The Meaning of Green: The Podcast About Solving Environmental Problems
With host Dr. Vivian Thomson. Listeners come from 40 US states and 45 countries. Apple, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify
A Deep Understanding of Politics, Science, and Policy Leads to Environmental Solutions
A Deep Understanding of Politics, Science, and Policy Leads to Environmental Solutions
A Deep Understanding of Politics, Science, and Policy Leads to Environmental Solutions
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 examined how power, freedom, and e
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 examined how power, freedom, and environmental problems are intertwined and what that means for COVID-19's emergence and spread.
Season 1 and Season 2 provide insights and contributions from ecologists, political scientists, infection disease experts, lawyers, public health researchers, anthropologists, economists, energy experts, and policy practitioners.
Background and theme music recorded by Vivian Thomson (piano), James C. Thomson (violin), and Ken Landis, (organ), and composed by J. S. Bach (Violin sonata in e minor), William Bolcom (Graceful Ghost), Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (Pure Imagination), Percy Grainger (Irish Tune, My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone, Shepherd's Hey), Edvard Grieg (Little Bird), and Joseph Kosma and Johnny Mercer (Autumn Leaves). Excerpt of Ubi Caritas, as sung by Vox Clamantis, used by permission.
The Meaning of Green is an independent production of Cedar Closet Studios, Charlottesville, Virginia.
About Professor Thomson
A Deep Understanding of Politics, Science, and Policy Leads to Environmental Solutions
A Deep Understanding of Politics, Science, and Policy Leads to Environmental Solutions
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. Her academic background is in ecology and political science.
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. Her academic background is in ecology and political science.
Dr. 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.
Topics in Seasons 1 and 2
A Deep Understanding of Politics, Science, and Policy Leads to Environmental Solutions
Topics in Seasons 1 and 2
Season 1
Acid rain
Leaded gasoline
Environmental justice
Trash
Endangered species
Renewable energy
Climate change
Partisanship
Social movements
Nuclear power
Dams in the US and Brazil
The Panama Canal
Season 2
Fine particle pollution and COVID-19
White privilege
Community trust
Denmark and the coronavirus
Power's many disguises
Why GDP fails to measure we
Season 1
Acid rain
Leaded gasoline
Environmental justice
Trash
Endangered species
Renewable energy
Climate change
Partisanship
Social movements
Nuclear power
Dams in the US and Brazil
The Panama Canal
Season 2
Fine particle pollution and COVID-19
White privilege
Community trust
Denmark and the coronavirus
Power's many disguises
Why GDP fails to measure well-being
Affluence, pollution, and water use
Biodiversity and virus spillover
Bats
Agriculture
Wildfires
Citizen power
Party polarization in the US
SEASON 2 EPISODES
SEASON 1 Episodes
Climate Change Graphs
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