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Episode 103: Interview with Dr. Frances Fox Piven, social scientist, activist and professor
Professor Frances Fox Piven talks about this unique moment in United States history and the complexities of collective action and protest.
The Sustainability Agenda explores today’s biggest sustainability questions with leading sustainability thinkers.
These experts discuss their views on the biggest sustainability challenges, share the latest thinking, identify what’s working –and what needs to change — and think about the future of sustainability.
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Episode 102: Interview with Rob Nixon, Professor in the Humanities and the Environment
In this episode we dive into a discussion with Rob Nixon on climate change denialism, the difficulty of understanding and drawing attention to “slow violence,” and in particular, the power of social media and using story and image to to translate scientif
Episode 101: Interview with Eric Holthaus, meteorologist, writer and ecosocialist
In this episode, we talk with Eric Holthaus about his outlook for the future with climate change. Although our circumstances are certainly dire and much damage has already been done, Eric maintains hope…
Episode 100: Interview with Anne Poelina, Indigenous Australian and Nyikina Traditional Custodian
In this, the 100th episode of the Sustainability Agenda, we speak to Dr. Anne Poelina an indigenous Australian academic and human and earth rights activist. Dr. Poelina explains her role as a “Yimardoowarra marnin,” which, translated from the Nyikina lang
Episode 99: Interview with Rebecca Henderson, Economist and University Professor
In this episode we meet with Dr. Rebecca Henderson to discuss her ideas on how to reimagine capitalism, ideas at the heart of the new book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World in Fire. This is a wide-ranging spirited discussion, assessing the state of the c
Episode 98: Interview with author Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind
In today’s episode we talk with Rutger Bregman about the ideas underlying his thought-provoking new book, Humankind. Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics. His books Humankind (2020) an
Episode 97: Interview with Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct
In this episode, we meet for the second time with Jeremy Lent and discuss the present time with COVID-19. Jeremy identifies how this disruption in our normal lives is a critical time to recognize and begin implementing solutions for some of the deep struc
Episode 96: Interview with Geoff Mann Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University
Geoff is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University in Canada- his teaching and research concern the politics and political economy of capitalism. Geoff the author of several books most recently Climate Leviathan: A Polit
Episode 95: An interview with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist
In this episode, we meet with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist who focuses on projecting and communicating tangible, local effects of climate change to increase people’s willingness to act now. Dealing with time lags, is one of our biggest c