Sustainability Speaker Series
by International Environmental Policy Program
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Description
The Sustainability Speaker Series is sponsored by the International Environmental Policy Program and features lectures by environmental professionals on topics including sustainable business, clean energy, climate change, and social media for marine conservation.
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Robust Development in a Climate Constrained World | Edward Cameron, Director of Collective Climate Action Program at World Resources Institute, talks about the ideas and implications of development in today's climate constrained world. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What California's Climate Change Legislation Means for California | Peter Berek, Professor at University of California Berkeley, discusses the importance and implications of climate change legislation in California. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWhat Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics (Long) | Professor Scorse explains key concepts of environmental policy and international economics from his new book, What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics. He examines mistakes made by both sides of the current environment vs. economy debate and offers recommendations for improving the quality of the ongoing dialogue. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoWhat Environmentalists Need to Know about Economics (Short) | Professor Scorse explains key concepts of environmental policy and international economics from his new book, What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics. He examines mistakes made by both sides of the current environment vs. economy debate and offers recommendations for improving the quality of the ongoing dialogue. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Communications for Conservation | President of WildAid, Peter Knights, speaks on environmental campaigning using the success story of his own organization as an example of how to and how not to use media to enhance a campaign. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forest Conservation and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions | Keegan Eisenstaldt, CEO of Clear Sky Climate Solutions, speaks on Carbon Markets and addresses issues in forest conservation, climate change and forest ownership. He also explores environmental regulation policy and its effect on greenhouse gas reduction. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conservation Incentive Agreements | Chris LaFranchi, founder of environmental organization National Equity, speaks on conservation Incentive agreements, forest ownership, forest conservation. Chris expands on the current model for conservation incentive agreements used by the Conservation Stewards and Conservation Economics program at CI and by National Equity. | 5/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Theory to Practice: Carbon and Conservation in the Solomon Islands | The chief economist of Conservation International, Richard Rice, speaks on conservation agreements and forest carbon projects, with particular emphasis on a developing project in the Solomon Islands. He explains the conservation aspects of the project, the conservation agreement and delivers a prognosis for what is needed to help it progress from a conservation agreement to a carbon project. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forest Carbon Projects and International Climate Change Policy | Stephan Schwartzman, director of Environmental Defense's Tropical Forest Policy program, delivers the Keynote Address on Forest Carbon Projects and International Climate Change Policy. He discusses what happens in the UN environmental policy making and the origins of the term REDD. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Panel Discussion: If a Tree Falls in the Woods, Does it Still Make A Credit? | A panel discussion on long-term international implications of REDD and how conservation agreements can help indigenous peoples in other countries participate in a carbon economy. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | 2009 Conservation Symposium: Biodiversity, Forest Owners and Carbon, Natural Partners? | -- | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Key Concepts of Forest Carbon Projects | Richard Rice speaks on 2 types of forest carbon projects: those that reduce emissions and those that increase the uptake of carbon. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Passive Solar Buildings: Essential Concepts | Alexandra von Meier, professor at Sonoma State University, speaks on the applications of passive solar energy. She addresses issues of energy quality and conversion efficiency | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming | Miriam Horn, of the Environmental Defense Fund, discusses her book "The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming". She talks about emerging energy technology and obstacles to its implementation. | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Escape from Oz: Defining our own Sustainable Future | Jan Hamrin, international energy policy specialist, discusses how economic constructs limit our vision and how forecasts and scenarios limit perception of possibilities in energy development. A Q&A session with the audience is also included in the last 20 minutes. | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China's Energy and Energy Challenges | David Fridley, staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, examines structural elements that shape China's attitude towards a global climate. He talks about the roles of coal and oil and their effect on the national economy, policy and energy consumption patterns. | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seafood Sustainability: Is It Real and Is It Enough? | A panel discussion on weaker definitions of "sustainable seafood", problems with dishonesty in labeling sustainable seafood, ecological marine recovery and bi-catch. | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carbon Offsets: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | John Isham, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, makes a case for and points out the weakness points of the Carbon Offset system, which allows corporations to buy their way toward carbon neutrality. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ocean Conservation: The Global Challenge | Founder and president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Elliot Norse, speaks on the importance of marine ecological systems, threats to our oceans and how people can protect and maintain oceans in order to continue receiving their benefits. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oil, National Security and What We Can Do About It | Co-director of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security and Chair of the Set America Free Commissio, Anne Korin, discusses relationship between oil and national security and the role that individuals can play. She explains the role of OPEC countries in world politics and the dangers they pose to western civilization. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empowering Consumers and Transforming Business | Dara O'Rourke, Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, discusses our role and impact as consumers and the push towards and environmentally friendly economy. Dara shares the results of an experiment done at Berkeley on global supply chains and their effects on the environment. | 3/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 21 Episodes |
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