2024 19:41 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsMud Lake, written and illustrated by 2020 National Wetlands Award winner Sam Lovall, is a collection of short adventure stories set in the 1960s and 70s about children freely exploring the natural world in Haslett, Michigan. The book is an engaging testament to the beauty and importance...
What will a potential TikTok ban mean for Chinese tech in the U.S.?
The US-China Podcast - April 22, 2024 14:17 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA TikTok ban moved one step closer to reality when the House passed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” in March 2024, and then moved to package the Act with foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan in mid-April. Though not yet a law, the bill draws ...
The future of U.S.-China climate diplomacy
The US-China Podcast - April 19, 2024 14:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOn November 14th, 2023, the United States and China jointly issued the “Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis” which introduced several areas for U.S.-China climate cooperation. The statement aims to increase activities between states, provinces, and cities ...
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell: CHINA Town Hall 2024
The US-China Podcast - April 15, 2024 14:15 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe 2024 CHINA Town Hall program took place on Tuesday, April 9, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET, with featured speaker Dr. Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State. Missed the event? Watch a recording of the livestream here. CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part program that provides a snapshot of...
NEPA, Explained
People Places Planet - April 11, 2024 17:58 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsWhen airports, buildings, highways, dams, power plants, and other federal activities are proposed, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements are invoked. Passed by Congress in 1969 and signed into law on January 1, 1970, NEPA fundamentally altered how lawmakers and regul...
Young Professionals in Sustainability - Zhinan Chen, RMI (in Chinese)
Environment China - April 07, 2024 19:48 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn the latest episode of Environment China's podcast, we speak to Zhinan Chen as part of our Young Professionals in Sustainability series. Zhinan is a senior associate with Rocky Mountain Institute's India Program, based in Oakland, California, United States. She collaborates with national and s...
ELR Spotlight: A Primer on Climate Justice Litigation in the United States
People Places Planet - April 05, 2024 17:48 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsOver the last three decades, numerous studies have concluded that African American, Hispanic, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and working-class White communities are disproportionately exposed to environmental harms and climate risks. Several states have initiated litig...
Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War
The US-China Podcast - April 05, 2024 17:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDavid M. Lampton’s new book addresses a core critique of the management of Sino-American relations across eight administrations: that naïve American elites conflated their hopes for democracy and a globally responsible China with the actual prospects for those ends, and, in the process, traded a...
Has engagement with China failed? | U.S.-China Counterpoints
The US-China Podcast - April 02, 2024 17:23 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAt the height of the Cold War, the United States made a bold political gamble to engage with an underdeveloped and politically isolated China. Engagement policy transformed not only the Cold War political landscape, but the trajectory of history: China is now one of the largest and most powerful...
#7 Two Giant Neighbors of the Pacific Islands: U.S.-China & the World
The US-China Podcast - March 29, 2024 17:25 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsU.S.-China & the World is an interview series investigating how the U.S.-China relationship impacts societies, economies, and policies around the globe. Through short interviews with local experts, this series takes a closer look at the countries and regions affected by and navigating through U...
Bioresources
Planet Possible - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutesWe're exploring the topic of bioresources - sometimes called sewage sludge - and our interview is with Georgia Elliot-Smith, who's heading up 'Fighting Dirty' - a campaign to ensure environmental regulation around sewage sludge - last updated in 1989 in England and Wales - remains effective. Nik...
China’s Role in Red Sea Security
The US-China Podcast - March 25, 2024 20:11 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe United States and its allies have been combating Houthi attacks that have left vital Red Sea shipping lanes vulnerable. China, however, has contributed little to these international efforts. Tensions have risen amid calls for China to join the international effort, prompting discussions on t...
Where Will China’s Economy Go in 2024?
The US-China Podcast - March 22, 2024 16:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsChina’s economy is infused into every aspect of the U.S.-China relationship. With tighter U.S. export controls on chips, new technology developments in China, a slowdown in consumer activity, rising electric vehicle competition, and prickly government relations, the Chinese and American economie...
Diplomacy Required: Women, Water, and Peace
People Places Planet - March 22, 2024 04:07 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe theme of this year’s World Water Day is “Water for Peace”. With over 2 billion people around the world lacking clean water access, tensions can arise within communities and between countries. Further complicating the issue, around 40 percent of the global population lives in a tran...
Hearing Local Voices at the “Ground Zero” of Climate Change
InAsia - March 20, 2024 20:00 - 17 minutesIn the restless borderlands between India and Bangladesh, new research documents the human impacts of climate disruption where the social compact is precarious. Read the full blog post about this cutting-edge research on InAsia.
Perspectives on 2024’s Two Sessions
The US-China Podcast - March 19, 2024 20:51 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), known as the “Two Sessions” (“Lianghui”), feature the gathering of political leaders in Beijing each spring to announce plans and goals for the coming year. In 2024, faced ...
How a Rusting Warship Became the Hotspot of the South China Sea
The US-China Podcast - March 15, 2024 16:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSecond Thomas Shoal, a feature in the South China Sea, is highly contested: both China and the Philippines claim sovereignty over this area and have confronted each other repeatedly around the shoal, stirring tensions that have escalated into a military confrontation between the two countries. ...
Unleash the Green: Legal and Policy Solutions for Green Startups
People Places Planet - March 14, 2024 21:08 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsGreen startups are imagining solutions to the climate crisis and leading the transition to a sustainable economy. Yet sustainable entrepreneurship remains incredibly daunting given market challenges, long pathways to commercial viability, and an ill-suited investor landscape. In this ep...
#6 Who are Serbia's partners? : U.S.-China & the World
The US-China Podcast - March 08, 2024 10:28 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsU.S.-China & the World is an interview series investigating how the U.S.-China relationship impacts societies, economies, and policies around the globe. Through short interviews with local experts, this series takes a closer look at the countries and regions affected by and navigating through U...
Cultivating Women’s Forest Stewardship: The 100 Champions Network
InAsia - March 06, 2024 20:00 - 14 minutesRural women have proven to be uniquely effective protectors of Indonesia’s vast and threatened forests. Joining us this week is Rahpriyanto Alam Surya Putra, the director of The Asia Foundation’s Environmental Governance program in Indonesia, to talk about women’s forest stewardship and a proje...
Studying in China as a Black Man/How Black Musicians Brought Jazz to China
The US-China Podcast - March 01, 2024 15:14 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPart 1 In 1997, Marketus Presswood was the only Black student in his language program in Beijing, China. His experience navigating race, culture, and identity between China and the U.S. shaped his current research into socio-cultural interactions between Africa, the African Diaspora and China ...
How Can Business Help Solve the Freshwater Crisis?
People Places Planet - February 29, 2024 16:06 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsBillions of people around the globe lack adequate access to clean water. This freshwater crisis will be exacerbated by climate change. Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis explores the rapidly expanding role of private businesses and marke...
Highway Runoff
Planet Possible - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutesThe water that runs off our traffic-filled roads ends up in our rivers, but we know little about it, it's hardly monitored and improving the quality of that runoff is a huge task. Join us for this special episode of Planet Possible in collaboration with Watershed Investigations as we dig into t...
#5 US & China's Power is Transforming Kenya: U.S.-China & the World
The US-China Podcast - February 23, 2024 18:32 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsU.S.-China & the World is an interview series investigating how the U.S.-China relationship impacts societies, economies, and policies around the globe. Through short interviews with local experts, this series takes a closer look at the countries and regions affected by and navigating through U...
Cumulative Impact Analysis: Massachusetts, EPA, and Beyond
People Places Planet - February 23, 2024 15:37 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsCommunities are exposed to pollution through the air, water, and land. Multiple sources of pollution and other environmental stressors can add up over time to cause adverse effects to human health and wellbeing. This is known as “cumulative impacts.” Environmental justice (EJ) communiti...
A New Chapter for a Storied Books Program
InAsia - February 21, 2024 19:00 - 17 minutesWe explore the transformative journey of The Asia Foundation's Books for Asia, now reborn as Let's Read. Director Kyle Barker, alongside team members from Indonesia, Aryasatyani Sintadewi and Haura Najmakamila, delve into the pivotal shift from distributing millions of physical books since 1954 ...
50 Years of EPA: Looking Back with Walter Mugdan
Environmental Law Explored: A Podcast SEERies - February 20, 2024 18:03 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWalter Mugdan discusses his career at EPA, where he began working in 1975 as a staff attorney in Region 2, and subsequently served in various supervisory positions in the Office of Regional Counsel, with Emily Mott, senior associate at Baker Botts LLP and past member of the Section’s Leadership...
What is it like to study abroad in China as a Black student?
The US-China Podcast - February 16, 2024 17:26 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsNCUSCR staffers Elisabeth Fisher and Bailey Johnson discuss their experiences studying in China, how they balanced exploring a new culture and developing their own identities, and the importance of Black History Month through the study abroad experience. Find their bios here: https://www.ncus...
Corporate climate disclosure in China - with Erica Downs, Ned Downie, and Yushan Lou
Environment China - February 14, 2024 10:43 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsToday's episode looks at the complex topic of corporate climate disclosures. Our guests today are Erica Downs, Ned Downie, and Lou Yushan. They are the authors of a recent report, published by the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), entitled “China’s Climate Disclosure Regime: How R...
#4 Poland on the Edge of NATO: U.S.-China & the World
The US-China Podcast - February 10, 2024 02:44 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsU.S.-China & the World is an interview series investigating how the U.S.-China relationship impacts societies, economies, and policies around the globe. Through short interviews with local experts, this series takes a closer look at the countries and regions affected by and navigating through U...
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