WRI's Big Ideas Into Action podcast

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"Big Ideas Into Action" is the relaunched podcast from the World Resources Institute, bringing you the big ideas that combat the world's most pressing environmental and developmental challenges. You'll hear the voices of those meeting the challenges on the ground across the globe and find out about the way we're finding the answers and translating them into action. We'll be podcasting in series of six to eight at a time, once a week, with occasional special episodes to add our insights and analysis in response to big events. The World Resources Institute works around the globe to turn big idea...

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WRI Podcast #5 - Protecting Drinking Water at the Source 28.10.2016 19:43

On this episode of the WRI Podcast Lawrence MacDonald sits down with Todd Gartner, a Senior Associate with the Water team at World Resources Institute and the co-author of a new paper on watershed protection, and Jasmine Qin, a Research Analyst and driving force behind Global Forest Watch – Water. Together, Todd and Jasmine layout the importance of natural infrastructure like forests and wetlands...

WRI Podcast #4 - Liz Goodwin on Reducing Food Loss and Waste—Lessons from the UK 18.10.2016 20:37

On this episode of the WRI Podcast, Lawrence MacDonald interviews Liz Goodwin, a WRI senior fellow and our first director of food loss and waste. Goodwin, a British businesswoman and environmentalist, was previously CEO of the Waste Resources & Action Programme (WRAP), which catalyzed a national program that reduced UK food loss and waste by 21 percent, an achievement recognized last year when she...

WRI Podcast #3 - Shifting Diets 29.06.2016 27:16

In a new podcast, WRI's Lawrence Macdonald chats with Janet Ranganathan and Richard Waite, authors of a new paper, Shifting Diets for a Sustainable Food Future. The paper shows that eating less meat, particularly beef, and moving toward diets with a greater share of plant-based foods reduces pressure on forests and land, lowers greenhouse gas emissions and sets us up for a more sustainable future....

WRI Podcast #2: A Conversation With WRI President Andrew Steer 11.01.2016 13:28

WRI Podcast #2: A Conversation With WRI President Andrew Steer by WRI's Big Ideas Into Action podcast

WRI Podcast #1: Jamshyd Godrej - Building a Sustainable Legacy 06.10.2015 14:08

A conversation with interviewing industrialist and philanthropist Jamshyd Godrej, the chairman and leading benefactor of WRI India.