The Meaning of Green: A Podcast About Solving Environmental Problems
Listeners have come from six continents and all around
the US. Available on
Listeners have come from six continents and all around
the US. Available on
With help from others, podcast host Dr. Vivian Thomson analyzed in Season 1 why some environmental problems have been solved and others have not. At the end Season 1, we applied these policy lessons to the biggest environmental challenge of our time, climate change.
In Season 2 Dr. Thomson and her guests examine how power, freedom, and en
With help from others, podcast host Dr. Vivian Thomson analyzed in Season 1 why some environmental problems have been solved and others have not. At the end Season 1, we applied these policy lessons to the biggest environmental challenge of our time, climate change.
In Season 2 Dr. Thomson and her guests examine how power, freedom, and environmental problems are intertwined and what that means for COVID-19's emergence and spread.
Background and theme music composed by Percy Grainger and Edvard Grieg, recorded by Vivian Thomson. The Meaning of Green is an independent production of Cedar Closet Studios, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Professor Thomson taught environmental policy for 20 years at the University of Virginia, from 1997 to 2017. She retired early so she could devote herself to speaking out in public about environmental issues, which have been her life's work.
Professor Thomson offers policy insider scoops from her work as an air pollution official at the s
Professor Thomson taught environmental policy for 20 years at the University of Virginia, from 1997 to 2017. She retired early so she could devote herself to speaking out in public about environmental issues, which have been her life's work.
Professor Thomson offers policy insider scoops from her work as an air pollution official at the state and national levels. She has published articles, editorials, and three books, on garbage transport, climate change politics, and how power is wielded in the air pollution policy arena. In 2018 she and a U. Va. student team published research on who might suffer the most from the Trump Administration's air pollution rollbacks.
For botany buffs: the striking tree above is a 70-year-old fig tree (Ficus drupacea var. pubescens (Roth)) that was one of the first plants landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx added to his incredible tropical preserve in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Acid rain
Leaded gasoline
Environmental justice
Trash
Endangered species
Renewable energy
Lessons from other countries
Climate change
Partisanship
Social movements
Nuclear power
Fine particle pollution and COVID-19
White privilege
Community trust
Denmark and the coronavirus
Dams in the US and Brazil
The Panama Canal
Power's Many Disguises
Guests have inc
Acid rain
Leaded gasoline
Environmental justice
Trash
Endangered species
Renewable energy
Lessons from other countries
Climate change
Partisanship
Social movements
Nuclear power
Fine particle pollution and COVID-19
White privilege
Community trust
Denmark and the coronavirus
Dams in the US and Brazil
The Panama Canal
Power's Many Disguises
Guests have included:
Professor Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director of the Georgetown Climate Center at Georgetown Law
Rebecca Bertram, energy and environment expert based in Honduras, formerly with the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Professor Janet Currie, Princeton University
Professor Paolo D’Odorico, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. John Gaventa, University of Sussex, MacArthur Genius Award Recipient
Judi Greenwald ,US energy and environment expert, Princeton University Visiting Fellow
Dr. Stanley Heckadon Moreno, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
Professor Cale Jaffe, University of Virginia
Professor Mary Kuhn, University of Virginia
Professor Bruce Mahall, University of California, Santa Barbara (retired)
Dr. Itaru Okuda, environmental consultant, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Virginia Parente, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Professor Ellen Silbergeld, Johns Hopkins University, MacArthur Genius award recipient
Earth Day's 50th birthday, Pogo, and Dr. Jane Goodall.
Danish meatballs, Harry Potter, community trust, race, and fine particle pollution
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