Rebecca Solnit is an author, activist, historian, and geographer, among other things. Her books include A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting…
Peter Gleick researches water and water policy at the Pacific Institute. In addition to co-founding the Pacific Institute, Gleick is a member of the National…
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest names in current science fiction. His most famous work is, arguably, the Mars Trilogy, but he is…
George Lakoff is one of the most influential living linguists. He has revolutionized how we think about metaphor’s role in cognition, the grounding of metaphor…
We’ve been away for a long, long time. But now we’re back with the remaining nine episodes of The Conversation. All of these were recorded…
Mary Mattingly is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. We learned about her through the Flockhouse Project and traced back to discover the Waterpod…
From The Conversation’s inception, geoengineering—the deliberate manipulation of the climate through technology—has been high on my list of subjects to include in the series. To…
Ethan Zuckerman is the Director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, a former fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and co-founder of Global Voices, a hub…
Chuck Collins directs the Institute of Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is also co-founder of United for a Fair Economy…
Priscilla Grim is one of Occupy Wall Street’s organizers, co-founder of the website We Are the 99 Percent, and co-editor of The Occupied Wall Street…
