PODCAST
Saving Our Planet
by Academy of Achievement
The Academy of Achievement presents a selection of extraordinary men and women who have defied expectations, broken boundaries, and made history around the world. Their words and their example are an inspiration to us all.
Episodes
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Sylvia Earle - Part 1
"I can still feel that leap of enthusiasm, and real joy, at the prospect of finally getting out to the beach, and running around," says Sylvia Earle, recalling her move to coastal Florida at age 13. "Probably the most important thing, to me, aside from just the freedom of it and the power of it,...
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Sylvia Earle - Part 2
"I can still feel that leap of enthusiasm, and real joy, at the prospect of finally getting out to the beach, and running around," says Sylvia Earle, recalling her move to coastal Florida at age 13. "Probably the most important thing, to me, aside from just the freedom of it and the power of it,...
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Joel Sartore - Part 1
Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, and a 20-year contributor to National Geographic magazine. His assignments have taken him to every continent and to the world's most beautiful and challenging environments, from the High Arctic to the Antarctic. In his own words, he is on…
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Joel Sartore - Part 2
Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, and a 20-year contributor to National Geographic magazine. His assignments have taken him to every continent and to the world's most beautiful and challenging environments, from the High Arctic to the Antarctic. In his own words, he is on…
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Lee R. Berger
The paleoanthropologist Lee Rogers Berger has supervised archeological expeditions across South Africa, in Zimbabwe, and on the islands of the Micronesian archipelago. In 1997, he received the first National Geographic Society Prize for Research and Exploration for his studies of human evolution....
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Jane Goodall - Part 1
As a girl in England, Jane Goodall dreamed of traveling to Africa to study animals in the wild. In the summer of 1960, her dream brought her to the shores of Lake Tanganyika, to observe the wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream. Other scientists did not believe that a 26-year-old woman could survive...
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Richard Leakey - Part 1
Richard Leakey won fame as a paleoanthropologist while still in his early twenties, with sensational discoveries of the fossil remains of our most ancient ancestors, but his subsequent career as an author, conservationist, government official and political activist of unyielding courage has been...
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Jane Goodall - Part 2
As a girl in England, Jane Goodall dreamed of traveling to Africa to study animals in the wild. In the summer of 1960, her dream brought her to the shores of Lake Tanganyika, to observe the wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream. Other scientists did not believe that a 26-year-old woman could survive...
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Dereck and Beverly Joubert
Award-winning documentary filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert have spent the last 25 years living among nature's most fearsome predators. From their camp in Botswana, hours from the nearest village, they record the social behavior and hunting practices of lions, cheetahs and leopards, the most...
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Richard Leakey - Part 2
Richard Leakey won fame as a paleoanthropologist while still in his early twenties, with sensational discoveries of the fossil remains of our most ancient ancestors, but his subsequent career as an author, conservationist, government official and political activist of unyielding courage has been...
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David Doubilet
David Doubilet first fell in love with the undersea world as a child, snorkeling off the north coast of New Jersey. At age 12, he wrapped a Brownie camera in a plastic bag to take his first underwater pictures. He trained rigorously to excel as both diver and photographer; within a year of...
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Dr. Sylvia Earle
"I can still feel that leap of enthusiasm, and real joy, at the prospect of finally getting out to the beach, and running around. But probably the most important thing, to me, aside from just the freedom of it and the power of it, was the kind of creatures that you could see along the beach, that...
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Climate Change - Part 1
U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey he points out the dangers of not resolving the global warming and climate change issues and moderates the panel.
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Climate Change - Part 2
Sylvia Earle speaks about the importance of the health of the oceans to the survival of our planet and how the oceans drive the way the planet works.
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Climate Change - Part 3
Richard Leakey reminds us that something must be done to mitigate the acceleration of climate change, that the protected areas in Africa and around the world have become like islands and that climate change can potentially devastate island populations.
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Climate Change - Part 4
John Morgridge talks about what Nature Conservancy is doing now in order to protect the habitats and species of the world . He also reminds us that the longer we wait, the less opportunity there will be to stop the effects of global warming.
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Climate Change - Part 5
The panel answers questions from the audience.
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Thomas Lovejoy
The pioneering conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy awakened the world to the threat posed to life on earth by the loss of irreplaceable natural habitat, and has devised ingenious strategies to apply third world debt to the preservation of endangered ecosystems. Dr. Lovejoy's studies of the…
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Peter Raven
Dr. Peter Raven is a world-renowned plant biologist, conservationist, and an outspoken defender of endangered plant species. For 40 years, he was the director of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Born in China and raised in California, his interest in plants dates from his childhood. As…
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John Young
John Young is a legendary American astronaut, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer who, in 1972, was the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission. Young had the longest, busiest and most diverse career of any astronaut in American history. Over the course of 19…
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Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and nonfiction writer as well as an environmental activist. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues and history, as in his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. In November...
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Robert Ballard
Like many young readers before him, Robert Ballard dreamed of becoming an undersea explorer after reading of Jules Verne's 20,0000 Leagues Under the Sea. Unlike most of Verne's readers, Ballard went on to realize his dream. For more than ten years, Ballard spent four months of every year at sea,...
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The Academy of Achievement presents a selection of extraordinary men and women who have defied expectations, broken boundaries, and made history around the world. Their words and their example are an inspiration to us all.
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