Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Moderate
Since Dec 2020
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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In Our Hands is a podcast that brings you voices tackling the real-world trade-offs, tensions, and innovations that shape our planet's future from sustainability to AI. No easy answers here, just honest conversation about our shared future.

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Kate Crawford: The True Cost of AI

Aug 14, 2025 44m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran interviews renowned scholar Kate Crawford about AI's environmental impact, societal implications, biases, and material costs.Time stamps and the…

Lucas Joppa: Redefining Capital - Climate, Innovation, and Investment

Jul 02, 2025 33m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Lucas Joppa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Haveli Investments. They discuss his journey from environmental scientist to Microsoft’s…

Bjarne Pedersen: Clearing the Air: Tackling Air Pollution in Asian Cities

Sep 09, 2024 30m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Bjarne Pedersen, Executive Director for Clean Air Asia. They discuss the link between air quality and climate change, the main…

Nigel Sizer on Navigating the Nexus of Pandemics and Climate Change

Jun 20, 2024 38m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Nigel Sizer, executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Initiative. They discuss the connection between pandemics…

Miranda Massie on Curating Climate Consciousness

Apr 10, 2024 25m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Miranda Massie, visionary driving force, founder, and director of New York City’s Climate Museum. They discuss her lifelong…

Akshat Rathi on Capitalism's Role in the Climate Crisis

Jan 17, 2024 25m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Akshat Rathi, author and London-based senior reporter for Bloomberg News, author of the book "Climate Capitalism.”Ramanan and Akshat…

Latane Garetson on the Climate Impact of Data Centers

Nov 07, 2023 18m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Latane Garetson, Director of Physical Infrastructure at Dropbox.Garetson breaks down the physical infrastructure of data centers and…

State Minister Khadeeja Naseem on the Intersection of Environmental Tech and Economic Needs

Oct 18, 2023 29m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Khadeeja Naseem, the State Minister of the Environment, Climate Change, and Technology for the Maldives. They discuss the challenges…

Doug Farr on Sustainability and Urban Design

Sep 13, 2023 30m

In this episode of In Our Hands, Ramanan speaks with architect and urbanist Doug Farr. Farr shares his sustainability journey and the work of firm, Farr Associates. They delve into Farr’s involvement…

Mark Stoll on Religion and the Environment (Pt. 2)

Jul 20, 2023 29m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Mark Stoll, a professor of environmental and religious history at Texas Tech University, where he also serves as director of Environmental Studies. This is our…

Mark Stoll on Profit and the Environment (Pt.1)

May 16, 2023 22m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Mark Stoll, a professor of environmental and religious history at Texas Tech University, where he also serves as director of Environmental Studies. Stoll has…

Michael Weisberg on Philosophy and Climate

Mar 20, 2023 38m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Michael Weisberg, Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-directs the…

Kim Wolske on Climate Behavior

Dec 15, 2022 28m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Kim Wolske, a research associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. They discuss social norms around climate, barriers to…

Gernot Wagner on Geoengineering

Oct 27, 2022 24m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School.Wagner has written four books: Geoengineering: the Gamble, Stadt, Land, Klima, Climate Shock,…

Roland Geyer on the Business of Less

Jun 08, 2022 32m

In this episode from our archives, Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Roland Geyer, a Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara.…

Genevieve Guenther on Climate Communication

May 17, 2022 31m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Genevieve Guenther, a Renaissance scholar and literary critic at The New School who turned to climate activism after having a child and becoming increasingly…

Tim Lenton on Earth's Systems

Apr 27, 2022 29m

In this episode from our archives, Ramanan speaks with Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter and Director of the Global Systems Institute.In…

Daniel Aldana Cohen on Inclusive Climate Solutions

Mar 28, 2022 28m

Daniel Aldana Cohen is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Sociology from New York University and a BA in History and Development Studies from…

Robert Frank on Social Norms

Feb 17, 2022 33m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Robert Frank, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management…

Katy Milkman on the Science of Behavior Change

Jan 07, 2022 21m

In this episode, Ramanan speaks with Katy Milkman, the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Milkman’s research explores ways that insights from economics…

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