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How to Save a Planet
Climate change. We know. It can feel too overwhelming. But what if there was a show about climate change that left you feeling... energized? One so filled with possibility that you actually wanted to listen? Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds, as we bring you smart, inspir...
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114 EpisodenPresenting: What If We Get It Right?
Hey there, Earthlings. Did you miss Ayana and Alex, your beloved How to Save a Planet co-hosts? Well, they reunited on Ayana’s new podcast, What If We...
Should We Mine the Deep-Sea?
In the coming years, we'll need millions of batteries: batteries to store renewable electricity and power a massive fleet of electric vehicles. But th...
Am I The (Climate) A**hole?
Have you ever wondered if you were on the right side of an argument about climate change? Or just want to understand what everyday climate battles are...
Presenting: The Carbon Copy – Why Heat Waves Become Deadly
Today we’re sharing an episode of The Carbon Copy, a climate change podcast produced by Canary Media. The topic is extremely timely: heat waves. This...
What are YOU Doing To Tackle Climate Change? Four Stories From Our Listeners
It’s How to Save a Planet’s second birthday! To celebrate, we’re sharing stories of climate action taken by our very own listeners. We'll hear from a...
Is My Lawn Bad for the Climate?
America loves its lawns. Altogether, grass lawns in the U.S. cover an area the size of Georgia. So, what does that mean for the climate? And can we do...
Climate Change is Driving Migration. Could Smarter Ag Help?
In recent years more and more people from Central America have tried to emigrate north to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Many leave home not b...
Presenting: Catalyst - Solar Geoengineering: Is It Worth the Risk?
Today we’re sharing an episode of Catalyst, a podcast hosted by Shayle Kann and produced by Canary Media. The topic is a controversial one: solar geoe...
Make Biking Cool (Again)!
Work. School. The grocery store. We all need to get somewhere. But how we get there has huge implications for the climate. In the United States, trans...
Holy Sh*t, the U.S. Just Got Serious About Climate Change!
Well, wow. Congress is on the verge of passing the most ambitious climate legislation in U.S. history! Don’t be fooled by its name: the Inflation Redu...
Presenting: The Journal - Shein Took Over Fast Fashion. Then Came the Backlash.
WSJ’s Fashion Director Rory Satran explains how Shein-- now valued at $100 billion-- rose to dominate the fast-fashion industry via social media, and...
What's the Most Climate-Friendly Way to Use My Land? A HTSAP House Call
A listener called in with a dilemma: What's the most climate-friendly thing she can do with her family farm? Her family owns 126 acres of land in the...
Presenting: Science Vs - A Mystery in the Air
This week we’re sharing an episode from another Gimlet podcast called Science Vs. When a little girl, Ella Kissi-Debrah, suddenly got sick and landed...
Are My Retirement Savings Invested in Fossil Fuels?? Help!
Look inside your retirement savings and you may find some surprises: oil and gas companies, pipeline operators, utilities with coal-fired power plants...
Air Conditioned Stadiums. Cruise Ships. New Hotels. Can the World Cup in Qatar Really Be Carbon Neutral?
More than a million soccer fans will travel to Qatar this fall for one of the biggest sporting events on Earth: The FIFA World Cup. The event sounds l...
Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?
Storage!
...Exciting, right? Ok, we’ll prove it to you. Each day, more and more of our electricity comes from intermittent renewables like wind...
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Helps You Find Your Climate Superpower
It’s a question we get all the time: “What can I do to address the climate crisis?” This week, our one and only original co-host, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth...
Presenting: Hot Farm – Grain of the Future
This week we’re sharing an episode from a new podcast called Hot Farm. It’s from our friends at the Food & Environment Reporting Network. The podcast...
Meet The Influencer Who Wants You To Buy LESS Stuff
In our episode Fast Fashion’s Dirty Little Secret (Hint: It’s Oil), we made the call to action: buy less clothing, and keep your clothing for longer. ...
When ‘Electrify Everything’ Means Quitting Your Desk Job and Getting Your Hands Dirty
Nate Johnson didn’t plan to switch careers. But since he did he’s gone from just writing about the energy transition, to actually making it happen. In...
Why Is It So Hard To Fix Our Electronics, And What Can We Do About It?
Electronics — smartphones, computers, televisions — exact a hefty toll on the planet. One way to lighten their load? Use them for longer. And yet, for...
Presenting: Not Past It - The "Crying Indian" Ad
We’re bringing you an episode of another Gimlet podcast, Not Past It, which looks at a moment from that week in history and explores how it shapes our...
Feeling Doomed? How to Tackle Climate Anxiety
“We’re all doomed.” If you’ve ever thought this to yourself while looking down at the remnants of your paper straw floating in your plastic coffee cup...
Should I Give Up Beef?
A quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and land use – and a big portion of those emissions come from producing meat. Adopt...
Sacrifice Zones: ProPublica Takes Us Inside America’s Toxic Hotspots
All across the United States, industrial polluters are emitting toxic air... and people who live near those polluters are breathing it in. Kendra spok...
Canvassing for Climate Action: Here's How to Make it Work
What can you do if someone you know – or an entire town – isn’t on board with renewable energy? This was the dilemma facing The West Kootenay Eco Soci...
Presenting: Extreme Home Makeover - Threshold Edition
We're bringing you an episode from a podcast called Threshold.
If you've been listening to How to Save a Planet for a while, you know that our f...
Bringing Climate Change to the Frontlines: The Fight to Get Militaries to Go Green
Militaries around the world emit a lot of carbon, but they aren’t required to report these emissions directly…plus they aren’t exactly known for prior...
Kelp Farming, for the Climate
Seaweed and giant kelp are sometimes called “the sequoias of the sea.” Yet at a time when so many people are talking about climate solutions and refor...
Mind Your Mines: The Push to Make Mining Safer and Cleaner
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to stop digging up fossil fuels. But the switch to renewables doesn’t mean we stop digging altog...
Waste, Worms and Windrows: Domingo Morales' Quest to Make Compost Cool
Food waste accounts for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But it turns out composting — the mystical art of turning your food scraps into nutriti...
Are The Coral Reefs Really Doomed?
You’ve probably heard of coral bleaching; if you live near a coral reef, maybe you’ve even seen the impacts of climate change on that reef up close. B...
Fast Fashion's Dirty Little Secret (Hint: It's Oil)
Whether you consider yourself a fashion maven or not one thing is true: you wear clothes. It's a basic rule of most societies. But in recent years, it...
Cold Hard Cash for Your Greenhouse Gas
When we think about what’s heating up the planet, we may picture CO2 from smokestacks and tailpipes. But there are other greenhouse gases that are eve...
What's it Like to Work at Exxon – and Then Quit?
Back in 2003, Dar-Lon Chang took a job as an engineer at ExxonMobil — a job he thought would be focused on transitioning beyond fossil fuels. But over...
Presenting: Science Vs. Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview
Today, we’re sharing an episode from another Gimlet Media podcast, Science Vs. This episode fact-checks some claims made in a recent episode of the Jo...
How Adam McKay Got Climate Change on the Big Screen
How do you get people to care about climate change? Simple: Make a blockbuster movie about it, packed full of the biggest stars in Hollywood. At least...
A Storm is Brewing. Is it Climate Change?
For years, we were told it wasn’t possible to link specific weather events to global warming — and that made communicating about climate change diffic...
Presenting: TED Radio Hour - An SOS From the Ocean
Today we’re sharing an episode from TED Radio Hour on NPR, which explores the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thin...
How Oil Companies Greenwash (and the Campaign To Make Them Stop)
For decades, fossil fuel companies have fought action on climate change. They've done so directly – by challenging legislation that would help reign i...