Perspectives on Sustainable Development

Chris Whitehead, Senior Environmental Justice Consultant
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Perspectives on Sustainable Development

Environmental justice and climate change are driving decarbonization across industrial sectors and throughout everyday life. There are many nuanced issues that planners will face as they try to sustainably reshape our world. This podcast will focus on climate and EJ but also bring on associated experts to speak about how these issues affect their fields. From city planning, economic development, transportation, education, national security, mental health, manufacturing, supply chain...we should all be considering how climate and EJ considerations will affect our decision paradigms. Join me every two weeks as we discuss critical issues with thought leaders who know them best. Logo credit and general assistance: Uzziah Davis

  1. MAR 18

    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...

    45 min

  2. MAR 4

    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...

    54 min

  3. FEB 18

    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...

    1h 1m

  4. 11/11/2024

    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...

    1h 30m

  5. 10/29/2024

    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...

    57 min

  6. 10/16/2024

    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...

    57 min

  7. 10/08/2024

    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...

    49 min

  8. 10/01/2024

    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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    Environmental justice and climate change are driving decarbonization across industrial sectors and throughout everyday life. There are many nuanced issues that planners will face as they try to sustainably reshape our world. This podcast will focus on climate and EJ but also bring on associated experts to speak about how these issues affect their fields. From city planning, economic development, transportation, education, national security, mental health, manufacturing, supply chain...we should all be considering how climate and EJ considerations will affect our decision paradigms. Join me every two weeks as we discuss critical issues with thought leaders who know them best. Logo credit and general assistance: Uzziah Davis

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    • Creator
      Chris Whitehead, Senior Environmental Justice Consultant
    • Years Active
      2024 - 2025
    • Episodes
      22
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      © 2025 Perspectives on Sustainable Development
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