SEI Asia Podcast
SEI Asia’s podcast series is a platform for dialogue on critical environmental challenges in Asia and how to address them. Our guests range from environmental experts, think tanks, researchers and policymakers to journalists and civil society who explore collaborative pathways towards improving policy and practice on sustainability challenges in the region.
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Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
In this first episode of the SEI Asia miniseries on women environmental defenders, we talk with Tami Alvarez from Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women and Lia Mai Torres from Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines about building solidarity and empowerment.
Episode host: Dayoon Kim
Episode guests: Tami Alvarez and Lia Mai Torres
Episode producers: Variya Plungwatana and Dayoon Kim
Series producers: Rajesh Daniel and Variya Plungwatana
Artwork: Variya Plungwatana
Photo: SAMDHANA / Anggit Saranta
Read the feature of the episode here.
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
In this first episode of the SEI Asia miniseries on optimizing urban food systems resilience, we talk with Louis Alban, co-founder of Yindii, on how the food and hospitality industries can help towards minimizing food loss and waste. Yindii is a food surplus delivery app that connects restaurants, cafés and hotels in Bangkok with consumers at a highly discounted price of up to 80% off the normal price.
Episode host: Kuntum Melati
Episode guests: Louis Alban
Episode producers: Variya Plungwatana, Dimas Fauzi, Kohei Yamada, Pimolporn Jintarith
Series producers: Rajesh Daniel and Variya Plungwatana
Artwork: Variya Plungwatana
Cover photo: Wichai Juntavaro
Read the SEI website feature for this episode here.
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
In the first episode of SEI Asia's podcast miniseries on "Air Pollution in the World of Work", we talk about how an intersectionality lens helps us better understand the impacts of air pollution on different groups of workers in Vietnam's craft villages who are disproportionately exposed to air pollution. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Thanh Vu from Hanoi’s Institute of Human Studies. She is also one of our research partners in the project “The impact of air pollution on the world of work for women and youth in East and Southeast Asia”.
Episode host: Jenny Yi-Chen Han, SEI Asia Research Associate (Gender, Environment, and Development)
Episode guest: Thanh Vu, Institute of Human Studies in Hanoi
Series producers: Rajesh Daniel and Kade Thossaphonpaisan
Artwork: Kade Thossaphonpaisan
Read the feature of the episode here.
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
In Episode 02 of SEI Asia's podcast series on “Environment and Policy in Asia”, we talked about how climate solutions needs to recognize the interconnections between gender, equity, poverty and sustainability. This episode features Teddy Baguilat Jr., Indigenous Filipino policymaker and activist talking to Ha Nguyen, Research Fellow with the Gender, Environment and Development research cluster, and Charmaine Caparas, Communications Officer, SEI Asia.
Episode host: Charmaine Caparas Sound editing: Rajesh Daniel
Artwork: Variya Plungwatana
Series producers: Charmaine Caparas, Rajesh Daniel and Variya Plungwatana
Podcast music: WinkingFox, WinkingFoxMusic
Read the feature of this episode at https:/https://www.sei.org/featured/podcast-intersectionality-climate/
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
In Episode 01 of SEI Asia's podcast series on “Environment and Policy in Asia”, we talked about cities in Asia and urban climate governance with Dr. Danny Marks, Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics and Policy in the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University.
Episode host: Rajesh Daniel
Sound editing: Rajesh Daniel
Artwork: Variya Plungwatana
Series producers: Charmaine Caparas, Rajesh Daniel and Variya Plungwatana
Podcast music: WinkingFox, WinkingFoxMusic
Read the feature of this episode at https://www.sei.org/featured/disaster-justice-and-climate-planning-in-cities-in-asia/
