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Sustain What?

Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier. Revkin believes sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom? revkin.substack.com

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Andrew Revkin in Conversation with Kate Raworth and...

Sustain What? ·

2021/10/15

What decisions can we make today as individuals and societies to create a better tomorrow?Join Columbia Climate School's Andrew Revkin, economist Kate Raworth, and philosopher Roman Krznaric for a conversation on how reinventing economics and incorporating long-term thinking into our current policies can help us meet the challenges of climate breakdown and global inequality, and transform our world for future generations.Speakers:Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of

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76:26

Sustain What: How Many Billions Can a Heating,...

Sustain What? ·

2021/09/27

October 7, 2020On Fridays, the Sustain What webcast of Columbia University's Earth Institute dives behind headlines and hashtags with leading journalists and experts to offer insights on what's really afoot. A great panel is coming together to discuss this week's truly extraordinary developments, in which a president infected with the novel virus driving the COVID-19 pandemic checked out of a military hospital tweeting, "Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life." This is a public

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71:22

Hope and Sensemaking in a Pandemic? A "Futuring"...

Sustain What? ·

2021/09/27

October 2, 2020Thomas Homer-Dixon, the bestselling author of The Upside of Down and other books exploring pathways through complexity, joins Sustain What host Andy Revkin and two special guests in a bracing discussion of the themes of his latest work: "Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril." (https://commandinghope.com/)The guests are:- Susan Cox-Smith, a partner and futurist at Changeist, a consultancy and training organization that curates and creates "experiences that

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64:22

Overwhelmed by COVID-19, Climate and More? Slow Down...

Sustain What? ·

2021/09/22

A pandemic and attendant economic crisis rock the world along with political and social turmoil intensified by an overheating information environment and overheating climate. What's a solution-oriented human being to do? Slow down and stretch your time scales, according to three experienced analysts of this extraordinary moment in human history. Join the Earth Institute’s Andy Revkin, the philosopher Roman Krznaric, the journalist and resilience expert Bina Venkataraman and the filmmaker John D

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91:07

The Pandemic was Predicted - So What?

Sustain What? ·

2021/09/21

In this webcast, former senior intelligence and national security officers explore headlines noting that intelligence reports provided to the Trump White House had laid out the likelihood of a pandemic with unnerving clarity - and one even noted worrisome signs of a rapidly spreading virus in Wuhan in November (ABC: https://bit.ly/covid19wuhanintell)But the challenge for this or any administration is not awareness as much as prioritization, as former National Intelligence Council analyst Rod

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75:04

Risks and Choices as Populations Surge in Flood...

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2021/08/15

Air Date: August 6, 2021DESCRIPTION: In this special live Sustain What webcast, join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School and http://revkin.bulletin.com in a brisk solution-focused discussion with top experts of pathways to risk reduction in the world’s hundreds of crowding deluge danger zones.Humans are profoundly heating the climate and changing storm patterns through a surge in emissions of heat-trapping gases and other pollution. But there’s also been a simultaneous surge of

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86:06

Pathways to Impact in Perilously Polarized Times

Sustain What? ·

2021/08/15

Aired: June 2, 2021A special Sustain What episode with two scientists, a journalist and a songwriter offering ways to navigate turbulence, polarization and disinformation with the fewest regrets.Join Andy Revkin of Columbia’s Climate School with Carnegie Mellon philosopher Andy Norman; solution-focused journalist Amanda Ripley; Columbia University psychologist and conflict dissector Peter Coleman, and songwriter and storyteller Reggie Harris.Send feedback and ideas for future

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66:02

‘Ministry for the Future’ Author Kim Stanley Robinson...

Sustain What? ·

2021/07/26

Air Date: December 23, 2020Earlier this year, the famed climate-focused novelist Kim Stanley Robinson told Columbia students: “I’ve been pushing myself to write utopian narratives; that gets weirder as we continue on the course that we’re on."In this special intergenerational Sustain What conversation, Robinson returns to Columbia (virtually this time) to explore the themes in his sweltering, jarring new novel “Ministry for the Future” with the Earth Institute’s Andy Revkin and several advocates for

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81:06

Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant...

Sustain What? ·

2021/07/26

In my 400-plus Sustain What conversations, several stand out, includng this intergenerational discussion of economic models that can fit on a finite planet. I invited Herman E. Daly, a founding force behind “steady-state economics,” to examine possible paths to less fragile global systems with Kate Raworth, whose “doughnut economics” model aims to build economic policies and metrics that put thriving ahead of growing. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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