Month: October 2014

Politics and Environment in Iceland: a Conversation with Thora Arnorsdottir

Politics and Environment in Iceland: a Conversation with Thora Arnorsdottir

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 the environmental issues, from natural resource management and green energy to the pressures of increased tourism on fragile ecosystems, that helped shape her platform — and how those issues are evolving today.

Bottom-up Energy Production and Supply: a Conversation with Erik Christiansen

Bottom-up Energy Production and Supply: a Conversation with Erik Christiansen

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. In this podcast, Erik Christiansen, of Copenhagen Business School and the Middelgrunen Wind Co-op, outlines how Denmark has approached its renewable energy transition, and why the country is still on track to meet its targets: 50 percent from wind by 2020, 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030, and 100 percent renewable transportation by 2050.

American Catch : An Interview With Paul Greenberg

American Catch : An Interview With Paul Greenberg

Why is it that much of our best American-caught seafood is sent abroad while restaurants and supermarkets import more and more foreign seafood every year? Hear about the challenges facing local seafood from James Beard award winner Paul Greenberg.

Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change: A Conversation with George Marshall

Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change: A Conversation with George Marshall

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. And these narratives become the life and essence of the issue rather than the true and major threat it represents. In this podcast George Marshall, founder of the Climate Outreach Information Network, discusses how we might break the silence that commonly defines the climate change narrative by being open about our convictions and beliefs.