Generation Anthropocene

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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.

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60 Pieces

A collection of interviews with cutting edge thinkers and leaders exploring the deeper meaning of our new geologic age, the Anthropocene.


Pieces

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Director Jeff Orlowski takes us behind the scenes of his widely praised documentary Chasing Ice, which captured stunning time lapse images of retre...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 22:30
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Literary ecocritic George Handley discusses how literature ranging from sacred texts like the Bible to Charles Dickens to Twilight shape our percep...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 26:18
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It’s our 50th episode! To celebrate we sit down with four members of the Anthropocene Working Group: the scientists and experts who are deciding w...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 35:54
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Ship’s captain turned researcher, Austin Becker, looks to the future for how ports will respond to sea level rise. He explains the importance of po...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 24:04
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Filmmaker Graham Meriwether discusses his new documentary American Meat: A Leave It Better Story that investigates the current condition of the mea...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Mountaineer and social entrepreneur Tom Bowman starts us off with a story of survival. With some help from producers Miles Traer and Leslie Chang, ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 22:22
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In this interview, Dr. Peter Haff of Duke sits down with Mike (and Mike sits down with Leslie) to explain the Technosphere. We learn that technolog...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 26:55
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One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relati...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:30
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Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses her Christianity in the context of her academic career… and her marriage to a one time climate skeptic...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 23:18
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Astrobiologist David Grinspoon takes the anthropocene off-planet to our nearest cosmic neighbor Venus and discusses what we learn about climate cha...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:41