Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Chris Whitehead, Founding Principal
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Environmental justice and climate change are driving decarbonization across industrial sectors and throughout everyday life. There are many nuanced issues that planners will face as they try to sustainably reshape our world. This podcast will focus on climate and EJ but also bring on associated experts to speak about how these issues affect their fields. From city planning, economic development, transportation, education, national security, mental health, manufacturing, supply chain...we should all be considering how climate and EJ considerations will affect our decision paradigms.
Join me every two weeks as we discuss critical issues with thought leaders who know them best.
Logo credit and general assistance: Uzziah Davis
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Season 3, Episode 6 - Fact, Fiction, and Fear: Hyperscale Data Center Development
Send us Fan MailThere is a palpable fear spreading across the country, the fear of data centers and their potential impacts to our society and environment. Before we start, it is important to note…
Impactful Authors Series - Episode 2 - Rebecca Lubot, PhD
Send us Fan MailThe 25th Amendment has been in the news quite a lot over the last decade. For how often it has been brought up, do you really know what it says, or the potential implications it has?…
Impactful Authors Series - Episode 1 - Leak Kral - Innovation for Social Change
Send us Fan MailWe are starting something special with this episode. Many professionals write a book at some point in their careers, but few do so really try to move the needle, really trying to add…
Season 3 - Episode 5 - The Future Climate Collective: Innovating Environmental Education
Send us Fan MailSomeone told me last night that they have no idea how I do so much, how I am so active on these topics. The truth is twofold; you need a great support team (thank you Uzziah Davis),…
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Sustainable Development Demands Objectivity
Send us Fan MailThe United States of America was once tribal lands. One of the things that I have always respected about those cultures are their deep ties to the natural world. In a capitalist…
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Tire Swings, Climbing Trees, and the Summer of 1994
Send us Fan MailI've never liked video games. I've never been able to sit still for very long. Growing up in Central New Jersey in the early 90s, meant I spent much of my time climbing trees, playing…
Season 3 - Episode 2 - We Are a Nation of Immigrants
Send us Fan MailImmigration. That one word alone likely makes most of us want to run back to our designated corners and start regurgitating talking points. This topic is an objective reality and…
Season 3 - Episode 1 - The Endangerment Finding and Climate Policy: Fact, Fiction, and Fairness
Send us Fan MailWelcome back everyone!It is a challenging time for climate policy. As you may know, the endangerment finding was just repealed by the US Supreme Court. Almost as soon as that ruling…
Season 2 Finale - We Are Running Out of Backyards
Send us Fan MailNIMBY - Not in my backyard. If you let that play out for long enough, eventually you risk running out of backyards, and running out of trust. I have been wanting to do this episode…
S2E14 S2: E14 - A Warming Planet is a Riskier One
Send us Fan MailOur climate is changing due to anthropocentric activities over the past 120 years. We are seeing increasing impacts nearly every year due to these changes, with the poor and those…
S2E13 S2 E13 - Water Wants to Go Where It's Always Gone
Send us Fan MailSomehow people still underestimate the impact of water on our lives. We don't think about it a lot, and often take it for granted, unless there is a problem. It is fundamental to our…
S2E12 S2 E12: Water Purification and Management: From Bivalves to Billion Dollar Projects
Send us Fan MailWater management will be one of the critical issues of the 21rst Century. Between increased volatility in weather events, climate driven droughts, and historical cleanups...well…
S2E11 S2 E11: Climate Policy: Bottom Line, The Longer We Wait, The More It Will Cost
Send us Fan MailWe're back!!!What I thought was just going to be a quick break for the summer as I planned a conference, ended up being more of an endeavor as I then had to deal with a fried hard…
S2 E10: EJ Icons: Decades of Protecting Community and Public Health
Send us Fan MailAbout four years ago I was giving a talk in Ohio and someone in the crowd asked me, "EJ just kind of sprang up, where did it come from, how did this start?" At first I was pretty…
S2 E9 - Policy Development: Protecting Public Health and Economic Opportunity
Send us Fan MailThere's a common fallacy out there that public policy that is protective of public health is likely bad for bottom lines. That could not be further from the truth. Sound policy is…
S2 E8 - We Live in Systems Not Silos: How Changes in the Arctic Impact the World
Send us Fan MailIt feels appropriate that this episode is posting in the middle of a heat wave in much of the United States, with four straight days of heat index readings at or above 110F. While we…
S2E7 S2: E7 - Shaping Policy for Sustainable Decarbonization
Send us Fan MailI almost decided to name this episode, "so this is why we can't have nice things." On our last episode, Doug Houseman and Mark Jacobson showed us what's possible albeit challenging…
S2E6 Season 2 - Episode 6 - Decarbonizing our Energy Sector: Challenges and Opportunities
Send us Fan MailFor a project to be sustainable it must factor in the economic, social, and environmental impacts of its scope before its built, in order to minimize any detrimental impacts and…
S2 - E5 - Solid Waste Management: Challenges, Technology, and Environmental Impact
Send us Fan MailIn 2018 the US processed roughly 292.4 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), or 4.9 pounds/person per day, which equates to an increase of 93% from 1980. Of that amount, 69…
S2E4 S2 - E4 - Environmental Advocacy Across Generations
Send us Fan MailI start every EJ or climate talk that I give with a photo of my children. They are the reason why I am so passionate about all of this, they are why I do this work. The same can be…
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