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Freshwater Talk
Finding prosperity within the limits of the planet is at once a challenge we cannot shirk and an opportunity we cannot miss. Join our host and President of The Freshwater Trust, Joe Whitworth, as he tackles the big issues facing the economy and environment in brand new ways. Joe talks with leading thinkers, explorers, investors and global industry leaders to discuss their views on issues at the intersection of finance, politics, technology and the environment.
Episodes
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Freshwater Talk 2017: Jay Famiglietti
Jay is an author, lecturer, professor and the senior water scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He's known best for developing models to track changes in freshwater across the world and raising awareness about groundwater depletion in California.
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Freshwater Talk 2017: Davida Herzl
You've likely heard me say, "You can't manage what you can't measure." It's meant to be a rallying call for the incorporation of data and technology into water management. For Silicon Valley startup Aclima, "You can't fight what you can't measure." The company builds sensor networks that monitor...
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Freshwater Talk 2017: Frances Ashforth
Frances B. Ashforth's artist statement ends like this: Perhaps I am simply committing these views to paper in hopes that we will remember to be good stewards of the land. Both land and water – these are Ashforth's prime inspirations for nearly all her paintings, drawings and prints. Recently…
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Freshwater Talk 2017: Nick Wobbrock
Follow the water coming out of your faucet to its source, and you'll find a forest.Major metropolitan areas like Portland, New York and San Francisco rely on the health of a nearby forest to supply its people with clean drinking water. Our next guest Nick Wobbrock believes that first, more people...
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Podcast: Laurel Firestone, founder of the Community Water Center
The health of water is tied to the health of people. No one knows that better than Laurel Firestone, founder of the Community Water Center. While a million Californians are exposed to unsafe drinking water every year in their homes, schools, churches and parks, the California Water Center knows...
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Freshwater Talk 2017: Juliet Christian Smith
Climate change pulls no punches. Not with the economy, not with the health of humans, not with air, not with land, and not with water. It absolutely means business, and so does today's guest who has built a career of researching and broadcasting the consequences of that last one. Dr. Juliet...
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Freshwater Talk 2017 episode 4: Patrick Atwater
How does California use its water? Not long ago this question wasn't being asked, and when it was, there wasn't a good answer. The California Water Data Collaborative stepped in to remedy this dearth of data on water in the Golden State and today, this group is pioneering a new data…
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Freshwater Talk 2017 episode 3: Wendy Collie
When New Seasons Market opened their first store on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon as the ultimate neighborhood grocery store, it's unlikely they had a world record in their sights. Today, they are the first B Corp grocer. B Corps, short for Benefit Corporations, are companies committed to a...
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freshwater Talk 2017 Episode 2: Deborah Weinstein Bloome
LA has never been known as a "green" city. That's changing. Water conservation and recycling programs are in motion. Trees are being planted and greenspaces expanded. With a collaborative nature and an arsenal of green infrastructure solutions and progressive policy initiatives, TreePeople is at...
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freshwater Talk 2017 Episode 1: Dr. Sylvia Earle
Our first guest of the year has quite a few titles. She was LA Times Woman of the Year in 1970, ordained a knight in 1981, set a world diving record in 86', was the first female chief scientist at NOAA, named Times Magazine's first "Hero for the Planet," addressed the United Nations in 2010, and...
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freshwater Talk 2016: Episode 4 Peter McBride
Pete McBride is one of the top water photographers in the nation and a National Geographic "freshwater hero."
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freshwater Talk, episode 4: Craig Knowles
Joe is joined by guest, Craig Knowles, who has been the Chairman of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin Authority since 2011 and has helped rework the balance of water for an entire economny.
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Finding prosperity within the limits of the planet is at once a challenge we cannot shirk and an opportunity we cannot miss. Join our host and President of The Freshwater Trust, Joe Whitworth, as he tackles the big issues facing the economy and environment in brand new ways. Joe talks with leading thinkers, explorers, investors and global industry leaders to discuss their views on issues at the intersection of finance, politics, technology and the environment.
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Finding prosperity within the limits of the planet is at once a challenge we cannot shirk and an opportunity we cannot miss. Join our host and President of The Freshwater Trust, Joe Whitworth, as he tackles the big issues facing the economy and environment in brand new ways. Joe talks with leading...
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