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Imagining the Environment through Ecocriticism

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2011/09/18

Guest : Prof. Ursula Heise September 18 2011 Since at least the 1960s, the local and the global have been poles for conceiving of the environment. The field of ecocriticism illuminates, through the study of literature and other forms of communication, how the environment has been imagined and valued at … more >>

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Making the world a better place through social...

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2011/09/11

Guest : Bill Drayton Sunday, 11 Sep 2011 The principle that innovative and idealistic individuals can organize efforts to affect positive change has never been more relevant than it is today. This is the basis of social entrepreneurship, an idea pioneered by Bill Drayton, the founder and chairman of the … more >>

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Insights on climate change from original ozone...

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2011/09/04

Guest : Mario Molina September 4 2011 Think Globally Radio returns for the autumn with Nobel Prize winning chemist Mario Molina, famed for discovering the destructive power of CFC gases on the ozone layer. Prof. Molina not only provided the scientific basis for this link, he also served as an … more >>

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Frontiers of climate science and policy

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2011/06/19

Guest : Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf June 19 2011 Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is one of the world’s most influential climatologists. An expert on the role of oceans in the climate system, Prof. Rahmstorf – who was a lead author of the 4th IPCC assessment … more >>

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Global Sustainability and The Stockholm Memorandum

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2011/06/12

Guest : Prof. Johan Rockström June 12 2011 World leading environmental experts and visionary thinkers recently descended on Stockholm for the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability: Transforming the World in an Era of Global Change. Think Globally Radio held in-depth discussions with several participants of this high level conference, … more >>

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Global political perspectives on climate change

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2011/05/29

Guest : Ambassador Andrew Mitchell October 29 2002 Britain’s environmentally erudite ambassador to Sweden Andrew Mitchell has been a frequent guest on Think Globally Radio, visiting the program to discuss climate diplomacy and his own initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of the British mission in Stockholm. With his posting … more >>

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Universal laws of scale and their implications for...

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2011/05/22

Guest : Geoffrey West, Sante Fe Institute May 22 2011 Can cities be understood as organisms governed by laws of scale similar to those that condition the growth of biological beings? And if so, how can knowledge of critical relationships between variables such as population, innovation, disease and consumption help … more >>

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Climate, environment and the need for a new...

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2011/05/15

Guest : Göran Bäckstrand May 15 2011 Climate change cannot be understood in isolation from the myriad other global environmental problems. What is required of individuals, according to this week’s guest on Think Globally Radio, is a new understanding of reality, and of existence itself, in order to realign our … more >>

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Sustainable cities in an urbanized world

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2011/05/08

Guest : Prof. Carl-Johan Engström, KTH May 8 2011 Urbanization is a trend that continues to sweep around the world, making cities a vital node for sustainable development. How we adapt and expand our urban areas to demographic and environmental pressures will thus have great consequences for the fate of … more >>

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Transformative thinking

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2011/03/27

Guest : Dennis Pamlin March 27 2011 Sustainability maven Dennis Pamlin visits the Think Globally Radio studio this Sunday to share his latest reflections on the environment-technology nexus in light of the ever quickening pace of crises besetting the world and the opportunities for transformative thinking they represent. Download Think … more >>

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Fuel storage concerns in a moment of nuclear crisis

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2011/03/20

Guest : Johan Swahn, MKG March 20 2011 As Japan struggles with one of the most serious nuclear crises in history, ongoing concerns over the storage of nuclear waste are once again on the agenda in Sweden. This Sunday on Think Globally Radio, Johan Swahn from the Swedish NGO Office … more >>

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Forty years of global environmental action

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2011/03/13

Guest : Ambassador Lars-Göran Engfeldt March 13 2011 Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the crucial Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, the first gathering to address environmental issues on a global scale. Similar events were held in Rio in 1992 and Johannesburg in 2002, and in 2012 the … more >>

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Is the rise of China sustainable?

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2011/02/20

Guest : Prof. Tom Hart, China Economic Resource Center February 20 2011 The recent drought in areas around Beijing is drawing attention to the acute nature of China’s ongoing water shortage, representing just one of many environmental and natural resource challenges faced by the world’s most populous country and second … more >>

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Governing geo-engineering

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2011/02/13

Guest : Victor Galaz, Stockholm Resilience Centre February 13 2011 How could human intervention in the environment on a potentially planetary proportion be governed? This is the inconvenient question that looms large over the geo-engineering debate. Last week on Think Globally Radio we discussed the scientific issues surrounding geo-engineering with … more >>

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Geo-Engineering: antidote to climate change, or risk...

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2011/02/06

Guest : Kevin Noone February 6 2011 Proposals to cut carbon dioxide emissions have generated a great deal of controversy for well over 20 years. The next great debate in the struggle to contain climate change is just beginning. Schemes to deliberately control global climate through large-scale technological interventions – … more >>

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Climate leadership

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2011/01/30

Guest : Dr. Charles Parker, Uppsala University January 1 2011 Bringing the world together to take action against climate change is nothing if not complex. Various countries and political groupings seek to protect their parochial interests while simultaneously pursuing progress on controlling emissions at a global level. But who do … more >>

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Bringing global climate negotiations back on track:...

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2011/01/16

Guest : Bo Kjellén January 16 2011 Think Globally Radio takes a holiday break, returning on January 16th. The new season starts with a visit from Bo Kjellén, former chief climate negotiator for Sweden, who will discuss the outcome of the latest installment of the UNFCCC talks – the recently … more >>

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Resaving the whales: the environmental issue that...

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2010/12/12

Guest : Bo Fernholm and Thomas Lyrhom, Swedish Museum of Natural History December 12 2010 Save the Whales! was the battle cry of classic environmentalism of the 1960-70s, with the iconic and threatened animal coming to symbolize the entire movement. The moratorium on whaling by most commercial whaling nations in … more >>

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The state of the climate debate a year after...

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2010/12/05

Guest : Prof. Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia December 5 2010 As COP 16 gets underway in Cancun, the tone and substance of the debate around climate change science and policy is a world away from where it was just one year ago. Expectations have ebbed, uncertanties abound, and … more >>

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Financing sustainability

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2010/11/28

Guest : Monique Barbut, CEO and Chairman, Global Environment Facility November 28 2010 The transition to sustainability doesn’t come for free, and when funds are not available to reduce the impact of projects, the environment often ends up paying the price of development. The Global Environmental Facility is the largest … more >>

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