Keeping It Cool
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow does one small person stand up to the massive problem of climate change? The best chance we have of Keeping It Cool is by joining together. Hear what real people in our Bay Area communities are doing to tackle climate change, and learn how you can take part in the solutions.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Episode 8: Keeping It School
December 16, 2023 17:04 - 46 minutes - 29.4 MBIncreasingly, youth are taking on key roles as climate advocates. So what’s it like to step into the climate policy spotlight — when you’re not even old enough to vote? Keeping It Cool talks to Purva and Alex, two Bay Area high school students, about their climate action journeys, while learning how other community members (parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends, this means you!) can join the supporting cast.
Episode 7: Finding Your (Grass)Roots
February 27, 2023 17:16 - 42 minutes - 28.7 MBWhen it seems like individual action isn’t enough to fix the climate, enter policy change. We talk with Paula and Karl Danz of the Silicon Valley North chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). CCL works to activate community members in all 50 states — by helping them tap into their own personal superpowers in support of a bigger common goal: getting Congress to act on carbon pollution pricing.
Episode 6: Beyond the Pail
July 20, 2022 22:16 - 35 minutes - 26.9 MBMost of us haven’t given much thought to what happens to waste after it’s tossed in the bin. To “unearth” more, we checked in with educator Julia Au of RethinkWaste. It turns out, waste can either form stinky methane in a landfill or beneficial compost for reuse on the land — and it’s up to us to choose which one. We also test Julia’s knowledge as she helps us with those tricky “what do I do with THIS?” questions.
Episode 5: Fridge Benefits
March 27, 2022 15:44 - 31 minutes - 24.3 MBTired of cleaning out slimy, forgotten food out of the fridge? We are too! The amount of food that is wasted by an average household is equivalent to tossing 1 in 4 bags of groceries each trip. Robin Plutchok of StopWaste discusses the impact of all this wasted food and shares strategies for preventing waste from happening in the first place.
Episode 4: A Virtuous Cycle
December 13, 2021 02:35 - 39 minutes - 31.1 MBCompared to motor vehicles, bikes are a cleaner, greener way of getting around. So how can we get more people on bikes? KEEPING IT COOL talks with longtime bike advocate Tim Oey of the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition, a group that is already shifting the gears within our cities toward a people-powered, fossil-free mobility future. So get on board the Bike Party!
Episode 3: Watt's Mine Is Yours
September 18, 2021 03:01 - 36 minutes - 32.4 MBWhat can Bay Area residents do at an individual level to help solve climate change? It turns out that anyone using energy (both homeowners and renters) can make choices that can help keep the grid humming along on cleaner energy. Enter OhmConnect, a company that is on a mission to give people an easy way to save money and be part of the clean energy revolution. Curtis Tongue, one of OhmConnect’s co-founders, joins KEEPING IT COOL to talk about how the everyday actions of you and all your nei...
Episode 2: The Ugly Ducting
June 25, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes - 32.3 MBHeating and cooling buildings uses a heck of a lot of energy: So what can we be doing better? Keeping It Cool interviews Deborah Vasquez, an apartment complex manager who created big energy savings for residents through building renovations and upgrades. Yifei and Vivian uncover more ways that homeowners can cut greenhouse emissions (and lower energy bills) by chatting with Jeffrey Liang, who works for an energy efficiency agency called BayREN. His mission: to help us think about our homes w...
Episode 1: Cool Beans
May 08, 2021 19:44 - 36 minutes - 32.4 MBYifei and Vivian take the bull by the horns to find out how everyday food choices affect our greenhouse emissions, speaking with Nicole Angiel of the environmental nonprofit Acterra. They then turn to Allison Dear, a medical researcher at Stanford and a longtime vegan, to help demystify what plant-based eating is really like.
Introducing the Keeping It Cool Podcast
May 08, 2021 19:19 - 35 seconds - 685 KBKeeping It Cool is a new Bay Area podcast focused on what local people are doing to tackle climate change. Join us.