Courtesy of the Ann Arbor News
Selected Media Appearances/Events
Go With the Flo, Yahoo TV (Singapore), 23 March 2021 (3:41 – 6:15 in the clip). Commentary on the payoffs of steering waste-reduction efforts away from individual consumer choice, and toward creative and collaborative collective action to transform upstream production processes.
Climate Change — A Wicked Problem (Episode 1: Our Carbon Problem), 3 March 2021, Channel News Asia (41:40 – 45:00 in the clip). From Yale-NUS College publicity: “Prof Maniates argues that instead of evicting petrochemical companies from Singapore, which would do little to solve the issue of emissions but impact Singapore economically, Singapore could be smarter in its use of electricity, and faster and bolder in its deployment of solar power.”
The Future of the Paris Climate Deal, Channel News Asia, 8 June 2017
Teaching for Turbulence, The Worldwatch Institute, 31 May 2013 (reposted with commentary by the Buckminster Fuller Institute 4 March 2015)
Preparing for the Long Emergency Press Panel (Washington DC), The Worldwatch Institute, 27 April 2013 (begins at 7:30)
Toxic Teaching Tool?, Fox News, 1 May 2011
Other Nifty Videos
“Energy for the World” class visits TECNALIA, Semester at Sea, 20 August 2014
Sustainable Governance Series #2 – Michael Maniates on IR and Global Environmental Politics, 8 June 2013
Magnanimous Mentions
Ethan Goffman, To Get People to Drive Alone Less, We Need to Shift Societal Values, December 2018
James Procter, Ecotypes: Exploring Environmental Ideas (Social Scale), 2017
Paul Steinberg, Who Rules the Earth? How Social Rules Shape the Planet and Our Lives, Oxford University Press, 2015
Erik Assadourian, “We Can’t Spend Our Way Out of Climate Change,” The Guardian, 3 February 2015
“Thinking About Going Green,” in BBC Focus special issue “Climate Change: Problem Solved,” January 2015, p. 62.
“Can Philosophy Heal the Earth?,” The Graduate (The Magazine of the National University of Singapore Society), April-June 2014
Alina Tugend, “Recycling Helps, but It’s Not All You Can Do for the Environment,” New York Times, 19 October 2012
Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change, Free Press, 2010
James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World, Yale University Press, 2009
Thomas Friedman, Aspen Ideas Festival, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution Pt 3,” 8 September 2008 (an unexpected surprise beginning at 0:35)
David Villano, “A Future of Less,” Pacific Standard Magazine, 16 August 2008
Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America, Picador, 2008 with 2.0 version in 2009
Judith Levine, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, Atria Books, 2006
Invited Public Lectures, Workshops, and Colloquia
Geography Department Colloquium, University of Connecticut (go here for the PowerPoint and resources for the curious) link to be provided
Keynote, Liveability Challenge 2019
SIM (Singapore Institute of Management) International Affairs Society
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Global Sustainability Team, Singapore
James Cook University, Singapore
The National University of Singapore – Bachelors in Environmental Studies
Sustainable Solutions Network Inaugural Conference, Singapore
Lafayette College
University of Muenster
European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Santa Cruz
Humboldt State University
Guilford College
Anglo-Chinese School International, Singapore
The University of Redlands
Virginia Tech University
Maumee Valley Country Day School
Ursinus College
University of Virginia
American University
Harvey Mudd College
EarthFest Singapore
Vanderbilt University (Law School)
Westminster College
Seattle University – Vacation Matters Summit
John Carroll University
Hollins University
Graham Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan
State University of New York Oswego
University of Lausanne
Haverford College
Oberlin College
Sonoma State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
St. Bonaventure University
College of the Atlantic
DePauw University
Free University of Berlin
University of Florida
Institute for Shipboard Education: Global Engagement Forum
Institute for Shipboard Education: Enrichment Voyage up the Amazon
The World (Residences at Sea)
Allegheny College – Phi Beta Kappa address
The College of Wooster
Roanoke College
Michael Maniates 