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Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Chris Whitehead, Senior Environmental Justice Consultant
32 episodes
1 week ago
Send us a text Somehow people still underestimate the impact of water on our lives. We don't think about it a lot, and often take it for granted, unless there is a problem. It is fundamental to our natural systems and public health, as well as recreation, cultural heritage, religions, and now unfortunately many climate-related detriments. Storms are getting stronger and more frequent, inland and coastal flooding is increasing, with each instance forcing us to question our planning paradigms. ...
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Send us a text Somehow people still underestimate the impact of water on our lives. We don't think about it a lot, and often take it for granted, unless there is a problem. It is fundamental to our natural systems and public health, as well as recreation, cultural heritage, religions, and now unfortunately many climate-related detriments. Storms are getting stronger and more frequent, inland and coastal flooding is increasing, with each instance forcing us to question our planning paradigms. ...
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Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 E13 - Water Wants to Go Where It's Always Gone
Send us a text Somehow people still underestimate the impact of water on our lives. We don't think about it a lot, and often take it for granted, unless there is a problem. It is fundamental to our natural systems and public health, as well as recreation, cultural heritage, religions, and now unfortunately many climate-related detriments. Storms are getting stronger and more frequent, inland and coastal flooding is increasing, with each instance forcing us to question our planning paradigms. ...
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1 week ago
58 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 E12: Water Purification and Management: From Bivalves to Billion Dollar Projects
Send us a text Water management will be one of the critical issues of the 21rst Century. Between increased volatility in weather events, climate driven droughts, and historical cleanups...well that's plenty to keep us all busy. Now add data center proliferation and nearly unprecedented water demands. Challenging to say the least. My guests this week are Pete Malinowski (Executive Director of the Billion Oyster Project) and Mark McDonough (President, New Jersey American Water). Both men are pa...
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3 weeks ago
53 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 E11: Climate Policy: Bottom Line, The Longer We Wait, The More It Will Cost
Send us a text We're back!!! What I thought was just going to be a quick break for the summer as I planned a conference, ended up being more of an endeavor as I then had to deal with a fried hard drive, being laid off, and starting my own consulting company. Oh, also during this period, I went to NYC Climate Week. This episode was recorded a few days after climate week. We were fortunate to be joined by two leaders who have helped push aggressive climate reforms in their states at the highest...
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1 month ago
52 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 E10: EJ Icons: Decades of Protecting Community and Public Health
Send us a text About four years ago I was giving a talk in Ohio and someone in the crowd asked me, "EJ just kind of sprang up, where did it come from, how did this start?" At first I was pretty taken back by the comment since the environmental justice movement began around the time I was born, but this gentleman simply had not heard about it until that point, until it was tied into his operations. My two guests this episode are Vernice Miller-Travis (EVP of the Metropolitan Group and Co...
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4 months ago
48 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 E9 - Policy Development: Protecting Public Health and Economic Opportunity
Send us a text There's a common fallacy out there that public policy that is protective of public health is likely bad for bottom lines. That could not be further from the truth. Sound policy is protective but in a sustainable way that also promotes economic growth. For this episode, who better to talk about taking on complex policy development, than two people who have done it at the highest levels? Sandra Whitehead is an expert on cumulative health impacts, a professor at GW, and form...
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4 months ago
55 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 E8 - We Live in Systems Not Silos: How Changes in the Arctic Impact the World
Send us a text It feels appropriate that this episode is posting in the middle of a heat wave in much of the United States, with four straight days of heat index readings at or above 110F. While we were planning for the episode a glacier in Europe gave way, burying the town of Blatten, Switzerland. Our world is warming, and that has many difficult implications. With all the changes of the last six months, we had many options for episode names on this one, but something one of our guests said ...
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4 months ago
58 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2: E7 - Shaping Policy for Sustainable Decarbonization
Send us a text I almost decided to name this episode, "so this is why we can't have nice things." On our last episode, Doug Houseman and Mark Jacobson showed us what's possible albeit challenging from a technical perspective. This episode Eric Beightel (Federal Strategy Director, Environmental Science Associates) and Josh Kaplowitz (Senior Counsel, Troutman Pepper Locke LLP) walk us through grid decarbonization and renewables development from a legal and policy perspective. Simply put, our cu...
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5 months ago
59 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Decarbonizing our Energy Sector: Challenges and Opportunities
Send us a text For a project to be sustainable it must factor in the economic, social, and environmental impacts of its scope before its built, in order to minimize any detrimental impacts and maximize benefits. But backing up another step, for a project to be built at all, it must first have a handle on associated logistical constraints and how they factor into timelines and budgeting. My two guests this week are energy experts who have decades of experience around the world. Mark Jaco...
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6 months ago
59 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 - E5 - Solid Waste Management: Challenges, Technology, and Environmental Impact
Send us a text In 2018 the US processed roughly 292.4 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), or 4.9 pounds/person per day, which equates to an increase of 93% from 1980. Of that amount, 69 million tons were recycled and 25 million composted. In 2021 the US recycled 58.6 million tons of metals, iron, steel. These figures have only increased over the last few years, and project continued increases in coming years due to population growth. It is a massive problem and responsibility for tho...
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6 months ago
59 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
S2 - E4 - Environmental Advocacy Across Generations
Send us a text I start every EJ or climate talk that I give with a photo of my children. They are the reason why I am so passionate about all of this, they are why I do this work. The same can be said for many of those in environmental advocacy; over time it becomes a family affair, and we often see children joining efforts that their parents have worked on for decades. On the episode this week, I tell a story of late last year, I was moderating a panel in Chicago with Cheryl Johnson, daughte...
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7 months ago
58 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Climate Impacts and Rising Insurance Costs
Send us a text Climate change impacts are mounting across the world, and it has been difficult to watch. From cloud bursts, to drought, to stronger hurricanes, and longer heat waves, the economic and public health impacts are mounting and costing us all a lot more. The 2025 California wildfires alone are estimated to have cost $250B. How do insurance companies factor in climate change? How do they incur rising associated costs? How do these rising impacts affect major project siting and devel...
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8 months ago
44 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Environmental Justice: Dignity Rights, Disparities, and Outlook
Send us a text This week Chris was joined by James May (Distinguished Professor of Law, Washburn University) and Dana Johnson (Chief Movement Advisor, Strategic Movement Collective, LLC). The topic for this episode is environmental justice and dignity rights. Taping this made us think of the golden rule, you know the one that most of us learn around Kindergarten, "treat others as you want to be treated". Policy choices over decades have led to environmental justice areas and associated elevat...
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8 months ago
54 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Climate Change: Impact Trends, Social Tipping Points, and Climate Anxiety
Send us a text Season 2!!! As with last year, we are starting this season on climate change. There is no bigger issue that we discuss on these podcasts. The risks are real, the costs of impacts mounting, and our time for action is dwindling to avert surpassing tipping points that will do irrevocable harm. This is not a political issue, and it does not have to be a subjective one. Objectively look at what the modeling is telling you and start making some informed decisions on long term p...
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9 months ago
1 hour

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Season 1 Finale - Food Insecurity: A Major Global Issue with Inspiring Local Solutions
Send us a text Yes, we did a 90 minute Season finale. You will thank me later. I dedicated this episode to my mom, Lois Whitehead, who sadly passed away earlier this year from leukemia. During her professional career, for a time, she worked for a nonprofit in Trenton, NJ that addressed food insecurity issues and helped people get back on their feet. She taught me a great deal in 41 years, but this issue stands out as it was something we went back to often in the last couple years as I did mo...
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1 year ago
1 hour 30 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Episode 17: Financing Decarbonization: From startups to critical support infrastructure
Send us a text No matter what your climate goals look like, where your project is located, or who is in office at the time, your project will not happen if the financing is not in order. Projects have to make money, and have to usually incur levels of risk through development. Whether a clean energy startup or billion dollar offshore wind developer, there is great opportunity right now, but also great risk, and fluctuations in supply chain, interest rates, and other outside forces, can direct...
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1 year ago
57 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Episode 16: Community Air Monitoring Networks
Send us a text One of the topics that I have been asked about most over the last few years from community members is how they can get their own community air monitoring. Many are concerned over possible contamination in their air, and want to see improvements. As we often say, their lived experiences are the ultimate screening tool. They know if there's a problem. There is a direct link between air contamination and health impacts, and objective tools like ambient air monitors can help inform...
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1 year ago
57 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Episode 15 - The Critical Need to Modernize the Grid
Send us a text Anyone who has listened to past episodes likely knows that I am an offshore wind (OSW) energy advocate. I am a renewable energy advocate, and I am an advocate for smart answers to complex problems. There is no better example than the need to urgently modernize our transmission systems. My guests for this week, are Theodore Paradise (Energy Partner at K & L Gates) and Dane Pehrman (Director of Strategy & Growth - Power and New Energy, Worley Consulting). Both men have b...
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1 year ago
49 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Episode 14 - EJ in Chicago: Leaders, Allies, and Zoning Changes
Send us a text Environmental Justice communities are diverse collections of perspectives, concerns, and drivers. No two are identical, but there are some common themes that most share. Love of their culture, protection of their communities and children, and concern that our planning systems have not historically taken their views into equal account when making decisions that would affect the community. Community leaders are the EJ experts. Outside expertise can come in to play a role but no o...
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1 year ago
1 hour

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Episode 13 - Planning in Practice: Equity and Sustainability in Modern Cities
Send us a text For this episode Chris was joined by Rebecca Karp (CEO and Founder) and Ali-Sutherland Brown (Principal) from Karp Strategies. Chris recalls, "I first met Rebecca through the offshore wind space a few years ago when we were both presenting at the International Partnering Forum (IPF) event in Atlantic City, NJ. I was immediately struck by her expertise, her ability to connect with local communities, and understand multiple drivers affecting that community." On this episo...
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1 year ago
58 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Episode 12 - Air Impacts of Wildfire
Send us a text For this episode Chris was joined by Sarah Henderson (Scientific Director, British Columbia Centers for Disease Control) and Christine Wiedinmyer (Associate Director of Science at Cires at the University of Colorado Boulder). Chris went heavy on the graphics and visuals during his intro this time because wildfire is such a visceral issue. Annual acreage burned is rising each year, insurance costs are a huge problem that not enough people are addressing, and air quality impacts ...
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1 year ago
58 minutes

Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Send us a text Somehow people still underestimate the impact of water on our lives. We don't think about it a lot, and often take it for granted, unless there is a problem. It is fundamental to our natural systems and public health, as well as recreation, cultural heritage, religions, and now unfortunately many climate-related detriments. Storms are getting stronger and more frequent, inland and coastal flooding is increasing, with each instance forcing us to question our planning paradigms. ...