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Avoiding Climate Disaster: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Belinda Archibong, Jeff Schlegelmilch

Original Air Date: October 27, 2021 Drawing on insights from his book Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, our featured guest, Professor Noam Chomsky, will expl

Paths to Progress Facing Enduring Deep Uncertainty

Original Air Date: November 11, 2020 DESCRIPTION: Too often, politicians and the rest of us choose to wait for clarity before tackling tough, consequential, challenges.

Sustain What: As Vaccines Flow, What’s Needed to Break the Pandemic Pipeline?

Original Air Date: December 11, 2020 DESCRIPTION: With COVID-19 vaccines beginning to flow, many global-risk experts worry nations may lose track of the grander challeng

Andrew Revkin in Conversation with Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric Entre Nous

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 phil

Sustain What: How Many Billions Can a Heating, Pandemic-Wrapped Planet Support?

October 7, 2020 On Fridays, the Sustain What webcast of Columbia University's Earth Institute dives behind headlines and hashtags with leading journalists and experts to

Hope and Sensemaking in a Pandemic? A "Futuring" Conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon & More

October 2, 2020 Thomas Homer-Dixon, the bestselling author of The Upside of Down and other books exploring pathways through complexity, joins Sustain What host Andy Revk

Overwhelmed by COVID-19, Climate and More? Slow Down and Stretch Your Time Scales

A pandemic and attendant economic crisis rock the world along with political and social turmoil intensified by an overheating information environment and overheating clim

The Pandemic was Predicted - So What?

In this webcast, former senior intelligence and national security officers explore headlines noting that intelligence reports provided to the Trump White House had laid o

Risks and Choices as Populations Surge in Flood Zones, Rich and Poor

Air Date: August 6, 2021 DESCRIPTION: In this special live Sustain What webcast, join host Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School and http://revkin.bulletin.com in a

Pathways to Impact in Perilously Polarized Times

Aired: June 2, 2021 A special Sustain What episode with two scientists, a journalist and a songwriter offering ways to navigate turbulence, polarization and disinformati

‘Ministry for the Future’ Author Kim Stanley Robinson Meets Inheritors of Our Climate Future

Air Date: December 23, 2020 Earlier this year, the famed climate-focused novelist Kim Stanley Robinson told Columbia students: “I’ve been pushing myself to write utopian

Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant Economies

March 31, 2020 Join our special Earth Institute conversation with leading sustainability analysts from two generations rethinking how human progress should be pursued an