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Rasheed Griffith Explores the Complexities of the Caribbean
Ideas of India - April 25, 2024 11:00 - 1 hourToday my guest is Rasheed Griffith, who is the CEO of the Caribbean Progress Studies Institute, the host of the podcast the Rasheed Griffith Show, and one of my favorite writers on Substack. He also directs the Emergent Ventures Africa-Caribbean grants program at the Mercatus Center. We sp...
Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts
Climate One - April 19, 2024 07:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsArtificial intelligence can do some pretty amazing things, including for the climate. AI can help optimize the electric grid, make heating and cooling buildings more efficient, and pinpoint exactly where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from all around the world. On the other hand, the energy...
Ep 70: Overcoming Resistance to Density with David Kaufmann and Michael Wicki
UCLA Housing Voice - April 17, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsWhat makes people more or less supportive of dense housing in their communities? David Kaufmann and Michael Wicki surveyed 12,000 residents in six of the largest U.S. and European cities to find out.
Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet?
Climate One - April 12, 2024 07:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsIn August 2022, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400 billion into boosting the transition to a clean energy economy over the next ten years. The IRA has spurred companies to announce nearly $110 billion of in...
Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry
Ideas of India - April 11, 2024 11:30 - 1 hourToday my guest is Pranay Kotasthane who is the deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme. Pranay co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podca...
Do wind turbines kill birds?
TILclimate - April 11, 2024 09:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsWind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildlife. MIT Professor Michael Howland returns to the podcast to answer a listener's question about the risks of wind energy to birds—and explain how wind...
Protecting Human Rights: The Role of NGOs in Today’s Landscape
Humanities Matter by Brill - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 43 minutesAs global crises have time and time again demonstrated, NGOs play an invaluable role in the protection and promotion of human rights. But what exactly does this role entail? How do NGOs fulfil their responsibilities while adapting to technological, commercial, and legal landscape shifts? And fin...
Reducing Harm Through Education
Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTo learn more about US helping US, People Into Living, and the DENIM project, please visit https://www.ushelpingus.org/
Elizabeth Kolbert on Hope, Despair, and Everything In Between
Climate One - April 05, 2024 07:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsEven before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change to the mainstream, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert was on the beat. Her reporting in the early 2000s culminated in her book “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” which sounded the alarm on the causes and effects ...
Do wind turbines freeze up in the cold?
TILclimate - April 04, 2024 09:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsYou might have heard how wind turbines failed in Texas during a terrible cold front in 2021. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable source of energy when the weather turns extreme? MIT Professor Michael Howland joins the podcast to explain how wind turbine operators prepare for fr...
Ep 69: Low-Income Housing and 'Crowd Out' with Michael Eriksen
UCLA Housing Voice - April 03, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsSubsidized affordable housing development reduces costs for lower-income households directly. It also reduces costs indirectly, by increasing the overall supply of housing — or does it? Michael Eriksen joins to discuss the issue of “crowd out” in affordable housing production.
Anchored Insight: Admiral James Stavridis on Fiction, History, and Service
None Of The Above - April 02, 2024 08:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsMany have argued that NATO, the transatlantic alliance forged at the dawn of the Cold War, is merely a vestige of another era. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thrust NATO back into the spotlight, and reignited debates about the value and strategic imperatives of America’s alliances. With a dist...
Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation
Climate One - March 29, 2024 07:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsClimate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disruption in your wallets. Drought is pushing up the cost of candy and leading to shipping delays in the Panama Canal. Globally, researchers say climate ...
Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations
Ideas of India - March 28, 2024 12:00 - 1 hourToday my guests are M. Krishnan and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished s...
Won’t more CO2 help plants grow?
TILclimate - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsPlants take in CO2 from the air to grow—and today’s atmosphere has about 50% more CO2 than it did before we started burning massive amounts of fossil fuels. So, is that great news for plants? Prof. David Des Marais, a plant ecologist at MIT, helps answer this listener question. For a deeper div...
Southern CBO Summit 2024
Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community - March 26, 2024 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLearn more about the CBOs in this episode below, and stay connected with NASTAD to learn more about future CBO summits. Delaware HIV Consortium- https://www.delawarehiv.org/ Urban League of Hampton Roads- https://ulhr.org/ Legacy Community Health- https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/ Posit...
Climate Migration: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Climate One - March 22, 2024 23:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsThe places that most people call home are coming under increasing threat from climate change. From rising seas and more frequent floods to stronger hurricanes and cyclones, to more devastating droughts and wildfires, the most habitable parts of our world are becoming far less so. Over time, our c...
Bonus Episode: Israel’s Complicated Relationship with Human Rights
None Of The Above - March 22, 2024 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsIn December 2023, South Africa brought human rights law into the fold of the Israel-Hamas war when it filed a genocide case against Israel in the World Court. South Africa’s unprecedented move sparked conversation surrounding the line between collateral damage and indiscriminate bombing campaign...
1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
The International Security Podcast - March 20, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsGuest: Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Matthew Evangelista, “A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine? Precedents and Possibilities for Postwar European Security,” Intern...
Season 6 Preview: Something a Little Different
TILclimate - March 15, 2024 09:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe sixth season of Today I Learned: Climate is coming in two weeks, and this time we’re doing something a little different. People all around the world write into our team with questions about climate change. So this season, we’re working with scientists and experts at MIT and beyond, to answer...
Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation
Climate One - March 15, 2024 07:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsAs heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. It’s fair to ask: Are we just engaged in blah, blah, blah? Too often, talking is one sided – more of a lecture aimed at conveying information or solely stating one's ...
Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial
Ideas of India - March 14, 2024 11:30 - 1 hourAparna Chandra is a constitutional scholar and associate professor of law at the National Law school in Bangalore. She is the coauthor, along with Sital Kalantry and William Hubbard of the recent book Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India. We spoke about the prob...
Who are the Houthis? Inside America's Undeclared Air War
None Of The Above - March 12, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThe Houthis continue to attack commercial vessels in the Red Sea amid Israel’s assault in Gaza. This Yemen-based political and military organization says its disruption of international shipping is a response to Western support for Israel. It likely also hopes its attacks will revitalize flailin...
Learning and Growing
Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community - March 12, 2024 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTo learn more about LivWell Community Health Services, click here: https://livwellchs.org/ To learn more about Destination Tomorrow, click here: https//destinationtomorrow.org.
S5E2 - Reality TV: Who Cares & Accountability: A Cure for a Toxic Workplace?
Society Matters - March 11, 2024 21:06 - 48 minutesIn this episode, we head to Café Artum in Hockley Social Club in Birmingham for Professor Helen Wood and Dr Mairi Brennan’s live talk: Reality TV: Who cares. The Society matters LIVE talk took place on Thursday 29 February 2024. Next up, for Society matters LIVE is the talk: Accountability: A ...
How Activism Can Win Bigger and Faster with Kumi Naidoo
Climate One - March 08, 2024 08:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsKumi Naidoo is a world renowned activist and climate leader. Before going on to lead Greenpeace International then Amnesty International, Naidoo was a 15 year old anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. The boycotts he organized led to him being a target of the Security Police. He fled South Afr...
S3 Episode 03: Cyber Crime and the Human Factor with Rutger Leukfeldt
Berlin Security Beat - March 06, 2024 12:24 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the second episode of our two-parter on cyber threats we focus on cybercrime. David Backovsky talks to Rutger Leukfeldt, Professor of Governing Cybercrime at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. We discuss everything ...
Ep 68: Summarizing the Research on Homelessness with Janey Rountree (Pathways Home pt. 8)
UCLA Housing Voice - March 06, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 83 ratingsIn this final installment of the Pathways Home series on homelessness policy and research, we discuss lessons and key takeaways from the previous seven episodes with our UCLA colleague, Janey Rountree.
What More Can I Do?
Climate One - March 01, 2024 08:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsIf you’re a climate-conscious person, you likely already know some of the main ways you can reduce your contribution to greenhouse gasses: buy less, eat less meat, ride your bike. But there are other, less obvious methods we don’t always think of: voting, having climate conversations, engaging w...
Geothermal: So Hot Right Now
Climate One - February 23, 2024 08:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratingsWhen most people hear the phrase renewable energy, they imagine fields full of solar panels or giant spinning wind turbines. But another source may be heating up: geothermal. Twenty years ago it was thought that geothermal could provide at most 10% of any given area’s electricity, and only in ver...
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