Sea Change Radio Podcast
1) Adam Minter: The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles for Rural America
Have you ever been so tired behind the wheel that you needed to pull over to rest? Well, that’s one of the problems autonomous or self-driving vehicles promise to eliminate. This week on Sea Change Ra...Show More
2) Shrimpbox: A Cleaner Approach To Seafood (re-broadcast)
Shrimp is America’s most popular seafood product. Yet, the industry is rife with problems, from human slavery to ecological devastation. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Daniel Russek, the f...Show More
3) Waymap CEO Tom Pey (re-broadcast)
Have you ever watched in amazement as a visually impaired person nimbly maneuvers their way through a crowded subway station? Well, some thoughtful innovations are being developed to enable people wit...Show More
4) Émile Torres: Effective Altruism + Longtermism Pt. 2
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our two-part series examining the effective altruism movement and "longtermism." We speak to philosopher Émile Torres to better understand the movemen...Show More
5) Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petroleum-based building blocks of the plastics industry....Show More
6) Alexander Zaitchik on Effective Altruism + Longtermism
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried's, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the spheres of business, politics and philanthropy. Bank...Show More
7) Andrea Thompson of Scientific American on COP 27
While much of the world turns its gaze to the first World Cup held in the Middle East, there was recently another important international gathering on the environmental front nearby. This week on Sea ...Show More
8) Ian Power + Brent Constantz: Don’t Take The Planet For Granite
This week on Sea Change Radio, we dig into the archives and take a look at two mineral-based innovations. First, we speak to Ian Power, an assistant professor at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, w...Show More
9) Roderick Graham: The End of Affirmative Action?
With the right-leaning US Supreme Court poised to eliminate affirmative action in higher education around the country -- this seemed like an opportune moment to take stock of how effective affirmative...Show More
10) Bugging Out: Anne Carlson of Jiminy’s + Chef Bun Lai
Do you have environmental food guilt? There's no actual definition for that (because we just made it up), but many of us definitely know how it feels: that regretful pang we get, knowing that much of ...Show More