Generation Anthropocene
- Location: Stanford, California
- http://anthropocene.stanford.edu
Generation Anthropocene is a podcast featuring stories about planetary change, based at Stanford University. We cover a wide range of 21st century issues, and our format is conversational and curiosity-driven. Our guests include scientists, philosophers, artists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, engineers, and policy-experts.
Series
60 Pieces
A collection of interviews with cutting edge thinkers and leaders exploring the deeper meaning of our new geologic age, the Anthropocene.
- From: Generation Anthropocene
- Updated: Jan 02, 2013
Pieces
What does brain science have to do with the Anthropocene? We’re not entirely sure. But the Generation Anthropocene team is venturing into the world...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 24:12
Jane Lubchenco, the former head of the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), discusses what it’s like being asked...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 29:07
Hank Greely and Jake Sherkow discuss the science, morals, and ethics of de-extinction: bringing extinct species back to life. As lawyers with an i...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Expert on international law Andrew Guzman takes a step back from analyzing climate change in terms of degrees and meters of sea level rise and brea...
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 25:09
After growing up in a remote corner of Alaska, marine biologist Zach Brown wants to start a school to teach future scientists about environmental s...
- Added: May 04, 2013
- Length: 19:27
Geographer Reece Jones discusses his recent book “Border Walls,” examining the history of how and why societies have chosen to literally wall thems...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 29:48
We revisit our conversation with biological anthropologist James Holland Jones, who explains how diseases typically spread from animal to human pop...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 27:52
We revisit one of our first interviews with environmental historian Richard White. He addresses the (mis)perceptions of the natural world, the ambi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 23:59
Climate scientist Ken Caldeira begins with a discussion of ocean acidification, a term he helped coin. He follows with the story of how his name b...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 28:17
Historian, author, and urban park ranger Jenny Price makes her case for throwing out the well-tread “save the planet” mantra in favor of a new envi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 39:49