Latest Nature n8 Podcast Episodes
68. Live from COP28, Part 3
Waste Not WHY Not - January 22, 2024 07:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFor this final part of our COP28 mini-series, Nature N8 attends his last day at COP28. He chats with Tanmatra Bhanti, Manager of Policy & Partnerships at Rare, and Alfredo M Coro II, Municipal Mayor of the Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands in the Philippines. Nature N8 gives his final...
67. Live from COP28, Part 2
Waste Not WHY Not - January 04, 2024 07:55 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNature N8 spends another day at COP28 in Dubai where he continues to go behind the scenes giving his thoughts, explaining some of the cool exhibits, and speaking with participants from Taiwan. This episode includes interviews from: Katie Liu, New Taipei City representative Chia Wei Chao, Resea...
66. Live from COP28, Part 1
Waste Not WHY Not - December 12, 2023 10:43 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSkip to 4:00 minutes for Nate live from Dubai! Go behind the scenes at COP28 with Nate where he gives his thoughts, what he hopes to see, and what cool stories he can find. Nature Nate is back! He jump-starts this new season by going to COP 28, what might be the most important climate negotiati...
65. Regrowing Hope with Tony Rinaudo, the “Forest Maker”
Waste Not WHY Not - April 17, 2023 13:10 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTony Rinaudo is an Australian agronomist widely known as the “forest maker”. He's lived and worked in Africa for decades where he put into a forest restoration practice called Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). FMNR has restored 6,000,000 hectares of land and over 200 million trees in ...
64. A Vegan Story (by students at Minerva University)
Waste Not WHY Not - March 03, 2023 03:05 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsToday’s piece is guest-produced by students at Minerva University - a four-year, US accredited college where the students are on semester-abroads all the time. In Fall 2022, more than a hundred Minerva students spent time in Taiwan. Nate was a mentor to four students who wanted to make a podcast...
63. Lunar New Year updates from Ghost Island Media
Waste Not WHY Not - January 23, 2023 08:16 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsHappy lunar new year from all of us at Ghost Island Media! At time of this new years greetings recording, we didn't know yet of the mass shooting in Monterey Park in California that took the lives of 10 people on new years eve, Saturday, January 21, 2023. Our deepest condolences to families affe...
62. Combating Climate Anxiety with Ocean Mindfulness (Joshua Sam Miller, Sounds Of the Ocean)
Waste Not WHY Not - December 21, 2022 13:19 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsJoshua Sam Miller is a musician, a filmmaker, a conservationist, a yogi, and a collector of ocean sounds and peoples. He’s performed at COP as well as at Burning Man. Today, N8 talks to Joshua about mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, the healing power of ocean sounds, and how something silly...
61. Dispatch from Energy Taiwan
Waste Not WHY Not - November 17, 2022 11:04 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsLast month, Taiwan’s largest green energy event took place in Taipei connecting the domestic renewable energy industries with their international counterparts. So obviously, Nature N8 had to go. This year, Energy Taiwan had 5 categories: solar, wind, smart storage, emerging power and net zero T...
60. N8 Take: Everything on Fire Everywhere (But we still have books)
Waste Not WHY Not - August 17, 2022 05:41 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe climate crisis came into full view this summer as countries across Europe experienced record-high temperatures in July. In the UK, a train track caught on fire, and an airport runway melted. In France, they called it a “heat apocalypse.” But while Europe is trying to deal with 40-47 degree ...
59. A Game Show! Circular Economy with Double Dribble, REnato Lab, AIT
Waste Not WHY Not - July 12, 2022 06:24 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsDouble Dribble is a fashion & accessories brand that upcycles basketballs. The founders come from product design, but they’re now trying to design a new system for upcycling sports waste. Today, we bring you “The Incinerator” - a game show where a circular economy startup goes in front of a pan...
58. Coral Resilience: Shashank Keshavmurthy (Academia Sinica)
Waste Not WHY Not - June 27, 2022 04:08 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe ocean temperature is rising, and that’s killing corals. But scientists are finding out that some corals can resist climate change. So if we wanted to make sure that at least some corals survive in the future, which species should we save? We are at a coral lab to speak to Shashank Keshavmu...
58. Looking for Super Coral: Shashank Keshavmurthy (Academia Sinica)
Waste Not WHY Not - June 27, 2022 04:08 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe ocean temperature is rising, and that’s killing corals. But scientists are finding out that some corals can resist climate change. So if we wanted to make sure that at least some corals survive in the future, which species should we save? We are at a coral lab to speak to Shashank Keshavmur...
57. Why care about corals (Ep 3)
Waste Not WHY Not - June 13, 2022 09:53 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsA new, knowledge-filled, episode on corals is coming your way, but to prepare you for it, we bring you an old episode to catch you up to speed. Happy World’s Ocean Day! Corals are dying. By 2050 we probably won’t have any corals left in our oceans. So scientists around the world are trying to f...
56. Solar Energy Investment 101 with Mark Oei (Kellogg) and Calvin Cheng (PGE Taiwan)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 30, 2022 03:40 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSolar is - in some places in the world - the cheapest energy, even cheaper than coal and oil with fossil fuel subsidies. Solar is inexpensive, inoffensive, inexpensive. But it wasn’t always this easy. Investing in solar used to be risky business. What happened? Welcome to class SEI101: Solar En...
55. EV dirt bikes, supercars, space: Azizi Tucker (Graft EV)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 15, 2022 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFrom building dirt bikes to supercars, to something that may or may not be on Mars right now, Azizi Tucker has done it all. Being environmentally conscious has been a theme of his career, but his real focus? It’s been about making better products. But his products have a side effect of massively...
55. Mobility 3 - Supercars, space, EV dirt bikes: Azizi Tucker (Graft EV)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 15, 2022 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFrom building dirt bikes to supercars, to something that may or may not be on Mars right now, Azizi Tucker has done it all. Being environmentally conscious has been a theme of his career, but his real focus? It’s been about making better products. But his products have a side effect of massively...
55. Supercars, Space, EV Dirt Bikes: Azizi Tucker (Graft EV)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 15, 2022 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFrom building dirt bikes to supercars, to something that may or may not be on Mars right now, Azizi Tucker has done it all. Being environmentally conscious has been a theme of his career, but his real focus? It’s been about making better products. But his products have a side effect of massively ...
54. GIMxAIT: Environmental Surfing for Green Buildings
Waste Not WHY Not - May 02, 2022 17:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhat does “good” look like? And what does “wonderful” look like? What does a “wonderful green building” look like? How do they make us happier? We call up Professor Vivian Loftness, former head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, National Board of the US. Green Building...
54. Environmental Surfing for Green Buildings: Vivian Loftness (CMU), Lee Carnell (AIT)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 02, 2022 17:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhat does “good” look like? And what does “wonderful” look like? What does a “wonderful green building” look like? How do they make us happier? We call up Professor Vivian Loftness, former head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, National Board of the US. Green Building...
54. Environmental surfing for green buildings: Vivian Loftness (CMU), Lee Carnell (AIT)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 02, 2022 17:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhat does “good” look like? And what does “wonderful” look like? What does a “wonderful green building” look like? How do they make us happier? We call up Professor Vivian Loftness, former head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, National Board of the US. Green Buildin...
54. Green Buildings with Vivian Loftness (CMU), Lee Carnell (AIT)
Waste Not WHY Not - May 02, 2022 17:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWhat does “good” look like? And what does “wonderful” look like? What does a “wonderful green building” look like? How do they make us happier? We call up Professor Vivian Loftness, former head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, National Board of the US. Green Buildin...
53. One more week
Waste Not WHY Not - April 23, 2022 10:01 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTaiwan's seeing an uptick of COVID the past two weeks. And while that's happening, our new season launch is pushed to May 3. In today's home recording, Nate reflects the past 3 years of the podcast and of his own work. For our sister shows in our network, search Ghost Island Media. Support “W...
New season coming on April 22
Waste Not WHY Not - April 18, 2022 11:12 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs promised, we’ve new episodes coming to you, starting April 22, Earth Day, aka our third anniversary! Get ready for a 5-part mini series with the American Institute in Taiwan. It’s a really fun mini series. The Waste Not Why Not team visited a green building. I got to test drive an electric ...
52. Circular Economy 101 (Mandarin episode - Happy Lunar New Year!)
Waste Not WHY Not - February 02, 2022 08:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAngela Chao was a rising senior at National Taiwan Univ (NTU) when she made this episode for “In Training 小鬼登島” - a Ghost Island Media program for and by emerging creators / interns. Angela worked on Waste Not Why Not, cares a lot about the environment, and wanted to explain to her friends #circu...
52. Circular Economy 101 by Angela (Mandarin episode 循環經濟)
Waste Not WHY Not - February 02, 2022 08:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAngela Chao was a rising senior at National Taiwan Univ (NTU) when she made this episode for “In Training 小鬼登島” - a Ghost Island Media program for and by emerging creators / interns. Angela worked on Waste Not Why Not, cares a lot about the environment, and wanted to explain to her friends #cir...
51. N8 installs solar panels
Waste Not WHY Not - August 31, 2021 10:38 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCalifornia is leading the United States into the solar panel revolution. And spoilers: it’s actually quite boring. Or at least, that's what an OG environmentalist would say. This episode, Nature N8 walks us through the process of installing solar panels on his parents’ roof, in the Californian...
44. Nature N8 installs solar panels
Waste Not WHY Not - August 31, 2021 10:38 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCalifornia is leading the United States into the solar panel revolution. And spoilers: it’s actually quite boring. Or at least, that's what an OG environmentalist would say. This episode, Nature N8 walks us through the process of installing solar panels on his parents’ roof, in the Californian ...
51. Nature N8 installs solar panels
Waste Not WHY Not - August 31, 2021 10:38 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsCalifornia is leading the United States into the solar panel revolution. And spoilers: it’s actually quite boring. Or at least, that's what an OG environmentalist would say. This episode, Nature N8 walks us through the process of installing solar panels on his parents’ roof, in the Californian ...
N8 goes away (for a while)
Waste Not WHY Not - July 14, 2021 08:11 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsN8's visiting home in San Diego! Don't worry though, the show's not ending, and he promised he will write us regularly. For other environmental podcasts, check out the Climactic Collective and the signatories of Podcasters Declare. For our sister shows in our network, search Ghost Island M...
50. N8's back in San Diego
Waste Not WHY Not - July 14, 2021 08:11 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsN8's visiting home in San Diego! Don't worry though, the show's not ending, and he promised he will write us regularly. For other environmental podcasts, check out the Climactic Collective and the signatories of Podcasters Declare. For our sister shows in our network, search Ghost Island ...
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