Podcast

PLACE director Michael Livermore leads a podcast featuring discussions with experts in environmental issues.

 

SEASON TWO

Jed Stiglitz on the Reasoning State

Jed Stiglitz is a law professor at Cornell whose new book, The Reasoning State, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Jed Stiglitz on the Reasoning State

Alex Guerrero on Democracy by Lottery

Alex Guerrero is a philosophy professor at Rutgers who writes in moral and political philosophy. He is a leading philosophical defender of the idea of lottocracy—the practice of choosing political leaders through lottery rather than elections.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Alex Guerrero on Democracy by Lottery · Transcript

Explainer: The Controversy over Wood Pellets

This episode explains the pros and cons of wood pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Explainer: The Controversy over Wood Pellets · Transcript

Laura Candiotto on Loving Nature

Laura Candiotto is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Laura Candiotto on Loving Nature · Transcript

 

SEASON ONE

Host Mike Livermore on Interdisciplinary Engagement

UVA Law professor Mike Livermore concludes Season 1 of Free Range with a solo episode on the value of interdisciplinary engagement.

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Rich Schragger on the Power of Cities

UVA Law professor Rich Schragger is a leading expert on local government, federalism, and urban policy and the author of City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Rich Schragger on the Power of Cities · Transcript

Michael Greenstone on Economics and Environmental Policy

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Freedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He served as the Chief Economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors and has worked for decades engaged in research and policy development on environmental issues.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Michael Greenstone on Economics and Environmental Policy · Transcript

Gerald Torres on Environmental Justice

Gerald Torres is a professor at the Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School and director of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. Torres explores the connections between environmental law and social justice from a scholarly and practical perspective.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Gerald Torres on Environmental Justice · Transcript

Katherine Blunt on Energy and Wildfires

Katherine Blunt is a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and the recent author of “California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Katherine Blunt on Energy and Wildfires · Transcript

Jonathan Colmer on Environmental Inequality

Jonathan Colmer is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics and the director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. His research interests are in environmental economics, development economics and the distributional impacts of environmental policy.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Jonathan Colmer on Environmental Inequality · Transcript

Michelle Wilde Anderson on America's Cities

Stanford law professor Michelle Wilde Anderson is the author of “The Fight To Save The Town: Reimagining Discarded America,” published in June 2022.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Michelle Wilde Anderson on America's Cities · Transcript

Henry Skerritt on Art and Politics

Henry Skerritt is curator of indigenous arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Henry Skerritt on Art and Politics · Transcript

Jed Purdy on the Value of Democracy

Duke law professor Jed Purdy is the author of the forthcoming “Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy is Flawed, Frightening – and Our Best Hope.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Jed Purdy on the Value of Democracy · Transcript

Matthew Burtner on Ecoacoustics

Matthew Burtner is a professor of compositions and computer technologies in the music department at the University of Virginia. Burtner’s work explores ecology and the aesthetic link between human expression and environmental systems. His latest album is “Ice Field.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Matthew Burtner on Ecoacoustics · Transcript

Moira O'Neill on Housing and Environmental Review

Moira O’Neill is a professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia who also has a joint appointment at UVA Law. Her work covers land use, climate change, equity and resilience. A specific area of her research is land use law and its relationship to housing affordability, integration and environmental impacts in California.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Moira O'Neill on Housing and Environmental Review · Transcript

Ronald Sandler on Ethics and Species

Ronald Sandler, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University, writes on environmental ethics, emerging technologies and ethical issues surrounding climate change, food and species conservation. His books include “Environmental Ethics: Theory and Practice” and “The Ethics of Species.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Ronald Sandler on Ethics and Species · Transcript

Jonathan Adler on Federalism and Environmental Law

Jonathan Adler is a law professor at Case Western Reserve University who writes on environmental law, federalism and regulation. In 2020, Brookings Institution Press published Adler’s edited “Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Jonathan Adler on Federalism and Environmental Law · Transcript

Frances Moore on Modeling Climate Politics

Frances Moore is a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis, whose work focuses on climate economics. Recently, Moore was the lead author of a paper in Nature that examines an important set of feedbacks between politics and the climate system.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Frances Moore on Modeling Climate Politics · Transcript

Dale Jamieson on Environmental Ethics and Democracy

Dale Jamieson is a professor of environmental studies and philosophy at New York University. His most recent book, “Discerning Experts,” was published in 2019 by the University of Chicago Press.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Dale Jamieson on Environmental Ethics and Democracy · Transcript

Kimberly Fields on Environmental Justice and the States

Kimberly Fields is an assistant professor at UVA’s Woodson Institute of African-American and African Studies. Her recent work has focused on environmental justice, race and inequality at the state level.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Kimberly Fields on Environmental Justice and the States" · Transcript

Elizabeth Kolbert on Unintended Consequences

Elizabeth Kolbert is a writer at The New Yorker, as well as the author of several books, including "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015. Her most recent book, "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” was published in 2021.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Elizabeth Kolbert on Unintended Consequences · Transcript

Jennifer Cole and Michael Vandenbergh on Social Psychology and Climate Change

Jennifer Cole, a postdoctoral scholar in social psychology at the Vanderbilt Climate Change Research Network, and Michael Vandenbergh, the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School, talk about their work examining the political polarization of climate change and COVID-19 policies.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Jennifer Cole and Michael Vandenbergh on Social Psychology and Climate Change · Transcript

Cara Daggett on the Science and Politics of Thermodynamics

Cara Daggett, assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech, talks about her new book “The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Cara Daggett on the Science and Politics of Thermodynamics · Transcript

Nick Agar on Nature, Technology, and Society

Nicholas Agar is a moral philosopher who is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia. His most recent book, "How to Be Human in the Digital Economy,” was published by MIT Press in 2019.

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Arden Rowell on the Psychology of Environmental Law

Arden Rowell is a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Rowell’s work focuses on environmental law, human behavior and the incorporation of a multidisciplinary approach to the study of environmental law. Her new book, "The Psychology of Environmental Law,” co-written with Kenworthey Bilz, was recently published by NYU Press.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Arden Rowell on the Psychology of Environmental Law · Transcript
 

Shi-Ling Hsu on Capitalism and the Environment

Shi-Ling Hsu is the D’Alemberte Professor of Law and associate dean for environmental programs at the Florida State University College of Law. He is also the author of the book “Capitalism and the Environment: A Proposal to Save the Environment,” which was published in December 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Shi-Ling Hsu on Capitalism and the Environment · Transcript

Karen Bradshaw on Property Rights for Animals

Karen Bradshaw is a professor of law and the Mary Sigler Research Fellow at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Bradshaw’s work examines the intersection of environmental law and property law. Her most recent book, “Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights,” contends that property rights can be a useful tool in the protection of endangered wildlife.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Karen Bradshaw on Property Rights for Animals · Transcript

Jon Cannon on Place

Jonathan Cannon retired from UVA Law in May 2021 after more than two decades of teaching at the law school. Prior to joining UVA Law, Cannon served as general counsel to the EPA, and his 1998 memo, which has come to be known as “the Cannon memo,” was influential in opening a path for EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. He is currently writing a book about the significance of “place.”

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Jon Cannon on Place · Transcript

Karen McGlathery on Coastal Resilience

Karen McGlathery is a professor at UVA’s Department of Environmental Sciences and the director of UVA’s Environmental Resilience Institute. McGlathery’s work centers on coastal ecosystems and the discussion today covers a number of different topics related to climate change and coastal communities.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Karen McGlathery on Coastal Resilience · Transcript

Madison Condon on Climate and Corporate Governance

Boston University School of Law professor Madison Condon has written extensively on how corporations are changing their approach to the environment in the face of climate change issues and the rise of ESG investing, which incorporates environmental, social and governance considerations into larger investment strategies.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Madison Condon on Climate and Corporate Governance · Transcript

Willis Jenkins on the Humanities and Environmental Change

Willis Jenkins, the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Department Chair of the Religious Studies Department at UVA, researches climate ethics, including religion and climate change; multispecies relations, including through food ethics; post-humanist political theologies; and religious thought amidst Anthropocene stresses. At UVA, he works with the environmental humanities program, teaches for the global sustainability major and environmental thought and practice majors, and serves on the leadership team of the Environmental Resilience Institute.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Willis Jenkins on the Humanities and Environmental Change · Transcript

Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati on Debt-for-Nature Deals

UVA Law professor Mitu Gulati’s work focuses on sovereign debt restructuring and contracts, and explores how to help countries in financial distress. UVA Law lecturer Lee C. Buchheit retired in 2019 after a 43-year career with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where his practice focused on international and corporate transactions.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati on Debt-for-Nature Deals · Transcript

Camilo Sánchez on Human Rights and the Environment

UVA Law professor Camilo Sánchez is director of the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, and Center for International & Comparative Law. He is formerly research director of the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia), and has served with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Colombian Commission of Jurists.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Camilo Sanchez on Human Rights and the Environment · Transcript

Deborah Lawrence on Forests and the Climate

UVA environmental sciences professor Deborah Lawrence is an expert on the links between tropical deforestation and climate change. She has spent the past 25 years doing field-based research in Indonesia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Cameroon.

Free Range with Mike Livermore · Deborah Lawrence on Forests and the Climate · Transcript

SEASON ONE