Latest Carbon footprint Podcast Episodes
The Little Things: Kitchenware
In Over My Head - March 16, 2023 01:07 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this new segment, Michael explores the little everyday choices we make to lower our environmental impact. He talks to the University of Michigan's Shelie Miller about reusable kitchenware including straws, cutlery, coffee cups and sandwich bags to see if they're always more environme...
Planet-saving Superstar: New Myrnam School
In Over My Head - February 10, 2023 18:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this special edition of Planet-saving superstar, Michael takes a road trip to New Myrnam School east of Edmonton Alberta to see the sustainable building projects they have been working on over the last 6 years. From solar-powered golf carts to an off-grid Tiny House bus conversion, N...
Catching Up Over Coffee with Kathleen Sheppard
In Over My Head - January 18, 2023 17:40 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael briefly sat down with Kathleen Sheppard from Environment Lethbridge to reminisce about the inaugural episode, and chat about what Environment Lethbridge is up to now. Kathleen also offers advice on how to start talking about climate change with friends or family. In Over My He...
Changing Minds Part 6: Misinformation & Mistrust
In Over My Head - December 16, 2022 17:30 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with the University of Oxford’s Sacha Altay all about misinformation and mistrust. Sacha covers why miscommunication happens, the challenge of conveying scientific information, and the importance of trust. He touches on the role of media, the challenge of changing our own...
Changing Minds Part 5: Getting Emotional
In Over My Head - December 16, 2022 17:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with the University of Groningen’s Linda Steg all about emotions. They discuss the connection between emotion and pro-environmental behaviour. She covers the role of identity and groups in predicting emotional reactions. Linda highlights how our biases factor in, and the ...
Changing Minds Part 4: Slaying our Dragons
In Over My Head - December 16, 2022 17:29 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with the University of Victoria’s Robert Gifford to discuss the Dragons of Inaction. Robert explains what these psychological dragons are and how his work started. They make their way through the lair, exploring the seven genera of dragons including limited cognition, soc...
Changing Minds Part 3: Mental Health
In Over My Head - December 16, 2022 17:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with the College of Wooster’s Susan Clayton all about our mental health and climate change. They discuss climate anxiety, including who is most affected, its connection to inaction, and the role of media. Susan touches on climate change denial and the importance of identi...
Changing Minds Part 2: Culture Shift
In Over My Head - December 16, 2022 17:28 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Chris Bryant all about changing the culture when it comes to cultured meat. Chris covers what cultured meat is, and how people feel about it. They discuss the social barriers to accepting meat alternatives. Chris breaks down the psychological barriers as well, examin...
Changing Minds Part 1: Climate Comedy
In Over My Head - December 16, 2022 17:27 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael talks with the University of Colorado Boulder’s Beth Osnes about how comedy motivates climate action. Beth describes her art and gets into the history of comedy in theatre through the ages. She takes us to her climate communication class, sharing her students' experiences doing ...
In Over My Head: Changing Minds Trailer
In Over My Head - December 15, 2022 00:38 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael talks with experts from around the world about environmental psychology. From confirmation bias to cognitive dissonance, they'll be thinking deeply about all the ways our cognition hinders or helps climate change.
Planter-saving Superstar: Alison Gu
In Over My Head - November 12, 2022 17:10 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael chats with Alison Gu, who at the age of 24 became a Councillor for the city of Burnaby British Columbia. Alison talks about her journey into politics, and some of the important climate-related work she is doing. She also offers advice for anyone considering a political career. ...
Our Digital Life Part 6: The Cloud
In Over My Head - October 14, 2022 15:32 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Steven Gonzalez about the human side of The Cloud. They cover the environmental impact of The Cloud and why it is so energy-hungry. Steven takes us on a journey to places like Printer's Row in Chicago, or Chandler, Arizona where the noise or water pollution from data...
Our Digital Life Part 5: Artificial Intelligence
In Over My Head - October 14, 2022 15:32 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Henrik Saetra about the role of Artificial Intelligence as it relates to the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They discuss how AI can influence climate action, the double-edged nature of AI, Big Tech, and social inequality. Henrik touches on AI and the shifting...
Our Digital Life Part 4: Smart Green World
In Over My Head - October 14, 2022 15:32 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Tilman Santarius about making our world greener through digitalization. They focus on his latest book Smart Green World? Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability. Tilman explains the problem of add-on consumption of digitalization, rebound effects, radical digit...
Our Digital Life Part 3: The Right to Repair
In Over My Head - October 14, 2022 15:32 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Ugo Vallauri, co-founder of The Restart Project, a UK-based charity that inspires and supports people to repair their digital devices. Ugo talks about what it's like to attend one of their restart parties and the exciting growth of the organization over the last deca...
Our Digital Life Part 2: Video Streaming
In Over My Head - October 14, 2022 15:31 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Dr. Kelly Widdicks all about video streaming and our demand for data. She explains the findings of her study looking at household data demand in the UK and discusses media-multitasking, digital sufficiency, and streaming music through YouTube. She stresses the import...
Our Digital Life Part 1: Sustainable Delivery
In Over My Head - October 14, 2022 15:31 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael speaks with Dr. Anne Goodchild all about making urban freight more sustainable. Dr. Goodchild describes the journey your package takes from ordering to arriving, and what items are typically moving around a city. She stresses the importance of consolidated delivery, and what mig...
In Over My Head: Our Digital Life Trailer
In Over My Head - October 12, 2022 16:05 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael connects virtually with experts from around the world to talk about our digital life. He's going to try and figure out how all our clicks, comments, and constant connectivity affect the climate crisis, and what we can do about it.
BONUS: The Carbon Footprint of Cash
In Over My Head - September 20, 2022 00:12 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOne topic Michael couldn't fit into his conversations around money was the carbon footprint of money itself. So in this bonus episode, he sits down with Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Co-founder and Director of Research at Digital Planet to chat about the carbon footprint of cash. They discus...
Planet-saving Superstar: Megan Takeda-Tully
In Over My Head - August 23, 2022 23:33 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael chats with Megan Takeda-Tully, Founder and CEO of Suppli, a Toronto-based reusable takeout container company. Megan talks about the logistics around implementing this zero-waste solution, the journey to making her idea a reality, and the committed community Suppli has built arou...
Money Part 6: Investments
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael talks with ShareAction's Senior Campaigns Manager, Michael Kind, all about the power of investments to save the planet. Michael breaks down how financial institutions work, and where your money goes. He explains investments, and divestments, and makes a case for having shares in...
Money Part 5: The Anti-Consumer
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:04 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael chats with Michael SW Lee, Director of The International Centre for Anti-Consumption Research all about anti-consumption. They cover what it means to be an anti-consumer, the anti-consumption cycle, voluntary simplification, and the relationship between environmentalism and well...
Money Part 4: Rebound Effects
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:03 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael chats with David Font Vivanco all about the relationship between efficiency and consumption, known as rebound effects. They discuss how this applies to our lives when it comes to money and beyond. Michael and David talk about the connection between wealth and efficiency, and the...
Money Part 3: Carbon Offsets
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:02 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael talks with Anja Kollmuss all about buying carbon offsets. Anja explains what they are, and how they work. She covers challenges with offset programs such as double counting. They discuss the effectiveness of offsets for renewable energy implementation, industrial projects, and t...
Money Part 2: The Day The World Stops Shopping
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael Talks with J.B. MacKinnon all about his new book, The Day The World Stops Shopping. They discuss what the world looks like when we slow our spending and drastically reduce our consumption - including how our products change and how we ourselves change. J.B. talks about conspicuo...
Money Part 2: Stopping Our Shopping
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael Talks with J.B. MacKinnon all about his new book, The Day The World Stops Shopping. They discuss what the world looks like when we slow our spending and drastically reduce our consumption - including how our products change and how we ourselves change. J.B. talks about conspicuo...
Money Part 1: Donating
In Over My Head - July 03, 2022 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael chats with the Forethought Foundation's John G. Halstead, all about Effective Altruism and the impact of donating to environmental causes. John talks about one core tenant of Effective Altruism - pledging to give 10% of your income for life to charity. They discuss earning to give versu...
In Over My Head: Money Trailer
In Over My Head - July 01, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael talks with experts from around the world all about money, and how we can use it to address the climate crisis.
Planet-saving Superstar: Amy Meek
In Over My Head - June 02, 2022 22:11 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael chats with 18-year-old Amy Meek who with her sister Ella, co-founded Kids Against Plastic - a UK charity run by kids, for kids. They discuss what the charity is, why it got started and how you can get involved. Kids Against Plastic
The Just Transition Part 6: Going to War
In Over My Head - May 07, 2022 02:26 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMichael gets a history lesson from Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, and learns how we can take inspiration from the Second World War to address the current climate crisis. They discuss numerous examples of how we mobilized at the individual,...
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