How To Stop Climate Change
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -What can one person do to stop climate change? You can join the thousands of people that are already hard at work fighting climate change every day. David Butler and his daughter Keaton talk to some of those people to learn what they do and what inspires them.You could be one of them.Whether you’re already in the climate fight or you’re ready to join it this is the podcast for you.Visit us at howtostopclimatechange.com.
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The Biochar Industry is Heating Up: Kathleen Draper
October 15, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBThis is part two of our series on biochar. Today we’re going to explore the biochar industry with Kathleen Draper. She is the chair of the International Biochar Initiative, the director of the Ithaka Institute for Carbon Intelligence and she’s the owner of Finger Lakes Biochar. She’s also co-authored three books on the subject. If you would like to support the show please click here. Music by Audio Snack Sound design by Keaton Butler Please share the show with a friend. Support the show
What is Biochar and How Can it Help the Climate?
September 11, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBAs we all know, climate change is happening. It’s no longer some distant future doomsday that we can prevent, it's here. However, there are a LOT of things we can do to minimize the effects and possibly undo some of the damage. One of those things is called biochar. Is that a pokemon? Is it a cartoon supervillain? Actually, no. Biochar is similar to charcoal but it’s not used as a fuel. It is produced by heating biomass with very little oxygen. By restricting the oxygen you prevent it from...
Coal to Solar: Building Solar Farms in Appalachia - Adam Edelen
March 30, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBAdam Edelen is the founder of Edelen Renewables. He’s working to bring jobs and investment to coal country by building massive solar farms on reclaimed strip mines, and he’s working with coal companies and renewable energy developers to do it. We had a great conversation with him and he gave me a tour of his first coal-to-solar project in Martin County, Kentucky. This is an incredibly exciting development for Appalachia and a fantastic way to put reclaimed mines, out of work miners, and aban...
A Microplastic Soup: Ocean Plastic and eXXpedition - Natascha Glanzer-Fuerst
February 15, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBOur guest today is Natascha Glanzer-Fuerst an Austrian zero-waste advocate and feminist who was a crew member with eXXpedition, an organization that leads all-female scientific voyages around the world dedicated to exploring the impact of plastic and toxic pollution in our oceans and working to solve the problem. You might have noticed the odd spelling of eXXpedition. The XX stands for the female double X chromosomes. Hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds and professions have sailed wi...
From the Paris Climate Agreement to The Nature Conservancy - John Verdieck
December 12, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBJohn Verdieck is the Director of International Climate Policy at The Nature Conservancy. Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, John worked in the US State Department where he was a lead negotiator on the Paris Climate Accord. In the interview John shares what it was like to be in Paris in 2015 as the agreement was finally coming together after years of hard work, the excitement and implications for Biden’s pledge to rejoin the agreement and the ways that The Nature Conservancy is working ...
Charged Up About EVs | Caitlin Bullock - Austin Energy
November 09, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBOur guest today is Caitlin Bullock, EV Program Coordinator for Austin Energy. The city of Austin owns and operates Austin Energy, which means that dividends go to support city services that benefit Austinites instead of investors. It also means that Austin Energy can prioritize energy efficiency and green energy programs. We talked to Caitlin about Austin Energy’s efforts to promote EV ownership and build Austin’s charger infrastructure. Links Episode web page PluginAustin.com Austin Ene...
Exxon’s Climate Change “Strategy”
October 10, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBSome major oil companies have recently unveiled plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reinvent themselves in the face of climate change. Exxon has not announced any plan to deal with climate change but this week Bloomberg News reported on a leaked copy of Exxon’s 2018 investment plan and it calls for 17% more greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. We’ll take a look at Exxon’s dramatic plummet over the last few years and their big gamble on business as usual, come hell or high water (litera...
Political Climate Action: Dominic Frongillo - Elected Officials to Protect America
October 02, 2020 06:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBDominic Frongillo is the co-founder & executive director of Elected Officials to Protect America or EOPA. EOPA is nonpartisan, which is very unusual for a political network. It’s members are state and local elected officials from all over the U.S. who are committed to fighting the climate crisis and protecting America’s communities, public health and environment. When we think of politicians we often think that they are working for their big corporate donors, who are often fossil fuel compan...
Climate Crisis: We Need a World War II-Scale Mobilization - Margaret Klein Salamon
September 21, 2020 06:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBMargaret Klein Salamon, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who founded The Climate Mobilization, a volunteer-powered organization that is working to initiate a WWII-scale mobilization to rapidly transform our economy to protect humanity and the living world. In that role, she has helped catalyze a burgeoning worldwide movement calling for governments at all levels to declare a climate emergency. Margaret is also the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climat...
Accelerating Climate and Cleantech Solutions - Nicole Systrom
September 10, 2020 06:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBToday we are joined by Nicole Systrom, founder of Sutro Energy Group. Nicole partners with philanthropists, investors and entrepreneurs to accelerate high-impact climate and clean technology solutions. Nicole also serves with multiple organizations that focus on energy, education, philanthropy and innovation. We’ll be talking with Nicole about how she came to be so involved in these areas, the various sectors that can help with environmental sustainability and the need for an innovative gr...
What Can I Do About Climate Change? | Annette Olson - Climate Steps
August 30, 2020 06:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBDr. Annette Olson started her career as a field biologist studying the social behavior of the long-nosed mongoose on a remote island in West Africa. But a civil war in Sierra Leone brought an end to her mongoose studies and started her off on a 30-year career working for federal agencies and nonprofits in Washington, D.C. Now she is building Climate Steps, her own nonprofit organization with a mission to supply people with impactful personal, social, and political actions to fight climate ch...
Sustainability Defined Cohost Jay Siegel: How to Define a Career in Sustainability
August 18, 2020 06:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBOur guest today is Jay Siegel, co-host of Sustainability Defined, a podcast that takes on the rather intimidating goal of defining sustainability, one topic and one bad joke at a time. Each episode of Sustainability Defined explores an area of sustainability in great depth and then finishes up with an interview with an expert in that space. It’s such a good resource that it has made its way into the course curriculum at Duke, Penn State and other fine universities. When Jay isn’t podcastin...
Climate, forests and AI: Measuring carbon sequestration in forests - Diego Saez Gil
July 28, 2020 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBOur guest today is Diego Saez Gil, founder and CEO of Pachama, a carbon offset and technology company that is harnessing satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to measure and monitor carbon capture in forests. Reducing the cost of measuring the amount of carbon stored in forests means that more of the money spent on carbon offsets can go to landowners. Improving the accuracy of those measurements means that people and companies who purchase carbon offsets are more confident that their...
Fighting climate change with an open source power grid: Shuli Goodman - LF Energy
July 17, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBOur guest today is Shuli Goodman, founder and executive director of LF Energy, a new Linux Foundation project that supports open source innovation in the energy and electricity sectors. Shuli had the opportunity to work on an IT project with independent utilities in California where she learned how woefully inadequate their software systems were for the upcoming changes that would be required to green the grid. "We are in unbelievable trouble, because these guys do not have the technology or...
Renewable energy suppliers and hosts of The Climate Pod - Ty and Brock Benefiel
July 02, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBOur guests today are Ty and Brock Benefiel, brothers and hosts of The Climate Pod podcast. Ty is co-founder and CEO of Hero Power, a company that allows electricity customers in Illinois to choose renewable energy over fossil fuel energy when they pay their utility bill. They plan to expand into 13 states. Brock is a journalist, podcaster, and Director of Marketing at Hero Power. Some states allow utility customers to choose who supplies their power. This means that the local utility is res...
Young conservative climate activists | Karly Matthews, American Conservation Coalition
June 15, 2020 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBOur guest today is Karly Matthews from the American Conservation Coalition, a nonprofit organization which educates and empowers conservatives to re-engage in environmental conversations by promoting a mix of free-market, pro-business, and limited-government environmentalism. Links Episode webpage: Young conservative climate activists | Karly Matthews, American Conservation Coalition Learn more about the American Conservation Coalition Follow Karly Matthews on Twitter If you would like ...
RL Miller | Climate hawk in the DNC
June 01, 2020 06:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBOur guest today is RL Miller, a determined and outspoken political activist who founded Climate Hawks Vote, an organization that endorses and supports democratic candidates who are serious about developing effective climate policies. She has been a leading advocate for a presidential climate debate and getting Democratic candidates to pledge that they won’t take fossil fuel money, and she was just elected to the Democratic National Committee. RL is angry that DNC chair Tom Perez refused to...
Climate change is silencing coral reefs | Tim Gordon
May 25, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBOur guest today is Tim Gordon, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter and the Australian institute of Marine Science. He studies climate change impacts on marine ecosystems, especially the Great Barrier reef. Coral reefs are surprisingly noisy but climate change may be starting to silence them. We’ll be talking with Tim about his research, which aims to understand more about the impacts of climate change on the natural soundscapes of marine ecosystems. Links Episode webpage:Climate...
Climate Change Denial pt. 2: Planet of the Humans vs. Renewable Energy
May 17, 2020 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBMatt Russell joins us again for our second episode in a two part series about climate denial. This week we're focusing on Planet of the Humans, the new movie from Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs and Ozzy Zehner. The filmmakers aren’t climate change deniers but they are very critical of renewable energy and a lot of the arguments that they bring up in the film are incorrect talking points and myths that climate change deniers used 10 years ago. Deniers are ecstatic to have an influential liberal do...
Climate Change Denial: Dear Climate Denier | Matt Russell
May 07, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBDear Climate Denier This is the premiere of a new segment for the show called Dear Climate Denier. Our guest today is Matt Russell, an environmental consultant and a good friend of mine and he’ll join us each week to discuss one or two standard climate denial topics so you’ll be ready the next time you hear those talking points come up. And, most importantly we’ll talk about the best approach for talking to your nearest and dearest climate deniers. How can you stand your ground on climate ch...
Sustainable Business: Samantha Richardson author of Ethical Profit
April 29, 2020 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBSamantha Richardson is the author of Ethical Profit: A Guide to Increasing Profit Using Sustainable Business Practices. She’s also the founder and CEO of Ethical Profit Accounting Agency, specializing in helping small businesses with a social or environmental mission get a handle on their finances so they can better understand their cash flow and finances. With this information, they are able to make smarter business choices to help fuel their growth. It was a fun conversation. Here are som...
Geoengineering: Hacking Planet Earth | Thomas Kostigen
April 21, 2020 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MB“I believe the private sector and the scientific community has a bit more of a nimble opportunity here to change things more rapidly than what we keep looking at, you know, governments to do for us.” ~ Thomas M. Kostigen, author of Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future Today we’ll be speaking with Thomas M. Kostigen, a New York Times bestselling author and journalist and has written for such publications as National Geographic, Discover, The Wall Street J...
Carbon Offsets and Soil Carbon Sequestration - Aldyen Donnelly - Nori
April 09, 2020 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MB“The good news is the opportunities to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in soils have a lot of side benefits, making the soil more resilient in the event of warming, increasing moisture in the soil, reducing pollution from farms into water systems. So let's go for it. It's crazy not to, not to do this!” ~Aldyen Donnelly, Co-Founder and Director of Carbon Economics at Nori. Aldyen Donnelly is a co-founder and the Director of Carbon Economics at Nori, a company whose goal is to...
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Dairy Farming - Steve Rowe - Newtrient
March 22, 2020 02:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB“I can't imagine anyone who would not think of this as a good thing, generating high quality and highly available energy from manure and replacing a commercially mined and processed fertilizer with recycled fertilizer. Everyone's gonna love that idea. So we need to shift some of that money from the traditional energy and nutrient sources over to the farmers.” ~ Steve Rowe, CEO, Newtrient Steve Rowe is the CEO of Newtrient, a company that helps farmers take the nutrients that are part of the...
Seaweed Farming and Climate Change in Tanzania - Betsy Beymer-Farris
March 14, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB“It is a win-win-win. It’s a win for the environment, it’s a win for women and it’s a win for mitigating against climate change.” ~ Dr. Betsy Beymer-Farris on seaweed farming in Tanzania Dr. Betsy Beymer-Farris is the Director of the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. She’s been conducting research on the coast of Tanzania for over 20 years. She’s done studies on climate policy, seaweed farming, coastal conservation, aquaculture, gender and human...
Focus on Climate Change - Amy Haddon - Schneider Electric
March 09, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB“This is an issue where politicians can reach across the aisle. You don’t have to be a bleeding heart liberal to feel good about renewable energy because it is more efficient and increasingly less expensive. ” ~ Amy Haddon, Vice President for Global Content and Cleantech Marketing for Schneider Electric Energy & Sustainability Services. Amy creates content to inform Schneider’s existing and potential clients on sustainability, renewable energy and other cleantech topics. But she also works...
Waste to Energy - Bob Powell - Brightmark Energy
February 29, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB“What is wasteful that we can harvest and use more efficiently?” ~ Bob Powell, CEO, Brightmark Energy Bob Powell spends a lot of his day thinking about waste. His company, Brightmark Energy, converts two very different types of waste into energy and other useful products. Converting manure to energy with methane digesters Brightmark Energy builds and operates methane digesters that convert manure and other organic waste into renewable natural gas and valuable natural fertilizer. Managing ...
002: Waste to Energy - Bob Powell - Brightmark Energy
February 29, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB“What is wasteful that we can harvest and use more efficiently?” ~ Bob Powell, CEO, Brightmark Energy Bob Powell spends a lot of his day thinking about waste. His company, Brightmark Energy, converts two very different types of waste into energy and other useful products. Converting manure to energy with methane digesters Brightmark Energy builds and operates methane digesters that convert manure and other organic waste into renewable natural gas and valuable natural fertilizer. Managing ...
Mary Marshall - Solar Energy International
December 16, 2019 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB“I had this thought in my head… what if I didn’t apply for any jobs and hiked on the Appalachian trail.“ ~ Mary Marshall Our guest today is Mary Marshall, program manager at Solar Energy International (SEI). SEI is a non-profit training facility for people looking to get into the design and installation of solar energy systems. Mary specifically manages a program called Solar Forward, which is a technical consulting program geared toward kick-starting solar markets in rural communities. Dur...
001: Mary Marshall - Solar Energy International
December 16, 2019 02:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB“I had this thought in my head… what if I didn’t apply for any jobs and hiked on the Appalachian trail.“ ~ Mary Marshall Our guest today is Mary Marshall, program manager at Solar Energy International (SEI). SEI is a non-profit training facility for people looking to get into the design and installation of solar energy systems. Mary specifically manages a program called Solar Forward, which is a technical consulting program geared toward kick-starting solar markets in rural communities. Dur...
How To Stop Climate Change: The podcast for people that are tired of just worrying about climate change
December 07, 2019 17:00 - 1 minute - 802 KBWe don’t have time for doom, gloom, denial or hope. Let’s get to work. How To Stop Climate Change is a show about people who work every day to fix this massive problem that we’ve created. There are so many ways to react to the climate crisis; disbelief, anger, apathy, worry. Most of us just assume that there isn’t much we can do. But some people find a way to contribute to the solution and get to work. Maybe they’ve dedicated their career to the fight. Maybe they dedicate some of their free...
000: How To Stop Climate Change: The podcast for people that are tired of just worrying about climate change
December 07, 2019 17:00 - 1 minute - 802 KBWe don’t have time for doom, gloom, denial or hope. Let’s get to work. How To Stop Climate Change is a show about people who work every day to fix this massive problem that we’ve created. There are so many ways to react to the climate crisis; disbelief, anger, apathy, worry. Most of us just assume that there isn’t much we can do. But some people find a way to contribute to the solution and get to work. Maybe they’ve dedicated their career to the fight. Maybe they dedicate some of their free...