Recent Episodes
COVID-19 and Climate: Implications for our Food System
August 21, 2020
COVID-19 has disrupted every aspect of our lives and economy – perhaps none more than our food system.“Slightly more than 50% of our food...
Flooding in America
August 14, 2020
“We had one of the snowiest winters on record in Lincoln and Omaha,” reports Martha Shulski of the Nebraska Climate Office. She’s describing...
Billion Dollar Burger
August 7, 2020
Long before the coronavirus began disrupting America’s trillion-dollar meat industry, climate-conscious eaters were looking for ways to reduce...
The Future Earth: Eric Holthaus and Katharine Wilkinson
July 31, 2020
Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look like with unmitigated climate change: increased extreme weather events, crippled...
Billionaire Wilderness
July 24, 2020
What happens when wealth meets wilderness?For many of us, the story of the American wilderness begins when Europeans arrived on these shores and...
John Kerry: The Global Dynamics Of Decarbonization
July 17, 2020
What will it take to get the world’s major economies off fossil fuels? In late 2019, former US senator and secretary of state John Kerry,...
The 2020 Election with Tiffany Cross, Rick Wilson and Rich Thau
July 10, 2020
The conventional wisdom on this fall’s election is that it once again will come down to a handful of voters in a handful of states.“This is a...
Reimagining Capitalism: Wealth, Power, and Patriarchy
June 26, 2020
With inequality booming and climate change looming, is it time to rethink capitalism?“We've come to the point where making more stuff in order...
Empowering Women: The Climate Solution We Don’t Talk About
June 19, 2020
Could empowering women power up the climate movement?We often talk about climate change and gender equality as separate issues. But the truth is...
Will Climate Matter in the Election?
June 12, 2020
With America in turmoil amid protests and a pandemic, is anyone still thinking about climate in this November’s election?“There is a climate...