ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten on Fracking, BP, and the Drought Crisis

ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten on Fracking, BP, and the Drought Crisis

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Abrahm Lustgarten, a senior investigative reporter at ProPublica, discusses his reporting on the drought crisis in the western United States, and on the safety risks of fracking for natural gas. He also talks about the corporate culture within BP that led up to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the subject of his 2012 book called ‘Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.’ He compares the culture within BP that led up to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy with the culture he sees across the drilling industry now.

Toward a New Pyschology of Climate Action: A Conversation with Per Espen Stoknes

Toward a New Pyschology of Climate Action: A Conversation with Per Espen Stoknes

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Dr. Per Espen Stoknes discusses the misunderstood science of climate psychology and overcoming psychological barriers so we can act meaningfully together to build bottom-up support for climate policy. His new book is What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action. Dr. Stoknes is a psychologist and economist who teaches at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo.

The Forest Unseen: Interview with writer and biologist David Haskell

The Forest Unseen: Interview with writer and biologist David Haskell

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Biologist and writer David Haskell discusses the stunning perceptual differences between moth tongues and fungal hyphae, why human productions like golf balls are “not stains imposed on nature,” and other thoughts from his 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist book, The Forest Unseen.

“Ascertainability” in Class Action Lawsuits

“Ascertainability” in Class Action Lawsuits

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Should a court be able to identify each individual member of a plaintiff class before allowing a class action lawsuit to go forward? In this episode, we interview Geoff Shaw (YLS 2016) about his forthcoming Note, “Class Ascertainability.”

Federal Sentencing Error

Federal Sentencing Error

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What happens when a federal judge makes a mistake in calculating your sentence? On our first episode, we interview Kate Huddleston (YLS ’16) about her forthcoming piece “Federal Sentencing Error as Loss of Chance” and delve into the world of challenging sentences based on incorrect calculations under the federal Sentencing Guidelines.

Finding Agency Through Humility: Authors Zellmer and Klein Discuss Unnatural Disasters and American Law

Finding Agency Through Humility: Authors Zellmer and Klein Discuss Unnatural Disasters and American Law

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Christine Klein, the Chesterfield Smith Professor of at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Sandra Zellmer, the Robert Daugherty Professor at the University of Nebraska Law College, discuss the environmental and social implications of decades of American engineering along the Mississippi River. In 2014, they wrote the book Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster. The book focuses on the dramatic transformation of the river over the last century and the precarious positions that human communities have in relationship to it. The results are what they call catastrophic “unnatural disasters.” Behind all of this, they argue, is a system of American law that amplifies and codifies American ambivalence toward nature. In this episode we discuss what they mean by “unnatural disasters” and what insights they have about how the American legal system creates the environmental problems so many of our environmental policies are trying to solve.

Food Justice and the Food Movement: An Interview with Eric Holt-Gimenez

Food Justice and the Food Movement: An Interview with Eric Holt-Gimenez

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Eric Holt-Gimenez is the Executive Director of Food First, an organization out of Oakland, California that seeks to expose the root causes of hunger and inequalities in our current food systems. His work spans from agro ecology to political economy, and provides a valuable lens through which to imagine food systems that haven’t just been reformed, but transformed. Listen to Holt-Gimenez discuss the inequities in our current local and global food systems, the food movement’s relation to issues of justice, and his vision for more just food systems.