The Universal Blueprint: Recent Episodes
UNA Northeastern
Welcome to the UNiversal Blueprint, a podcast series on the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals.
The UN created these goals to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.” Every episode we’ll delve into one goal, and bring an expert in to share their perspective on it. Together, we’ll learn how to make these goals into realities.
This podcast is brought to you by the United Nations Association chapter at Northeastern University
This month, we’re shifting our focus from the usual episodes and highlighting an event that our chapter hosted this semester. This is our fourth year celebrating UN Day, and we had diverse group of people come speak to us about SDGs 3 and 16.This episode looks back and shares our favorite parts of the event, including the youth panel. For those of you who weren’t able to attend the event, here’s a good way to get the best parts of it.
Another episode, another SDG. In this episode, we’re focusing on SDG 13, climate action, and I spoke to our campus president Adele Andrews. We had a conversation on what climate action looks like now under a new administration as well as the role of youth in leading this conversation. Listen to learn more about SDG 13, its goals, and how we can be optimistic for the future of our world.
This podcast is brought to you by the UNA Chapter at Northeastern University and is produced by Mihiro Shimano.
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This month, we’re shifting our focus from the usual episodes and highlighting an event that our chapter hosted this semester. This is our third year celebrating UN Day, especially with the UN's 75th anniversary and despite the challenges with the pandemic and only being able to meet online, we were able to put together a great panel and event. This episode looks back and shares our favorite parts of the event, including the youth panel. For those of you who weren’t able to attend the event, here’s a good way to get the best parts of it.
Also, here is the link to the video, which was shared at the beginning of the event: http://webtv.un.org/watch/un75-the-future-we-want-the-un-we-need/6192641712001/
We're back with a new episode of the UNiversal Blueprint! This month, we talked to Dr. John Mandelman at the Anderson Cabot Center focusing on SDG 14: Life Below Water, the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, sea and marine resources for sustainable development. This episode was pre-recorded in March but was pushed back and we're so excited to have it launch.
After a long summer break, we're back with a discussion-based episode on SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities. We spoke with two members of UNA Howard University, Oona Nelson and Maggi Chambers on racial inequality in the U.S., the Black Lives Matter movement and ways in which we can create and aid more sustainable change.
Today's episode with Jill Ashton is about how the pandemic has shifted the conversation on and its surrounding issues on gender equality. As the Director of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, Jill highlights some of the progress that they have made and also have yet to target due to the rising issues during this crisis, from domestic violence to maternity leave.
In this episode, we talked with Patty Hall from the organization, H2O for Life, about the Global Water Crisis through the lens of SDG 6, Clean Water and Sanitation. Patty Hall explained to us the importance of understanding the global water crisis and how we can aid in ensuring clean water and sanitation is available to people around the world.
Joining us this week is Professor Denise Garcia from Northeastern University to help us understand what the goals of SDG 16 are, her work in artificial intelligence and the role weapons have in controlling violence, and how we can do our part to make this a more peaceful and just world.
Welcome to the first episode of the UNA podcast! This episode, we will be introducing the 17 sustainable development goals created by the United Nations with guest speaker Margo Bailey from UNAGB. This episode, we dive into why these goals exist and how they aid us in building a more sustainable community as we move towards 2030.