Art, Science, Ecology Podcast

In the first episode of Art, Science, Ecology Podcast series’ second season recorded in February 2025 IHME Helsinki Advisory Board member, artist and Specialist at the BIOS Research Unit Antti Majava continues the discussion of sustainable energy and identity with Emma Hakala, Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. They talk about the green energy transition, the protection of democracy, and the role of art in energy identities. Tynkkynen specialises in the ecological energy transition in Finland and Russia, and Hakala studies environmental and climate security, Finland’s security supply during climate change, and sustainable energy.

Reading recommended in the podcast:

Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, How Europe Got Russia Wrong: Energy, Violence, and the Environment, 2024. Elgar Online.

Stephen Markley, The Deluge, Simon & Schuster 2023

Latour, Bruno (2022). Le sol européen est-il en train de changer sous nos pieds? (Is Europe’s soil changing beneath our feet?). GREEN, 2, 1: 92-97.

Articles and research by Emma Hakala

Credits

Producer: Paula Toppila, Saara Moisio

Host and guests: Antti Majava, Emma Hakala and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Sound technician: Bailey Polkinghorne, Helsinki Open Waves

IHME jingle: Viljami Valdén

IHME Helsinki is continuing its collaboration with Helsinki Open Waves in the new episodes in the Art, Science, Ecology podcast series. These episodes update the discussions begun in 2021 on topics that are even more urgent today.