Elena Bennett's guest appearances

Elena Bennett

The Agronomist

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

McGill Podcasts » Cutting Edge Lectures

Midwestern State Stang Gang Podcast

What the Heck is Resilience, Anyway?

Science & Technology

Sam Harris

Daniel Kahneman

Steven Pinker

Dorie Clark

Tiffany Shlain

Peter Diamandis

David Eagleman

Michael Pollan

Jared Diamond

Lawrence Lessig

Jane McGonigal

Melissa Alexander

Sara Seager

Rick Doblin

Kevin Kelly

OwlTail

On this episode, we have a special guest sit down and talk with us about resilience - Dr. Elena Bennett! Dr. Bennett is a professor and research chair in Sustainability Science at McGill University, where she studies interactions among people and ecosystem services. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Bennett worked on the United Nations’ Millennium Ecosystems Assessment. We talk with Dr. Bennett about how her work relates to ecological resilience, ask her about her ecosystem services research, discuss positivity and optimistic messages with “Seeds of Good Anthropocenes,” and much more!Funding support from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies, https://www.unl.edu/plains/welcomeDr. Bennett’s lab website: http://bennettlab.weebly.com/ The United Nations Millennium Ecosystems Assessment: https://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.html Information about Good Anthropocenes: https://goodanthropocenes.net/ Contact Us: whrapodcast@gmail.comCouncil For Resilience Education Website: cre.unl.eduOnline Module: https://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/d6c3e24cbc7eMusic licensed from http://www.purple-planet.com

On this episode, we have a special guest sit down and talk with us about resilience - Dr. Elena Bennett! Dr. Bennett is a professor and research chair in Sustainability Science at McGill University, where she studies interactions among people and ecosystem services. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Bennett worked on the United Nations’ Millennium Ecosystems Assessment. We talk with Dr. Bennett about how her work relates to ecological resilience, ask her about her ecosystem services research, discuss positivity and optimistic messages with “Seeds of Good Anthropocenes,” and much more! Funding support from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Great Plains Studies, <a href="https://www.unl.edu/plains/welcome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.unl.edu/plains/welcome</a> Dr. Bennett’s lab website: <a href="http://bennettlab.weebly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bennettlab.weebly.com/</a> The United Nations Millennium Ecosystems Assessment: <a href="https://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.html</a> Information about Good Anthropocenes: <a href="https://goodanthropocenes.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://goodanthropocenes.net/</a> Contact Us: whrapodcast@gmail.com Council For Resilience Education Website: <a href="http://cre.unl.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cre.unl.edu</a> Online Module: <a href="https://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/d6c3e24cbc7e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://passel2.unl.edu/view/lesson/d6c3e24cbc7e</a> Music licensed from <a href="http://www.purple-planet.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.purple-planet.com</a>

Looking for Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: An Interview with Dr. Elena Bennett

The Stang Gang Podcast for Tuesday, May 19 features Midwestern State softball All American Elena Bennett. Bennett culminated a stellar career at Midwestern State by claiming the 2013 Marie Morgan Award which is presented annually to the most outstanding male and female student-athletes. She earned second-team All-America honors from the National Fast-pitch Coaches’ Association and Daktronics through the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America following a sensational sophomore campaign when she helped the Mustangs advance to the national semifinals. The four-time All-Lone Star Conference performer graduated as the program’s all-time leader with a .396 batting average, 43 sacrifice hits, 124 stolen bases and 82 multiple-hit games. She was also second in scored with 174 and total hits at 265. Bennett teaches art and is the assistant softball coach at her alma mater Creekview High School in Carrollton after graduating from Midwestern State in 2013.

Stang Gang Podcast (5/19/20) featuring Elena Bennett

As humans increasingly dominate Earth’s natural systems over the coming centuries (“the Anthropocene”), how can we ensure that it becomes a “good Anthopocene”—a world in which nature and humanity prosper together?Ecosystem ecologist Elena Bennett believes that discovering the most effective paths to such a future is a bottom-up process, as countless projects all over the world are exploring how nature and humans can best collaborate.  She has collected 500 such examples and assembled them into a hopeful narrative pointing toward an Anthropocene Epoch in which all life thrives.Instances of the good Anthropocene are already here.  They just need to be examined, distributed, and connected up to a working whole.

As humans increasingly dominate Earth’s natural systems over the coming centuries (“the Anthropocene”), how can we ensure that it becomes a “good Anthopocene”—a world in which nature and humanity prosper together? Ecosystem ecologist Elena Bennett believes that discovering the most effective paths to such a future is a bottom-up process, as countless projects all over the world are exploring how nature and humans can best collaborate. She has collected 500 such examples and assembled them into a hopeful narrative pointing toward an Anthropocene Epoch in which all life thrives. Instances of the good Anthropocene are already here. They just need to be examined, distributed, and connected up to a working whole.

Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene