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22. Emergent Strategy with adrienne maree brown (33:33)

Date:
2021-08-27
Main contributors:
brown, adrienne maree, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Season 3 of In This Climate is right around the corner! In anticipation, we're sharing one of our favorite interviews from spring 2021. It's a wide-ranging conversation with person-of-many-hats adrienne maree brown. We discuss connection with place, love, just transition, and more.

23. Free Speech after Insurrection with Tony Fargo and Steve Sanders (31:36)

Date:
2021-02-17
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James, Fargo, Tony, Sanders, Steve
Summary:
Deplatforming. Incitement. Section 230. Buzzwords are flying in the aftermath of the United States’ first transfer of power that was anything but peaceful. As online platforms grow and proliferate, How do we regulate social media while protecting the right to dissent? The Media School’s Tony Fargo and Maurer School of Law’s Steve Sanders join Dean Shanahan to talk about what makes speech free and what keeps it that way, while protecting the institutions that hold this country together.

24. From Complicity to Consciousness with Nathaniel Popkin (32:56)

Date:
2021-02-18
Main contributors:
Popkin, Nathaniel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
How do you understand freedom and connection? Responsibility and the anthropocene? And how can we explain them to future generations? Nathaniel Popkin, author of To Reach the Spring: From Complicity to Consciousness in the Age of Eco-Crisis, helps us think about these questions and more, offering moral, social, and psychological potential for a path to a future spring. Nathaniel's website: http://nathanielpopkin.net/

25.  Geoengineering: Live (51:21)

Date:
2021-02-11
Main contributors:
Kravitz, Ben, Gerrard, Michael, MacMartin, Douglas, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Jim Shanahan and guest host Ben Kravitz talk with environmental law expert Michael Gerrard and climate engineering researcher Douglas MacMartin about the ins and outs of geoengineering. See the video: https://www.facebook.com/thisclimatepod/videos/765649801024000

26. How to UnKoch a Campus (24:30)

Date:
2021-09-09
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Did you know that a Koch-funded university think tank actually justified inaction on climate change by arguing that smog serves as a skin-cancer-reducing sunblock? In this co-produced episode, the UnKoch My Campus team tells the story of working alongside students at George Washington University to push their school administration to address the Regulatory Studies Center, which has been linked to climate disinformation and deregulation — while the university attempts to tout a climate justice initiative agenda.

27. Maintaining Agile and Flexible Infrastructure With Mikhail Chester (1:00:00)

Date:
2021-09-20
Main contributors:
Chester, Mikhail, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, we dive deep into the history of infrastructure to uncover elements of both hardware and knowledge systems that hold us back from resilience to climate change. Guest Mikhail Chester provides theoretical insight and lots of tangible examples of people who are figuring out how to improve infrastructure for a world of decreasing stability. Dr. Chester's book: The Rightful Place of Science: Infrastructure in the Anthropocene NYT article on Room for the River: To Avoid River Flooding, Go With the Flow, the Dutch Say

28. Major League Travel and Energy Use, With Seth Wynes (25:17)

Date:
2021-12-08
Main contributors:
Wynes, Seth, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
We talk with researcher Seth Wynes about how major league sport travel, affected by COVID, affects energy use. Also, does academic travel affect academic success?

29. Mental Health: Accessing Inherent Wisdom (24:30)

Date:
2021-05-11
Main contributors:
Dellman, Jess, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Jess Dallman introduces us to the transpersonal counseling dynamic and helps us take a look at how we can slow down and move intentionally with the earth. We explore how we can support each other in accessing our inherent wisdom through experience, and through connection with the natural world. Jess's site: http://www.naturalwisdomcounseling.com/jessica-dallman Joanna Macy: https://www.joannamacy.net/main Richard Louv: http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/ Queer Nature: https://www.queernature.org/

30. Mental Health: Live (27:45)

Date:
2021-03-12
Main contributors:
Clayton, Susan , Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
We kick off our mental health series with Dr. Susan Clayton, professor of psychology and environmental studies and chair of the psychology department at the College of Wooster. Together, we work to complicate our understanding of emotional engagement with climate, within and beyond the frame of grief and anxiety. Watch the conversation on Facebook: https://fb.watch/4bJ0fGhrqe/

31. Natural Gas and International Relations With Adam Stulberg (43:51)

Date:
2021-09-24
Main contributors:
Stulberg, Adam , Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In the 1990s, you could see one bumper sticker across the capital of Azerbaijan: "Happiness is multiple pipelines." Amid ever-complicating conversations about environmental resilience, the themes of diversification, redundancy, and (inter)dependence of energy infrastructure remain relevant. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Adam Stulberg, Sam Nunn Professor and Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, about the history of conflict and collaboration surrounding natural gas infrastructure -- and how it all remains relevant today.

32. Natural Gas: Oral History of a Fracking Boom Town (25:52)

Date:
2021-01-25
Main contributors:
Anselmi, J.J,, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
What does a fossil fuel boom town feel like for those living in it? And what's possible once the coal's burned and the wells are dry? In this episode, Rock Springs-raised J.J. Anselmi shares what he's seen and heard in collecting oral histories of the Wyoming boom town. J.J.'s piece in The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/160689/rise-fall-fracking-boom-town-oral-history

33. Pakistan's Environmental Position With Imran Khalid (34:19)

Date:
2021-11-22
Main contributors:
Khalid, Imran, Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Gabe talks with climate and sustainability expert Imran Khalid about COP26, renewable energy, vehicle emissions, and more as they relate to Pakistan's position in a changing climate.

34. Redesigning Food Systems: Live (1:06:00)

Date:
2021-04-23
Main contributors:
Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily, Yazzie, Cherilyn, Sinha, Shreya , Williamson, Robert, Montaño, Victoria
Summary:
In this special Earth Day live show, we discuss food systems from the global to the hyperlocal. Hosts Gabe Filippelli and Jim Shanahan are joined by Cherilyn Yazzie, who helps run Coffee Pot Farms in Navajo Nation, agrarian political economy researcher Shreya Sinha, and Robert Williamson and Victoria Montaño, who work on the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust’s land team. Coffee Pot Farms: https://www.facebook.com/coffeepotfarms/ Shreya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/phirkie Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

35. Reimagining Transportation: How We Got Here (55:21)

Date:
2021-11-05
Main contributors:
Fairfield, John, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode of our series on reimagining transportation, urban history expert John Fairfield helps us understand how our transportation infrastructure developed and what we can do to modify it in a sustainable direction. ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the McKinney Family Foundation, and Greenworks, which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference.

36. SAILCARGO and the Potential of Sustainable Shipping (18:32)

Date:
2021-02-02
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily, Doggett, Danielle
Summary:
Danielle Doggett, founder & CEO of SAILCARGO INC., tells us about the zero-emission ocean cargo ship Ceiba. From mitigating underwater noise pollution to sourcing food for shipbuilders, their sustainability considerations move far beyond what fuel propels the ship. The SAILCARGO site: https://www.sailcargo.org/

37. Subtracting With Leidy Klotz (45:47)

Date:
2021-10-28
Main contributors:
Klotz, Leidy, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
When you come across a challenge, what is your first impulse? To add or subtract? And what does it really mean to subtract? In this episode, University of Virginia professor Leidy Klotz helps us understand the human tendency toward addition and what that means in the context of the relationship between humans and the rest of the earth. Also, the next event in our Resilience Speaker Series is Friday, November 12, 2021, featuring Dawn O’Neal, executive director of Audubon Delta. We're grateful to Wild Birds Unlimited for making events like this possible by supporting ERI's work and sponsoring this event. Dawn O’Neal talk: https://eri.iu.edu/news-and-events/events/environmental-resilience-speaker-series.html Wild Birds Unlimited: https://www.wbu.com/ ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the McKinney Family Foundation, and Greenworks, which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference.

38. The Buffalo Springs Restoration Project in the Hoosier National Forest (46:47)

Date:
2021-12-14
Main contributors:
Thornton, Chris, Brazil, Kyle, Stewart, Steven, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
A discussion about a proposed forest restoration project in the Hoosier NF. 2:23 Ranger Chris Thornton, HNF 24:00 Kyle Brazil, Central Hardwood Joint Venture 34:11 Steven Stewart, Save Hoosier National Forest

39. The Hoosier Environmental Landscape With Jesse Kharbanda (53:43)

Date:
2021-11-05
Main contributors:
Kharbanda, Jesse, Filippelli, Gabriel, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
In this episode, Jesse Kharbanda sits down with host Gabe Filippelli to talk about the nuances, challenges, and opportunities in Indiana environmental legislation and action. Jesse built this knowledge over more than a decade of leading the Hoosier Environmental Council. ERI is grateful to our corporate sponsors, the Indianapolis Airport Authority, the McKinney Family Foundation, and Greenworks, which sponsored our recent Indiana Sustainability and Resilience Conference.

40. Toward Resilient Critical Infrastructure with Hiba Baroud (40:45)

Date:
2021-09-03
Main contributors:
Baroud, Hiba , Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
Summary:
Hurricane Ida knocked the main New Orleans transmission tower into the Mississippi River, spurring a long-term power outage. Since then, persistent heavy rains have flooded New York subway stations and cascaded to reveal countless vulnerabilities in our critical infrastructure systems. To explain these vulnerabilities and how we can grow in resilience, we talk with Vanderbilt University infrastructure, risk, and resilience expert Hiba Baroud.