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Back to SearchAndy Hoffman, “Saving the World at Business School (Part 2)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 46
Saving the World at Business School (Part 2) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of …
4 years, 8 months ago
Andy Hoffman “Saving the World at Business School (Part 1)” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 45
Saving the World at Business School (Part 1) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of …
4 years, 8 months ago
Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 81
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and v…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ken Meter, "Building Community Food Webs" (Island Press, 2021)
Episode 78
Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm pro…
4 years, 9 months ago
Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 39
Stephen J. Pyne's new book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (U California Press, 2021) tells the story of what happ…
4 years, 9 months ago
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 295
In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facing t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 40
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's w…
4 years, 9 months ago
Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 120
Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes the…
4 years, 9 months ago
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 74
In Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Cambridge UP, 2021), Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law,…
4 years, 9 months ago
Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 41
Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Joanna Haigh, Professor Emerita of Atmospheri…
4 years, 9 months ago