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Episode 27: Drawing on two decades of field experience studying resilient societies in Africa, Asia and the Americas, James Workman is a pioneering writer and entrepreneur in the design of equitable conservation markets for freshwater and marine resources. As a founder of the online water savings trading platform, AquaShares (http://aquashares.com), he has helped establish water markets in California and Morocco involving hundreds of users, and is now calling on this experience to aid California GSAs and their basin stakeholders in designing and operating cap-and-trade markets to better comply with SGMA.

Prior to establishing these markets, Workman was the Deputy Director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Solutions Center for fisheries markets, launched the International Water Association’s magazine The Source, was senior advisor to the World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela, and served as a White House appointed speechwriter to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.

Workman is author of the award-winning Heart of Dryness: How the last Bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought (https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Dryness-Bushmen-Permanent-Drought/dp/0802715583), and co-author of the forthcoming Sea Change: The fishermen’s revolution that is replenishing life offshore – and on. He studied at Yale & Oxford, and taught at Wesleyan, Whitman and Bates colleges, but his real education came from blowing up dams, releasing wolves, restoring wildland fires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to dissidents, breaking down in Africa's Kalahari Desert, getting married, and becoming a dad – although not ranked in that order.

This episode's motto: "Subsidies help bad farmers continue to make bad decisions."

Links:

All in auctions: http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/12/all-in-auctions-is-published.html

Priests and Programmers: http://www.aguanomics.com/2009/01/priests-and-programmers-review.html

Episode 26: Theresa Lieb (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-lieb-89835886/ and https://twitter.com/_TheresaLieb) is a food systems researcher with the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University (https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/research/), working remotely from Palo Alto. She focuses on the intersection of food, climate and environmental policy. Previously, Theresa was a fellow at the World Resources Institute on researching pathways for sustainable dietary transitions in low and middle-income countries. She also completed traineeships with the German Development Bank and the German Development Service in Brazil to support small-scale farming of socio-biodiversity forest products in the Amazon in an effort to combat deforestation by strengthening local, sustainable livelihoods. With the NAZCA Institute for Marine Research in Ecuador, she supported the establishment of a participatory management plan for a new marine protected area and improved the sustainability of artisanal fishing practices on Ecuador’s northern coast.

Theresa holds an MPhil in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University and a BSc in International Development and Policy Science from Leiden University (Class of 2015). She speaks German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

This episode's motto: "It's hard to cool down grass that's too hot!"

How to shop, cook and eat in a warming world.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/dining/climate-change-food-eating-habits.html

Episode 25.5: This short episode gives you an update on how the podcast is going, and what I am trying to do :)

If you have any suggestions for topics, guests or improvements, then please email [email protected]

This episode's motto: "There's no success like team success."

Episode 25: Rik Rutten graduated from LUC in the summer of 2015 with a BA in International Development and a minor in World Politics. After LUC, he spent a year doing internships and trying his first swings at freelance journalism, before completing a two-years master's at Uppsala University's Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. Now, at 25, Rik works in The Hague as a political editor at NRC, a Dutch daily newspaper. Among other things, he composes the paper's daily political newsletter, De Haagse Stemming (https://www.nrc.nl/dehaagsestemming/), covering the daily beat in The Hague.

This episode's motto: "Take the path that works for you, no matter what forest you end up in."

__Links of interest__

Michael Lewis, The Case Against Abroad: https://newrepublic.com/article/77526/the-case-against-abroad

Rik's first paid story (in Dutch), which directly came out of his LUC thesis: https://decorrespondent.nl/3749/deze-stad-laat-zien-oorlog-is-vermijdbaar/520541009538-e4bc4ae9

Rik's first English paid story: https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/20824/why-once-welcoming-countries-in-scandinavia-closed-their-borders-to-refugees

Episode 24: Liza L. holds a BSc in Sustainability (now Earth, Energy, and Sustainability) from Leiden University College in The Hague (2015), and an LL.M. in Global Environmental and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh.

During LUC she was actively involved in the student community, and is currently the president of Evolucio - LUC's alumni association (http://www.evolucio.nl/). During and after studies she has undertaken three traineeships: one at an academic institute in The Hague, one at the European Commission, and a third at a consultancy firm. After all the studying and working in the field of climate change (https://www.aguanomics.com/2015/11/carbon-market-mechanisms-matter-for.html), she is about the begin a job at a Ministry of Environment in one of EU's Member States.

This episode's motto: "Sometimes you wander into opportunity."

"15 things I wish I'd known as a first year" on p 14 of this PAX: https://issuu.com/paxmagazineluc/docs/pax_issue_4

Project Drawdown (the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming): https://www.drawdown.org/

Weapons of Math Destruction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction

Related reviews: http://www.aguanomics.com/2017/02/weapons-of-math-destruction-review.html

https://www.aguanomics.com/2018/03/review-future-crimes.html

Episode 23: Jacob van de Beeten holds a BA from Leiden University College (Class of 2016, International Justice) and a LLB From Leiden University. He obtained his LLM at the London School of Economics where he will start with his PhD in September 2019. Jacob is especialy interested in the relation between law and politics in the European Union.

This episode's motto: "Law comes in many flavors, some that mix better than others."

Links of interest:

David Hayes (2016): "When BS Is a Virtue" https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/09/08/when-bs-is-a-virtue/

David Hayes (2015) "Against critical thinking pedagogy"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474022215592248

Episode 22: Fabian Kemps Verhage spent part of his youth on an organic farm in Nicaragua, where his mother was a development worker. Down on the farm, Fabian felt the manual labor finally put his mind to rest and allowed him to think things through.

Fabian graduated from LUC in 2013 (BSc Sustainability). After some adventures, he took a master degree in Climate Studies at the University of Wageningen and started working at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). However, he quickly got dissatisfied with the large distance between his office in The Netherlands and the farmers he worked for. The feeling persisted at his next post at the National ThinkTank, where he wanted to contribute to the sustainability of agriculture. Hence, he decided to rent 2.5 hectares and start farming himself.

Without the expertise to grow vegetables he decided to grow wheat and soy. And due to limited access to machines, he challenged himself to conduct most of the work by hand. While still waiting for his first harvest, the experience so far has strengthened his idea that farming is possible with manual (so fossil free) labor and green manure (so fully vegan) fertilizers. While still relying on a side job for a stable income, he hopes to show that farming by hand is not only an answer to the dependency of agriculture to fossil fuels, but also for the thousands of people who want to work more with their hands.

This episode's motto: "The fastest way to get somewhere is to start in the general direction."

Episode 21: Joseph Agoada (https://twitter.com/joeagoada) has spent the past twelve years on international impact programs and partnerships around the world. He founded a nonprofit in 2006, held positions Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab (2008 – 2009) and then UNICEF HQ (2010 – 2014). For the last five years he has held the role the Director of Communications at InSTEDD, a silicon valley based nonprofit delivering open source technology for social impact. Joseph is passionate about community driven innovation and is an active member of the social intrapreneurship networks. He is a published author on Forbes.com, Virgin.com and the Huffington Post and currently hosts the Lets Break Good Podcast (https://soundcloud.com/letsbreakgood)

This episode's motto: Better an innovative break than an inadequate increment.

Here's the episode with Joe's brother Keith:

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

Episode 20: Monica Sanchez-Groeneweg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-sanchez-groeneweg/) was born in Amsterdam to a Spanish father and Dutch mother. She attended the European School Bergen her entire life to preserve her language skills. She decided to attend LUC for its multicultural environment and multidisciplinary approach. After graduating in 2016 with BSc in International Development (GED) & minor in Psychology, she went on to study Political Sciences: Global Environmental Governance at the VU Amsterdam. As you will hear in the podcast she got sidetracked during these studies to pursue several work opportunities. While she doesn't recommend this order of work and studies, she learned a lot on the way. She hopes to graduate by the end of June and go traveling.

This episode's motto: "What doesn't kill you helps with your masters."

Episode 19: Molly Quell (https://twitter.com/MollyQuell) is an American journalist, living in the Netherlands. She covers the European Courts for Courthouse News Service and is a contributing editor at Dutch News (https://www.dutchnews.nl), where she co-hosts their weekly news podcast (https://soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl). She has occasionally written for other publications, including Undark, Huffington Post and Think Progress. When she's not working, which is rare, she reads, bakes or hangs out with her dog Troubador (https://www.instagram.com/troubadourmagma), a literal tornado but in dog form.

This episode's motto: "You know you're staying when you renovate the house."