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About Michael Simpson
As of July 1 , 2024, I became a Professor Emeritus within Antioch University's Environmental Studies Dept. I have over 40 years experience in two environmental domains. In the US, I have worked in the the water resources and watershed fields and I am a certified Wetlands Scientist. In the US and overseas, I have worked in the materials management and biological treatment of waste fields.
In regards to water resources, my most current applied research has been in conjunction with NOAA and US EPA looking at the impacts of climate change in the context of a changing landscape. All this research has necessarily included a stakeholder development process, as well as economic analyses associated with projected impacts.
In the material management field, I have been working in conjunction with International Solid Waste Association in Rotterdam NL, to develop measures to assess the circular economy within cities and regions, not only in the EU but also in the developing South
Professor Michael Simpson has been the Director of the Resource Management and Administration graduate program at Antioch University New England, in Keene, NH.
NBN Episodes hosted by Michael:
March 19, 2026
Place-Based Solutions
Place-Based Solutions (JHU Press, 2026) offers a bold and practical response, charting a path toward what Charles G. Curtin calls "prosilience"—the ca…
March 10, 2026
Riverine Dreams
Dr. George Frazier is currently an assistant professor of Computer Information Sciences at Washburn University, where his research focuses on such top…
January 27, 2026
Undammed
Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara’s first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she…
December 24, 2025
Why We Struggle to Go Green
Clean energy won’t save us from the effects of climate change. Amid corporate Net Zero campaigns, the politics of the Green New Deal, and the calls to…
November 29, 2025
Fire and Flood
Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michiga…
November 2, 2025
The Living-Green Myth
Dr. Michael F. Maniates is a leading scholar in environmental politics and sustainability studies whose work has fundamentally reshaped how researcher…
October 17, 2025
Corporations at Climate Crossroads
Dr. Lily Hsueh is trained as an economist and public policy scholar, and is an associate professor in Economics and Public Policy in the School of Pub…
October 11, 2025
Multisolving
Now, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin has dedicated her career to the theory and practice of creating change in complex systems. In 2021, she founded and is curren…
September 22, 2025
End of the World
Philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills examines the ominous existential risks that could bring about the end of civilization. He draws on the psychol…
August 24, 2025
Environmental Innovation
Environmental sustainability policy has failed due to focusing on symptoms rather than the root cause problems. Through significant research and a det…
July 28, 2025
A Reverence for Rivers
In A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters (OSU Press, 2025), Kurt Fausch draws on his experience as a stream ecologist, his int…
June 28, 2025
We Are Eating the Earth
Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fifteen…
May 28, 2025
To Know the World
Why we must rethink our residency on the planet to understand the connected challenges of tribalism, inequity, climate justice, and democracy. How can…
May 14, 2025
Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change
Ecologies of Care in Times of Climate Change: Water Security in the Global Context (Policy Press, 2024) investigates and analyses places in Europe, No…
April 26, 2025
The Promise of Sunrise
In The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World (Green Writers Press, 2025), a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer,…
April 8, 2025
Everyone's Trash
Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards about five pounds of waste. Be it a bottle that gets placed in a recycli…
April 1, 2025
Core Samples
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments …
March 3, 2025
I Want a Better Catastrophe
Andrew Boyd is a humorist and long-time veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He led the decade-long satirical media campaign “Billionaires…
February 22, 2025
How to Love a Forest
For more than a decade, Ethan Tapper has been recognized as a thought-leader and a disruptor in the worlds of forestry, conservation, and ecosystem st…
February 11, 2025
Feeling Climate Change
Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emer…
January 29, 2025
River Profiles
Peter Hill has been working as a resource manager with a specialty in stream restoration for over two decades, first for Washington DC and then as a c…
January 12, 2025
Beyond the Sea
Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) is an exciting foray into Earth's inland waters, the remarkab…