Free Range with Mike Livermore

On Free Range, host and University of Virginia law professor Mike Livermore interviews guests with a variety of academic and professional backgrounds, including journalism, law, politics, science, economics, philosophy, and environmental science.  Environmental law and policy are never easy or uncontroversial, but they can be better understood when viewed through multiple perspectives. These diverse and broad conversations help shed light on the hard sustainability challenges we face, and also provide insights into how different disciplines approach moral, political, and scientific questions.

Ever wondered what moral philosophy has to say about species conservation?  Or how property law intersects with environmental justice and sustainability?  Indulge in your curiosity with the discipline-spanning conversation at Free Range.

“Disciplinary boundaries are made to be crossed”

-Michael Livermore
  • Season 2, Episode 23
    On this episode of Free Range, host Mike Livermore is joined by Adam Ortiz, the MidAtlantic regional administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. The conversation begins with a discussion of the role of a regional administrator at EPA. Ortiz emphasizes the importance of federal agencies working with local and state governments due to the complexityContinue reading “Season 2, Episode 23”
  • S2E23. SFI Working Group on Biodiversity
    This bonus episode is an impromptu roundtable discussion that was part of a working group at the Santa Fe Institute in February 2024 on biodiversity and the sustainable development goals. The Santa Fe Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of complex adaptive systems. It was founded in 1984 by a groupContinue reading “S2E23. SFI Working Group on Biodiversity”

Our Mission

The mission of Free Range Podcast is access knowledge across disciplines to shed light on today’s environmental and sustainability challenges.  Environmental problems are complex, and understanding them often requires bringing multiple perspectives to the table. Everyone has valuable experiences to bring to the table.  The goal of Free Range is to engage with many different ways to think about, study, and improve the relationship between humans and the places we live.

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