A Conversation With the Founders and Directors of Cherry Bombe Magazine

A Conversation With the Founders and Directors of Cherry Bombe Magazine

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Cherry Bombe is a biannual indie publication celebrating women and food, and has expanded to include an annual conference in New York City called Jubilee, celebrating women in the food industry. Harper’s Bazaar alums, dubbed fashion’s favorite foodies, Kerry Diamond and Claudia Wu will chart their entrepreneurial path from fashion to food, explaining the business of stylish food, and imparting their lessons in journalism. Additionally, Wu and Diamond host Radio Cherry Bombe, a hugely popular show on Heritage Radio Network broadcast from Brooklyn.

40 Years of Environmental Leadership: An Interview with Frances Beinecke

40 Years of Environmental Leadership: An Interview with Frances Beinecke

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Frances Beinecke joins Melissa Legge of Yale Law School and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for a conversation about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement. Frances has been involved in environmentalism for 40 years, all of that with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). This past year she retired from her position as President of NRDC and is now a fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Melissa and Frances discuss the role of students as environmental leaders, environmental politics, energy, climate change, and much more.

YLJ Podcast: The New Public

YLJ Podcast: The New Public

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Princeton Ph.D. candidate Sarah Seo discusses her work on the relationship between the rise of car culture and the development of American criminal procedure in the 20th century.

Strategic Environmental Communications: A Conversation with Francesca Koe

Strategic Environmental Communications: A Conversation with Francesca Koe

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Francesca Koe, a communications specialist, joins Josh Galperin in the studio to talk about strategic environmental communications. Francesca is the former Director of Campaigns and Strategic Initiatives at the Natural Resources Defense Council where she continues to consult for NRDC’s Climate Center and Center for Policy Advocacy. Francesca is also on the steering committee and is a coalition advisor for the Climate Advocacy Lab, is an environmental consultant to the AdCouncil, is President of the Greater Farallones Association, and is on the National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. In this podcast Francesca and Josh discuss climate and marine communications, the strategies for engaging citizens and policymakers, and how to “meet people where they are.”

Putin’s Syria Move Raises Russian Profile

Putin’s Syria Move Raises Russian Profile

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Vladimir Putin, determined to revive Russia’s status as a global power, has rapidly mobilized forces to bolster the Assad regime in Syria. He orchestrated a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the September UN General Assembly meeting, to give the appearance that he is taking charge of ending the Islamic State’s expansion in Iraq and Syria, explains Thomas Graham, a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs based at Yale University. The move carries risks, and the United States still has great capacity to influence the region with its response.

Hidden Story in China’s FDI Statistics

Hidden Story in China’s FDI Statistics

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Investors around the world seek secure places to store assets. Chinese firms and individuals hold enormous amounts of liquid money, and many seek to diversify with non-Chinese assets. Farok J. Contractor, professor at Rutgers, suggests that Chinese firms may be creating subsidiaries to ease transfers, which explains why as much as 70 percent of outbound foreign direct investment capital from China flows to Caribbean nations and Hong Kong.

Elizabeth Kolbert on The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert on The Sixth Extinction

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New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.” The book explores the five major mass extinction events that have occurred on the Earth over the last half billion years. Kolbert contrasts these prior mass extinctions with the sixth major mass extinction event, which we are in the midst of today. This time, instead of an asteroid of a sudden glaciation event, humans are the culprit.

Interview with Lisa Dale, Associate Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

Interview with Lisa Dale, Associate Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

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Lisa Dale, the new associate director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy talks to Josh Galperin, the outgoing associate director, about her new role, experience, and vision for the Center.

Mary Evelyn Tucker on Religion and Ecology

Mary Evelyn Tucker on Religion and Ecology

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Mary Evelyn Tucker, a scholar of Confucianism and senior lecturer on ecology and religion at the Yale School of Forestry and Yale Divinity School, describes the importance of values and ethics in the environmental arena. She discusses the role that wonder and awe can play in bringing scientists and the religious community into dialogue.