Podcasts about anthropocene era

In this episode, Landscape Architecture Professor Rod Barnett based in Aotearoa New Zealand shares his provocative insights on the role of landscape design in the Anthropocene with our host, Carry Kim. With a focus on indigeneity and community sovereignty, Rod delves into the history and future of landscape architecture, its impact on social ecologies, and the necessity of reimagining our relationship with the land. Listen as we unravel the threads of colonization and discover the emergent systems that could redefine our world. The word landscape derives from Dutch and originally meant “region or tract of land.” By the early 1500s, it came to also reference pictures depicting scenery on land in artworks. In this Anthropocene Era, we are encouraged to consider planetary environments and landscapes as systems that span a wide range of biomes, flora, fauna & funga. Landscapes can reflect regional networks of community empowerment where humans & “more-than-humans” become entangled within shared lifeways that respect and encourage diversity. Perhaps landscape architecture or design can be honestly understood as an evolutionary, contemplative and disruptive practice; one that considers the intersections of environmental justice, climate activism, community sovereignty and indigeneity that empowers local peoples and enhances and restores the landscapes in which they live. Indigenous design remains the key to the future of settler nation landscapes in the Anthropocene. Rod Barnett, founder of the non-profit landscape architecture practice, Kaihanga Awawhenua [Riverland Design https://www.nonlinearlandscapes.com/] joins us for a compelling discussion on the potential of landscape design to evolve generative landscapes that resonate with the aspirations of the local community. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio LINKS Utu in the Anthropocene (placesjournal.org) Utu, the Māori principle of reciprocity, accords all beings the same ontological status. It is profoundly interpersonal. https://placesjournal.org/article/redesigning-colonial-landscapes/?cn-reloaded=1 Rod Barnett is a professor of Landscape Architecture based in Aotearoa also known as New Zealand. He runs a non-profit experimental landscape design practice, Kaihanga Awawhenua [which translates from the Maori to Riverland Design https://www.nonlinearlandscapes.com/], within the intersection of environmental justice, climate activism and community sovereignty. His aim is always to empower local peoples to enhance and restore the landscapes in which they live. Wherever he works across the world the values and practices of Indigenous peoples are his compass and guide Prior to heading the school of architecture at Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka, he served as chair of the graduate program in landscape architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 217 Photo credit: Rod Barnett

  Hour 3 of A&G features... The Trump SCOTUS victory... Do we exist in the Anthropocene Era?  Old dudes stumblin' on their words. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of A&G features... The Trump SCOTUS victory... Do we exist in the Anthropocene Era?  Old dudes stumblin' on their words. Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  Hour 3 of A&G features... The Trump SCOTUS victory... Do we exist in the Anthropocene Era?  Old dudes stumblin' on their words. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new novel, set in a world where biodiversity and food stores have been decimated by a persistent fog, a chef accepts a job in an elite mountain community that has become mostly isolated from the rest of the world. Author C Pam Zhang joins us to discuss her latest book, Land of Milk and Honey, which Kirkus calls "mournful and luscious, a gothic novel for the twilight of the Anthropocene Era." EVENTS: Tonight at 7:30 pm, Zhang will be speaking at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene in conversation with Sarah Thankam Mathews. On Saturday at 7:30, Zhang will be speaking at the Brooklyn Museum.

Welcome to Art is Awesome, the show where we talk with an artist or art worker with a connection to the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Emily chats with photographer Shao Feng Hsu.About Artist Shao Feng Hsu:Shao-Feng Hsu is a photographer whose work around the world mainly focuses on the interaction of humans and aquatic environment. From his native Taiwan — where he trained as a competitive swimmer — to Australia, Cambodia, Japan, and beyond, Shao-Feng Hsu has immersed himself in aquatic cultures in an ongoing study of the impact of the Anthropocene Era on our waters. In December 2017, he was selected to participate in Angkor Photo Festival Workshop, where he documented life in a village without proper sanitation and running water. Expanding on the project's themes back in Taiwan, he collaborated with the environmental NGO, RE-Think, on projects to illustrate shoreline pollution. His project, Inner Tidal Zones, combines color photograms and digital images to capture the perspective of aquatic creatures and the emotions of the water. He is a graduate of the Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography and a recipient of Rita K. Hillman Award of Excellence. During the pandemic lockdown he co-founded Fotodemic.org and cademy.biz. He is currently a Fellow at the Headlands Center of the Arts and teaches B&W darkroom at California College of the Arts (CCA) Photography Program.Visit Shao's Website: ShaoFengHsu.comFollow Shao on Instagram: @ShaoFengHsuFor more about the Headlands Graduate Fellowships HERE.Pictures of You: Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship Exhibition at The LabSF Camerawork --About Podcast Host Emily Wilson:Emily a writer in San Francisco, with work in outlets including Hyperallergic, Artforum, 48 Hills, the Daily Beast, California Magazine, Latino USA, and Women's Media Center. She often writes about the arts. For years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco.Follow Emily on Instagram: @PureEWilFollow Art Is Awesome on Instagram: @ArtIsAwesome_Podcast--CREDITS:Art Is Awesome is Hosted, Created & Executive Produced by Emily Wilson. Theme Music "Loopster" Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseThe Podcast is Co-Produced, Developed & Edited by Charlene Goto of @GoToProductions. For more info, visit Go-ToProductions.com

     What is the definition of a working artist?      Nancy is a poet, educator, and community organizer. She has co-founded a handful of arts organizations, including the Long Beach Literary Arts Center and briefly ran a social justice-based literary press. As an organizer, she has produced innumerable arts events, including writing workshops, public readings and arts festivals. She is also the creator of Surprise the Line, a community poetry workshop.Writing from an eco-feminist perspective, her poetry is largely inspired by the magic and power of the natural world. Nancy has received fellowships from PEN America, Arts Council for Long Beach, and Idyllwild Writers Week.       Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro serves as one of the cultural hubs as part of the Artists At Work initiative, as it hosts both Nancy and artist Taylor Griffith for year-long artist residencies.     The ARTISTS AT WORK program is inspired by the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, or WPAIt was designed to give artists resources to continue to produce work during the COVID crisis, but also, to build new structures and partnerships to help sustain the creative sector in a post-pandemic America. The goals of Artists At Work are to give artists a living wage to support their work and to put that work into the public sphere for free, to connect artists and cultural organizations to local initiatives in areas like youth mental health, suicide prevention, food justice, prison reform, youth at risk and other civic engagements to foster healthy communities.      Links:www.nancylyneewoo.comArtists At WorkThe Office Performing Arts and Film www.sbcc.community

We are the controlling factor for the planet we live on, like it or not!

We are sharing the webinar “Jung & the Environment” in full. The video version is available on YouTube. Many believe we are in the Anthropocene Era, an era marked by the planet-wide influence of our species. The field of ecopsychology emerged in the early 1990s as a belated response from the psychological community to address […] The post From the Archives | Jung & the Environment with Dennis Merrit appeared first on Jungianthology: A Podcast & Blog.

“The climate has no borders” เพราะอากาศนั้นไร้พรมแดน ทุกการกระทำของเราส่งผลกระทบไปทั่วทุกมุมโลก และไม่ช้าก็เร็วเราจะได้รับผลของการกระทำเหล่านั้น แต่จะดีกว่าไหมถ้าทุกคนเริ่ม “เปลี่ยน” เพราะถ้าไม่ทำตอนนี้ อาจจะสายไป และไม่มีโอกาสได้ทำอีกเลย . มาร่วมเปลี่ยนอนาคตของ “ธุรกิจ” และ “โลก” ไปกับรายการใหม่ของ Mission To The Moon Podcast รายการที่เชื่อว่า “การเปลี่ยน”เป็นพลังที่ยิ่งใหญ่ช่วยรักษาและส่งต่อโลกใบนี้ให้คนรุ่นถัดไปได้ . ถ้าหากสนใจเรื่อง Circular Design ซึ่งเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นสำคัญของ Circular Economy ก็สามารถติดตามโครงการอบรมเชิงปฏิบัติการ CIRCO  “Creating Business Through Circular Design” กับอีกก้าวครั้งสำคัญที่จะมาพลิกบทบาทของธุรกิจไทย จากการร่วมมือระหว่าง สอวช และ GCNT หลักสูตรที่เน้นนวัตกรรมทางความคิดและการออกแบบ สู่ “Circular Business Model” ที่ตอบโจทย์ลูกค้า สร้างกำไรมหาศาล และยังเป็นมิตรต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม . สามารถดูรายละเอียดหรือสอบถามข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Facebook Fanpage: Global Compact Network Thailand (https://bit.ly/3bspMbk) Powered by CIRCO HUB Thailand

“The climate has no borders” เพราะอากาศนั้นไร้พรมแดน ทุกการกระทำของเราส่งผลกระทบไปทั่วทุกมุมโลก และไม่ช้าก็เร็วเราจะได้รับผลของการกระทำเหล่านั้น แต่จะดีกว่าไหมถ้าทุกคนเริ่ม “เปลี่ยน” เพราะถ้าไม่ทำตอนนี้ อาจจะสายไป และไม่มีโอกาสได้ทำอีกเลย . มาร่วมเปลี่ยนอนาคตของ “ธุรกิจ” และ “โลก” ไปกับรายการใหม่ของ Mission To The Moon Podcast รายการที่เชื่อว่า “การเปลี่ยน”เป็นพลังที่ยิ่งใหญ่ช่วยรักษาและส่งต่อโลกใบนี้ให้คนรุ่นถัดไปได้ . ถ้าหากสนใจเรื่อง Circular Design ซึ่งเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นสำคัญของ Circular Economy ก็สามารถติดตามโครงการอบรมเชิงปฏิบัติการ CIRCO  “Creating Business Through Circular Design” กับอีกก้าวครั้งสำคัญที่จะมาพลิกบทบาทของธุรกิจไทย จากการร่วมมือระหว่าง สอวช และ GCNT หลักสูตรที่เน้นนวัตกรรมทางความคิดและการออกแบบ สู่ “Circular Business Model” ที่ตอบโจทย์ลูกค้า สร้างกำไรมหาศาล และยังเป็นมิตรต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม . สามารถดูรายละเอียดหรือสอบถามข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Facebook Fanpage: Global Compact Network Thailand (https://bit.ly/3bspMbk) Powered by CIRCO HUB Thailand

“The climate has no borders” เพราะอากาศนั้นไร้พรมแดน ทุกการกระทำของเราส่งผลกระทบไปทั่วทุกมุมโลก และไม่ช้าก็เร็วเราจะได้รับผลของการกระทำเหล่านั้น แต่จะดีกว่าไหมถ้าทุกคนเริ่ม “เปลี่ยน” เพราะถ้าไม่ทำตอนนี้ อาจจะสายไป และไม่มีโอกาสได้ทำอีกเลย . มาร่วมเปลี่ยนอนาคตของ “ธุรกิจ” และ “โลก” ไปกับรายการใหม่ของ Mission To The Moon Podcast รายการที่เชื่อว่า “การเปลี่ยน”เป็นพลังที่ยิ่งใหญ่ช่วยรักษาและส่งต่อโลกใบนี้ให้คนรุ่นถัดไปได้ . ถ้าหากสนใจเรื่อง Circular Design ซึ่งเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นสำคัญของ Circular Economy ก็สามารถติดตามโครงการอบรมเชิงปฏิบัติการ CIRCO “Creating Business Through Circular Design” กับอีกก้าวครั้งสำคัญที่จะมาพลิกบทบาทของธุรกิจไทย จากการร่วมมือระหว่าง สอวช และ GCNT หลักสูตรที่เน้นนวัตกรรมทางความคิดและการออกแบบ สู่ “Circular Business Model” ที่ตอบโจทย์ลูกค้า สร้างกำไรมหาศาล และยังเป็นมิตรต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม . สามารถดูรายละเอียดหรือสอบถามข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Facebook Fanpage: Global Compact Network Thailand (https://bit.ly/3bspMbk) Powered by CIRCO HUB Thailand

Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff is a scholar/activist/artist/mother whose work engages feminist embodied theory with an emphasis on the ecological failures of our current economic system relating to its foundation in colonialism. She has written several books including Zazu Dream: Between The Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era. She is probably the most well-read person I have ever spoken to.

Thom is joined by Columbia University professor Adam Tooze for a deep dive on his new book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

With Stefano Boeri, Ersilia Vaudo, Paola Antonelli, Formafantasma, Andrés Jaque, Legacy Russell We take stock of the planet’s environment, both natural and manmade. Can we still talk of an Anthropocene Era? What is the planet’s culture as seen from the Moon? What is culture beyond the pandemic? – From the Moon the Earth seems to be a serenely beautiful sphere of blues, greens and whirling white clouds. From the moon, is where we can finally step back and look at the state of our planet; from the extinction and destruction being caused by climate change to the interlinked conflict and crises that is effecting our population. This podcast will look at Planet Earth as if we are broadcasting from the Moon, the distance allowing us to make sense of the immense beauty that sometimes coexists, but that can often disappear when faced with such grave challenges. Seven episodes of From the Moon will try and unpack the state of the planet via different, distinct topics that interweave and complement the XXIII Triennale theme. Bringing together the fields of design, innovation, science, art, philosophy and more besides, conversations broadcast From the Moon will offer solutions and warnings, they should inspire and critique in equal measure. The 2020 pandemic is of course present in all our consciousness, and rather than addressing this as its own topic or episode it has to be taken as a subtext of the whole podcast series. Some episodes will have particular resonance when it comes to assessing the impact and consequences of the Covid-19 crisis. HOSTED BY DAVID PLAISANT – David Plaisant is a freelance journalist and writer based in Italy. He began his career in London, where he worked in architecture and design advocacy groups and then as a design writer and radio producer for multimedia brand Monocle.

This program explores a pervasive ailment of our age which is Nature Deficit Disorder. “The more high-tech our lives become, the more nature we need.” Louv also adds, “Conservation is no longer enough. For everything we receive from nature, we need to give back, we need to nurture nature, as much as it nurtures us.” Richard Louv’s writings and books have helped launch an international movement to connect children, families, and communities to nature. He is cofounder and chair emeritus of the nonprofit Children & Nature Network. In 2008 he was awarded the Audubon Medal which he shares with such notables as Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, and Sir David Attenborough. Richard Louv is the author of many books including:Last Child in the Woods (Algonquin Books 2008), The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age (Algonquin Books 2012) and Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs (Algonquin Books 2019) Interview Date: 10/8/2020    Tags: Richard Louv, generation amnesia, Nature Deficit Disorder, Glenn Albrecht, Symbiocene Era, Ecozoic Era, Anthropocene Era, E.O. Wilson, Thomas Berry, Rouge River Ford Motor Plant, William McDonough, Singapore, Douglas Tallamy, Homegrown National Park, native plants, wildlife corridors, social capital, Jon Young, 8 Shields, Sit Spots, Children & Nature Network, octopus, Paul Dayton, reciprocity, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Social Change/Politics, Science

Jungian analyst, author, and ecopsychologist Dr. Dennis Merritt joins us from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to discuss his explosive new article, "Covid-19: Inflection Point in the Anthropocene Era and the Paradigm Shift of Jung’s New Age."

Hear from David Lamfrom, Director of California Desert and National Wildlife programs at the National Parks Conservation Association, who will discuss the particular challenges of protecting and preserving our national parks in the Anthropocene era, including this current stage of global industrialization. David recounts the impact of the government shutdown on wildlife in national parks, including the financial cost for the remediation of destruction from unmonitored and unregulated human activity. He discusses the gaps in federal funding that impact conservation efforts. Listen to how we can best support biogeography, diversity and migration patterns of animals and whole ecosystems as we accelerate industrial production of renewable energy infrastructure to scale. David asserts that "empty space" is a myth, and elucidates how we can become more effective and connected stewards of the Earth while we seek alternatives for fossil fuels. David Lamfrom from serves as the Director of the California Desert and National Wildlife programs for the National Parks Conservation Association, using his passion and knowledge of our natural, cultural and historical resources to inspire others to learn about and protect our national parks. David has extensive experience working with diverse wildlife and agriculture in the fields of: aquaculture, agricultural biology and herpetology. He volunteered time and expertise as a naturalist for the Wildlife Research Team, a non-profit organization who has had tremendous success utilizing non-mechanized mangrove restoration in Biscayne Bay, Florida. As a graduate of New College of Florida, David has had the opportunity to conduct significant study in the fields of ecology, herpetology, foreign languages, Native American studies, and art. Published both as an author and wildlife photographer in several issues of Wild South magazine, David is an avid naturalist, hiker, and photographer who spends his free time exploring wildlife and wilderness. For more info. and to support visit: https://www.npca.org/ Interview by Carry Kim Hosted by Jessica Aldridge from SoCal 350 and Adventures in Waste. Engineers: JP Morris and Blake Lampkin Executive Producer: Jack Eidt Show Created by Mark and JP Morris Music: Javier Kadry Episode 38

Carey King is a researcher and professor at University of Texas Energy Institute. He has been working at developing economic models that account for the relationship between energy and wages. I would encourage you to watch some of his presentations that provide visual support to his ideas. They can be found here http://careyking.com/ To learn more contact: James Cox Cell: 267 323 6936 Email: jamescoxprivateemail@gmail.com

Compelled by the notion that we're entering an ENTIRELY new era--the "Anthropocene Era," as coined by renowned naturalist, David Attenborough--I explore the implications that Humankind has become the predominant force on Planet Earth. What does this mean for each and every one of us? Where are we headed? Indeed, how do we remake ourselves for the sake of our life here on Earth, and all the precious creatures in our midst. For a clue, I share the story of a 7 year-old student--Katinka--a little girl who expresses her delight through music. This inspired episode ends with Katinka's piece, "The Ladybird Song."

Cara Judea-Alhadeff is really difficult and easy to put in a box..Free is the best word. Cara came in to my consciousness will studying Nude yoga. ZAZU DREAMS Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era by Cara Judea Alhadeff paintings by Micaela Amateau Amato Zazu Dreams is a fable for adults, written as a children’s narrative. A tale of environmental justice, a Sephardic Arab Jewish boy and his husky traverse the globe on a humpback whale. Their adventures unfold as they witness symbiotic and contentious relationships between humans and the environment. Crossingtemporal dimensions and international borders, past, present, and future overlap through phantasmagorical encounters with historical heroes like Jacques Cousteau, Spinoza, Rachel Carson, and ibn Sina, and 21st-century villains likeNestlé, Merck, Exxon, and Monsanto—Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Agribusiness giants that stalk the planet. For cross-generational audiences, Zazu Dreams includes lush illustrations and detailed encyclopedic endnotes. Together, the narrative, images, and encyclopedia unravel the intersections between the sciences and humanities— global ecological extinction and cultural extinction of ethnic minorities. Zazu Dreams explores migration and transformation from waste to useful by-product —including toxic sludge to critical compost, desertification to oasis, the cusp of extinction to restoration, body-phobia to biophilia. Interdependent relationships from the natural world coincide with the histories of diasporic peoples from Iberia, North Africa, and the Middle East. The mother-daughter artist-author team integrates two seemingly unrelated topics: Jewish and Arabic philosophies with consumer-convenience petro-culture. This cautionary fable incites audiences to question the vast implications of the vital yet precarious concept of "sustainability."  

Bo Lebo is a Californian artist educator and the Director of New Education Options. She is interested in “looking on the bright side of life” by using measurement and teamwork to transform school for at risk learners. Because of cognitive research, she is able to play to learn and learn to play with 2 nd and 3 rd graders and their teachers to anchor words, their meaning, and teach children school protocols. She uses computers to add to her business explorations, has just returned from Ireland and is deep diving into the meaning of life in the Anthropocene Era. At the present moment, she continues to bring Scrabble back to the Battle of the Sexes which was recently relaunched by an onair challenge by Stephen Colbert. Last night NASA put a new Earthquake Sensor on Mars and a Pasco package of STEM sensors was standing on the kitchen table and on the way to Common Ground North Ireland. She expects to share this ecotourism destination as a new kind of classroom collaboration and create a common ground educational blog for computer shy teachers and new generations of citizen scientists. This Giving Tuesday to day she would like to talk about wild lesson plans, sturdy songs, Trees Across the GLOBE, NASA Earth Observer apps. She hopes to inspire your holiday season, look for new board members and friens and tell the listeners how they can find a great holiday gift for those looking for words this holday season and where they might make donations help buy as science adventure shuttle and give live Winter recess scholarships for So Cal working parents while the LA region recovers from the Woolsey and Malibu fires.

Sermon by Canon David Hodgson Rector of All Saints Wokingham on the Feast of St Simon and St Jude.

Welcome to the Augmented Cities Podcast, an ongoing discussion about Artificial Intelligence and the Clash of Culture & Code!

Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon answers questions about the human impact on Earth during the Anthropocene Era. Now updated with 13 minutes of Dr. FunkySpoon and Chuck Nice discussing why we must evolve from Homo Sapiens into Terra Sapiens.

We all remember the floods across much of central and southern England this time last year, and the devastating effect they had on people's lives and livelihoods. Today, a group of researchers at Cardiff University published a report on how people's perception of climate change has evolved in the wake of the floods. To what extent has our belief in man-made climate change altered? Do we now regard last year's events as a sign of things to come? Adam Rutherford talks to Nick Pidgeon from Cardiff University's School of Psychology who led this UK wide study Earlier this week an international group of climate scientists, geographers and ecologists met at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden to wrangle how we can practically make the best of the Anthropocene - the new geological epoch that many consider that we now find ourselves in. Gaia Vince author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, reports from the Stockholm meeting At the UK's Satellite Application Catapult in Harwell, a project has been unveiled that seeks to offer real time data on the world's fishing fleet to help governments police illegal fishing. Pulling together data from shipping registers, satellite images, radar and ships' own transponders, Eyes on the Sea automatically scans for suspicious activity and can alert human users and allow them to see what ships are up to. The Pew Charitable Trusts hope that vessels carrying illegal cargoes can then be tracked across the ocean, and any port receiving them would know where they had been and what they had been up to. How complex cells evolved is a mystery. Current theories on the evolutionary jump, between 1 and 2 billion years ago, from life forms based on a simple prokaryote cell to the complex multiple eukaryote cells with a cell nucleus and a host of complex internal machinery, fails to explain much of what we see within animal, plant and fungi cells today. Adam talks to Buzz Baum a cell biologist at University College London who has devised a new testable model which appears to explain one of biology's most basic questions. Producer: Adrian Washbourne.

Planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon is back as guest host to answer your questions about the human impact on Earth during the “Anthropocene Era.”

The outgoing and incoming Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chairs in Astrobiology -- David H. Grinspoon and Steven J. Dick -- discuss the societal implications of the search for life in the universe, Jan. 28, 2014. Speaker Biography: David H. Grinspoon held the inaugural astrobiology chair position at the Library of Congress from November 2012 to October 2013. His successful tenure included a day-long symposium on the longevity of human civilization and speaking appearances at the Library, NASA headquarters, NASA Goddard Research Center, the Philosophical Society of Washington, the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Grinspoon's research at the Library of Congress examined the history of the Earth from an astrobiological perspective, and the consequences for life on Earth in the "Anthropocene Era," the name given by some scientists to the current era in the Earth's history. An internationally known planetary scientist, funded by NASA to study the evolution of Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe, Grinspoon serves as an adviser to NASA on space-exploration strategy. He is involved with many space missions and is a trained suborbital astronaut. He has been published widely in popular magazines, scholarly journals, and blogs. Speaker Biography: Steven J. Dick is an a well-known astronomer, author, and historian of science. His research at the Library of Congress investigates the human consequences of searching and potentially discovering life beyond Earth. Dick most recently testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology about astrobiology and the search for bio-signatures in our solar system. Prior to holding the astrobiology chair at the Kluge Center, he was the chair in aerospace history at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. He served as the chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 2003 to 2009. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6194

David Grinspoon examines choices facing humanity as we enter the Anthropocene Era, the epoch when human activities are becoming a defining characteristic of the physical nature and functioning of Earth. Oct. 31, 2013. Speaker Biography: David Grinspoon is the inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/LC Chair in Astrobiology. For transcript, captions and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6183