Speaking
Vince has appeared on The Daily Show, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and many other shows on NPR, BBC, C-SPAN, Canada’s CBC, and other outlets. He has keynoted conferences for the World Wildlife Fund and the UN Environment Programme, spoken at numerous corporate and industry events, guest-lectured at universities from Los Angeles to Beijing, and given a TEDx talk.
If you’re interested in having Vince speak at your conference, festival, school or just about anywhere, please get in touch!
Selected Appearances
The Daily Show
TEDx Talk: The Global Sand Crisis
Wilson Center: The World in a Grain
CNBC’s American Greed: The Polygamist and the Bio-Fuel Baron
C-SPAN’s Book TV: Interview with with The Wall Street Journal’s Julie Steinberg
Industry and Corporate Events
Vince has spoken on sustainability and critical metals at ITAD 2025, Payments and Banking Symposium 2025, and by invitation to executives of CLSA, a capital markets and investment group, Umicore, one of the world’s biggest recyclers, and many others.
Selected Radio Interviews and Podcasts
The New Yorker Radio Hour: One Environmental Journalist Thinks the US Needs More Mining
NPR’s Marketplace: Mining and the Clean Energy Paradox
99% Invisible: Built on Sand
NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show: The Increasing Global Demand For Sand
CBC’s Sunday Edition: The World is Starting to Run Out of Sand
ABC Radio (Australia): The world is running out of sand, and the consequences are dire
NPR’s All Things Considered: Embedded with an American Search and Rescue Team in Nepal
