Ways and Means features bright ideas for how to improve human society. The show is produced by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
Ways & Means
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Ways and Means features bright ideas for how to improve human society. The show is produced by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
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April 29, 2024
S9 Episode 1: Missing Votes
<p>Why many college students' ballots are getting tossed — and what could be done about it.</p> <p>---</p> <p>In this episode of Ways & Means – as we head into the 2024 elections – why lots of North Carolina college students’ votes did not count in the last election, or the time before that, or the time before that. Why those votes weren’t counted, and how to prevent it from happening again.</p> <p>Guests: </p> <ul> <li>Gunther Peck, Associate Professor of History and Public Policy Studies, Duke University</li> <li>Duke Student Research Team Members: Ameya Rao, Hannah McKnight, Kathryn Thomas</li> <li>Tiffany Crawford, Master of Public Administration student at North Carolina Central University</li> </ul>
December 6, 2023
S8 Episode 8: Goodbye, Cloud Factory
<p>In this episode: how a crusade shut down a coal-fired Chicago power plant for good. What the closing of that plant meant for children’s health and the environment. And what it didn’t mean.</p> <p>This is the eighth and final episode in our “Climate Change Solutions” series, where we look at research-based ideas to help cool a rapidly heating planet.</p> <p>Guests:</p> <ul> <li>Kimberly Wasserman is Exeutive Director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, and past winner of the <a href= "https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/kimberly-wasserman/">Goldman Environmental Prize.</a></li> <li><a href= "https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sarah-komisarow/">Sarah Komisarow</a> is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Duke University.</li> <li><a href="https://www.emilypakhtigian.com/">Emily Pakhtigian</a> is<span class="C9DxTc"> a former PhD student in public policy at Duke, now Assistant Professor at the </span><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc">Sc</span><span class= "C9DxTc aw5Odc">hool of Public Policy at Penn State University</span><span class="C9DxTc">.</span></li> <li>Youki Terada is Editor at Edutopia from the George Lucas Educational Foundation.</li> </ul> <p><em>Season 8 of Ways & Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. </em><a href= "https://2022.climate.duke.edu/"><em>Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment.</em></a></p>
November 16, 2023
S8 Episode 7: Climate Migration: Why People Leave and What Might Help Them Stay
<p>In this episode of Ways & Means: the hidden role that climate plays in the story of migration. How a changing climate is driving thousands of people to enter the U.S. each year. And how relatively small, inexpensive changes on the ground could make a difference with a daunting geopolitical problem.</p> <p>This is the seventh episode in our “Climate Change Solutions” series, where we look at research-based ideas to help cool a rapidly heating planet.</p> <p>Guests:</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://sanford.duke.edu/profile/sarah-blodgett-bermeo/">Sarah Bermeo</a> is a political economist and associate professor of public policy and political science in the Sanford School at Duke University. She directs <a href= "https://dcid.sanford.duke.edu/climate-migration/">Duke’s Program on Climate-Related Migration.</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.propublica.org/people/abrahm-lustgarten">Abrahm Lustgarten is a ProPublica reporter.</a> His new book, <em><a href= "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374171735/onthemove">On The Move,The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America,</a> </em>explores the connection between climate change, American lives and migration.</li> <li>Pedro Santos is a Honduran farmer.</li> <li>Also: voices of migrants from Guatemala</li> </ul> <p><em>Season 8 of Ways & Means is made possible thanks to support from the Office of the Provost at Duke University. </em><a href= "https://2022.climate.duke.edu/"><em>Find out more about the Duke Climate Commitment.</em></a></p>
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