Peter Raven

The sixth installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

An Interview with Peter Raven

Robin W. Kimmerer

The second installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Robin W. Kimmerer, Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

An Interview with Robin W. Kimmerer

Carl Safina

The first installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Carl Safina, President of the Safina Center.

An Interview with Carl Safina

Katharine Jefferts Schori

The third installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Katharine Jefferts Schori, Former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. This conversation delves into Bishop Katharine’s background as an oceanographer and her role as Presiding Bishop, and explores the connections between science, religion, ecology, and gender in her life and work.

An Interview with Katharine Jefferts Schori

Scott Russell

The fifth installment of “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion” features an interview with Richard Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley.

An Interview with Scott Russell Sanders

Richard Norgaard

In the final weeks before the creation of Lake Powell, Richard Norgaard led David Brower,Elliot Porter, and others on a series of trips down the Glen Canyon. In this interview, we explorehow this experience led Norgaard to a career in economics, where he vowed to change the fieldfrom within. Now, 50 years later, Norgaard reflects on this collective effort to found the field ofecological economics and why, more than ever, science and economics need a sense of humilityand openness to multiple voices.

In the final weeks before the creation of Lake Powell, Richard Norgaard led David Brower, Elliot Porter, and others on a series of trips down the Glen Canyon. In this interview, we explore how this experience led Norgaard to a career in economics, where he vowed to change the field from within. Now, 50 years later, Norgaard reflects on this collective effort to found the field of ecological economics and why, more than ever, science and economics need a sense of humility and openness to multiple voices.

An Interview with Richard Norgaard

Bill Reilly

This podcast features Mr William Reilly - an avowed Catholic, Yale graduate, former director of World Wildlife Foundation, the EPA administrator under President H. W. Bush, co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, and board member of various well known corporations and not-for-profits. We discuss the proper roles of science, religion, and economics in mediating how humans interact with the environment and each other, and also dive into some of Mr Reilly's personal experiences and reflections on a life both personally and professionally concerned with environmental issues.

An Interview with Bill Reilly

Mary Evelyn Tucker

Doug Kysar

John Grim

This podcast is an introduction to a series of podcasts created as a part of the Yale course, "A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion." The course featured the scholarship and practice of leading figures working at the intersection of law, environment, and religion. Students conducted these podcast interviews with invited speakers to discuss issues related to their life history, values, and worldviews.  In this podcast, professors Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Douglas Kysar discuss their backgrounds and interest in the course.

An Interview with John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Doug Kysar

Thomas Lovejoy

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, renowned conservation biologist and University Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University. Over the course of the podcast, Dr. Lovejoy covers many topics related to his life and work ranging from his early experiences with biology and research in the Amazon to later interactions with policy and politics. His insights draw on decades of engagement with vital parts of our planet while looking to the challenges—and opportunities—that lie ahead.

An Interview with Dr. Thomas Lovejoy

Jedediah S. Purdy

Jedediah S. Purdy is the Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University and the author of several books, including the forthcoming After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, under contract with Harvard University Press. In these interviews conducted at Yale, Purdy speaks with eloquence and contemplation on topics ranging from the influence of his rural upbringing in West Virginia to what the Anthropocene means for legal theory, politics, and environmental advocacy.

An Interview with Jedediah S. Purdy

A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Relgion.

Paul Waldau

In this third podcast from A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment and Religion, we discuss “Animals”—what, or whom, are we talking about when we talk about “animals”? How can we use our personal interactions with nonhuman animals to enlarge our understanding of community, love and empathy. And what are our responsibilities to the “animal”--or, more precisely, the nonhuman animal world?” We are delighted to be joined by Paul Waldau, director of the Anthrozoology Program at Canisius College and the President of the Religion and Animals Institute. Paul is also a prolific writer; his books include “A Communion of Subjects,” and, most recently, “Animal Studies.”

An Interview with Paul Waldau

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