Darcy Molnar, Senior Program Coordinator at the Leopold-Bachmann Foundation and the Masters in Advanced Studies (MAS) in Water Resources Program Coordinator at ETH Zurich reflects on three major initiatives she has undertaken to foster better knowledge exchange on solving global crises, bridging global north and south and providing more opportunities for women in STEM. Having grown up in West Africa herself, we learn a bit about how we can use some African culture can and "joie de vivre" to tinker with our own daily lives and personal missions.

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Guest Intro and her Egyptian Experience
7:29 From Physics to Engineering and Development
14:12 The Sanaga River
17:15 Getting to Switzerland
20:39 How to teach nature-based solutions?
35:07 Network for Water and Life (NEWAL)
44:42 500 Women Scientists
48:30 The Kangaroo Math Competition
1:00:30 Darcy’s New Adventure
1:01:51 Q&A Start
1:02:17 Key event, book person
1:04:33 If you had a magic wand?
1:05:23 Biggest challenge in career to date
1:08:27 Time Management
1:11:19 Advice for young scientists
1:12:02 Where can people find you?
1:12:20 Final Message
1:13:24 Outro

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Manuel Fischer, Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, group leader in Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance and head of the Environmental Social Sciences Institute at the Eawag, Switzerland shares some insights on the social dynamics between major actors in the political arena during times of stability and times of crisis and the importance of delving deeper into these dynamics for better social-ecological systems. We also discuss the harsh reality of whether science can impact policy.

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Guest Intro, Interview Skills and Social Processes
7:01 Manuel for President!
9:14 A 101 on Swiss Politics
13:03 Manuel’s academic journey to date
17:14 Actors, the social scientist and the theatre piece
19:27 The good guys, the bad guys and the ‘devil shift’
28:18 The ‘devil’s advocate’?
31:06 Decision-making in times of crises - Fukushima
36:09 Social networks
40:27 Social-Ecological Networks for Biodiversity
48:02 The role of scientists going forward
49:39 Manuel’s approach to the future
50:45 Q&A Start
51:08 Key event, person, book
53:20 If you had a magic wand?
54:04 Biggest challenge to date
55:59 Time management
58:14 Advice to young social scientists
1:00:44 The ivory tower of academia
1:02:10 Where can people find you?
1:02:49 Final message
1:03:05 Outro

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Shubber Ali, CEO of Garden for Wildlife, a spin-out from the National Wildlife Federation in the US, reflects on the journey from helping companies improve their innovation to how people can contribute to improving biodiversity in their own gardens through the use of native plants. We also discuss the twin crises of climate change and artificial intelligence (in particular, Generative AI) and look at both the positives and negatives around major societal changes we are likely to experience in future.

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Guest Intro and Gardening
6:48 Innovation a love-hate relationship
13:43 Shubber's Origin Story
16:16 Nature's best hope
18:46 Founding Garden for Wildlife
24:35 Nature and human health
27:10 Native vs. Non-native
30:30 Green justice the Field of Dreams Hypothesis
34:10 American fascination with lawns
36:36 Reducing friction for change
39:08 The IKEA for Biodiversity?
41:26 Deal with it at source - cost of poor quality problem
43:15 Current successes of Garden for Wildlife
45:18 What's next for Garden for Wildlife
50:51 Coming to Europe?
52:08 Climate Conference COP27
55:04 We have too much information
58:01 Artificial Intelligence and the dawn of Generative AI
1:02:09 Potential downsides of AI
1:08:55 Crisis breeds action
1:10:53 What is the root cause problem?
1:13:59 Q&A Start
1:14:17 If you had a magic wand?
1:18:25 What inspires you?
1:22:55 Key book event person
1:30:55 Biggest challenge to date
1:34:55 Time Management
1:40:50 Where can people find you?
1:41:37 Final Message
1:41:59 Outro

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