Colin Gipson-Tansil
Colin Gipson-Tansil joined ELI in January of 2014 by way of the Great Lakes State. Colin serves as ELI’s Senior Digital Media Producer where he oversees digital media needs at seminars, webinars, and events, manages social media sites, assists with support of ELI’s various websites, and produces videos as well as podcasts. Colin earned his M.A. in Producing for Film, TV and Video from American University. Prior to his Master's degree, received his B.A. in Media Arts and Technology with a concentration in Film, Radio and TV from Michigan State University.
Appears in 72 Episodes
Eat Your T(of)urkey: How to Reduce Food Waste This Thanksgiving
An estimated 312 million pounds of food will be wasted this Thanksgiving. In this week’s episode, host Sarah Backer is joined by ELI Senior Attorney Linda Breggin and ...
Groundtruth: Valuing Lived Experience and Fostering Meaningful Community Engagement
The Biden-Harris administration has placed an unprecedented federal focus on environmental justice using a whole of government approach, including issuing executive or...
Dr. Marshall Shepherd and “The Climate Moonshot”
In this week’s episode of People Places Planet Podcast, host Sarah Backer sits down with Dr. Marshall Shepherd, ELI’s 2023 Environmental Achievement Award recipient an...
Weighing The Social Cost of Carbon with Cass Sunstein and Kip Viscusi
In this week’s episode of the People Places Planet podcast, Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein engages in an illuminating discussion with Vanderbilt Professor W. Kip ...
Hear from ELI’s Summer Interns: Substantive Due Process in Climate Litigation, Caribbean Climate Migration, and Community Gardening in California
In this week’s episode of People Places Planet Podcast, ELI’s three summer interns (Anna Guzman, Natalie Triana, and Alex Alvarez) sit down with host Sarah Backer to ...
Not All Environmental Rights Amendments Are Created Equally: The Climate Science Behind Held v. Montana
In this week’s 'court watch' episode of the People, Places, and Planet podcast, Host Sarah Backer and guests ELI Staff Attorney Jarryd Page and Science Fellow John Doh...
Farewell, Georgia Ray! A Special Behind-the-Scenes Episode
Georgia Ray joined ELI as a Research Associate in August 2021 and has been the Host of People, Places, and Planet for the past year. At ELI, Georgia also worked on pro...
From Trash to Triumph: The Mount Growmore Initiative
In this week's episode of the People Places Planet Podcast, host Georgia Ray dives deep into an incredible transformation journey with her guests Debbie Sims, Suzi Ruh...
Protecting Half the Land: Reimagining How We Interact with the Environment with Author Tony Hiss
People view and value the land in different ways, and these attitudes have significant implications for the environmental movement. In this episode of the People Place...
The Fight for Forests: Green Militarization in Latin America
Environmental laws and the judiciary can play a role in preventing deforestation across Latin America. In this episode, host Georgia Ray speaks with Kristine Perry, a ...
Sensing a Change in the Air: How Local Governments Can Respond and Adapt to Shifts in Air Quality Monitoring Technology
Recent wildfire smoke events have highlighted the value of air quality measurement. But how does it really work, anyways? From the latest technologies and regulations ...
Of Fish and Farms: Investigating Land-Based Aquaculture's Promises
Fish consumption is on the rise worldwide, and with it, fish farming. Land-based aquaculture and recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) offer a lot of environmental p...
Sedimentary, My Dear Watson: How Coastal Resilience is Affected by Sediment Placement Regulation
Did you know that sediment could be a critical resource for coastal resilience? In this episode of the People Places Planet Podcast, host Georgia Ray speaks with Derek...
Discussions with ELI’s Spring Interns: The Nagoya Protocol and India’s Green Hydrogen Investments
At the Environmental Law Institute, interns have the opportunity to develop independent research projects based off their interests. In this episode of the People Plac...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Scott Fisher, Local Stewardship Award Winner
Language changes how we perceive the world around us, and Scott Fisher is no stranger to that concept. Conversant in the Hawaiin language, Scott’s work centers communi...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Bingqing Liu, Scientific Research Award Winner
From remote sensing to carbon sequestration, Bingqing Liu has the research to back it up. Dr. Liu’s work at The Water Institute is taking a deep look at how coastal re...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Rebecca Swadek, Wetlands Program Development Award Winner
New York City might not be the concrete jungle you think it is. Rebecca Swadek has secured over $22 million in city and grant funding to implement wetlands projects ac...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Matthew Hough, Promoting Awareness Award Winner
Promoting awareness is never easy–especially when you're talking to an uninformed and sometimes resistant public. Despite the difficulty, Matt Hough has been instrumen...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Charlotte Michaluk, Youth Leadership Award Winner
Charlotte Michaluk has been a successful, data-driven advocate for wetland conservation and a continuous force in educating the community, notably through her wetland ...
2023 National Wetlands Awards: Adam Davis, Business Leadership Award Winner
Philanthropic and government resources alone can’t afford to restore all our wetlands. Over the past two decades, Adam Davis’ thought leadership has increased private ...
Groundtruth: Cultural Burns as Tools for Wildfire Prevention and Indigenous Healing
Indigenous people used prescribed burns in forests for thousands of years to manage land, reduce wildfire risk, and support cultural practices. Noa Ervin and Claire Mc...
The Enforcement Angle: Driving California Toward Carbon-Neutrality with Dr. Steven Cliff
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is playing a major role in setting air quality standards across the country and world. Led by Dr. Steven Cliff, the agency wo...
Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Resilience with Lawyers and Authors Susan Crawford and Robert Verchick
In this podcast episode, Jeffrey Peterson interviews Susan Crawford and Robert Verchick, two noted lawyers who have new books on climate adaptation and coastal resilie...
Drinking Water in LA County
Drinking water in the United States is among the world’s cleanest and most heavily regulated, yet entire grocery store aisles are dedicated to bottled water. Why is th...
The Youth Review: Government-to-Government Consultation with Tribal Nations During Constant Environmental Change
As sovereign nations, a unique relationship exists between Tribal Nations and the U.S. federal government, which is grounded in the U.S. Constitution. An integral comp...
The Enforcement Angle: Corporate Compliance Monitors
Increasingly, independent third parties—better known as “corporate compliance monitors”--are appointed to oversee a company’s compliance following the settlement of a ...
Global Perspectives on International Law Education and Practice with Visiting Attorney Tomkeen Mobegi
Global sustainable development requires attention to environmental, developmental, and social priorities. ELI’s Georgia Ray speaks with ELI Visiting Attorney Tomkeen M...
Women & Water
International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 to bring attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence an...
The Enforcement Angle: DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment & Natural Resources Division is tasked with enforcing the United States’ civil and criminal environmental laws. In this ep...
Red, White & Blue = Green? Parallels Behind U.S. and French Environmental Law
Many view the early 1970s as the dawn of environmental law here in the United States. President Nixon signed NEPA into law on January 1, 1970. By December of that same...