interviews
Interviews
Here's a sampling of my interviews over the last seven years:
Gro Harlem Brundtland
October 8, 2008
|
|
| In
1981, at age forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician and mother
of four, took on a new job: prime minister of Norway. She was the
youngest person and the first woman to ever hold that post. Now, she's
the UN enoy on climate change. I spoke with her about carbon levels,
Sarah Palin, and the global poor. |
|
|
Hans Ohanian
Sept 24, 2008 |
|
| In 2005, scientists around the world raised a glass
— all to praise Albert Einstein. Hans Ohanian, professor of
physics, was among them. He attended lectures and read a stack of new books — all dedicated
to taking the measure of Einstein’s greatness. But Ohanian was struck
by a constant omission: no one talked about Einstein’s many blunders. I talked with Ohanian about his new book Einstein's Mistakes.
|
|
|
Andrew Revkin
March 14, 2008
|
|
How far are humans pushing up Earth's thermostat? Andrew Revkin, the prize-winning New York Times
science writer, visited UVM to discuss his more than 20 years exploring
this question. I spoke with him to learn more about what he thinks it
means to live on a warming planet.
|
|
|
Samir Doshi and
Valerie Esposito
Jan 30, 2008 |
|
 |
Samir
Doshi and Valerie Esposito, doctoral candidates in the Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources, were the lead organizers
at
UVM for Focus the Nation, a national “teach-in” on global
warming solutions held Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008 at more than
1,900 universities and other places.
|
|
Jerome Ringo
Mar 27,
2007 |
|
|
Taking
up the urgent theme of global warming, Jerome Ringo, president of the
Apollo Alliance and former board president of the National Wildlife
Federation, discusses his role as a leading African-American
environmentalist.
|
|
Adrian Ivakhiv
Sep 20, 2006 |
|
|
Adrian
Ivakhiv’s research on culture, religion, and environment has
taken him around the world — and to public radio for an hour-long
interview on ecological impulses in ancient Pagan religions and their
growing modern revivals.
|
|
Herman Daly
(pdf format)
Fall 2004
This former World Bank employee and leading ecological economist calls
for applying a stomach pump to ideas Americans been force fed about
growth, and promotes the value of a "steady state" economy.
Justina Ray
(pdf format)
Spring 2004
Justina Ray, a wildlife biologist studying wolverines, speaks of her
adventures in the far north and the urgent need to conserve Canada's
boreal forests.
Paul Ehrlich
(pdf format)
Fall 2003
The author of the controvesial 1960's classic
The Population Bomb and renowned
Standford biologist speaks about extinction, meaning and our
species' future.
Mike Fay
(pdf format)
Fall 2002
Fay, a National Geopgrapic explorer walked across central African
jungles and swam in the Atlantic Ocean--with hippos.
Amy Knowlton
and Moe Brown (pdf format)
Winter 2002-03
Ocean biologists Amy Knowlton and Maura Brown, speak about right
whales and the precarious life of these endangered creatures under the
shadow of ships.
Sophie
Osborn (pdf format)
Winter 2001-02
Osborn, an ornithologist leading the effort to restore California
Condors describes life on the edge of to Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Last modified October 10 2008 10:48 PM
