Podcasts about environmental systems

Send us a textDid you know that roughly 30% of the world's potash is produced in Saskatchewan?  That is significant!  Potash companies need large teams of operators, technicians, geoscientists, and engineers to have successful potash mines that are safe, economical, and environmentally viable.In this episode we sit down with Caitlin Knaus to talk about her career in the potash industry.  Caitlin has a background in Environmental Systems engineering and is currently a cavern engineer for K+S Potash Canada.  In this conversation, she talks about her career path in the potash industry, solution mining, and what a cavern engineer does to help produce potash.  She also offers great advice to young people who are thinking about studying engineering.

Send us a textEnvironmental engineers play an important role in helping communities and industry function in sustainable and responsible frameworks that protect the public and the environment.  First Nations communities in Canada have many engineering challenges that need to be addressed with both sound engineering and cultural considerations.In this episode we sit down with Darlynn Lavallee to learn about her career as an Environmental Systems engineer at Piapot Nation.  In her role, Darlynn is responsible for environmental and major capital projects at Piapot Nation, including land use, planning, zoning, and water use.  Darlynn is in a unique role in that she is both a member of Piapot Nation and an engineer!  In this conversation we hear about how she got into engineering and how she found a path to help provide engineering services within her own First Nation community.  In addition to talking about her career, Darlynn also shares some advice for young people that might be interested in a career in engineering.

Send us a textIt is very hard to predict the type of engineering career someone may have when they graduate from university.  In fact, there are so many different roles and responsibilities for engineers.  For example, engineers can be involved in consulting, technical design, project management, sales, and so much more.  It takes all kinds of different engineers, working in a variety of roles, to accomplish successful projects.In this episode we sit down with Katrina and Evan Bahr.  Katrina is an Industrial Systems engineer working at SaskPower, and Evan is an Environmental Systems engineer working at Bird Construction.  In this conversation they talk about their engineering careers, how they met during university studies, and what they are currently working on as project managers!  Both Katrina and Evan highlight a favourite project from their career, and they offer advice to young people considering engineering.

Have you ever felt like you don't belong - whether in your city, your country, your community or in Nature?In this episode with Valerie, we explore what it means to come home to YOURSELF so that you can feel that sense of belonging, wherever you are. If you've struggled to fit in the "box" of cultural expectations, this episode will remind you that your true self is enough—and that your uniqueness is a gift to the world!IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:Latino Outdoors and the power of storytelling to reconnect us with NatureCultural wayfinding and what it means to come home to yourselfReciprocity and how to create mutually supportive communitiesHow to volunteer or give back in a way that feels aligned and balanced for youMORE ABOUT VAL: Valerie is a Latino Outdoors Outings Leader in the greater Baltimore area, fostering a sense of belonging for Latinxs in outdoor exploration and elevating their perspectives in conservation efforts. Her connection to the outdoors was shaped by her time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, where she focused on environmental education and conservation.Now pursuing a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Valerie's research examines the intersections of Indigeneity, gender, land rights, and global conservation. Born and raised on Piscataway land (Baltimore, Maryland), she is the first U.S.-born child in her family; her mother immigrated from México and her father from the Philippines. Valerie continues to live, study, and work in her hometown. STAY CONNECTED WITH VAL:INSTAGRAM: @latinooutdoors, @lo_baltimore, @vale.la.pasion MORE ABOUT GINA CASBARRO:Gina Casbarro is a certified Life Designer®  coach and feng shui expert who empowers her clients to blaze their own path and design the life and space of their dreams.Gina's passion for coaching began as a manager at lululemon where she spent more than eight years coaching hundreds of people to develop as leaders and crush their goals. Her love of nature, symbolism, and intuition led her to feng shui. She now weaves these passions together to support her clients in aligning their mindset, their lifestyle, and their environment with their truest goals and values.To learn more about how 1:1 coaching could support YOU to follow your spark, book a free Consult Call at www.ginacasbarro.com.JOIN US IN ALCHEMIZE AND EXPAND!ginacasbarro.com/alchemizeandexpandREADY TO LIVE A LIFE OF NO REGRETS?Join us for the FREE Masterclass here: ginacasbarro.com/noregretsSTAY CONNECTED WITH GINA:Website: https://ginacasbarro.comInstagram: @gina_casbarroLOOKING FOR 1:1 SUPPORT?Book a free consultation call here to see if coaching is right for you: https://ginacasbarro.com/TOOLS TO HELP YOU FOLLOW YOUR SPARK:Download Gina's Top 15 Transformational Tools here: https://www.ginacasbarro.com/transformational-toolsMusic:

Mr. Aaron Parker Listen below to hear Aiken high school students discuss justice and their jobs in environmental justice from this part summer. When we consider what “Democracy and Me” can mean, we must consider the idea of justice. Over the next few weeks, the Agriculture Career Tech Pathway Students and Community Partners of Aiken New Tech High School in the Cincinnati Public Schools will be contributing their perspective and voice on how they are taking action on issues of social justice, environmental justice, heath justice, financial justice, and food justice (sovereignty). Aiken New Tech High School is a grades 7-12 college and career preparatory high school. The Agriculture Career Tech Pathway is a vocational series of classes focusing on Agribusiness and Production that includes: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources; Animal and Plant Science; Greenhouse and Nursery Management; and Global Economics and Food Markets. Students take part in the 3-Circle Model of Agriculture that is: 1. classroom as an interactive laboratory,, 2. Supervised Agricultural Experiences / Work-Based Learning, 3. Participation in Future Farmers of America. Situated on 61 acres of land, our Agriculture Campus includes a production farm of 35-raised beds, mushroom growing lab, coffee roasterie, 2 high tunnels, a greenhouse, orchard, 4 alpacas, 6 goats, 1 Zebu steer, and a collection of rabbits, quail, ducks, chickens, and Guinea fowl. Completing the Agriculture Campus are an on-campus forest and prairie as well as the adjoining Cincinnati Parks Preserve of Greeno Woods that supports habitat for wildlife. It is within Aiken's agriculture program that students are provided opportunities to take action on issues of social, environmental, health, financial, and food justice. The food we grow is to provide food security for the students and community members needing local, fresh, and nutritious food. Students source seed, plant, care for, harvest, and distribute food that is culturally valued by our community, so it is valued. Eggs hatched by students of quail, chicken, duck, and Guinea fowl are a source of protein so frequently missing from growing and active adolescent diets. The expertise and resources of the Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, La Soupe, and the Society of St. Andrew - Ohio helps ensure food sovereignty for all. Financial security is achieved through students who perform and get paid for work-based learning during and after school as well as during the summer. Good paying Green jobs that are centered around sustainability and technical skill attainment provide resume building, employment skills, and income that is essential for both students and the families that money assists. Work-based learning occurs with the interest and support of Groundwork Ohio River Valley, Co-op Cincy, Cancer Justice Network, La Terza Artisan Coffee Roasterie, and Hamilton County Youth Employment. Health is improved through the mental wellness of having an outdoor classroom as well as access to the healthy food from our Aiken Farm and the Health Fairs and Vaccination Clinics organized by our FFA Chapter. Taking care of one's health requires eating well, practicing mindfulness, being active, and knowing how to navigate a complex and sometimes difficult health care system which our FFA students help educate as Health Navigators with Cancer Justice Network. Care for the air we breathe, water we drink, and land we occupy is monitored for sustainability through stewardship and engagement of community partners for environmental justice with Green Teams of Groundwork Ohio River Valley, Environmental Protection Agency and Green Umbrella as a Regional Climate Collaborative. Social justice is the diversity, equity, and inclusion we seek through an urban agriculture pathway that is in need of capitalizing on resources as well as being able to give back the community through service and value through the telling of our stories at Maketank Inc. and the dedication to inclusivity in our Cincinnati Public Schools. Through a series of blog posts and podcasts we aim to draw your attention to the selfless action of care that is embodied in justice that is layered throughout our Aiken New Tech High School Agriculture Career Tech Pathway.  Students sharing their perspectives and voices will raise awareness and ignite a fire of action in you in which they are the spark.  For a preview of what you can expect to read, hear, and see on “Democracy and Me,” we encourage you to visit a few resources: Aiken New Tech High School: https://aikennewtech.cps-k12.org Aiken Agriculture Weekly Newsletters: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pxceKYPKjjrHt6OkiBKM7UF3FbNhKDXA?usp=drive_link Aiken Agriculture Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AikenStudentGarden Ohio Department of Education and Workforce: Agriculture and Environmental Systems: https://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Career-Tech/Career-Fields/Agricultural-and-Environmental-Systems Future Farmers of America: https://www.ffa.org Groundwork Ohio River Valley: https://www.groundworkorv.org Maketank Inc.: https://www.maketankinc.org Cancer Justice Network: https://www.cancerjusticenetwork.com Co-op Cincy: https://coopcincy.org Hamilton County Youth Employment: Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati: https://www.civicgardencenter.org La Soupe: https://www.lasoupe.org Society of St. Andrew - Ohio:

Send us a textDo you ever wonder about the infrastructure and services in your community?  How did the roads, sewer, landfill, and water services get there?  Engineers are responsible for setting up communities that are functional and safe for the people who live there.In this episode we sit down with Ryan Johnson, an Environmental Systems engineer with close to thirty years of experience.  Ryan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Corporation.  In this conversation he talks about his career and his extensive experience in water treatment.

In Part 1 of Flanigan's Eco-Logic - Climate Resolve Series, Ted speaks with Catherine Baltazar, a Policy Analyst and Organizer, and Lia Cohen, a Coordinator for Climate Planning and Resilience, focusing on their work at Climate Resolve, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, building collaborations to champion equitable climate solutions.Catherine was born and raised in LA, and has focused her work around the conditions of the community she grew up in, with limited access to green spaces, just west of downtown LA. She attended Wellesley College, and upon graduating, received a CivicSpark Fellowship, where she worked at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. There she worked on developing an Urban Heat Island Reduction Plan for the County which focused on strategic tree planting, “green space” development and planning, implementation of “cool roof” ordinances and the piloting of cool and permeable pavement projects. This experience allowed her to approach environmental justice from a local government perspective.Lia was also born and raised in LA, sharing that she grew up in a family with lots of siblings and an open door policy, so her values are very much rooted in community care. She attended UCLA, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in International Development Studies and minors in Public Affairs and Environmental Systems and Society. Before joining Climate Resolve, Lia worked as a virtual field organizer for the Ohio Coordinated Campaign, mobilizing turnout in a key swing state during the 2020 election.Ted, Catherine, and Lia discuss current projects that they are working on at Climate Resolve, both background and front-facing community work. Catherine starts with the Boyle Heights Community Plan Update, a plan that is supportive of environmental quality, economic vitality, and urban design that promotes safe and walkable neighborhoods. The draft plan includes many policies that address climate change and build resilience such as tree planting, cool roof replacement, solar panel installation, sidewalk improvements, resilience hubs, and community engagement. Lia also discusses coordinating the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP) grant implementation in the City of Commerce, and helping lead project implementation efforts for the Baldwin Hills Community Resilience and Access Plan, as well as the South LA Eco-Lab Transformative Climate Communities grant.They also discuss tools for displacement avoidance, grassroots environmental justice efforts, and creating vibrant communities with access. 

Send us a Text Message.Do you have an interest in the environment?  Do you want to reduce pollution, improve sustainability, and help ensure that new engineering projects meet current environmental standards? In this episode we sit down with Ben Lichtenwald to learn about Environmental Systems Engineering.  Ben teaches the laboratories that help give students a hands-on learning experience in our Environmental Systems Engineering program.  In our conversation, he talks about his own experience in industry as an environmental systems engineer, and he highlights the types of careers that students can have when they graduate from this program.

Innovation is about creation, but it's also about finding new spaces where those creations can be used. Today's guest has applied a centuries-old scientific process to solve the problems of a global industry. Today's guest is Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. Under Jennifer's guidance, LanzaTech is developing a variety of platform chemicals and fuels, including the world's first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gases. She is also the Director and Chair of the LanzaJet Board of Directors. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. While there, she was a key driver of their leadership in low carbon aviation biofuels. Jennifer has authored or co-authored 50 U.S. patents and more than 30 scientific publications and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Jennifer sits on multiple boards and advisory councils, including the Governing Council for the Bio Energy Research Institute in India, the Board of Directors of the U.S.- India Strategic Partnership Forum, the Advisory Council for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, the National Academies' Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and the Founder Advisory for The Engine, a venture capital fund built by MIT that invests in early-stage science and engineering companies. Jennifer holds a B.Sc. from Harvey Mudd College, a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago.Highlights:How LanzaTech's biorefinery systems work (4:23)LanzaTech's background, and how their investment process has grown over time (6:01)How Jennifer was introduced to LanzaTech, and her work history before joining the company (6:44)The science and technology behind LanzaTech, and its protection status (7:20)What products LanzaTech produces, and some of their product partners (9:20)Lanzatech's addressable market (11:16)How LanzaTech's technology differs from other direct air capture technologies (12:00)Jennifer describes who Lanzatech's customers are, and where their technology is currently being deployed (13:32)Jennifer breaks down how the company's business model works (14:52)LanzaTech's expansion plan (18:20)Jennifer explain's LanzaTech's LanzaJet project, and where the idea came from (19:19)LanzaTech's plan to grow their product offerings and develop new systems for different chemical compounds (22:55)How the company is managing the fluctuation economy and stock market as a public company (26:45)Additional resources for listeners (29:49)Links:Jennifer Holmgren on LinkedInLanzaTech on LinkedInLanzaTech WebsiteICR LinkedInICR TwitterICR WebsiteFeedback:If you have questions about the show, or have a topic in mind you'd like discussed in future episodes, email our producer, marion@lowerstreet.co.

Human societies and their use of land have transformed ecology across this planet for thousands of years. As a result, the global patterns of life on Earth, the biomes, can no longer be understood without considering how humans have altered them. Anthromes, or anthropogenic biomes, characterise the globally significant ecological patterns created by sustained direct human interactions with ecosystems, including agriculture, urbanisation, and other land uses. Anthromes now cover more than three quarters of Earth's ice-free land surface, including dense settlements, villages, croplands, rangelands, and semi natural lands; wildlands untransformed by agriculture and settlements cover the remaining area In this podcast we discuss the relationship of humans and nature with Professor Erle Ellis. We look at how since the dawn of humanity we've been impacting the land. Now as these impacts gather pace and lead to undesirable outcomes we discuss how we can reframe the role of the human species as being an intrinsic part of nature and possessing the power to shape the world to more desirable outcomes.Prfoessor Erle C Ellis is Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where he directs the Anthroecology Laboratory.His research investigates the ecology of human landscapes at local to global scales to inform sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. https://anthroecology.org/anthromesThe Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery is interested in promoting a wide variety of views and opinions on nature recovery from researchers and practitioners. The views, opinions and positions expressed within this podcast are those of the speakers alone, they do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, or its researchers.The work of the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery is made possible thanks to the support of the Leverhulme Trust.

I am delighted to host a special series of podcasts (on the Backstory Podcast) with distinguished guests who are pivotal to “The Base 10 Solutionary Summit of 2024”. The Summit, hosted by Munich International School, represents around 200 young Changemakers and Educators from 20 European Schools, who together look to share solutions for improving systems at differing scales, from local to global levels. At the heart of the Summit is the notion that sustainability is the balance overtime: From 1, to 10, to 100, to 1000.  And so, in today's episode Will was honoured to talk to Jennifer Brandsberg- Engelmann.   As an international educator teaching children for more than 25 years in the Social Sciences, Jennifer Brandsberg Engelmann is an expert in developing and executing educational strategies, projects, processes, and curricular. Her core focus is to train young people to take action for regenerative societies.  In the Sustainability Action Lab she founded, she works with Student Changemakers with a curriculum she lead developed. She also co/lead authors Economics, Business Management, and Environmental Systems and Societies textbooks, focusing on a sustainability, development, and social enterprise.  

Nellie Cohen is the Director of Circular Revenue Models at Anthesis. Nellie holds over 15 years' of sustainability experience and is widely recognized as a leading figure within the circular economy movement.  She spent nearly a decade at Patagonia as the architect of the brand's precedent-setting and award-winning circularity program, Worn Wear.   Prior to joining Anthesis, Nellie founded Baleen. There she consulted with notable apparel brands to develop circular business models, product systems and related marketing and communications. A former lecturer in Industrial Ecology at UC Santa Barbara, she holds a BA in Environmental Systems from UC San Diego and a MS in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.   In this episode Nellie shares: - What is the circular economy? - What are the benefits of engaging in the circular economy? - How we can keep our resources and products in use for as long as possible. - Why ride-sharing/carpooling is better for the environment than Uber-ing. - Great examples of businesses that are thriving with sustainable models. - The impact that 'Worn Wear' had on Patagonia's success. - Nellie's life-changing questions 1. How can I make the world a better place? which led to 2. How can we change people's relationship with stuff? 3. How can I help move people from consumers to owners? And a question that you can reflect on : How can circularity affect your business plan and model? - How 82% of Americans bought something used last year, and the growing trend of Gen-Z choosing not to buy something if it can't be resold or repurposed.   It is a trend that product-based business owners should consider carefully in their designs   Resources mentioned in this episode Naomi Klein This changes everything Capitalism vs Climate https://www.amazon.com.au/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697392   Nellie Cohen - Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nellie-cohen-69233194/ If you would like more insights on profit maximization for your business, visit www.ProfitHive.com.au

Innovation is about creation, but it's also about finding new spaces where those creations can be used. Today's guest has applied a centuries-old scientific process to solve a global industry problems. Today's guest is Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. Under Jennifer's guidance, LanzaTech is developing a variety of platform chemicals and fuels, including the world's first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gases. She is also the Director and Chair of the LanzaJet Board of Directors. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. While there, she was a key driver of their leadership in low carbon aviation biofuels. Jennifer has authored or co-authored 50 U.S. patents and more than 30 scientific publications and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Jennifer sits on multiple boards and advisory councils, including  the Governing Council for the Bio Energy Research Institute in India, the Board of Directors of the U.S.- India Strategic Partnership Forum, the Advisory Council for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, the National Academies' Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and the Founder Advisory for The Engine, a venture capital fund built by MIT that invests in early-stage science and engineering companies. Jennifer holds a B.Sc. from Harvey Mudd College, a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago.Highlights: How LanzaTech's biorefinery systems work (3:23) LanzaTech's background, and how their investment process has grown over time'(5:02) How Jennifer was introduced to LanzaTech, and her work history before joining the company (5:45) The science and technology behind LanzaTech, and its protection status (7:35) What products LanzaTech produces, and some of their product partners (8:39) LanzaTech's addressable market (10:17) How LanzaTech's technology differs from other direct air capture technologies (11:00) Jennifer describes who LanzaTech's customers are, and where their technology is currently being deployed (12:32) Jennifer breaks down how the company's business model works (13:53) LanzaTech's expansion plan (17:21) Jennifer explains LanzaTech's LanzaJet project, and where the idea came from (18:20) LanzaTech's plan to grow their product offerings and develop new systems for different chemical compounds (22:39) How the company is managing the fluctuating economy and stock market as a public company (25:44) Additional resources for listeners (28:48) Links:Jennifer Holmgren on LinkedInLanzaTech on LinkedInLanzaTech WebsiteICR LinkedInICR TwitterICR WebsiteFeedback:If you have questions about the show, or have a topic in mind you'd like discussed in future episodes, email our producer, marion@lowerstreet.co.

Join NAFI: www.nafinet.org NAFI Summit Information: https://nafisummit2023.org/ This episode is sponsored by: Icom Add Before Flight -------------------------------------------------------------------- The training you received to stay far away from thunderstorms is the wrong approach! It will lead you down the primrose path to falling into a deadly trap in the future. Yes, thunderstorms are dangerous, but it doesn't take a supercell thunderstorm to ruin your day. The goal is to minimize your exposure to deep, moist convection. In this webinar, we will look at the seldom explored dangers of the towering cumulus stage of the thunderstorm life cycle. Founder of EZWxBrief, Dr. Scott Dennstaedt is a nationally-known expert in aviation weather. He has worked as a meteorologist for the last 40 years has a doctorate in Infrastructures and Environmental Systems from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). With a background as a meteorologist, commercial pilot, and experienced CFI with 4,000 logged hours over the last 25 years, he offers a unique approach to teaching general aviation pilots how to minimize their exposure to adverse weather. He is a widely published aviation author that includes his new book, The Skew-T log (p) and Me: A Primer for Pilots and is a contributing editor for FLYING magazine. In his spare time Scott volunteers as EAA's subject matter expert on weather.  

Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann⁠ has been teaching Economics, Business Management and Environmental Systems and Societies for 26 years in three countries, mainly in the International Baccalaureate. Jennifer is an expert in developing and executing educational strategies, projects, processes and curricula. Her core focus is training young people to take action for sustainable and regenerative societies. She has worked with student changemakers in the Sustainability Action Lab at ⁠Strothoff International School⁠, Germany, developing their knowledge, skills and passions through the ⁠Youth Mayors Field Guide⁠, a curriculum that she lead - developed with colleagues from other disciplines and other international schools. Jennifer has co-authored Economics, Business Management and Environmental Systems and Societies textbooks integrating new economic thinking and social enterprise themes into those works. Jennifer has also delivered webinars on sustainability and works to shift curricular systems to new paradigms to address 21st century problems. Recently, she has turned her attention to advocating for regenerative economics to be taught in secondary schools. You can find the regenerative economics syllabus she developed with ⁠Kate Raworth⁠ and other academics and teachers in ⁠an open letter posted on the Doughnut Economics Action Lab website⁠. She is working on a prototype for the course in the coming months. If you would like to offer help or feedback on this emerging work please contact her ⁠via LinkedIn⁠ or through the form for the open letter here: https://doughnuteconomics.org/stories/259. 

In this episode our host Joe Batir talks with Patrick Rooney, Director of Manufacturing at Municipal Group of Companies and Jerry Scott, General Manager of R3 Environmental Systems. They talk about vacuum distillation for the treatment of waste drilling muds and how that translates into cleaning Drilling Fluids. Topics they discuss include: What are drilling fluids How do we currently “clean” drilling fluids How much drilling fluid is used for a typical well What is R3's new method to extract drilling fluid from the drilling waste What is the end product of cleaning drilling waste Why does this all matter Patrick's book recommendation: The Greatness Guide by Robin Sharma Jerry's book recommendation: It by Stephen King These show notes contain affiliate links. Show your support for this show, the information we provide, and our energy community by using these links. This episode is made possible by AWS Energy. Enjoying the show? Leave me a review here! Brought to you on the Oil and Gas Global Network, the largest and most listened-to podcast network for the oil and energy industry. More from OGGN ... Podcasts LinkedIn Group LinkedIn Company Page Get notified about industry events

On today's episode we hear a rebroadcast of a 2023 UMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Forum Lecture, organized by the UMBC Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. The lecture, which took place in the Spring 2023 semester, featured the work of Dr. Andrea Roberts, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and Co-Director of the School's Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia's (UVA) School of Architecture. Dr. Andrea Roberts Contact the Freedom Colonies Project (gmail) The Freedom Colonies Project Website On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. George Derek Musgrove of the History Department at UMBC. "A Monument to Black Resistance and Strength" Check out the following links for more information on UMBC, CS3, and our host: The UMBC Center for the Social Sciences Scholarship The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ian G. Anson, Ph.D. Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Alex Andrews. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D'Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

In this insightful episode, learn about: ·        The various catalysts sparking sustainability in the real estate industry·        How electricity plays a key role in this process·        How the rapid and expansive deployment of battery technologies will increase the resiliency of the nation's power grid and improve outcomes for people across socio-economic spectrum·        The complications and challenges facing the electrification of  buildings·        The power requirements for lighting compared to other applications·        Electric vehicle (EV) charging and the challenges of creating a supportive infrastructure Our guest today is Andrew Lehrer.   Andrew is an experienced leader, mentor, strategic planner, project executive, and innovative mechanical designer with a proven history of successful projects in Chicagoland and across the country. Focused on life sciences, asset repositioning, and high rise mixed use markets, Andrew is a demonstrated leader in identifying fit-for-project opportunities to enhance sustainability and reduce GHG emissions. He's a licensed professional engineer in Illinois and California and a certified LEED AP.Want to be a guest on our podcast? If you have an intriguing, thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on our podcast, please contact our host Jim Frazer View all The Smart City Podcast episodes here: https://thesmartcitypodcast.buzzsprout.com/

Dr. Chutko is a professor of Environmental Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He teaches courses in Environmental Systems, Weather and Global Climate Change. And he doesn't limit himself to the university either, but regularly gets out to the elementary schools to see if he can answer their questions on this difficult and complex topic. This is a "sciencey" discussion but extremely interesting. We cover lots of topics including evidence of human involvement in climate change by analyzing carbon isotopes, how the planet and the Sun could be a part of the puzzle and then some of the social and economic fallout that comes with switching from fossil fuels. There is a lot here that can really help any teacher who needs some scientific support in bringing the lessons of climate change to their classes. By listening to this conversation (and maybe taking notes!), any teacher could go into their class feeling ready to lead a rich and meaningful AND relevant discussion. And these discussions are essential to bringing about solutions to the global challenges we have as we transition from an older energy source to a new and cleaner one. This can be done, but education is key. So let's get informed, let's do our best to connect the lessons to something of great significance and let's shape the future by staying up to date and involved. Connect with Dr. Chutko: krys.chutko@usask.ca

On today's episode we hear about the economics of water resources and property values from Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at UMBC. Dr. Kuwayama's Profile A More Comprehensive Estimate of the Value of Water Quality, Journal of Public Economics (2022) On today's Campus Connection, we hear about a recent co-authored paper by Dr. J. Alan Yeakley, Professor and Chair of the UMBC Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. Dr. Yeakley's Profile Dr. Yeakley's co-authored paper in Land Economics   Check out the following links for more information on UMBC, CS3, and our host: The UMBC Center for the Social Sciences Scholarship The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ian G. Anson, Ph.D. Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Sophia Possidente. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D'Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

She filed to run for Mayor of Charlotte on February 24, 2022. She is running on a platform to inspire and implement transformative legislative reform and participatory leadership. The thrusts for her campaign further demonstrate her commitment through her platform: “See WE E.VO.L.V.E.,” with “evolve” being acronymous for E.very V.ictory for O.ne L.ends V.ictory to E.veryone and #WeMayorTogether. Tigress was born in Greensboro in 1976. She attended the highly impactful James B. Dudley High School, graduated in 1994, and began her secondary academia at UNC Chapel Hill. She holds a BS in Agricultural Education and Environmental Science with a specialization in Swine Husbandry and Wetland Bioremediation, a MS in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development focusing on the same undergraduate specialization, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Energy and Environmental Systems and Economics and completing her final year in law school to earn her Juris Doctor. Throughout her academic and professional career and life, she has served local and national communities through male and female youth mentorship, women's empowerment and homelessness intervention and prevention programs, inmate advocacy and reentry assistance and many other philanthropic endeavors. She has remained so steadfast and loyal in her commitment to local and national communities and implemented effective measures to address these issues and many others that the communities she's served nicknamed her “Queen Get ‘Er Done.” Tigress is a doctoral Environmental Scientist and Economist, and soon-to-be licensed attorney. Considering all of the pressing issues that Charlotte is facing like Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change, air and water quality, affordable housing, fit premises and mold legislation, Macro and Microeconomics of Small Business Viability and economic expansion without compromising the greater good of Charlotteans, community oneness and race relations, the behavioral psychology of police brutality, crime prevention and intervention, amongst other issues, Tigress' interdisciplinary expertise best positions her to serve Charlotte at large. Tigress checks all the boxes.™ https://www.seetigressrun.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bj-murphy9/support

What is the connection between bedsheet-related incidents and the consumption of cheese? Hopefully none. That would be confusing, and weird. However! There might be a correlation between those unusually paired items! Correlations, correlations. Part two is about the wonderfully bizarre world of data correlations. Is it not correlations at the heart of AI and advertising, after all? That's certainly where this conversation is headed. We're delighted to resume our superbly odd conversation with our friend Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. If you haven't caught Part 1, consider heading back and giving it a listen first. It's a douzie!

Today we chat Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County about his confusion with AI and advertising! Join Tommy, Al and Dillon in this first episode of a two-part series that explores the complexities of how targeted advertisements show up in your smartphone. Even with his background in computer science, Dillon is as confused as Tommy and Al about how automated systems find ways to build profiles about who we as consumers are.  How are your preferences measured? What happens with these data? What kinds of assumptions are made about who we are?... And we all happen, of course, to be cisgender white men. What happens in automated advertising when you do not fit the majority?  You might not find many answers to these questions in this episode, but you might just find that finding answers is not always possible... Stay tuned for episode 2 - release on February 1st!

In This Episode Guest: Scott Dennstaedt, Aviation and Weather Expert 5% Discount at https://helicity.co/sff Lightning Round: Airplane Disaster Movies #weatherfools - We present the fools doing stupid things in weather situations Wasted Weather Clip - We scour the dark web and find the audio clips of our weather friends that were discarded due to the bottle Reveal of our next guest(s)… Check out our Patreon page for exciting ways to support our podcast and interact with us more!  www.patreon.com/stormfrontfreaks Our Guest: Dr. Scott Dennstaedt, Aviation and Weather Expert  Dr. Scott Dennstaedt was originally employed by the NWS as a research meteorologist. In the late 1990s, Scott earned his commercial pilot certificate and became a full-time flight instructor. In 2008, he founded AvWxWorkshops Inc. to teach general aviation pilots how to minimize their exposure to adverse weather. Scott is the co-author of Pilot Weather: From Solo to the Airlines and earned his PhD in Infrastructures and Environmental Systems from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.   Websites and contact info for Scott: https://ezwxbrief.com https://pilotweatherbook.com https://avwxtraining.com   scott@avwxworkshops.com  Get 5% discount at Helicity including Storm Front Freaks Podcast Merch at helicity.co/sff #weatherfools Links: Phil - Toddler Face Plants in Snow Dina - TV Meteorologist Can't Get His Words Out Jen - Man Crawls Across Icy Street Submit your questions or comments about this show to questions@stormfrontfreaks.com or on our social media accounts and we may read it on our next episode! Twitter: @stromfrontfreak Facebook: @stormfrontfreaks Instagram: @stormfrontfreaks Next episode we all get together to record our movie commentary for "Into The Storm".  We'll be recording LIVE with our Patreon.com/stormfrontfreaks members on Thursday, December 16th at a special time of 8pmET/7pmCT while the audio podcast and drinking game will be released for Christmas. Credits: Opening Music: Brett Epstein Closing Music: Gabe Cox Other Music: “Pecos Hank” Schyma from El Reno Blues

Dr Leslie Mabon is a researcher and lecturer of Environmental Systems in the STEM department at the Open University in Scotland. Leslie attended the recent COP26 conference in Scotland and will summarize some of the key points from the event with relevance to Japan. Read Dr.Leslie Mabon's latest article on "What might the Glasgow Climate Pact Mean for a Just Transition in Japan" https://energyvalues.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/what-might-the-glasgow-climate-pact-mean-for-a-just-transition-in-japan/ (https://energyvalues.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/what-might-the-glasgow-climate-pact-mean-for-a-just-transition-in-japan/) Dr.Leslie Mabon Links: Faculty of STEM at Open University: https://twitter.com/OU_STEM (https://twitter.com/OU_STEM) Energy Values Blog: https://energyvalues.wordpress.com/ (https://energyvalues.wordpress.com/) Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/ljmabon (https://twitter.com/ljmabon) Urban Green Adaptation Diary Project: https://urbangreenadaptationdiary.wordpress.com/ (https://urbangreenadaptationdiary.wordpress.com/) Fellow at Future Earth Coasts: https://twitter.com/FECoasts (https://twitter.com/FECoasts) ~~~ All the SeekingSustainability LIVE Talkshow Podcasts [AUDIO] http://www.inboundambassador.com/ssl-podcasts/ (http://www.inboundambassador.com/ssl-podcasts/) See all the Interviews so far in the SeekingSustainabilityLIVE playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP) JJWalsh Official InboundAmbassador Website: http://www.inboundambassador.com/ (http://www.inboundambassador.com/) All Links for JJWalsh https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh (https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh) ~~~ https://youtu.be/TyNe6rgqOKk (Watch the video of this talk here) Support this podcast

In this episode we talk to 5 students from Ebenezer International School in Bangalore, India and their Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS) teacher Bhavya Prabu. These students have created a CAS Project based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (known as the UN SDG's). They mentor younger students to learn about particular SDG's and then help them develop TED Talk format speeches for their peers. To make it even more challenging they have done this while never setting foot in the school or meeting their mentee students face to face.This project illustrates the extraordinary young people who take on the Diploma Programme. Each of these students deserves a huge salute for their service to others and their commitment to making the world a better place. As a privacy precaution, the students' school has asked that listeners fill out a form if you would like to see their web page for this project. Link to access the website: Google form. (Sorry this link is coming soon)IB Matters on Twitter: @MattersIBIB Matters Facebook pageIB Matters Web pageAn ad promoting The Inquiry Educators Summit (Toddle TIES 2022 conference)

On Episode 5 of Retrieving the Social Sciences, we hear from Dr. Tracey Osborne, Associate Professor and UC Presidential Chair at the University of California, Merced. Dr. Osborne delivered these remarks at the Social Sciences Forum Geography and Environmental Systems Distinguished Lecture on April 28, 2021, sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems and CS3. The title of the lecture was "Playbook for Climate Justice: Our Best Hope for Solving the Climate Crisis." Dr. Tracey Osborne's personal site Full video of Dr. Osborne's lecture Check out the following links for more information on UMBC, CS3, and our host: The UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship The University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ian G. Anson, Ph.D. See the links below for more information about today's Campus Connection: Dr. Erle Ellis' personal website Link to Dr. Ellis' coauthored PNAS paper, "People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years" (2021) Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Jefferson Rivas. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D'Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.

Today we meet with Dr. Tess Caswell. Dr. Caswell is an Extra Vehicular Activity or E. V. A Operations Engineer at NASA. Her work helps to plan spacewalks and prepares astronauts to conduct them. Dr. Caswell holds a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a PhD in Planetary Geology from Brown University. She has previously worked as an Environmental Systems officer in mission control for the International Space Station, lived for a month in a simulated space station as part of NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog, and served as Lead Capsule Controller at the private aerospace company Blue Origin. She is a private pilot and in her free time enjoys flying small airplanes, exercising, or reading a good book. And before we begin, please take a moment to subscribe to our podcast if you have not yet done and please share and review. Doing these simple steps will insure our podcast audience grows organically. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shawna-christenson2/support

Guests on today's show include: Sonia Furstenau - BC Green Party Leader     Stewart Muir - Executive Director, Resource Works Lia Moody - Managing Partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP Employment Lawyer Don Drummond - Stauffer-Dunning Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University  Andrew Watson - Director of Communications for Elections BC Adam Rysanek - Assistant Professor of Environmental Systems at the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Rob talks with Henrik Frijs, Head of Sales & Marketing at EHS Data - a world-leading Environmental Data Management company providing environmental data systems to the mining industry. Henrik is an experienced environmental specialist who explains how mining companies can improve their environmental systems and processes through some of their technology, products and solutions. KEY TAKEAWAYS The main industries being served by EHS's data system are landfill organisations, which has now grown organically into the mining sector. Data is currently being used effectively to serve environmental concerns in sectors such as power generation, metal processing, smelting and other related industries. All mining has an effect upon the environment. It is the responsibility of the operation, under regulation, to adhere to the restoration and impact assessment of the production. Later, accurate reporting and measurement is crucial. Operations must seek to replace the more manual procedures that are currently in place. These restrict growth, and can never be an all-encompassing solution. BEST MOMENTS 'Mining is the main industry that we serve' 'Any mining activity is a disturbance to the environment' 'Data can only provide a platform' 'When we engage with a mining company, we know very well what it is, and can come with advice on how to manage the data' VALUABLE RESOURCES Dig Deep – The Mining Podcast on iTunes EHS Data - https://ehsdata.com/tag/henrik-frijs/ Henrik Frijs LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrik-m-frijs-1b09333/?originalSubdomain=uk ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight to peoples experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics. Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specialising in all areas of mining across the globe from first world to third world countries from Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. We source, headhunt and discover new and top talent talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our clients organisation in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace. CONTACT METHOD rob@mining-international.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/ www.mining-international.org https://twitter.com/MiningConsult https://www.facebook.com/MiningInternational.org https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69dGPS29lmakv-D7LWJg_Q?guided_help_flow=3 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

During this episode I was joined by my space nerd friend Ryan to try and explore the question, what are the medical consequences of chronic high levels of CO2 when aboard the ISS and does simply having medical grade oxygen on hand fix this? Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/TalkSpaceMed Join our discord! https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.gg%2FWtUcKYyH3b&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFWSYEMvPusokT0AL50JKsRt2cg8g Credit: Everyday Astronaut for intro music! (Listen here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQMq4YEMvH8&list=PL-ptSDHlAdQNZ4LxFv_c5MEsmQ6i8bQUN&pbjreload=101&ab_channel=EverydayAstronaut (Buy here) https://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Aerodynamic-Pressure-Everyday-Astronaut/dp/B07KPVRG67/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=maximum+aerodynamic+pressure&qid=1612331710&sr=8-1 References [1] James, John & Matty, Christopher & Ryder, Valerie & Sipes, Walter & Scully, Robert. (2011). Crew Health and Performance Improvements with Reduced Carbon Dioxide Levels and the Resource Impact to Accomplish Those Reductions. 41st International Conference on Environmental Systems 2011, ICES 2011. [2] Harry W. Jones. (2017). Would Current International Space Station (ISS Recycling Life Support Systems Save Mass on a Mars Transit? 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems 2017, ICES 2017. [3] Pitkin AD, Roberts CM, Wedzicha JA. Arterialised earlobe blood gas analysis: an underused technique. Thorax. 1994;49(4):364-366. doi:10.1136/thx.49.4.364

Greg Characklis is Director of the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems at the University of North Carolina. In this episode Greg explains the financial risk to society from variability in the environment, including rainfall, water levels, and temperature, as well as extreme weather events. He discusses the increased attention on the risk from lenders, investors, insurance companies, and credit agencies, and how a variety of traditional and innovative tools can be used to manage financial risk. Greg talks about situations of financial risk in water around the country including the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Central Valley in California. The waterloop podcast is brought to you by High Sierra Showerheads, the smart and stylish way to save water, energy, and money while enjoying a powerful shower. Use promo code waterloop for 20 percent off at www.highsierrashowerheads.com

Greg Characklis is Director of the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems at the University of North Carolina. In this episode Greg explains the financial risk to society from variability in the environment, including rainfall, water levels, and temperature, as well as extreme weather events. He discusses the increased attention on the risk from lenders, investors, insurance companies, and credit agencies, and how a variety of traditional and innovative tools can be used to manage financial risk. Greg talks about situations of financial risk in water around the country including the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Central Valley in California. The waterloop podcast is brought to you by High Sierra Showerheads, the smart and stylish way to save water, energy, and money while enjoying a powerful shower. Use promo code waterloop for 20 percent off at www.highsierrashowerheads.com

Jack joined Environmental Systems Corporation (ESC) 2016 bringing 30 years of professional sales and management experience. The first 20 years of his career working for a major telecommunications company where he benefited from extensive sales and management training. Jack realized he had a passion for energy conservation and later joined Nxegen LLC , an energy services company (ESCO) working there for nearly a decade. At Nxegen he held positions as Account Executive, Senior Account Executive of New England and finally as Director of Sales; training and managing a successful sales team.Jack was then offered and accepted a Job at Ameresco's Intelligent Solutions division as Director of Sales. With Seldera's revolutionary system Jack felt he could help more consumers take control of the rising cost of energy. Seldera Partners with Eversource Energy,United illuminating, and National Grid Utility programs including Energy Utilization Assessment (EUA), Prime Program, BSC Program and Energy Opportunity ProgramsJack then brokered a partnership With Environmental Solutions Corporation (ESC) for Ameresco's Building Dynamics software Platform. ESC then created a new position for Jack Intelligent Energy Solutions Manager. This created a perfect relationship with many synergies that allow for more visibility and savings for our clients. With ESC as a Single Source Provider For Your Building Automation, , Energy Conservation, HVAC Services and Systems Integration Needs and the Building Dynamics platform. ESC is now set to become the undisputed leader in energy conservation in New England.Our services for both our clients and candidates can be found below ✔️For Employers: https://www.nenniandassoc.com/for-employers/✔️For Candidates: https://www.nenniandassoc.com/career-opportunities/✔️Consulting: https://www.nenniandassoc.com/consulting-services/✔️Executive Search: https://www.nenniandassoc.com/executive-search/Nenni and Associates on Social Media:► Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nenni-and-associates/► Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nenniandassoc/► Email Listing: https://www.nenniandassoc.com/join-email-list/► Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nenniandassoc► Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NenniAssociates

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Into the Extreme brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth’s surface, Olson’s new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond. John W. Traphagan is a professor in Department of Religious Studies and Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Into the Extreme brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth’s surface, Olson’s new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond. John W. Traphagan is a professor in Department of Religious Studies and Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Into the Extreme brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth’s surface, Olson’s new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond. John W. Traphagan is a professor in Department of Religious Studies and Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Into the Extreme brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth’s surface, Olson’s new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond. John W. Traphagan is a professor in Department of Religious Studies and Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Into the Extreme brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth’s surface, Olson’s new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond. John W. Traphagan is a professor in Department of Religious Studies and Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2018), revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic cosmos. This cosmos is being redefined as a competitive space for potential economic resources, social relations, and political strategies. Showing how contemporary U.S. environmental power is bound up with the production of national technical and scientific access to outer space, Into the Extreme brings important new insights to our understanding of modern environmental history and politics. At a time when the boundaries of global ecologies and economies extend far below and above Earth’s surface, Olson’s new analytic frameworks help us understand how varieties of outlying spaces are known, made, and organized as kinds of environments—whether terrestrial or beyond. John W. Traphagan is a professor in Department of Religious Studies and Program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of our two-part Spacesuits episode dives into the spacesuits of today and the incredible work that's going into them - making them look like everything we see in sci fi movies! Tune in to learn all about them! Music from filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sources “Advanced Crew Escape Suit.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 June 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Crew_Escape_Suit. “Artemis.” NASA, NASA, www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/. “Boeing Starliner.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 July 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Starliner. “Dava Newman: Spacesuit of the Future.” Youtube, Lex Fridman, www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaX2DAjol8. Dean, Signe. “Here's The Real Reason Why NASA Had to 'Cancel' That All-Female Spacewalk.” ScienceAlert, www.sciencealert.com/nasa-didn-t-promise-us-an-all-female-spacewalk-and-the-suits-are-not-sexist. Kothakonda, Akshay, et al. “System Design for Tensioning Limb Sections in a Mechanical Counter Pressure Spacesuit.” TTU DSpace Home, 49th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 7 July 2019, ttu-ir.tdl.org/handle/2346/84562. Lindsey Bever, Kayla Epstein. “Why NASA's Historic All-Female Spacewalk Isn't Happening.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 26 Mar. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/26/nasas-first-all-female-spacewalk-isnt-happening-blame-wardrobe-malfunction/. Loflin, Benjamin, et al. “Identification of Shoulder Joint Clearance in Space Suit Using Electromagnetic Resonant Spiral Proximity Sensor for Injury Prevention.” Acta Astronautica, Pergamon, 10 Jan. 2020, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520300138. Mahoney, Erin. “A Next Generation Spacesuit for the Artemis Generation of Astronauts.” NASA, NASA, 4 Oct. 2019, www.nasa.gov/feature/a-next-generation-spacesuit-for-the-artemis-generation-of-astronauts. Monchaux, Nicholas De. Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo. MIT Press, 2011. “NASA's Management and Development of Spacesuits.” NASA.gov, 26 Apr. 2017, oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-17-018.pdf. “New SmartSuit Promises A Better Fit For Astronauts.” Texas A&M Today, 22 Apr. 2019, today.tamu.edu/2019/04/17/new-smartsuit-promises-a-better-fit-for-astronauts/. “Orlan Space Suit.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 June 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit. “Research Projects.” Research Projects | Allison Anderson, Ph.D. | University of Colorado Boulder, www.colorado.edu/faculty/anderson/research-projects. Siceloff, Steven. “New Spacesuit Unveiled for Starliner Astronauts.” NASA, NASA, 25 Jan. 2017, www.nasa.gov/feature/new-spacesuit-unveiled-for-starliner-astronauts. “Space Shuttle Abort Modes.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 July 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes#Ejection_escape_systems. Zraick, Karen. “NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html.

Welcome once again to a new episode of Architacora! .

Born and raised in Mexico City (D.F.) from 1958 to 1987, Rafael Carreras studied for his undergraduate degree in Economics (Mexico City) followed by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in a joint programme between Notre Dame University (USA) and the London Graduate School of Business (England).His professional career started as a professor of economics and finance in the Mexican banking system. He immigrated to Canada in 1987, where he concentrated on the creation and promotion of businesses under the ‘turnkey operation’ concept. He assisted the Ministry of Economic Development at the time and created a database for businesses in the service industry for the BC provincial government.In conjunction with government and banking programs, he worked to assist foreign business investors and local entrepreneurs establish and run proactive and successful businesses. He assisted his various clients throughout their start-up stage and helped them achieve their break-even point in the shortest and most efficient time possible, minimizing their risks and expanding their real potential.Carreras has acquired extensive professional experience in North America (Mexico, United States and Canada) and has traveled considerably for business and research throughout Europe, Asia and the American continent. All his research has been based on a compelling, detailed and deep logical thinking framework with a results-oriented attitude.AS AN AUTHORHis passion for writing is fuelled by the desire to open people’s eyes to what is happening around them. He trusts this will improve their lifestyle and bring harmony to their lives. Throughout his “Runaway Trilogy”, an important goal is to bring awareness regarding the delicate situation Planet Earth is going through. He wants to share his experience and points of view for others to learn and benefit from the way he perceives this world and its progressive changes. As an author, he does not try to change people’s views. Backed by real-life experience and scientific evidence, his main goal is to create awareness of the real situation our societies and surroundings are going through. It is up to the readers to make an informed decision and act wisely. Always motivated by trust and hard work, the author hopes his readers see their reality in a different light, and perhaps, motivate them to protect their society, environment, and ecosystem above and beyond the search for money and power.Carreras does his best to experience life from a realistic, responsible, and pragmatic perspective. This trilogy has been written with a down-to-earth and rational approach for anyone to understand and apply to improve their lifestyle if they choose to do so. All his groundwork, structure and conclusions are based on existing research platforms of well-known authors, scientists, book and magazine publications, newspapers, and the web. All this is backed by extensive travel experience and systematic evaluation. He is observant and detailed-oriented, trying always to uncover the truth, with a humble and respectful approach in spirit and to the best of his abilities.Website:http://www.wishfulworld.comSupport us on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/12minconvosListen to another #12minconvo

Today’s guest is David Keith, Professor at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Kennedy School, and Founder of Carbon Engineering.David has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty-five years. He took first prize in Canada's national physics prize exam, won MIT's prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment. David is Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and founder of Carbon Engineering, a company developing technology to capture CO2 from ambient air to make carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels. Best known for his work on the science, technology, and public policy of solar geoengineering, David led the development of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, a Harvard-wide interfaculty research initiative. His work has ranged from the climatic impacts of large-scale wind power to an early critique of the prospects for hydrogen fuel. David’s hardware engineering projects include the first interferometer for atoms, a high-accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA's ER-2, and currently, the development of pilot plants for Carbon Engineering and the development of a stratospheric propelled balloon experiment for solar geoengineering. David teaches courses on Science and Technology Policy and on Energy and Environmental Systems where he has reached students worldwide with an online edX course. He has writing for the public with A Case for Climate Engineeringfrom MIT Press. Based in Cambridge, David spends about a third of his time in Canmore, Alberta.In today’s episode, we cover:Overview of solar geoengineeringHow concentrated an area can it be deployed inSteps that go into testing it'History of solar geoengineeringPotential risks of deployment and potential risks of not doing the testingPotential for unintended consequencesHow hard it is to deployHow much research is needed (and for what) and how much it will costBridge versus longterm solutionWhere it fits into overall climate solutions portfolioWhat fossil fuel companies think of solar geoengineeringDavid’s advice for others looking to help facilitate research in this area and/or learn more about itLinks to topics discussed in this episode:David Keith: https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/people/david-keithGeoengineering: https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/geoengineeringThe Planet Remade: https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Remade-Geoengineering-Could-Change-ebook/dp/B011PWUT8YCarnegie Climate Governance Initiative: https://www.c2g2.net/Vaclav Smil: http://vaclavsmil.com/Holly Buck: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/holly-buck/Additional Reading:David Keith, “Let’s Talk About Geoengineering,” Project Syndicate, March 21, 2019.David Keith, “Toward a Responsible Solar Geoengineering Research Program,” Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2017.James Temple, “What is Geoengineering—And Why Should You Care?” MIT Technology Review, August 9, 2019.Lizzie Burns, David Keith, Peter Irvine, and Joshua Horton, “Belfer Technology Factsheet Series: Solar Geoengineering,” Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Technology and Public Purpose Project, June 2019.Jon Gertner, “Is It O.K. to Tinker With the Environment to Fight Climate Change?,” The New York Times Magazine, April 18, 2017.You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Enjoy the show!

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson's Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today's natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. Michael F. Robinson is professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. He's the author of The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent (Oxford University Press, 2016). He's also the host of the podcast Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[ep 71] Dawn Wright joined Esri as Chief Scientist in October 2011, after 17 years as a Professor of Geography and Oceanography at Oregon State University. As Esri Chief Scientist,...

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents' insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam.

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents' insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents’ insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents’ insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents’ insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents’ insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of supermarkets, general stores, and other locations to purchase food thus constraining options. Residents articulated a commitment to self-reliance in meeting their culinary needs through their strategies for accessing food markets, nostalgia for and memories of the past, practice of connection and community, and belief in personal responsibility. Reese emphasizes the role of structural racism and inequality in generating the conditions of decreased food options while holding in tension residents’ insistence upon relying on their own actions to forge futures of abundance and community. Reese examines a corner store and a community garden as local sites for residents to work towards and articulate responses to their current situation. The term food desert tends to emphasize lack and emptiness, occlude agency, and sideline the historical processes that conditioned such limited food options. Black Food Geographies offers a powerful critique of the food desert by emphasizing the agency of African American people, the forces of racism and inequality, and by showing that these spaces are rich with the lives, hopes, and outlooks of the people who live there. Ashanté M. Reese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reighan Gillam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on race, blackness, and visual representation in Brazil. She is on Twitter @ReighanGillam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Earth is heating up, and it’s our fault. But human beings are not always complete idiots (occasional contrary evidence notwithstanding), and sometimes we can even be downright clever. Dare we imagine that we can bring our self-inflicted climate catastrophe under control, through a combination of technological advances and political willpower? Ramez Naam is optimistic, at least about the technological advances. He is a technologist, entrepreneur, and science-fiction author, who has been following advances in renewable energy. We talk about the present state of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, and what our current rate of progress bodes for the near and farther future. And maybe we sneak in a little discussion of brain-computer interfaces, a theme of the Nexus trilogy.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Ramez Naam worked for 13 years at Microsoft, helping to develop early versions of Outlook, Explorer, and Bing. He founded Apex Technologies, which develops software for use in molecular design. He holds 19 patents. His science-fiction trilogy Nexus was awarded several prizes. He is chair of Energy and Environmental Systems at Singularity University.Web siteSingularity University pageAmazon.com author pageWikipediaTalk on Exponential EnergyTwitter

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a "frontier" is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth.

Water has always been scarce in the West, but climate change and steady population growth require us to come up with more innovative ways to conserve water. In this week’s Brainwaves podcast, we talk to CU Boulder Senior Research Associate Douglas Kenney, who says the hard truth is, “we have to use less water.” We also look at innovative ways to recycle and reuse water; how the water that enters Vegas stays in Vegas; and what the science says about our water future. LINKS Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program, University of Colorado Law School’s Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment: https://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=87 CADSWES: The Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems: https://www.colorado.edu/cadswes/research See how Nevada saves water during a period of rapid growth: https://www.snwa.com/ Watch a demonstration of the PureWater Colorado process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGgUH_ieDo Music credits: “Air Hockey Saloon” by Chris Zabriskie; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/-NEsfl50G7s Songe D’Automne by Latche Swing. Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Latch_Swing/demo_2008/Songe_DAutomne Memories of Thailand by Risey. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode

This is a podcast for busy people who want to save the planet by completing one simple eco-challenge at a time. The vision for this show is to engage, educate and empower people to reduce their carbon footprint and solve our climate crisis by completing various small eco-challenges. Mayela Manasjan believes in the importance of leading with 3 G’s: Gratitude, Gentleness, and Generosity. She has worked diligently throughout her 18-year career as an environmental scientist and advocates in local government to protect the environment for the benefit of all current and future generations. Mayela is the Chief Environmental Optimist (CEO) of The Manasjan Consultancy and an Adjunct Professor teaching environmental science at UC San Diego Extension. She is proud to be recognized as a 2018 Women in Water by Cuyamaca College’s Center for Water Studies and the proud recipient of the 2017 Climate Leader Award from the San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative. She also currently serves as a San Diego Regional team leader for the Association for Women in Water Energy and Environment (AWWEE), Co-Chair of the Climate Reality Project North San Diego County chapter, Vice Chair of the City of Del Mar’s Sustainability Advisory Board and a Board Director of the San Diego Energy District, all organizations dedicated to engaging, educating and empowering our communities on critical environmental issues. Mayela prides herself in being a lifelong learner and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Systems with an emphasis in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution from the University of California San Diego and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. Links mentioned VIDEO: Zero Waste Kitchen Makeover with Eco Goddess Contact Mayela Mayela ManasjanTinyClimate.com

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a "frontier" is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth.

Title:  Good Maps, Bad Maps, Location Privacy, and Why It All Matters Description: Mapping and cartography is an ancient art and science, but maps are more relevant and more numerous than ever before. The advent of web based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has enabled anyone and everyone to make maps and share personal information such … Continue reading "#58 Joseph Kerski – Environmental Systems Research Institute"

Title:  Good Maps, Bad Maps, Location Privacy, and Why It All Matters Description: Mapping and cartography is an ancient art and science, but maps are more relevant and more numerous than ever before. The advent of web based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has enabled anyone and everyone to make maps and share personal information such … Continue reading "#58 Joseph Kerski – Environmental Systems Research Institute"

An insightful conversation with Jamie Tian, the number one top producing agent at Rodeo Realty’s Sunset Strip Office. Rodeo Realty is a residential real estate firm that has more than 1,200 licensed agents and brokers and 12 offices throughout Los Angeles and Ventura counties. In this episode, Jamie and I discuss first steps for homeowners trying to sell, including tips for choosing an agent. Should you trust Zillow reviews? What about Zillow’s estimated home valuations (Zestimates?) In our talk, we answer these questions and more. With Jamie’s insight, you’ll learn about the impact of home staging, and a few tips for people that might be emotionally or financially hesitant to stage their home. Stressing the importance of “doing your homework,” we also talk about interviewing your agent, choosing your neighborhood, and loan pre-approval. Whether you’re a buyer or seller, Jamie knows what mistakes you might be making and how to avoid them. ***ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUEST*** Jamie Tian was named as one of the top 1% of agents nationwide by Trulia and Zillow based on her client testimonials and sales volume and was featured in Top Agent Magazine. She was also recently awarded the distinction of "30 Under 30" by the National Association of REALTORS and "A-List Top Producer" by the Asian Real Estate Association of America. Jamie specializes in properties throughout Los Angeles, including Bel Air, Beverly Hills, DTLA, Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood, West LA, Westwood, and the Sunset Strip. She takes pride in her discretion while providing the finest service to clients—ranging from first-time homebuyers to A-list celebrities. While studying Environmental Science and Environmental Systems and Society at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Jamie's passion for local real estate and sustainable architecture led her to enter the real estate market. Jamie is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and is a member of the Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Association of REALTORS, California Association of REALTORS, as well as the National Association of REALTORS. An active member of the community, Jamie led and organized the "Sage Hill Conservation Project" to preserve the last remaining patch of wildlife in the community of Westwood on Sunset Blvd and Bellagio Dr. in the northwest corner of UCLA's campus. ***GET IN TOUCH WITH JAMIE*** Phone: 310-717-1321 | Email: JamieTian@gmail.com | Website: JamieTian.com | Instagram: @JamieTian ***ABOUT THE SHOW*** Welcome to Luxury Real Estate Talk, where you get expert advice on buying and selling Luxury Real Estate. Learn from the best and brightest real estate agents, brokers, and other professionals, as they share real-life stories about the art and business of listing, marketing, selling, and buying high-end homes. Through casual but insightful conversations, the Talk’s host Rob Jensen will help you master your understanding of the luxury real estate market. Rob is the President and Owner/Broker of the Rob Jensen Company, which specializes in working with buyers and sellers in guard gated communities in Summerlin, Las Vegas, and Henderson, Nevada. Rob's 15+ years of local industry expertise have made him a sought after real estate expert source with the media. He’s served as a guest commentator for numerous national broadcast television networks including MSNBC and BRAVO. He has also provided content and commentary to The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, BusinessWeek.com, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Real Estate Executive magazine, Growing Wealth magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Additionally, Rob has penned a recurring monthly real estate column for the Las Vegas Business Press.

Chris Fulcher PhD Director of the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri talks about the development of the Community Commons online tool using open data from federal and local sources to address Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA). Applying GIS and data visualization provides the kind of granularity needed to understand the complexity of the health of a community. @communitycommon @esri_health #healthGIS Community Commons  

Speaker: Dr. Maggie Holland – Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland

Marilyn Brown joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Professor in the School of Public Policy. During her prior career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, she held various leadership positions managing annual research budgets of $100+ million, focused on energy efficiency, renewable energy, the electric grid. At ORNL, Dr. Brown co-authored the report, Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future, which remains a cornerstone of engineering-economic analysis of low-carbon energy options. Her research focuses on the design and impact of policies aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of sustainable energy technologies, with an emphasis on the electric utility industry, the integration of energy efficiency, demand response, and solar resources, and ways of improving resiliency to disruptions. Her books include Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011) and Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). She has authored more than 250 publications. Dr. Brown co-founded the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance and chaired its Board of Directors for several years. She also served on the boards of directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance to Save Energy, and was a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy for many years. She has served on five National Academies committees and for six years was a member of the National Academies’ Board of Energy and Environmental Systems. She currently serves on the editorial boards of two journals:  Energy Efficiency and Energy Research and Social Science. She is currently a Presidential appointee to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider, and serves on DOE's Electricity Advisory Committee.

Welcome to ControlTalk NOW week ending April 19, 2015. Nino DiCosmo previews Tridium’s Open 4 Innovation; Functional Devices releases new product series; Contemporary Controls and SkyFoundry receive their trophies on center stage at the 2014 ControlTrends Awards; Stromquist Company streams Honeywell Radar Level training: CBRE Group, Inc. acquires Environmental Systems, Inc, and Johnson Controls’ Global WorkPlace Solutions (GWS) business (HUGE!); and Fred Gordy, technology evangelist for the McKenney’s Enterprise Intelligence Group posts another seminal piece on Cyber Threats and Cyber Security. Building a Great Experience with Niagara 4! OPEN 4 INNOVATION. We’re just a week away from the Niagara Forum!Tridium has been hard at work on Niagara 4 and is excited to share their progress with the Niagara community, so they sat down with president Nino DiCosmo to give us a sneak peek at what’s to come ahead of the Forum. With nearly half a million instances across the globe, the Niagara Framework is harnessing the power of the Internet of Things for buildings, data centers, manufacturing, smart cities and more. Functional Devices Announces Improvements to their Air Handling Unit Fan Safety Alarm Circuits. Choose either the six (RIBMNLB-6NO), four (RIBMNLB-4NO), or two (RIBMNLB-2NO) alarm circuits, which are simply devices that combine a common relay-logic function into a small, easy-to-install, and less expensive form. A master relay will open if any one of the normally-closed (N/C) inputs open. LED status of all inputs, the master relay, and power input is provided. Bypass of unused inputs is also provided. The RIBMNLB series is provided with mounting track for mounting in user-provided electrical enclosures. Honeywell Radar Level Control: Live Steam Training. Honeywell’s SmartLine® Guided Radar Level Meters use TDR (Time Delay Reflectometry) to measure distance, level, interface, volume and mass. Higher signal dynamics and a sharper pulse than conventional TDR devices ensure better performance.​ CBRE Group, Inc. Acquires Environmental Systems, Inc. Los Angeles, April 14, 2015 – CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today announced that it has acquired Environmental Systems, Inc. (ESI), a leading systems integrator and provider of energy management services in the United States. ESI develops innovative solutions that enable commercial property occupiers and owners to efficiently manage their building systems and remotely monitor and analyze energy usage in real time to identify and achieve potential savings. 2014 ControlTrends Awards Highlight: The Peripheral Product of the Year. Congratulations to George Thomas and the team at Contemporary Controls for winning the Peripheral Product of the Year Award at the 2014 ControlTrends Awards. Contemporary Controls is your ideal automation partner for applying ARCNET®, BACnet®, Controller Area Network, Ethernet, Modbus®, Niagara Framework®, and Sedona Framework technologies to your automation project. With over 35 years of experience in electronics design, development and manufacturing of networking and control products. CBRE to purchase Johnson Controls’ Global WorkPlace Solutions Business for $1.475 Billion. MILWAUKEE – [March 31, 2015] – Johnson Controls, Inc. (NYSE: JCI) announced today it has reached a definitive agreement for the sale of its Global WorkPlace Solutions (GWS) business to CBRE Group, Inc., for $1.475 billion. The company announced its intentions to divest the GWS business in September 2014 as part of its strategy to invest in product businesses that are core to its multi-industrial portfolio and growth objectives. The agreement provides Johnson Controls with new channels for its offerings and when fully operational is expected to generate up to $500 million of annual incremental revenue for the Johnson Controls Building Efficiency business. System Integrators, Decide What is Your Liability Appetite. Cyber threats are ever increasing and along with it the government and private sectors are scrambling to create definitions of responsibility, regulations, and compliance. The impact to your controls business could be devastating if you are not prepared and do not understand the implications. Ignorance is no longer a defense. 2014 ControlTrends Awards HighLight: Building Analytics Software of the Year. Congratulations to John Petze and the team at Skyfoundry for winning the 2014 ControlTrends Awards Building Analytics Software of the Year. SkyFoundry’s SkySpark® Analytics Software automatically analyzes building, energy and equipment data to identify issues, faults and opportunities for improved performance and operational savings. SkySpark helps facility owners and operators find what matters in the vast amount of data produced by today’s smart systems. The post ControlTalk NOW for the Week Ending April 19, 2015 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Imagine being tagged “a world expert.” That’s exactly how a number of Professor Jackson’s peers characterize him. Indeed, noted endowed professors at Purdue and Rice universities recently wrote about him: “Dr. Jackson’s major research focus is biological wastewater treatment, and Andrew is a recognized international leader in that field,” and, “[He] is unquestionably a world expert on the transport, fate, and remediation of perchlorate in the environment.” Because of his expertise, Professor Jackson was recently invited to go to Antarctica as a member of a field team of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The field team is part of a research group that focuses on Mars exploration and the search for life on Mars. They used Antarctica as a model for Mars, and since perchlorate has been found on Mars, Professor Jackson was invited to participate on the Antarctica trip. His grant record, including more than $2.3 million in competitive awards over 13 years, attests to his mastery in the field of environmental engineering. Apparently, his colleagues in the Whitacre College of Engineering also agree, since they have recognized him as a top departmental and college-level researcher on several occasions. As a teacher, Professor Jackson receives high marks both from undergraduate and graduate students through course evaluations. His success in assisting graduate students in master’s and doctoral programs is also well above the norm. On the service side, Professor Jackson is the academic adviser for all environmental engineering majors, faculty adviser for the student chapter of the Water Environment Federation, and has recently been appointed graduate adviser for the environmental and water resources area of civil engineering. He also is an associate editor of the world-recognized journal Air Water & Soil Pollution. Professor Jackson also has served on the editorial boards of two other respected journals. If these efforts are not enough to inform of his teaching and research, Professor Jackson has unselfishly served as external reviewer for the National Science Foundation’s small business development grant programs. Additionally, he currently is serving on the steering committee for the annual NASA Life Support Conference (i.e., The International Conference on Environmental Systems, or ICES). Taken together, we consider that his roles as research world expert, notable teacher, and unselfish contributor to his discipline – coupled with his ability to bring such experiences together for the benefits of students, faculty, and staff at TTU – all make a strong case for the integrated scholarship of Professor Andrew Jackson.

Dr. Erle Ellis, Associate Professor Geography & Environmental Systems speaks with host Karin Readel on how humans are changing the planet from a point of view of land use in the biosphere. "Anthropogenic Biomes: A Framework for Ecology & Earth Science in the 21st Century."

Brad Allenby joined ASU in 2004 after spending over twenty years working for AT&T as counsel, senior environmental counsel, research vice president for technology and environment, and environment, health and safety vice president. During that period he also served for two years as Director of Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and as the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Yale University School of Forestry, Columbia University ’s School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Virginia ’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His principal areas of research and teaching include: design for environment; earth systems engineering and management; industrial ecology; NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive sciences) convergence and technological evolution. He has received a number of honors and distinctions such as being named the Herbert Holloman Fellow with the National Academy of Engineering, 1991–1992, a Fellow with the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1999–present, and the President for the International Society for Industrial Ecology, 2004–present. Some of his most recent publications include: Reconstructing Earth (2005); Industrial Ecology, 2nd ed. (2004, Co–authored with T.E. Graedel and has been published in Russian and Chinese); and Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation (1999).

Brad Allenby joined ASU in 2004 after spending over twenty years working for AT&T as counsel, senior environmental counsel, research vice president for technology and environment, and environment, health and safety vice president. During that period he also served for two years as Director of Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and as the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Yale University School of Forestry, Columbia University ’s School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Virginia ’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His principal areas of research and teaching include: design for environment; earth systems engineering and management; industrial ecology; NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive sciences) convergence and technological evolution. He has received a number of honors and distinctions such as being named the Herbert Holloman Fellow with the National Academy of Engineering, 1991–1992, a Fellow with the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1999–present, and the President for the International Society for Industrial Ecology, 2004–present. Some of his most recent publications include: Reconstructing Earth (2005); Industrial Ecology, 2nd ed. (2004, Co–authored with T.E. Graedel and has been published in Russian and Chinese); and Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation (1999).