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Gund Institute Podcasts

The Gund Institute is a leading center for sustainability research and education at the University of Vermont.

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Yolanda Chen: Origin and Management of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems

Yolanda Chen: Origin and Management of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems

Yolanda Chen: Origin and Management of Insect Pests in Agroecosystems by University of Vermont

28 Feb 2018

34mins

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Bill Keeton & Garrett Meigs: Global Analysis of Old-Growth Forests

Bill Keeton & Garrett Meigs: Global Analysis of Old-Growth Forests

Forest ecologists Bill Keeton and Garret Meigs (University of Vermont) are leading the first ever global analysis of tem... Read more

24 Feb 2016

56mins

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Chuck Ross: Getting to Clean Water While Growing Agriculture - How and Why

Chuck Ross: Getting to Clean Water While Growing Agriculture - How and Why

Vermont is struggling with two iconic and important resources which contribute to our economy, sense of place and qualit... Read more

26 Sep 2018

29mins

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Whitney Lash-Marshall: Collaboration Key For Conservation Solutions

Whitney Lash-Marshall: Collaboration Key For Conservation Solutions

Whitney Lash-Marshall (SUNY) explores how to overcome the challenges of working across scholarly disciplines and researc... Read more

20 Nov 2015

33mins

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Samuel Scarpino: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: How Poverty Impacts Public Health

Samuel Scarpino: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: How Poverty Impacts Public Health

Poverty is one of the most important casual factors of lower population health. In this talk, Sam will discuss our under... Read more

26 Jan 2018

30mins

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Molly Brown: Spatial Data and Environmental-Human Health Studies

Molly Brown: Spatial Data and Environmental-Human Health Studies

Molly Brown (University of Maryland) uses big data and satellite remote sensing to track how changing climates impact nu... Read more

19 Nov 2015

29mins

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Rebecca Diehl: Investigating Interactions in Plants, Water, & Sediment Models of Riparian Ecosystems

Rebecca Diehl: Investigating Interactions in Plants, Water, & Sediment Models of Riparian Ecosystems

Shifts to the climate and the way in which water resources are managed in the Southwestern US will alter flow and sedime... Read more

18 Oct 2018

28mins

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Eric Roy: Phosphorus Frontiers on a Finite Planet

Eric Roy: Phosphorus Frontiers on a Finite Planet

Phosphorus is essential to life on Earth and frequently limits the productivity of ecosystems. This seminar will be focu... Read more

26 Jan 2018

30mins

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An Economist & Ecologist Walk Into A Bar (And Discuss the Future of the Planet)

An Economist & Ecologist Walk Into A Bar (And Discuss the Future of the Planet)

Vermont Public Radio host Jane Lindholm moderates a public dialogue on sustainability at UVM with ecologist Andrew Balmf... Read more

10 Nov 2015

1hr 28mins

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Bryan Foster: Assessing Audit Impact and Thoroughness of VCS Forest Carbon Offset Projects

Bryan Foster: Assessing Audit Impact and Thoroughness of VCS Forest Carbon Offset Projects

Voluntary markets transacted over $66 million USD of forest carbon offsets internationally in 2016 and over 99% of those... Read more

9 Apr 2018

35mins

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Nick Richardson: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in Vermont

Nick Richardson: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in Vermont

Nick Richardson of Vermont Land Trust (VLT) speaks on the emerging opportunity of forest carbon offsets in Vermont. VLT ... Read more

20 Mar 2019

28mins

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Mohamed Esham: Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector in Sri Lanka

Mohamed Esham: Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector in Sri Lanka

The talk will cover the climate change impacts on agriculture sector especially on food crops and tea. I will be talking... Read more

30 Oct 2018

35mins

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Lizzy Pope: Encouraging Healthier Decisions Using Behavioral Economics

Lizzy Pope: Encouraging Healthier Decisions Using Behavioral Economics

This talk will discuss the role of behavioral economics in food and exercise choices. We'll discuss different incentive ... Read more

26 Jan 2018

36mins

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Donna Rizzo & John Hanley: Fighting Chagas Disease with Big Data

Donna Rizzo & John Hanley: Fighting Chagas Disease with Big Data

Chagus Disease is a tropical parasitic disease that affects more than 10 million people in Latin America. Donna Rizzo an... Read more

24 Feb 2016

1hr 1min

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Bob Bartlett: Democratic Environmental Governance: Rights Thinking

Bob Bartlett: Democratic Environmental Governance: Rights Thinking

Successful democratic environmental governance requires the development of robust systems of environmental rights--but n... Read more

4 Oct 2018

52mins

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Andrew Balmford: Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

Andrew Balmford: Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success

Is there any good news about the environment? Yes, says Andrew Balmford (Cambridge University). The author and Royal Soc... Read more

10 Nov 2015

35mins

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Francisco Alpizar: Are Resource Conserving Technologies a Win-Win?

Francisco Alpizar: Are Resource Conserving Technologies a Win-Win?

Resource conserving technologies are regarded in policy documents and multilateral agreements as win-win solutions that ... Read more

7 Feb 2019

32mins

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Marcia Macedo: Amazon in Transition: An Integrated Understanding

Marcia Macedo: Amazon in Transition: An Integrated Understanding

As global demand for commodity crops grows, so does pressure on tropical regions, which contain the world's largest rema... Read more

19 Nov 2015

30mins

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Sheila Reddy: It Isn't Easy Being Green: Using Insights on Human Behavior for Conservation

Sheila Reddy: It Isn't Easy Being Green: Using Insights on Human Behavior for Conservation

Identifying the appropriate approaches to influence human behavior and decisions is a major challenge for conservation. ... Read more

26 Jan 2018

26mins

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Jane Adams: Visual Storytelling

Jane Adams: Visual Storytelling

Exploring a complex network across macro and micro scales means qualifying systemic trends with unique anecdotes. Data v... Read more

6 Dec 2018

29mins

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