jivetalking

Episode 230 (6 Mar 2023):

Episode 229 (9 Mar 2023): Katlego Panama is a African heritage management practitioner by profession and a barista/specialty coffee enthusiast.

Episode 228 (2 Mar 2023): Ravi Kurani has dedicated his career to water safety. From his early days as a pool boy for his father's pool and spa business to the founder of Sutro, Ravi has always wondered why everyone can’t have clean water. He believes that being an entrepreneur is an honor he must earn daily since it gives him the ability to solve problems that not only makes money but help society.

https://www.mysutro.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuraniravi/

Episode 227(2 Mar 2023) : Anthony Turton was exposed to the Kalahari as a small boy, where he observed the flow of water from the Okavango into a desert. He later served as a soldier fighting a war in the upper Okavango basin. He then became a peacemaker and scientist, writing about the Okavango. He holds a professorship in environmental management at the University of Free State and served as a Deputy Governor of the World Water Council, but his core skills are about water as a national security risk. Today he works with scientists, engineers and mathematicians, developing AI and ML systems for complex industrial fluids.

Tony's book: Shaking Hands with Billy

https://www.polity.org.za/article/shaking-hands-with-billy-2011-01-20

https://www.amazon.com/Shaking-Hands-Billy-Private-Memoirs-ebook/dp/B07Q6ZFQMW

Episode 226 (12 Jun 2014): This short monologue is still relevant, in terms of Saudi Arabia's culture, economy and sustainability (or lack thereof).

Episode 225 (16 Feb 2023): Lihi Lavie graduated GED in 2021, since than she worked as a financial analyst and as a personal assistant to the owner of a major impact investment fund focused on providing basic needs in the global south. In her spare time she also volunteers in the Israeli parliament as a parliamentary advisor to Labour MP in the Finance/Budgetary Committee. Tech Public policy and anti-trust enthusiast.

Episode 224 (16 May 2013): In this chat from the archives, Grant and I discuss the water used to produce energy from coal, natural gas, etc.

Grant's LI:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-mcdermott-b8637419/

Episode 223 (8 Feb 2023): Iman Haqiqi got his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2019 from Purdue University, where he is now a Research Economist working on Global to Local Analysis of Systems Sustainability (GLASS), a project looking at sustainability and food security challenges in a multi-disciplinary, multi-scale framework, i.e., evaluating the economic impacts of policies and shocks. One GLASS spatial model considers economic inputs (water, land, fertilizer, and labor) in relation to different ``market sheds''

Iman's pages:

https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/network/member_display.asp?UserID=16116

https://www.pches.psu.edu/iman-haqiqi-spotlight/

GLASSNET: https://mygeohub.org/groups/glassnet

GTAP: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/about/presskit.aspx

Tom Hertel: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~hertel/

Episode 222 (2 May 2013): In this chat from the archives, Michael and I discuss real teaching and the problems with institutional reform when the "powers that be" don't want to let go.

Michael also appeared in Episode 94 (Sep 2020) of Jive Talking

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/94-michael-strong-is-radically-improving-education

Episode 221 (27 Jan 2023): Tom Ferguson is the Managing Partner of Burnt Island Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused exclusively on the water sector. They closed their first $30m fund in February 2021, and have invested in 18 companies, supporting founders building solutions across the water value chain. Previously, Tom was VP Programming at Imagine H2O. He holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

https://www.burntislandventures.com