Hothouse Earth

Patents on living things threaten biodiversity and our resilience against climate change. In this episode, we examine how a VLS professor is helping plant breeders use “defensive publication” to keep innovations open-source and promote biodiversity. Guests Jim Myers , Professor, Vegetable Breeding and Genetics, Oregon State University Emily Spiegel , Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, Vermon...

The second episode in the Hothouse Earth Podcast’s “Elevate” miniseries features Brandi Colander JD’06. One of the first students to complete VLS’s dual degree with the Yale School of the Environment, Colander has a career that spans sectors and disciplines. Her work shows that environmental law can expand well beyond the scope of traditional environmentalism, intersecting with social justice and...

Guest Karin Sheldon, President of Four Echoes Strategies and Adjunct Professor at Colorado Law University of Colorado Boulder Hosts Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney, Energy Clinic Veronica Ung-Kono JD/MERL 2021 Recommended Resources Bowman, Cynthia Grant, Women in the Legal Profession from the 1920s to the 1970s: What Can We Learn from Their Experience about Law and Social Ch...

Over the next few months, Hothouse Earth will be sharing  conversations with women about their experiences in shaping environmental and social change through the power of the law and some of the challenges that they've faced along the way. 

Environmental justice activist Fred Tutman is the only Black waterkeeper in the United States, and in this candid discussion with his close friend and fellow waterkeeper Theaux Le Gardeur, the duo reflect on how racism has affected their very different experiences in the environmental movement. Listen as they discuss how environmentalism has historically failed BIPOC communities and consider the p...

Exploitation, heat exhaustion in a warming climate, and a heightened risk of COVID-19 are among the many challenges farmworkers face—often magnified by undocumented immigration status. Why does the law fail to protect these essential workers, and how can advocates step in where the law falls short? In this episode we speak with a Vermont-based farmworker from Mexico, activists at the organization...

Guests: Sophia Kruszrewski , Clinic Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems Hillary Hoffmann , Professor of Law, Environmental Law Center Barry Hill , Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law School Russel Mendell, MERL’20 Patrick Parenteau , Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic (ENRLC) Hos...

Guests: Marianne Engelman Lado , Visiting Professor, Douglas Costle Chair in Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law School Phyllis Gosa, sixth-generation resident of the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Ronald Smith, Pastor and resident of the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Ashley Harper JD'21, Vermont Law School Environmental Justice Law Society at Vermont Law S...

Guests: Erik Dorfman, Activist and Poet Russel Mendell, MERL’20 Gus Speth , Co-Founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Vermont Law School Professor 2010-2015   Hosts: Jeannie Oliver , Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Pat Parenteau , Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Cl...

Guests: Barry Hill , Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law School Carmen Gonzalez , Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law Hosts: Jeannie Oliver , Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com .

Guests: Barry Hill , Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and Adjunct Faculty at Vermont Law School Carmen Gonzalez , Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law Hosts: Jeannie Oliver , Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet , LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic Recommended Resources: Professor Carmen Gonzalez's Hot Top...

In the third and final episode on Trump's "America First Energy Plan" hosts Jeannie Oliver and Mason Overstreet examine the wide variety of regulations that protect our water, air, land and public health. In an effort to put industry first, is the Trump administration ultimately putting environment last? Vermont Law School Professor Pat Parenteau and Boston College Law School Professor Z...

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guest: Professor John Echeverria , Environmental Law Center Hosts: Jeannie Oliver , Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet , LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic Recommended Resources: Professor John Echeve...

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com . Guests: Kyle Tisdel JD'05 , Western Environmental Law Center Shiloh Hernandez JD'08 , Western Environmental Law Center Hosts: Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet , LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resour...

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guests: Hillary Hoffmann , Professor of Law, Environmental Law Center Hosts: Jeannie Oliver , Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney Mason Overstreet , LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic With special thank you to the Verm...

For more Hothouse Earth, follow us on Twitter @HothouseEarth, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website, www.hothouseearthpodcast.com. Guests: Laurie Beyranevand , Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law Sophia Kruszrewski , Clinic Director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems Ferd Hoefner , National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Cynthia Larson , Larson Farm and Cream...