Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About

September 24, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate disruption...

Diet for a Threatened Planet

September 17, 2021

Diet for a Small Planet is celebrating 50 years this fall. It’s been a hugely influential book in the environmental movement and has inspired...

Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse

September 10, 2021

Water is essential for life, and throughout human history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new...

The Fight Over Pipelines

September 3, 2021

Canadian company Enbridge is building an oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands through Minnesota to the Wisconsin border. The new pipeline,...

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...