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Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier. This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability. Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative. Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain w ...
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Avoiding Climate Disaster: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Belinda Archibong, Jeff Schlegelmilch
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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 explore paths to climate progress on an overheating and starkly unequal planet with fresh assessments from Columbia Climate School's Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center …
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Paths to Progress Facing Enduring Deep Uncertainty
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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. News media cover disastrous events far better than underlying drivers of risk - or resilience. To seek solutions, join Andy Revkin’s Earth Institute Sustain What brainstorm with par…
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Sustain What: As Vaccines Flow, What’s Needed to Break the Pandemic Pipeline?
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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 challenge: acting systemically, and systematically, to curb pandemic risk on a hyper-connected planet. Join Sustain What host Andy Revkin in a solution-focused brainstorm with psychiatrist …
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Andrew Revkin in Conversation with Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric Entre Nous
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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 philosopher Roman Krznaric for a conversation on how reinventing economics and incorporating long-term thinking into our current policies can help us meet the challenges of climate brea…
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Sustain What: How Many Billions Can a Heating, Pandemic-Wrapped Planet Support?
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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 offer insights on what's really afoot. A great panel is coming together to discuss this week's truly extraordinary developments, in which a president infected with the novel virus …
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Hope and Sensemaking in a Pandemic? A "Futuring" Conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon & More
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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 Revkin and two special guests in a bracing discussion of the themes of his latest work: "Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril." (https://commandinghope.com/) The…
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Overwhelmed by COVID-19, Climate and More? Slow Down and Stretch Your Time Scales
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A pandemic and attendant economic crisis rock the world along with political and social turmoil intensified by an overheating information environment and overheating climate. What's a solution-oriented human being to do? Slow down and stretch your time scales, according to three experienced analysts of this extraordinary moment in human history. Jo…
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The Pandemic was Predicted - So What?
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In this webcast, former senior intelligence and national security officers explore headlines noting that intelligence reports provided to the Trump White House had laid out the likelihood of a pandemic with unnerving clarity - and one even noted worrisome signs of a rapidly spreading virus in Wuhan in November (ABC: https://bit.ly/covid19wuhanintel…
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Risks and Choices as Populations Surge in Flood Zones, Rich and Poor
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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 brisk solution-focused discussion with top experts of pathways to risk reduction in the world’s hundreds of crowding deluge danger zones. Humans are profoundly heating the climate …
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Pathways to Impact in Perilously Polarized Times
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Aired: June 2, 2021 A special Sustain What episode with two scientists, a journalist and a songwriter offering ways to navigate turbulence, polarization and disinformation with the fewest regrets. Join Andy Revkin of Columbia’s Climate School with Carnegie Mellon philosopher Andy Norman; solution-focused journalist Amanda Ripley; Columbia Universit…
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‘Ministry for the Future’ Author Kim Stanley Robinson Meets Inheritors of Our Climate Future
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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 narratives; that gets weirder as we continue on the course that we’re on." In this special intergenerational Sustain What conversation, Robinson returns to Columbia (virtually this…
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Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant Economies
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March 31, 2020 Join our special Earth Institute conversation with leading sustainability analysts from two generations rethinking how human progress should be pursued and measured. Herman E. Daly, a founding force behind “steady-state economics,” will examine possible paths to less fragile global systems with Kate Raworth, whose “doughnut economics…
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