Geoversiv - Earth Intelligence
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA discussion of Geoversiv’s action-oriented exploration of Earth Intelligence, Climate Resilience, Food Security and the economics of a future without pollution. A push to leverage healthy natural systems and rights of nature as solutions to the climate crisis.
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Youth Activists -Episode 30
June 26, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBKathryn Kaiser and Clara Garner are high-achieving high school seniors with big college plans. They are also inexhaustibly energetic in the youth movement designed to change adults' future-vision. Organized under the ClimateGeneration mantle and the YEA program (Youth Environmental Activists), they meet, and often graciously confront, legislators, city council members and anyone who will listen to them. Their message is simple: We are here and you need to pay attention to us, because we ...
Professor Nancy Maclean - Episode #29 The Koch Effect
June 11, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBNancy Maclean is the decorated Duke University professor of history and award-winning author of Democracy in Chains: the Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. In this episode Professor Maclean traces the threads that connect the powerful influence of Charles and David Koch and their rise to power. The story connects the Koch dynasty and its affiliated "think tanks," as well as its mouth-pieces in Congress, to a steady, but frightening effort to destroy our notion o...
Susan Joy Hassol - The Common Language of Climate Change - 028
May 28, 2021 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBSusan Joy Hassol is one of the foremost climate communications specialist in the world. She has been the writer behind three of the National Climate Assessments, using language that non-scientists can comprehend. In this episode, the award winning mind behind the award winning HBO documentary "Too Hot Not to Handle," tracts in Scientific American, the Washington Post , ABC's 2020 and much more, will share with you real talk about how to make sense of climate science, and even, how to tal...
Dr. Jessica Hellmann - Geoengineering Caution-027
May 14, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBDr. Jessica Hellmann is the Director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. A scholar and scientist, she was recently published along with her co-authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the question of geoengineering which has found great favor in the tech world. While Dr. Hellmann says there may come a time when we, on this planet, may need this tool - not enough research has gone into the "side effects" of this prescription. An exp...
Dr. Edward Maibach - Communicating Climate -023- 4/16/21
May 11, 2021 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBDr. Edward Maibach is one of the foremost communications scientists in the country. On climate change, it is a contest between fact and opinion, between science and those who, for monetary reasons or politics, deny that science - and therefore deny the existence of a warming planet and all the dangers that portends. Dr. Maibach has begun enlisting the help of meteorologists and journalists in the news media to educate themselves on the far reaching impacts of the science. When he began, it ...
Dr. Benjamin Santer-Part II -Episode 026
May 07, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBA continuation of our discussion with Dr. Benjamin D. Santer, one of the foremost atmospheric and climate scientists on the planet. As lead author of Chapter 8 of the 2nd IPCC assessment, he wrote the words that changed the world: science had detected a human influence of global climate. The genie was out of the bottle. Science could win the war of facts versus opinion. But, what happened during the Trump years when science took an awful beating. How demoralized were the brilliant men a...
Dr. Benjamin Santer - Episode 025
April 30, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBDr. Benjamin D. Santer is an esteemed and highly decorated atmospheric scientist. He was the lead author of Chapter 8 of the 2nd Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He wrote the words never written before by any scientist that the balance of scientific evidence showed "a discernible human influence" on global climate. The words were accurate and based in science, but it led to organized attacks against him from fossil fuel interests. He had ripped off the bandaid...
Todd Churchill - Beef Nature's Way - 024
April 23, 2021 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBTodd Churchill is a rancher who uses regenerative agricultural practices, and partners with Nature to raise protein in an ever food insecure planet. Grass-fed beef, using natural grasses and no corn or soybeans, are all pesticide-free, hormone free, medicine free and fertilizer free. The only inputs Todd uses is what Nature provides. He likens the practice to the massive herds of American bison that sustained indigenous people for centuries, while building soil carbon and encouraging the g...
Climate Matters Communication - Dr. Ed Maibach - Episode 023
April 16, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBDr. Edward Maibach is the head of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University using practical and scientific approaches to research into attitudes on how the public perceives climate change, and how facts are presented. His work is both data driven and practical. After a decade of research on attitudes within the general public, he launched a program called Climate Matters in the Newsroom. He started with meteorologists and in surveys found that about half of the...
Environmental Justice -Tina Johnson - Episode 022
April 09, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBIn this episode, a tough discussion of the realities of the systemic injustices baked into our system. How bias affects not only climate change policies, but creates unnecessary and terrible burdens on minorities in the United States. Our guest is Tina Johnson Director of the National Black Environmental Network and Principal of Johnson Strategy and Development Consultants. Working with top US NGOs, the UN and international governments, she uses diplomacy, strategic development and advoca...
Climate Finance and Policy - Dr. Sandra Guzman - Episode 021
April 02, 2021 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBDr. Sandra Guzman is a specialist in low carbon development and climate finance. She is the founder of International Alliances at the Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean. Her PhD is in politics, her Masters in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and a diploma in Sustainable Finance from Oxford. The question is whether the powerful finance sector and fossil fuel dependent countries and carbon intensive industry will embrace the cha...
Natural Capital - Dr. Stephen Polasky -020
March 26, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBGovernor Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin said, on the very first Earth Day, that "The US economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature." Yet, Corporations have never placed a value on nature, it will not be found in account books or K1s. Dr. Stephen Polasky, and economist and conservationist, is one of the world's foremost authorities on placing a value on "ecosystem services" - from providing carbon dioxide drawdown to purifying water and creating oxygen for the planet and its inhabitants. ...
Dr. Michael Mann Part Two - Episode 019
March 19, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBWe continue with our conversation with Dr. Michael Mann. In this episode, we concentrate on the value of carbon pricing and the various mechanisms for implementing a price. We also delve into the probabilities of uniting divided political forces to bring that change. Dr. Mann is optimistic. He sees vast changes in conservatives' thinking, some of whom have embraced the science of climate change and see the need for policy action. Much of the business world is already there, he says. On...
Dr. Michael Mann Part One- Episode 018
March 12, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBDr. Michael Mann is considered the most visible and effective climate scientist alive. He is an active communicator. He frequently authors op-ed pieces in national publications, carries a full teaching and research schedule and is a climate optimist as he sees not only the climate change, but attitudes change. In his book, The New Climate War-The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, he names names and tells the world where the enemy of science dwells, what weapons they are using on often unsusp...
Dean Rachel Kyte - Resilience and Policy
March 05, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBDean Rachel Kyte is the 14th Dean and the only woman to lead the prestigious Tufts University Fletcher Graduate School. It is the only graduate-only school of international affairs in the country. Prior to Tufts she was a special representative of the UN Secretary General and CEO of Sustainable Energy for All. Previously, she held positions as Group Vice President of the World Bank and her diplomatic work drew world leaders to the table, the result of which was the Paris Agreement. She wa...
Project Drawdown - Episode 016
February 26, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBDr. Jonathan Foley is our guest. He is the Executive Director of Project Drawndown. There are off-the-shelf solutions to the climate crisis. Nothing new has to be discovered or technology invented. The solution will rely on knowledge, will and policy. There are coming changes in the financial sector that recognize and will react to the pressures of risk management in investing further dollars and time into those operations that could destroy us. At the same time, more capital is flowing...
News Brief #4 Texas Grid Failure
February 19, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 4.88 MBThis is a news brief - a look at the headline story of the 4 million people in Texas who have lost power as a result of a sudden, extreme cold snap. It was a failure of the power grid, controlled and operated by the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), once hailed as the Texas Miracle, it has failed repeated demands to harden the grid to withstand extreme weather events. ERCOT is largely independent of any other power sharing agreements, so when power goes down in Texas, it ca...
Robert Bryce -Electricity Poverty
February 13, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBThere are a billion people in the world who use less electricity in a year than an average American refrigerator. There is another billion who have no electricity at all. Robert Bryce is a journalist, film-maker, energy analyst. He is the author of six books and the host of the podcast Power Hungry. His latest book, A Question of Power: Electricity and he Wealth of Nations has become the documentary Juice: How Electricity Explains the World. He has documented, first-hand, how the lack o...
News Brief #3
February 05, 2021 06:00 - 9 minutes - 6.88 MBThe US Senate has reached a power-sharing agreement which puts Democrats as the chairs of the Senate committees. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), New York, took to the floor of the Senate and said that all relevant committees will focus on climate change in all of its dimensions. What does this mean for the future of climate change legislation. Joseph Robertson analyzes the developments.
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe - Episode 014
January 31, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBDr. Hayhoe is the principal author of the Nation's Fourth Climate Assessment. She stood her ground against the anti-science forces of the past Trump Administration. She was named one of Time Magazine's 100 "Most Influential People." She is an expert on science and climate change communication. Much of how she thinks about climate change is based in her Christian faith. Her care and concern for the planet is not only science based, but informed by scripture: to care for God's creation as...
News Brief #2
January 22, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 6.37 MBPresident Joseph Biden spent his first day following his inauguration writing 17 Executive Orders overturning many of Former President Donald Trump's anit-environment, anti-science dictates for the country. In this News Brief #2 we deal with only one, the rejoining of the Paris Agreement and role of the US on the world stage combating climate change. Analysis provided by Joseph Robertson.
Hope - Episode 13
January 17, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBThis episode is aptly titled. In a time of division and uncertainty, Joseph R. Biden named his science team, and in so doing, said that science will take the lead in US policy decisions. It comes as a desperately needed breath of fresh air. We will discuss the hope this decision inspires, and the hope that we see in the reshaping of financial worlds, innovation and policy. We believe that this was the appropriate moment, in the midst of uncertainty and fear, to introduce this hopeful m...
Aftermath- Democracy and Truth 012
January 08, 2021 01:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBRecording this podast 24 hours after insurrectionists tried to take over the Capitol and stop the people's business. The deaths and desecration was fomented by lies. The people had been misled. Without truth-telling from our elected officials, how long can Democracy sustain itself? Is there an answer? And what of the lost skill of critical thinking? What has become of our requirement that facts and evidence are fundamental against lies, deception and false promises? Has America stop...
News Brief #1
December 31, 2020 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.16 MBWe are introducing a new feature we call "News Briefs." This is topical information and breaking in nature. We will provide short a 5-6 minute news story on climate change and provide analysis. We will publish news briefs as warranted by breaking news. Today we examine the $35 billion in climate crisis funding tucked inside the COVID relief bill.
News Brief #1
December 31, 2020 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.16 MBWe are introducing a new feature we call "News Briefs." This is topical information and breaking in nature. We will provide short a 5-6 minute news story on climate change and provide analysis. We will publish news briefs as warranted by breaking news. Today we examine the $35 billion in climate crisis funding tucked inside the COVID relief bill.
Rights of Nature pt.2. 011
December 27, 2020 01:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBWhat is valued? Is there a price tag on Nature? Who will pay the bill when it comes due for the destruction of Nature? Is GDP the best measure of the human condition? Is it true that all species benefit when Nature benefits? The second part of a ranging discussion on the Rights of Nature and Earth Law movements. Has COVID-19 changed the way we view the world. Will the pandemic be a historical maker that denotes a major shift in global thinking? Can Nature ever gain "personhood?" Join...
The Rights of Nature pt.1 Episode 010
December 21, 2020 02:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBHave you ever considered that Nature has rights? Can a river, or a mountain range or a glacier have standing in a court of law. It is a huge movement across the planet. With the recognition of inherent Nature Rights, Nature is given "personhood," in much the way that corporations were granted that status in the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. Science tells us that without the perfect systems of a natural world, unharmed by human hands, humans and all species of animal, plants ...
Is Science a Human Right -Episode 9
December 07, 2020 06:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBA discussion of a novel concept that all humans have an absolute right to science as knowledge. Why are there people who deny science? Why do the unfortunate in hospitals deny that the COVID-19 that is taking their life is not real? Why do so many people refuse to believe the science of climate change? Who has a hand in deciding what people know about science, and why would they attempt to conceal knowledge, or convince the of an alternate explanation that benefits only them? Do we hav...
Climate Smart Finance - Episode 008
November 29, 2020 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBA discussion with Isobel Edwards on the infusion of trillions of dollars in capital into the markets though green bonds. Money is made available to businesses demonstrating a dedication to resilience and climate friendly practices and operations. It is all part of a changing economy based on development of businesses and organizations that work with Nature, and against climate change.
Climate Smart Food Systems-Episode 007
November 22, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBWhat role does agriculture and food systems play in climate change? What does the planet face if destructive practices aren't altered. And, there is major value to those farmers and corporations who do shift to regenerative practices. Better profits, better soils, and, by the way, it could save the planet.
Planetary Emergency-Episode 006
November 16, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThe Club of Rome, along with the Potsdam Institute, just issue its report called "Planetary Emergency 2.0." This podcast examines whether that is an overstatement, or is there evidence that we are currently facing an emergency worldwide.
Geoversiv Earth Intelligence Episode 006
November 16, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThe Club of Rome, along with the Potsdam Institute, just issue its report called "Planetary Emergency 2.0." This podcast examines whether that is an overstatement, or is there evidence that we are currently facing an emergency worldwide.
Geoversiv Earth Intelligence 005
November 09, 2020 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBThe election results are in. What does it all mean for science, climate change, COVID19, economic troubles and racial injustice. A lot to unpack, and a lot of serious optimism. Myra Jackson and Joseph Robertson are convinced the country can come together, and they have good reasons for their hope.
US Election Debrief-Episode 005
November 09, 2020 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBThe election results are in. What does it all mean for science, climate change, COVID19, economic troubles and racial injustice. A lot to unpack, and a lot of serious optimism. Myra Jackson and Joseph Robertson are convinced the country can come together, and they have good reasons for their hope.
Geoversiv Earth Intelligence Episode 0004
October 31, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBToday, two days before the election, a discussion on the sustainability of a Democracy. Joseph Robertson and Myra Jackson bring civic, scientific and cultural references to this sensitive and important dicussion.
Why Democracy Matters - Episode 004
October 31, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBToday, two days before the election, a discussion on the sustainability of a Democracy. Joseph Robertson and Myra Jackson bring civic, scientific and cultural references to this sensitive and important dicussion.
Geoversiv Earth Intelligence Episode 003
October 28, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBToday's discussion involves a new view of the COVID-19 pandemic. What role does resilience play, how will humans adapt and evolve? Is there a relationship between earth systems, sustainability and what will COVID teach us about ourselves.
The Covid Crisis -Episode 003
October 28, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBToday's discussion involves a new view of the COVID-19 pandemic. What role does resilience play, how will humans adapt and evolve? Is there a relationship between earth systems, sustainability and what will COVID teach us about ourselves.
Reinventing Sustainability-Episode 002
October 23, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBContinuing discussion on Climate Change, with an emphasis on understanding sustainability and the role Nature plays in informing our path forward. The economics of global food security will be discussed in detail. The purpose of the discussion is to create community around the idea that the solutions to climate change are available working within Nature's frameworks, as opposed to fighting the physical laws of nature.
Geoversiv Earth Intelligence Episode 002
October 23, 2020 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBContinuing discussion on Climate Change, with an emphasis on understanding sustainability and the role Nature plays in informing our path forward. The economics of global food security will be discussed in detail. The purpose of the discussion is to create community around the idea that the solutions to climate change are available working within Nature's frameworks, as opposed to fighting the physical laws of nature.
Earth Intelligence-Episode 001
October 21, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBAn introduction to the nature of Geoversiv, and a discussion on the meaning of Earth Intelligence, within the framework of Climate Change. How the need to replicate the functioning of nature and nature's laws can get us to the solutions we seek.
Earth Intelligence-Episode 001
October 21, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBAn introduction to the nature of Geoversiv, and a discussion on the meaning of Earth Intelligence, within the framework of Climate Change. How the need to replicate the functioning of nature and nature's laws can get us to the solutions we seek.
Geoversiv Earth Intelligence Episode 001
October 21, 2020 19:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBAn introduction to the nature of Geoversiv, and a discussion on the meaning of Earth Intelligence, within the framework of Climate Change. How the need to replicate the functioning of nature and nature's laws can get us to the solutions we seek.