Bedste Abrahm-podcasts (2024)

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How and when will we transition to a clean energy future? - Highlights - RICHARD BLACK 13:02

5h ago13:02

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“The fact is you've got a lot of industrial and political muscle now coming behind clean energy, especially from China, which is the leading country deploying wind energy, the leading country deploying solar, and the leading manufacturer and user of electric vehicles by miles. As one recent report put it, ‘We have petrostates in the world. China is…

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Waterfront Conference: Designing for Tomorrow – The Multisector Approach to Climate Adaptation with the Waterfront Alliance 2:07:27

1d ago2:07:27

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In episode 209 of America Adapts, I attended the Waterfront Conference in New York City hosted by the Waterfront Alliance. The conference took place at the Jewish Cultural Center in lower Manhattan. In this episode, you'll hear from state and local government officials talking about how they do coastal climate adaptation. We’ll also have insights f…

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The Future of Energy - RICHARD BLACK - Director, Policy & Strategy, Ember - Fmr. BBC Environment Correspondent 56:02

1d ago56:02

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How and when will we transition to a clean energy future? How will the transition empower individuals and transform global power dynamics? How did China become the world’s first electrostate, leading the drive for renewable energy, and what can we learn from this? Richard Black spent 15 years as a science and environment correspondent for the BBC W…

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The Future of Energy - RICHARD BLACK - Director, Policy & Strategy, Ember - Fmr. BBC Environment Correspondent 13:02

3d ago13:02

13:02

“The fact is you've got a lot of industrial and political muscle now coming behind clean energy, especially from China, which is the leading country deploying wind energy, the leading country deploying solar, and the leading manufacturer and user of electric vehicles by miles. As one recent report put it, ‘We have petrostates in the world. China is…

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Audrea Lim, FREE THE LAND & Carleen Madigan, THE BACKYARD HOMESTEAD 56:18

4d ago56:18

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In this episode, we sit down with Audrea Lim, author of Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos. Audrea traces the connections between land commodification and many of America’s most pressing issues: ecological collapse, climate change, systemic racism, gentrification and economic inequality. Through powerful examples and thoughtf…

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Audrea Lim, FREE THE LAND & Carleen Madigan, THE BACKYARD HOMESTEAD 56:18

4d ago56:18

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In this episode, we sit down with Audrea Lim, author of Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos. Audrea traces the connections between land commodification and many of America’s most pressing issues: ecological collapse, climate change, systemic racism, gentrification and economic inequality. Through powerful examples and thoughtf…

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Resisting Fascism & Ecological Collapse with Writer-Organizer-Activist CHRIS CARLSSON 1:06:34

6d ago1:06:34

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In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with acclaimed author and activist, and San Francisco legend, Chris Carlsson about his new novel, When Shells Crumble. It begins in December 2024, when the US Supreme Court nullifies the popular vote in the Presidential election and awards the presidency to an au…

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July 4 Special: Danielle Allen, OUR DECLARATION 33:49

11d ago33:49

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In this conversation with Writer’s Voice host Francesca Rheannon, political theorist Danielle Allen talks about two core ideas at the heart of our nation’s Declaration of Independence: freedom and liberty. How are they aligned? How are they different? And can they contradict each other? Listen to a clip on YouTube We re-air our 2014 interview with …

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July 4 Special: Danielle Allen, OUR DECLARATION 33:49

11d ago33:49

33:49

In this conversation with Writer’s Voice host Francesca Rheannon, political theorist Danielle Allen talks about two core ideas at the heart of our nation’s Declaration of Independence: freedom and liberty. How are they aligned? How are they different? And can they contradict each other? Listen to a clip on YouTube We re-air our 2014 interview with …

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DIANE VON FÜRSTENBERG: Woman in Charge w/ Oscar-winning Director SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY 10:29

11d ago10:29

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“As a filmmaker, I've always made films about extraordinary women whose lives are faced with extenuating circumstances who've had adversity thrown at them and who've risen to the occasion. And when I began to look at Diane's story, for me, Diane is a fashion designer, but she's so much more. Her central ethos is woman before fashion, and we felt it…

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“Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How to Break the Climate Disaster Cycle" with Mark Nevitt 45:00

16d ago45:00

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In episode 208 of America Adapts, Mark Nevitt, an associate professor of law at Emory University joins the podcast to discuss his new paper that’s under review, entitled, Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How to Break the Climate Disaster Cycle. Mark delves into the expansion of climate change law courses and his research on the security implications of cl…

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Two Memoirs: Francine Prose, 1974 & Gail Godwin, GETTING TO KNOW DEATH

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In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon welcomes back acclaimed novelist, essayist, and now memoirist, Francine Prose. They dive into Prose’s latest work, 1974, a memoir that revisits her time in San Francisco during a pivotal year in American history. Then, In a deeply introspective conversation, Gail Godwin opens up about the pivota…

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Two Memoirs: Francine Prose, 1974 & Gail Godwin, GETTING TO KNOW DEATH

16d ago

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In this episode of Writer’s Voice, Francesca Rheannon welcomes back acclaimed novelist, essayist, and now memoirist, Francine Prose. They dive into Prose’s latest work, 1974, a memoir that revisits her time in San Francisco during a pivotal year in American history. Then, In a deeply introspective conversation, Gail Godwin opens up about the pivota…

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Does AI-generated Perfection Detach Us from Reality, Life & Human Connection? with HENRY AJDER 12:09

17d ago12:09

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“I would like to preserve a real sense of empathy and humility, which comes with understanding that the world is messy, that people are messy, that defects and imperfections exist, that things don't always necessarily kind of go the way you want, even as much as you wish they could. Imperfection is part of life and I guess my concern is that AI-gen…

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Uncovering Hidden Histories: Claire Wills on Family Secrets and National Scandals 57:43

25d ago57:43

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Episode Description In this episode of Writer’s Voice, host Francesca Rheannon sits down with acclaimed author Claire Wills to discuss her deeply personal and historically insightful book, Missing Persons or My Grandmother’s Secrets. Wills shares her journey of uncovering family secrets surrounding an “illegitimate” pregnancy in 1950s Ireland and e…

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Uncovering Hidden Histories: Claire Wills on Family Secrets and National Scandals 57:43

25d ago57:43

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Episode Description In this episode of Writer’s Voice, host Francesca Rheannon sits down with acclaimed author Claire Wills to discuss her deeply personal and historically insightful book, Missing Persons or My Grandmother’s Secrets. Wills shares her journey of uncovering family secrets surrounding an “illegitimate” pregnancy in 1950s Ireland and e…

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How to Fight for Truth & Protect Democracy in A Post-Truth World? - Highlights - LEE McINTYRE 12:11

28d ago12:11

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“One thing people don't realize is that the goal of disinformation is not simply to get you to believe a falsehood. It's to demoralize you into giving up on the idea of truth, to polarize us around factual issues, to get us to distrust people who don't believe the same lie. And even if somebody doesn't believe the lie, it can still make them cynica…

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How will AI Affect Education, the Arts & Society? - Highlights - STEPHEN WOLFRAM

29d ago

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“I think as there is more automation, there is more kind of emphasis on this question of our choice. The story of the development of things tends to be what do humans decide that they care about? In what direction do they want to go? What kind of art do they want to make? What kinds of things do they want to think about? There is in the computation…

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How To Stop A Pipeline: Jonathan Mingle, GASLIGHT 55:18

1M ago55:18

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What did a group of ordinary citizens find out when they managed to stop a huge gas pipeline from being built? We spend the hour with Jonathan Mingle talking about his book, Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline And The Fight For America’s Energy Future. It’s the story of how a diverse group of citizens came together to fight a pipeline proposed by…

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How To Stop A Pipeline: Jonathan Mingle, GASLIGHT 55:18

1M ago55:18

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What did a group of ordinary citizens find out when they managed to stop a huge gas pipeline from being built? We spend the hour with Jonathan Mingle talking about his book, Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline And The Fight For America’s Energy Future. It’s the story of how a diverse group of citizens came together to fight a pipeline proposed by…

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334: Self Love 💐 Addiction, family and writing with Ruby Dhal 41:00

1M ago41:00

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This episode feels extra special, self love is already one of my favourite themes and this conversation is deeply affirming. Author Ruby Dhal joins us to talk about healing and how the relationship with ourselves is an essential component of this. Whatever you’re working on there’s so much to relate to here ! Here we go! Mental is the brain-child o…

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Can we have real conversations with AI? How do illusions help us make sense of the world? - KEITH FRANKISH 11:11

1M ago11:11

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“There is magic everywhere. There's wonder everywhere. There's wondrous complexity that is so complex, so difficult to conceptualize, to grasp, to articulate that it might as well be magic for all intents and purposes, but we can gradually start to unpick how the tricks are done, how nature learned to do these wonderful tricks. And that's the wonde…

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Two Great Beach Novels: Victor Lodato, HONEY & Kimberly Belle, THE PARIS WIDOW 57:03

1M ago57:03

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We talk with Victor Lodato about his terrific new novel, Honey. It’s about an octogenarian who is trying to come to terms with her life — her childhood growing up in a Mafia family in New Jersey and her adulthood trying to escape it. Then, we talk with Kimberly Belle about her new thriller, The Paris Widow. The novel takes a look at the illicit tra…

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Two Great Beach Novels: Victor Lodato, HONEY & Kimberly Belle, THE PARIS WIDOW 57:03

1M ago57:03

57:03

We talk with Victor Lodato about his terrific new novel, Honey. It’s about an octogenarian who is trying to come to terms with her life — her childhood growing up in a Mafia family in New Jersey and her adulthood trying to escape it. Then, we talk with Kimberly Belle about her new thriller, The Paris Widow. The novel takes a look at the illicit tra…

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How Can We End the Climate Crisis in One Generation? - Highlights - PAUL HAWKEN 16:56

1M ago16:56

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“We and all living beings thrive by being actors in the planet’s regeneration, a civilizational goal that should commence and never cease. We practiced degeneration as a species and it brought us to the threshold of an unimaginable crisis. To reverse global warming, we need to reverse global degeneration.” Can we really end the climate crisis in on…

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How Can We End the Climate Crisis in One Generation? - PAUL HAWKEN 16:56

1M ago16:56

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“We and all living beings thrive by being actors in the planet’s regeneration, a civilizational goal that should commence and never cease. We practiced degeneration as a species and it brought us to the threshold of an unimaginable crisis. To reverse global warming, we need to reverse global degeneration.” Can we really end the climate crisis in on…

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Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation with PAUL HAWKEN 53:38

1M ago53:38

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Can we really end the climate crisis in one generation? What kind of bold collective action, technologies, and nature-based solutions would it take to do it? Paul Hawken is a renowned environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist committed to sustainability and transforming the business-environment relationship. A leading voice in the enviro…

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The Center for Heat Resilient Communities gets a NOAA Grant with Dr. Kelly Turner and Dr. Ladd Keith 33:56

1M ago33:56

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In episode 207 of America Adapts, Dr. Kelly Turner of UCLA and Dr. Ladd Keith at the University of Arizona join host Doug Parsons to discuss groundbreaking work in extreme heat governance and planning, specifically focusing on the recent NOAA grant awarded to launch the Center for Heat Resilient Communities. The grant aims to enhance heat resilienc…

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Kelly Fong, INVESTIGATING FAMILIES & Emi Nietfield, ACCEPTANCE 59:17

2M ago59:17

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Are child protection service (CPS) agencies doing more harm than good? Join us for an in-depth conversation with sociologist Kelly Fong about her book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services. We explore the inner workings of Child Protection Services (CPS), the impact on families, and the need for systemic cha…

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Kelly Fong, INVESTIGATING FAMILIES & Emi Nietfield, ACCEPTANCE 59:17

2M ago59:17

59:17

Are child protection service (CPS) agencies doing more harm than good? Join us for an in-depth conversation with sociologist Kelly Fong about her book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services. We explore the inner workings of Child Protection Services (CPS), the impact on families, and the need for systemic cha…

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How Will Our Cities, Communities & Country Cope with Climate Migration - Highlights - ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN 15:41

2M ago15:41

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“So, New York City will ultimately build a seawall that it estimates will cost somewhere in the order of 120 billion dollars. And, you know, the fact is that many cities in the United States will not be able to afford that, especially smaller ones and especially southern ones. A part of planning for this needs to include thinking about managed retr…

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On The Move: The Overheating Earth & the Uprooting of America with ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN 57:13

2M ago57:13

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An estimated one in two people will experience degrading environmental conditions this century and will be faced with the difficult question of whether to leave their homes. Will you be among those who migrate in response to climate change? If so, where will you go? Abrahm Lustgarten is an investigative reporter, author, and filmmaker whose work fo…

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On The Move: The Overheating Earth & the Uprooting of America with ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN 15:41

2M ago15:41

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“Living in California, I've just come to accept the unsettledness of this era we're moving into. And I think that's really how I see the future. You know, we're living in an era of disruption, and there are others I talk to and write about in the book who also muse about the possibility of a more nomadic future. That maybe home isn't a permanent pl…

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333: Palliative Care 💐 Improving patient care, integrating mental health with Dr Janet Abrahm 33:48

2M ago33:48

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This weeks guest is a true pioneer who shares the transformative nature of palliative care in redefining patient outcomes. In this hopeful conversation we explore what it looks like when a newer field of medicine integrates mental health from the start. Here we go! Mental is the brain-child of Bobby Temps, who lives and thrives while managing his o…

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Exploring the Sensory World of Autism, ADHD & Non-Binary Artists with MATTIA MAURÉE 11:24

2M ago11:24

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“One of the things I think about a lot is this. I vividly remember the desire throughout pretty much most of my twenties and certainly my teen years to be a famous artist and win big awards. And when you dig down into what you actually want from that, it's connection. The teen brain, in particular, is extremely geared toward connection and gets dif…

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Apocalyptic Optimism: How We Can We Save Ourselves from the Climate Crisis? - Highlights - DANA FISHER 14:44

2M ago14:44

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“I call myself an apocalyptic optimist. In other words, I do believe there is hope to save ourselves from the climate crisis that we have caused. However, I also believe that saving ourselves will only be possible with a mass mobilization that is driven by the pain and suffering of climate shocks around the world. A generalized sense of extreme ris…

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