Generation Anthropocene

Sally Benson talks about the goals and recent accomplishments of Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), the need to partner with industry, the hopeful signs of alternative energy development, and how her upbringing informed her sense of justice and optimism.

Environmental engineer Gil Masters highlights the importance of buildings in shaping our energy demands and explores the potential of energy efficiency while offering fresh and practical solutions to the energy and climate crisis.

Agricultural ecologist Patrick Archie reflects on the social justice of food, the evolution of his profession, and his vision for community development as it relates to food systems.

Environmental engineer Leonard Ortolano sits down with Generation Anthropocene to reflect on his professional trajectory and how environmentalism has guided water resource planning, gives us a brief history of US environmental assessment work, and explores the complexity of water as it relates to climate change.

Welcome to Generation Anthropocene! In this episode, we include excerpts from our first 14 interviews to give you an overview of the people we talked to and the wide range of topics discussed, ranging from biodiversity, to agriculture, to climate, to water resources, to urban design. For more information regarding this podcast, please visit our website: www.stanford.edu/group/anthropocene