The Meaning of Green

S2 Ep 10 Sneak Peek: Irish-Native American lifelines 03.12.2020 2:34 ↓

S2 Ep 10 Sneak Peek: Irish-Native American lifelines by Dr. Vivian Thomson

Season 2 Episode 9: Pilgrims and Progress 20.11.2020 29:27 ↓

Reimagining Thanksgiving and progress, achieving the good life, COVID-19 and air pollution in India, and "stuff"

S2 Ep9 Sneak Peek: Consuming and the Good Life 09.11.2020 2:30 ↓

S2 Ep9 Sneak Peek: Consuming and the Good Life by Dr. Vivian Thomson

Season 2 Episode 8: Citizen Power 29.10.2020 25:36 ↓

How citizens get control of their government in an age of polarization and over-promising, fall leaves and freedom, and moderates in America

S2 Ep8 Sneak Peek: Molly Ivins' cheerful take on US politics 08.10.2020 2:03 ↓

S2 Ep8 Sneak Peek: Molly Ivins' cheerful take on US politics by Dr. Vivian Thomson

Season 2 Episode 7: "Adapt or Die" and Industrialized Agriculture 29.09.2020 28:34 ↓

Wendell Berry on affection for the land, industrialized farming, Prof. Delia Grace Randolph on virus spillover, racism and the USDA, and the "Vietnam of entomology"

S2 Ep7 Sneak Peek: Writer Wendell Berry on the "Farm Made Whole" 21.09.2020 0:52 ↓

S2 Ep7 Sneak Peek: Writer Wendell Berry on the "Farm Made Whole" by Dr. Vivian Thomson

Season 2 Episode 6: Food's Cascading Impacts, and, Wildfires 15.09.2020 29:06 ↓

Joel Salatin's diaper grass, wildfires on the Pacific coast, farming, the Lorax, and all of the biomass on Earth

S2 Ep6 Sneak Peek: Prof. Ron Milo on animals in children's puzzles 10.09.2020 0:33 ↓

S2 Ep6 Sneak Peek: Prof. Ron Milo on animals in children's puzzles by Dr. Vivian Thomson

Season 2 Episode 5: Batty About Bats 30.08.2020 27:44 ↓

Bats, the fountain of youth, virus spillovers, and human disruption of natural areas

S2 Ep 5 Sneak Peek: Prof. Emma Teeling on bats and the fountain of youth 25.08.2020 0:55 ↓

S2 Ep 5 Sneak Peek: Prof. Emma Teeling on bats and the fountain of youth by Dr. Vivian Thomson

S2 Ep 4 Sneak Peek: Prof. Kate Jones on habitat disruption and virus spillover 14.08.2020 0:50 ↓

A brief excerpt from Season 2 Episode 4, Lifeboat Earth.

S2 Ep 3 Sneak Peek: Nobel laureate Prof. Esther Duflo on dignity 14.08.2020 0:35 ↓

A brief excerpt from Season 2 Episode 3, Growing Out of Pollution or Wallowing in It?

S2 Ep 2 Sneak Peek: Prof. John Gaventa on invisible power 14.08.2020 0:34 ↓

A brief excerpt from Season 2 Episode 2, Power Wears Many Disguises.

S2 Ep 1 Sneak Peek: Prof. Francesca Dominici on Covid-19 and air pollution 14.08.2020 0:35 ↓

A brief excerpt from Season 2 Episode 1, Pollution and the Coronavirus vs. Prosperity

Season 2 Episode 4: Lifeboat Earth 06.08.2020 28:21 ↓

Rachel Carson on the concept of mastery, ecosystem degradation and its multiple impacts, bats, donuts, and, viruses that cross from animals to humans.

Season 2 Episode 3: Growing Out of Pollution or Wallowing in It? 20.07.2020 29:11 ↓

Nobel Prize winning economists on why GDP fails to measure well-being and power, how affluence affects pollution and resource use, water use in Arizona, and one pianist's tale of a memorable page turner.

Season 2 Episode 2: Power Wears Many Disguises 30.06.2020 28:38 ↓

How power's various disguises shaped efforts to reduce coal pollution in the US state of Virginia, and the implications of those lessons for the coronavirus.

Season 2 Episode 1: Pollution and the Coronavirus vs. Prosperity 15.06.2020 26:01 ↓

Harry Potter, community trust, fine particle pollution, and race

Season 2 Preview: Big Earth Day Birthday in the Age of Covid-19 21.04.2020 11:01 ↓

Earth Day's 50th birthday, the coronavirus, Pogo, and Dr. Jane Goodall

Season 1 Episode 10: Throwing Open the Climate Change Policy Window 21.02.2020 28:59 ↓

A memorable landlord, a summary of lessons from previous episodes, and how the ideological rifts in the US could affect the climate change policy window.

Season 1 Episode 9: Climate Change: Past Actions 12.02.2020 29:13 ↓

Bad housemates, the global commons, national policy reversals in the US, what the public is thinking, and bipartisan action at the state level.

Season 1 Episode 8: Rescuing Endangered Species 01.02.2020 29:04 ↓

Disappearing birds and oaks, disputes over the Endangered Species Act, the comeback of the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, and climate change's threats to coral reefs and tropical forests.

Season 1 Episode 7: Renewables and Nuclear Power: There is No Free Lunch 22.01.2020 30:10 ↓

Energy efficiency and renewables are unquestionably the waves of the present and future. But we must keep our eyes wide open to collateral impacts.

Season 1 Episode 6: The Legacies of Fossil Fuels 09.01.2020 30:25 ↓

Twists and turns in the US's dependence on coal, the ripple effects of oil crises, and a coal miner's daughter describes the devastation in her community.