Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
Ocean Conservancy’s Janis Searles Jones and George Leonard discuss how the world’s oceans are getting hotter, becoming more acidic, losing oxygen and getting bigger. The duo explain how the ocean is threatened by climate change and why ocean-centered solutions are key to effective climate action.
Jones is an expert in environmental law and CEO of Ocean Conservancy, the United States’ most established conservation organization focused solely on finding solutions to ocean-related issues. Leonard is chief scientist at Ocean Conservancy, providing strategic leadership on science and policy.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 9, 2020.
Joan Donovan shares her research on internet and media influence and the effects of widespread misinformation.
Donovan is the director and lead researcher of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Cent...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, July 20, 2020.
Nick Thompson on technological and ethical developments in Silicon Valley.
Thompson, is the editor-in-chief of Wired, is the first person to know and investigate new developments out of Silicon Valley as they unfold. As a champion o...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 EDT Monday, August 17, 2020.
Jeffrey Rosen discusses the “Fourth Battle for the Constitution” in this current political moment.
Rosen is the president and CEO for the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate th...