Episode 65: Nicolas Dunais (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ndunais/) has been living and working in the Middle East since 2005, with assignments on the ground in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and Qatar. His broad areas of focus are at the nexus of economic development, state building and regional politics. After working as a management consultant for 12 years, he now operates as an independent consultant and currently spends his free time in setting up a foundation for the protection of Yemen's heritage.

This episode's motto: "It's hard to build a strong economy from the top down."

See also these related episodes:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/11-kristinn-mason-has-seen-energy-extremes

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/15-martin-keulertz-says-solar-will-free-the-middle-east

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/17-alireza-bazargan-wants-to-improve-irans-water-use

Episode 64: Antoine Champetier (http://ecoecomodeling.com/) is an agricultural and natural resource economist. He builds models that combine economics and ecology and has focused on pollination and beekeeping economics as a case study of ecosystem service institutions and policies.

He was trained as an agronomist at AgroParisTech in France and holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California in Davis. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher at UC Davis and a consultant for private and public institutions. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

This episode's motto: "Bees are like migrant workers: always needed, but sometimes abused."

Links:

Pollination in the United States:

http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/pollination-service-markets-evolution-and-outlook

Cheung (1973) "Fable of the Bees"

https://www.jstor.org/stable/724823

Episode 63: Damian Park (twitter @DamianBPark) teaches courses in environmental economics and microeconomics at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. His research focuses on California water rights and water markets. Damian received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2011 and his BA in Economics from Carleton College in 2003. He lives with his wife and daughters in Oakland.

This episode's motto: "Learning results from the interaction between students and teachers."

Are cell phones destroying the college classroom?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/theyre-abysmal-students-are-cell-phones-destroying-the-college-classroom/

Episode 62: Don Schultz was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1946. He has a B.A. (Manchester University, History/Political Science, 1968), M.A. (Miami University, Political Science, 1969), and Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara, Political Science, 1975). After teaching at various university political science departments from 1969 to 1977, he worked on energy at the California Energy Commission (1979-1986 and 2008-2018), Hawaii's Division of Consumer Advocacy (1994-2000), and California Public Utilities Commission (1986-2008).

This episode's motto: "California energy policy bounces between chaos and constriction."

__Links of interest__

America’s Radioactive Secret

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766374077/it-all-ties-rachel-maddow-says-of-oil-and-gas-russia-and-democracy-in-blowout

David on radioactive water https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/10/endangered-or-radioactive-water/

The Dreamt Land (2019)by Mark Arax

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41883929-the-dreamt-land

Cadillac Desert (1986) by Marc Reisner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert

Dynamos and Virgins (1984) by David Roe

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2476144.Dynamos_and_Virgins

David on Westlands

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/03/king-of-california-the-review/

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/03/westlands-worse-than-i-thought/

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/03/time-to-shut-westlands-down/

Episode 61: Edwin G. Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, George Mason University and Gettysburg College. From 1990 to 2001, he taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. After 2001, he taught economics in several European countries, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics campus in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on environment, health care, and social policy. He lives in Northwest Lower Michigan.

This episode's motto: "If the scissors [of supply and demand] aren't cutting emissions fast enough, then you need a carbon tax (via government regulation)."

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-scissors-are-cutting-carbon-emissions-but-not-fast-enough/

__Links__

Prices without markets or markets without prices? https://medium.com/swlh/prices-without-markets-or-markets-without-prices-5d9809659fbb

The Austrian view of carbon pricing (part 1 of 2)http://archive.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/03/31/austrian-environmental-economics-air-pollution-as-a-coordination-problem/

There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (DZ's review) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/12/tanstaafl-the-review/

The Bet (Simons vs Ehrlich)

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/08/julian-simon-loses-the-bet/

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/04/the-myopia-of-techno-optimists/

Walter Block (episode 5)

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/5-walter-e-block-on-pollution-regulation-anarchy-and-the-state

Episode 60: Karel Thieme is an entrepreneur and Pure Water-ambassador who worked in the tea trade for over 20 years before turning full time to pure water. He learned about tea and water at Rotterdam Tea Trade (importer/exporter), where he discovered the beauty and rich variety of genuine tea prepared with pure water. He started Thieme's Echte Thee in 1993, packing, branding and supplying fine teas, which were to be prepared with purified water. With a focus on the revival of Tea Culture, he supplied the prestigious Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam, 5 star hotels in London, New York, Paris and Dubai (7-stars). His secret was preparing high quality leaf tea specialities with tapwater purified by Reverse Osmosis.

In his four decades of work, he transformed from a tea-taster who learned about the importance of water into a pure water ambassador with knowledge of tea. Over the years various kinds of pollution of (tap)water have created an ever bigger need for clean purified tapwater. Therefore, Karel and his partner Olivier Olmer founded Aquapeak in 2018. Aquapeak (www.aquapeak.nl) offers, installs and services the newest generation practical and affordable home reverse osmosis water purification system; the Aquapeak Waterpurifier.

Karel is grateful for having contributed to the revival of Tea Culture and hopeful as to contributing to the revaluation of water.

This episode's motto: "Water is the key to life and clean water is the key to a good life."

Links:

Ultra (industrial) water is dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMh1lyeNsPc

"Water civilization: The evolution of the Dutch drinking water sector" https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=164

Aquiva beer from clean water: https://www.aquivafoundation.org

Episode 59.5: David has a few thoughts on time and hopes you can get a little more time and a little less stress. If you have a story to share on this topic, then please email [email protected].

See you in 2020!

Episode 59: Titus van der Spek is a lecturer, research consultant and coach who is passionate about helping others explore how they can create blended environmental, social and commercial value. In 2014 Titus co-authored ‘Leadership in Social Business’, a book that provides practitioner-driven insights into social enterprises leadership strategies. Titus completed his PhD in 2018 from the University of Essex in the UK entitled ‘Exploring the crux of Social Entrepreneurship - The pursuit of blended value creation’. He has worked in the field of entrepreneurship and development consulting for 8 years. His clients include: Amnesty International, Local Giving, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Action Aid NL, ICS, SOS Children’s Villages, Oxfam Novib, The European Commission and Context, International Cooperation (CIC). As a lecturer he has been active for 5 years. He is currently a lecturer in business management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Leiden University’s Honours Academy. In 2020 Titus will stop his work as academic in the Netherlands and move to Bangladesh to work on impact incubation and education.

Today's motto: "Community reduces poverty"

The Divide

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=857

Half of Bangladesh will be flooded by 2050:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html

Adaptation should secure communities, not property

https://www.thesourcemagazine.org/adaptation-secure-communities-not-property/

Episode 58: Judi Mesman (https://www.judimesman.nl) is a full professor at Leiden University, based at both the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in the Hague where she is the dean of Leiden University College, and at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the Education and Child Studies Institute. She has been at Leiden University for almost 20 years (not counting her time as a student), and loves its synergy of tradition and new adventures.

At Leiden University she enjoys the challenging combination of research, teaching, management, and societal engagement. Focusing on the study of societal challenges from an intergenerational perspective, she and her team investigate the role of parents, schools, peers, media, and policies on the development of children and youth, and how they find their place in society.

Today's motto: "Listen to kids -- communication affects their future."

Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooks https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/11/women-and-non-western-characters-underrepresented-in-secondary-school-textbooks

Episode 57: Beth St. John (https://aspire-institute.nl/) is a 50 year-old feminist and entrepreneur who is very much looking forward to the end of perimenopause. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, she has also lived in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Princeton and Amsterdam. However, she now resides in the historic village of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel with two of her four children, her partner Tom, his daughter, and their dog and cat. Beth spends most of her time plotting various ways she can move back to Amsterdam as soon as possible since she feels incredibly uncomfortable around too much nature, fresh air, and nice people. The rest of her time is spent on planning academic sustainability study tours in The Netherlands and consulting with other sustainability-focused entrepreneurs on their marketing and communications efforts. Beth loves to travel, has been to 28 countries, and religiously always has some sort of travel plans in the works. She values her family, good food and wine, her independence, being productive, and Planet Earth (but not necessarily in that order).

This episode's motto: "Aging for women is entirely different than aging for men!"