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Episode 47 (rel. 23 Sep 2019): Femke Gunneweg was raised in the rural, agricultural part of Tanzania, Karagwe, and in the second largest city of Tanzania, Mwanza, until the age of nine. In 2009, she and her parents moved to The Netherlands. She attended the International School of The Hague to complete the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. She enrolled in Leiden University College in the fall of 2018. She is currently taking a break to focus on Extinction Rebellion and other interests.

This episode's motto: "If now now, when? If not me, then who?"

Links

Extinction Rebellion's demands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Demands

Climate change is coming. Now what? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending

Life plus 2 meters: https://kysq.org/lp2m/

Episode 46: Martine de Zoeten (22) is LUC alumna and currently pursuing her Master’s degree in International Land and Water Management. Two years ago she co-started Miles that Matter, an initiative for sustainable traveling including a trip from The Netherlands to Malaysia and back by train, on which she recently wrote a book ( www.boekenbestellen.nl/boek/miles-that-matter ). Now she works for Green Tickets as community builder; sharing the vision that the joy of traveling is in the journey.”

Jeppe Bijker (27) believes everyone can, and should, help to build a better future: recently he started Green Tickets to help people travel more sustainably and is now organising a sailing trip from Europe to South America to attend COP25 with 35 young people and call for policies to make the future of travel fair and sustainable. Jeppe studied Design for Interaction at Delft University of Technology.”

The website of Green Tickets: https://www.greentickets.app

Episode 45: G. Tracy Mehan, III is Executive Director, Government Affairs, for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He was Principal with The Cadmus Group, Inc., an environmental consulting firm, from 2004 to 2014. Mehan served on EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (2014-2018) as well as the boards of the U.S. Water Alliance and the Great Lakes Observing System. Mehan served as Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2003. Mehan also served as director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes (1993-2001) and as Associate Deputy Administrator of EPA in 1992. He was director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources from 1989 to 1992. Mehan is a graduate of Saint Louis University and its School of Law.

This episode's motto: "Political interference can be bad for quality water service."

Links from Tracy:

(1) Buried No Longer: Confronting America’s Water Infrastructure Challenge: http://www.urbanwaterslearningnetwork.org/resources/awwa-confronting-americas-water-infrastructure-challenge2017/

(2)Addressing Affordability as a Necessary Element of Full‐Cost Pricing: https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0132

Related links from David:

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

(4) "The struggle for residential water metering in England and Wales" http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue1/307-a9-1-6

(5)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/01/flint-detroit/

(6)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/08/lead-poisoning-gasoline-lobbies-and-crime/

(7) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/10/the-good-side-of-bottled-water/

(8)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/07/the-future-of-water-the-review/

(9) Water pollution and falling sperm counts:

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2007/12/women-responsible-for-drooping/

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=255

Episode 44: Sharon Shewmake (https://www.facebook.com/VoteSharonShewmake/) is a State Legislator from Washington State. She is also an economics professor at Western Washington University where she specializes in environmental and urban economics. She is also a mother of two little boys, an author of a children’s book about economics and a mediocre soccer player.

This episode's motto: "More economists need to get into politics!"

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Episode 43: A journalist once described Ties Rijcken as a '21st century renaissance man'. Currently he is semi-focused as chief editor of the professional magazine TU Delft DeltaLinks, member of the Lek dike landscape quality supervisory team, and founder of Flows: a startup internet platform (http://flowsplatform.nl/about) to support water infrastructure development through visualisation and stakeholder participation. He would like to use Flows technology to benefit low-income countries.

Ties is probably the only water professional in the world with a BSc in Geophysics, MSc in Industrial Design and PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. He has written 100+ articles on water systems thinking and landscape quality design, often bringing a "wabi" perspective (derived from Japanese design philosophy) on the interaction between nature and technology.

Ties is passionate about using science to support policy, fostering participation, and landscapes that make us feel alive.

This episodes motto: "Plan for risk. Experience uncertainty."

Its extended title is "Amsterdam is safe from rising seas... but not safe from climate chaos."

Ties's PhD dissertation ("The Dutch flood risk system since 1986"):

http://flowsplatform.nl/#/emergo---the-dutch-flood-risk-system-since-1986-1508416523282____382____

David's post on climate chaos: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1125

and "The Netherlands has no Plan B"

https://www.vn.nl/rising-sea-levels-netherlands/

Episode 42: Matthew Pearson founded Moon Fabrications Inc (moonfab.co) in 2018 after a brief career in behavioral research at two tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in economics from UC Davis in 2009, which he now uses primarily as filler in short bio statements written in the third person. He is a father of two children and one dog, and he lives with his partner in San Francisco.

This episode's motto: "Life is complicated. Embrace it."

Episode 41: David Green has a strong interest in the broad areas of sustainability and social justice, and has worked and travelled abroad extensively. After working as a mechanical engineer for Ingersoll Rand and as a real estate agent, David spent the next 11 years working in remote areas of the world as a science technician, educator, sailor, engineer and guide. Between job assignments, he arranged to travel and to study sustainability and health & nutrition. Since arriving in the Bay Area, David has maintained his multi-faceted engagement, working in education, as a sustainable agriculture promoter and entrepreneur. Most recently, David collaborated to create the Michoacan Organics brand, where he managed the logistics, sales and producer experience to help sell millions of dollars of organic avocados into the United States. He is also involved in Producers Market, a start-up working to connect farmers and consumers.

This episode's motto: "It gets easier with time."

Links:

Producers Market episode:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/07-keith-agoda-connects-farmers

David's posts on Keynes, productivity and degrowth:

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=961

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992

Five-O soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6GyJoWPq8

Episode 40: Less than six months ago, Athena Vassilopoulos graduated from LUC with a major in Governance Economics & Development and a minor in Social Business & Entrepreneurship. She decided to take time to work on her personal development, rather than pursuing a masters degree or an internship. Considering her passion for food, she began working in kitchens.

During her time off, she became interested in programming and started to look for opportunities to engage in the field. To improve her understanding, she decided to take part in a coding bootcamp in Montreal. As part of her preparation for this future endeavour, she explored the digital sphere in Luxembourg, discovering Women In Digital Empowerment (https://wide.lu), a Luxembourgish NGO working towards empowering individuals in a digital setting. She followed a blockchain training with them before actively contributing to their blockchain and open data related projects.

In the meantime, she also became a member of Letzblock (https://www.letzblock.com), the main blockchain association in Luxembourg. These experiences gave her better insights and fostered her interest for the coordination of technological innovation within the digital transition.

In this podcast, she talks about the struggle of taking time in a fast-paced society where everyone seems to be moving at the speed of light, the importance of asking yourself why and making sure that you are coherent with yourself.

Her motto? “The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.” -- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Episode 39: Dale Whittington https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/dale-whittington-phd/) is a Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and the Global Research Institute at the University of Manchester (UK). He is the author of over 100 scholarly publications, including (with Prof. Duncan MacRae) a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis and Discourse. He has served as an advisor for three environmental economics networks in the Global South: 1) Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA); 2) Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP); and 3) Center for Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis (CEEPA). Since 2014, Prof. Whittington and Dr. Duncan Thomas have offered the two-part Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries” on the COURSERA platform. Over 25,000 students have participated from 184 countries.

This episode's mottos: "Water -- you get far more value than you pay for" and "Service quality rises when public knowledge rises."

Links:

Dale's paper, Ancient Instincts

http://www.kysq.org/docs/Whittington_Ancient_Instincts.pdf

David's op/ed on Los Angeles's bad water pricing:

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/03/14/if-clean-water-is-a-right-why-have-we-been-so-wrong/ideas/up-for-discussion/

Episode 38: Omar Al-Ubaydli (@omareconomics)is the Director of Research at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (https://www.derasat.org.bh), an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. He previously served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Advisory Board of Economists and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

This episode's motto: "Sometimes the tribe helps, sometimes it knows too much."

Omar's articles:

http://www.omareconomics.com/mainstream-media

Jive Talk 15 with Martin Keulertz:

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