Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?

August 27, 2021

Listener Advisory: This episode contains some content related to a suicide. If you or someone you love is thinking about suicide, the National...

Which Way Are Swing Voters Swinging on Climate?

August 20, 2021

In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report unequivocally connecting global warming and extreme weather to...

30x30: This Land Is Whose Land?

August 13, 2021

This episode was underwritten in part by Resources Legacy Fund. President Biden has set a goal of conserving 30% of the nation’s land and waters...

Jay Inslee, BP and Washington’s Climate Story

August 6, 2021

Earlier this year, Washington state passed a bill to put a price on carbon pollution across a huge swath of its economy. But it didn’t get there...

Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature

July 30, 2021

What are the limits on how much humans should meddle with the natural world?  Vandana Shiva is an eco-feminist, activist, editor, and author who...

How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit

July 23, 2021

Unless you live in one of the few dense, urban parts of the country, you probably rely on a car to get around. That culture of car dependency...

REWIND: A Feminist Climate Renaissance

July 16, 2021

Can a feminist renaissance save the climate? A feminist approach to the climate conversation begins over a hundred and fifty years ago. That’s...

Mark Carney, Fatih Birol and the Narrow Path to Net Zero

July 9, 2021

Five years ago, most of the world’s nations entered into an agreement to dramatically ratchet down their carbon dioxide emissions with the goal...

Clearing the Air on Carbon Offsets

July 2, 2021

For more than two decades, carbon offset programs have promised individuals and businesses that they can reduce their overall carbon footprint by...

Extreme Heat: The Silent Killer

June 25, 2021

Last week’s heat wave across the western United States busted more records – a trend that doesn’t seem to be going away.  Despite the...

Shepard Fairey, Mystic and the Power of Art

June 17, 2021

Shepard Fairey is best known for creating the iconic Barack Obama “Hope” portrait during the 2008 presidential election. Fairey’s work is...

Colorado River Reckoning: Drought, Climate and Equal Access

June 11, 2021

The Colorado River hydrates more than 40 million people and 5 million acres of farmland from Wyoming to the US-Mexico border -- but it's not...

Finding the Heart to Talk About Climate

June 4, 2021

More than half of Americans surveyed by Pew have talked about climate change one to two times in recent weeks – and that number is even higher...

Should Nature Have Rights?

May 28, 2021

In the last several years, a growing number of countries and places within the United States have tried to establish legal standing for natural...

Hot Cities, Methane Leakers and the Catholic Church

May 21, 2021

In 2017, it got so hot in Phoenix that airplanes literally could not take off, and airlines cancelled dozens of flights. Extreme heat is likely to...

Journey of a Former Coal Miner

May 14, 2021

Nick Mullins is a former fifth-generation coal miner from Clintwood, Virginia and creator of the blog, Thoughts of a Coal Miner. Growing up, his...

Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves

May 7, 2021

Journalist Meera Subramanian has spent years talking with some of the people living closest to climate change in parts of the country where...

Distorted Democracy and the “Zero-Sum Game”

April 30, 2021

In the US, we’ve become accustomed to climate – like nearly everything else – being politicized. Even when potential solutions might benefit...