Sustain What?
Science Podcasts
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier. This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability. Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative. Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?
Location:
United States
Genres:
Science Podcasts
Description:
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier. This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability. Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative. Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?
Language:
English
Website:
https://anchor.fm/sustainwhat
Episodes
Avoiding Climate Disaster: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Belinda Archibong, Jeff Schlegelmilch
10/31/2021
Original Air Date: October 27, 2021
Drawing on insights from his book Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, our featured guest, Professor Noam Chomsky, will explore paths to climate progress on an overheating and starkly unequal planet with fresh assessments from Columbia Climate School's Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness and Dr. Belinda Archibong, a Barnard College economist focused on African development and perspectives on climate and...
Duration:01:30:03
Paths to Progress Facing Enduring Deep Uncertainty
10/15/2021
Original Air Date: November 11, 2020
DESCRIPTION: Too often, politicians and the rest of us choose to wait for clarity before tackling tough, consequential, challenges. News media cover disastrous events far better than underlying drivers of risk - or resilience.
To seek solutions, join Andy Revkin’s Earth Institute Sustain What brainstorm with participants in this year’s annual conference of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty – a community focused on making the most...
Duration:01:09:58
Sustain What: As Vaccines Flow, What’s Needed to Break the Pandemic Pipeline?
10/15/2021
Original Air Date: December 11, 2020
DESCRIPTION: With COVID-19 vaccines beginning to flow, many global-risk experts worry nations may lose track of the grander challenge: acting systemically, and systematically, to curb pandemic risk on a hyper-connected planet.
Join Sustain What host Andy Revkin in a solution-focused brainstorm with psychiatrist and sustainability scholar Jonathan Salk, who co-wrote “A New Reality - Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future” with his father, the famed...
Duration:01:02:12
Andrew Revkin in Conversation with Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric Entre Nous
10/15/2021
What decisions can we make today as individuals and societies to create a better tomorrow?
Join Columbia Climate School's Andrew Revkin, economist Kate Raworth, and philosopher Roman Krznaric for a conversation on how reinventing economics and incorporating long-term thinking into our current policies can help us meet the challenges of climate breakdown and global inequality, and transform our world for future generations.
Speakers:
Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about...
Duration:01:11:41
Sustain What: How Many Billions Can a Heating, Pandemic-Wrapped Planet Support?
9/27/2021
October 7, 2020
On Fridays, the Sustain What webcast of Columbia University's Earth Institute dives behind headlines and hashtags with leading journalists and experts to offer insights on what's really afoot.
A great panel is coming together to discuss this week's truly extraordinary developments, in which a president infected with the novel virus driving the COVID-19 pandemic checked out of a military hospital tweeting, "Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life."
Duration:01:16:26
Hope and Sensemaking in a Pandemic? A "Futuring" Conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon & More
9/27/2021
October 2, 2020
Thomas Homer-Dixon, the bestselling author of The Upside of Down and other books exploring pathways through complexity, joins Sustain What host Andy Revkin and two special guests in a bracing discussion of the themes of his latest work: "Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril." (https://commandinghope.com/)
The guests are:
- Susan Cox-Smith, a partner and futurist at Changeist, a consultancy and training organization that curates and creates...
Duration:01:11:21
Overwhelmed by COVID-19, Climate and More? Slow Down and Stretch Your Time Scales
9/22/2021
A pandemic and attendant economic crisis rock the world along with political and social turmoil intensified by an overheating information environment and overheating climate. What's a solution-oriented human being to do?
Slow down and stretch your time scales, according to three experienced analysts of this extraordinary moment in human history.
Join the Earth Institute’s Andy Revkin, the philosopher Roman Krznaric, the journalist and resilience expert Bina Venkataraman and the...
Duration:01:04:22
The Pandemic was Predicted - So What?
9/21/2021
In this webcast, former senior intelligence and national security officers explore headlines noting that intelligence reports provided to the Trump White House had laid out the likelihood of a pandemic with unnerving clarity - and one even noted worrisome signs of a rapidly spreading virus in Wuhan in November (ABC: https://bit.ly/covid19wuhanintell)
But the challenge for this or any administration is not awareness as much as prioritization, as former National Intelligence Council analyst...
Duration:01:31:07
Risks and Choices as Populations Surge in Flood Zones, Rich and Poor
8/15/2021
Air Date: August 6, 2021
DESCRIPTION: In this special live Sustain What webcast, join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School and http://revkin.bulletin.com in a brisk solution-focused discussion with top experts of pathways to risk reduction in the world’s hundreds of crowding deluge danger zones.
Humans are profoundly heating the climate and changing storm patterns through a surge in emissions of heat-trapping gases and other pollution. But there’s also been a simultaneous...
Duration:01:15:04
Pathways to Impact in Perilously Polarized Times
8/15/2021
Aired: June 2, 2021
A special Sustain What episode with two scientists, a journalist and a songwriter offering ways to navigate turbulence, polarization and disinformation with the fewest regrets.
Join Andy Revkin of Columbia’s Climate School with Carnegie Mellon philosopher Andy Norman; solution-focused journalist Amanda Ripley; Columbia University psychologist and conflict dissector Peter Coleman, and songwriter and storyteller Reggie Harris.
Send feedback and ideas for future...
Duration:01:26:05
‘Ministry for the Future’ Author Kim Stanley Robinson Meets Inheritors of Our Climate Future
7/26/2021
Air Date: December 23, 2020
Earlier this year, the famed climate-focused novelist Kim Stanley Robinson told Columbia students: “I’ve been pushing myself to write utopian narratives; that gets weirder as we continue on the course that we’re on."
In this special intergenerational Sustain What conversation, Robinson returns to Columbia (virtually this time) to explore the themes in his sweltering, jarring new novel “Ministry for the Future” with the Earth Institute’s Andy Revkin and...
Duration:01:06:01
Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant Economies
7/26/2021
March 31, 2020
Join our special Earth Institute conversation with leading sustainability analysts from two generations rethinking how human progress should be pursued and measured.
Herman E. Daly, a founding force behind “steady-state economics,” will examine possible paths to less fragile global systems with Kate Raworth, whose “doughnut economics” model aims to build economic policies and metrics that put thriving ahead of growing.
SUSTAIN WHAT is a global conversation identifying...
Duration:01:21:05