Chris Boswell: Sustainable Food in Rome

Chris Boswell: Sustainable Food in Rome

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Chris Boswell, founder of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, talks about facilitating the cross-pollination of ideas from food leaders all over the world by encouraging them to come to the table and share meals and ideas with the Project in Rome. Boswell spoke to how the Project believes in the power and importance of improving the way institutions think about the food they serve, and about educating a new generation of people to keep that focus real and vital.

Can Capitalism Really Save the Planet? A Conversation with Todd Wilkinson

Can Capitalism Really Save the Planet? A Conversation with Todd Wilkinson

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Journalist and author Todd Wilkinson discusses his recent book, Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest to Save a Troubled Planet, which offers a diligently detailed, keenly interpreted, and jaw-dropping portrait of a smart, prescient, independent man hard-driven by sorrow and passionately committed to doing lasting good in the world on as large a scale as possible.

Mastering the Grain Markets: a Conversation with Elaine Kub

Mastering the Grain Markets: a Conversation with Elaine Kub

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Elaine Kub, commodity analyst and author of Mastering the Grain Markets, visit with Erin Schnettler, Yale F&ES ’14, about how major grain commodities are produced, traded, and sold in the United States — and what might be done to make the system more sustainable.

2014 Environmental Performance Index Offers Global Scorecard

2014 Environmental Performance Index Offers Global Scorecard

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The 2014 Environmental Index ranks countries on high-priority environmental concerns, including air quality, water management, and climate change. The Index, which includes 178 countries, reveals that the world is doing well on improving drinking water and sanitation. Progress in these categories tracks the concerted pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, which have clear targets, strategies, and metrics for assessment on water and sanitation. Poorer environmental performance is seen in areas with less defined targets and goals, as with fisheries, industrial wastewater treatment, and air quality. Switzerland tops the Index with Luxembourg, Australia, Singapore, and Czech Republic rounding out the top five positions. For more information on the 2014 EPI visit http://epi.yale.edu.

Sovereignty, Safety,and the Small Farm: a Conversation with Kevin Poland

Sovereignty, Safety,and the Small Farm: a Conversation with Kevin Poland

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Maine farmer Kevin Poland visits with YCELP Associate Director Josh Galperin about the local food sovereignty movement. Proponents of the movement would like to see food safety regulations handled at a local rather than the federal or state level, but the issue has proved divisive.

A Conversation with Leo Damrosch

A Conversation with Leo Damrosch

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In this episode, Leo Damrosch, author of Jonathan Swift: His Life and World, speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich, about the story of Swift’s life anew, probing holes in the existing evidence to show how the public version of his life – the one accepted until recently – was deliberately misleading.

A Conversation with Jess Bravin

A Conversation with Jess Bravin

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Jess Bravin, Supreme Court Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, has covered the Guantanamo Bay prison camp since its inception reports on the legal, political, and moral issues that have stood in the way of justice. The deplorable story is a chapter in the War on Terror that has never been fully told before. Here, Bravin speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich about his new book, The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay.

Going Local: Climate Adaptation in New England

Going Local: Climate Adaptation in New England

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Dr. Cameron Wake, a research associate professor in climatology at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire, leads a research program investigating regional climate and environmental change through the analysis of ice cores, instrumental data, and phenological records, with a focus on the northeast United States, the Arctic, and central Asia. In this podcast, he visits with YCELP researcher Amy Weinfurter about his work, both at UNH and at Climate Solutions New England, a regional network promoting energy self-reliance and weather resilient communities.