EPISODE 6

Top Stories

• Cities Part of Solution for Animals

  • Science Daily — Cities can be part of the solution in sustaining species

• Houseplants to the Rescue

  • Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health — Potted plants can remove the pollutant nitrogen dioxide indoors

  • Inside Climate News — Warming Trends: Why Walking Your Dog Can Be Bad for the Environment, Plus the Sexism of Climate Change and Taking Plants to the Office

• Largest US Utility Chooses Fossil Fuels

  • NY Times — Largest Federal Utility Chooses Gas, Undermining Biden’s Climate Goals

• Record Heat in the Antarctic

  • Wash Post — It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.

Cape Canaveral Looks to the Sea w/ Zachary Eichholz

• Zachary Eichholz

• Cape Canaveral — Office of Sustainability

• NY Times — Coastal Sea Levels in U.S. to Rise a Foot by 2050, Study Confirms

• NOAA — 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report: Updated projections available through 2150 for all U.S. coastal waters.

• Urban Sustainability Directors Network — Resilience Hubs

Cuyahoga River with Jennifer Grieser

• Jennifer Grieser

• Cleveland Metroparks

• LEAP for biodiversity

• Cleveland.com — Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District finishes 2nd of 7 tunnels in $3 billion project to keep sewage out of Lake Erie

• Environmental Protection Agency — Clean Air Act 

• Environmental Protection Agency — Clean Water Act

• Earth Day

• Ohio History — Cuyahoga River Fire

• Case Western Reserve University — Cuyahoga River Fire

• Smithsonian — The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969

• Cleveland Historical — Cuyahoga River Fire: The Blaze That Started a National Discussion

Opinion: Carbon Capture and the Problem with Technical Solutions

• Inside Climate News — Carbon Capture Takes Center Stage, But Is Its Promise an Illusion?

• Science Daily —  Cheaper, more efficient ways to capture carbon

• University of Chicago — Technical vs. Adaptive solutions

• Harvard Kennedy School — The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

EPISODE 5

Top Stories

• Moving Farmlands Has Big Upside

  • Science Daily — Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists

• War and environment

  • Inside Climate News — Activists Deplore the Human Toll and Environmental Devastation from Russia’s Unprovoked War of Aggression in Ukraine

  • Wired — Ukraine Is in an Environmental Crisis Too

  • Insider — The Russian invasion of Ukraine is causing an environmental crisis, and experts say it could take years to fully realize the impact

• SEC Pushes Companies Toward Climate Disclosures

  • Bloomberg — Five Key Takeaways From SEC’s Proposal for Climate Disclosures

  • Inside Climate News — SEC Proposes Landmark Rule Requiring Companies to Tell Investors of Risks Posed by Climate Change

• National Park Proposed on Tribal Grounds in Georgia

  • Wash Post — Muscogee (Creek) Nation, conservationists seeking to establish first national park and preserve in Georgia

Future of US Oil and Gas w/ Mark Squillace

• Mark Squillace

• NY Times — Court Revokes Oil and Gas Leases, Citing Climate Change

• Bloomberg — Europe Is on a Wartime Mission to Ditch Russian Oil and Gas

• Bloomberg — China Clean Energy Giants Poised to Help EU Ditch Russian Fuel

• Bloomberg — Here’s What We Know About Biden’s Ban on Russian Oil

• Environmental Protection Agency — What is the National Environmental Policy Act?

Vermicomposting and Regenerative Ag with Brian DeCorte

• Brian DeCorte

• Wikipedia — Vermicomposting

• High Country News — There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows

• Monga Bay — Farmers rediscover benefits of traditional small grains in Zimbabwe

• Science Daily — Agricultural expansion a major cause to doubling of annual tropical carbon loss over past two decades

• Science Daily — Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists

• Natural Resources Defense Council — Regenerative Agriculture 101

• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Opinion: A Reckoning Awaits for Arid Agriculture

• Colorado Sun — The water supply of the San Luis Valley faces pressure as never before

• Water Education Colorado — Hundreds of San Luis Valley farm wells at risk as state shortens deadline to repair Rio Grande River

• Rio Grande State of the Basin Symposium

• NPR — The Arid West Moves East, With Big Implications For Agriculture

Closing

• Natural Resources Defense Council — Composting 101

• Today — Composting at home

EPISODE 4

Top Stories

• EPA Tailpipe Standards

  • NY Times — E.P.A. to Tighten Tailpipe Rules for the Biggest Polluters on the Road

• Banning Russian Gas

  • Bloomberg — European Carbon Futures Jump 18%, Green Stocks Soar on EU Plans

  • Bloomberg — Solar Firms Jump as U.S. and U.K. Move to Ban Russia Oil Imports

• Tribes Co-manage Public Lands

  • E&E — Tribes push to co-manage public lands in historic hearing

  • High Country News — Congress meets with Native leaders to discuss co-management of federal lands

• Insects, Bees in Peril

  • Guardian — Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects

  • NPR — The world's insect population is in decline — and that's bad news for humans

Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, and EV’s w/ Dr. Steve Cohen

• Dr. Steven Cohen

• Dr. Steven Cohen’s Blog — Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, and Electric Vehicles

• Washington Post — USPS finalizes plans to buy mostly gasoline-powered delivery trucks. Here’s what experts say is wrong with that.

Rebuilders Xchange with Jessica Davis

• Jessica Davis

• Rebuilders Xchange

• The Land — Q&A: Jessica Davis of Rebuilders Xchange, a hub for salvaged building materials

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation — What is a circular economy?

• Circular Cleveland

Mental Health and the Fate of the World

• American Psychological Association — MENTAL HEALTH AND OUR CHANGING CLIMATE

• Washington Post — Doctors in Canada can now prescribe national park passes to patients

• Scientific American — Therapists Are Reckoning with Eco-anxiety

• Guardian — ‘Eco-anxiety’: fear of environmental doom weighs on young people

• VICE — 'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life

• Journal of Climate Change and Health — Understanding Eco-anxiety: A Systematic Scoping Review of Current Literature and Identified Knowledge Gaps

• Yale — climate change in the american mind

• Pew — In Response to Climate Change, Citizens in Advanced Economies Are Willing To Alter How They Live and Work

• Smith College — Climate change on the therapist's couch: how mental health clinicians receive and respond to indirect psychological impacts of climate change in the therapeutic setting 

Closing

• Modern Farmer — How to Build a Native Bee Hotel

• The Conversation — To help insects, make them welcome in your garden – here’s how

• National Wildlife Federation — Native Plants Finder

EPISODE 3

Top Stories

• New IPCC Report

  • Inside Climate News — ‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

  • NY Times — 5 Takeaways From the U.N. Report on Climate Hazards

  • Bloomberg — Thirty Startling Numbers From the New IPCC Climate Report

  • IPCC — Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

• Offshore Wind Energy

  • Inside Climate News — Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Record-Breaking Offshore Wind Sale

• Amazon Reaching Tipping Point

  • NY Times — Amazon Is Less Able to Recover From Droughts and Logging, Study Finds

  • Inside Climate News — Is the Amazon Approaching a Tipping Point? A New Study Shows the Rainforest Growing Less Resilient

• Training Coral

  • Science Daily — Corals can be 'trained' to tolerate heat stress

Future of Winter with Lindsay Bourgoine

• Lindsay Bourgoine

• Protect our Winters

• Sport Ecology Group — Slippery Slopes

• Current Issues in Tourism — Climate change and the future of the Olympic Winter Games: athlete and coach perspectives

Satellites and Light Pollution with Dr. John Barentine

• John Barentine/Dark Sky Consulting, LLC

• International Dark Sky Association

• National Geographic — Light Pollution is Getting Worse and Earth is Paying the Price

• Forbes — Global Light Pollution Has Increased By Up To 400% In The Last 25 Years And It’s Quickly Getting Worse Say Scientists

• Astronomy — The future of satellites lies in the constellations

• Earthsky — 1 of every 15 lights in the sky will be a satellite

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

• Environmental Protection Agency — The Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB)

• Environmental Protection Agency — Hypoxia 101

• Environmental Protection Agency — Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone

• Midwest Rowcrop Collaborative — Scaling Solutions for Agriculture and the Environment

• NPR — Where Did Agriculture Begin? Oh Boy, It's Complicated

• Public Integrity — Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

EPISODE 2

Top Stories

• Rights of Nature

  • Inside Climate News — Can Rights of Nature Laws Make a Difference? In Ecuador, They Already Are

  • Columbia Climate School — The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

• Worst Drought in 1200 Years

  • NY Times — Expecting the Western Drought to End Soon? Not Likely, Forecasters Say.

  • NPR — Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years

  • Nature.com — Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021

• Doctors Prescribe National Parks Passes

  • Wash Post — Doctors in Canada can now prescribe national park passes to patients

• Koalas Endangered

  • NY Times — Australia Declares Koalas an Endangered Species

ESG Investing with Lenora Suki

• Lenora Suki

• Reuters — Analysis: How 2021 became the year of ESG investing

• Bloomberg — The State of Green Business 2022

Transition to Clean Energy with Russ Bates

• Russ Bates

• NXTGEN Clean Energy Solutions

Plastic

• NY Times — California Aims to Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren’t Recyclable

• NPR — How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

• Science.org — Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

• Our World in Data — Plastic Pollution

• Science.org — The United States’ contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean

• Natural History Museum — Plastic microfibres found in the stomach of deep-sea fish

• Reuters — A plateful of plastic: Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat

• Nature.com — Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?

• Atlantic — HOW BAD ARE PLASTICS, REALLY?

• American Plastic: A Cultural History by Jeffrey L. Meikle

• Monga Bay — As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

EPISODE 1

Top Stories

• COP26

  • Washington Post — Five big takeaways from COP26

  • Mia Mottley speech at COP26

• Winter Olympics

  • Inside Climate News — China Provided Abundant Snow for the Winter Olympics, but at What Cost to the Environment?

  • NPR — Could the world become too warm to hold Winter Olympics?

• Gorillas

  • NY Times — When People Take Pandemic Precautions, Gorillas Breathe Easier

Fast Fashion with Laura François

• Laura François

• Good on You — Sustainable Fashion App

• Renoon — Sustainable Fashion App

• Fashion Revolution

• Artisan and Fox

• Bloomberg — The Global Glut of Clothing Is an Environmental Crisis

• Inside Climate News — Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions

• Biomimicry Institute — The Nature of Fashion: Moving Toward a Regenerative System

• Harvard Business Review — The Myth of Sustainable Fashion

• World Economic Forum — Fashion has a huge waste problem. Here's how it can change

Green Careers with Dr. Steven Cohen

• Dr. Steven Cohen

• NY Times — The Age of Anti-Ambition

• Bloomberg — The State of Green Business 2022

• LinkedIn — Global Green Skills Report 2022

Landfills

• World Bank — Solid Waste Management

• Land of Waste

• EPA — National Overview: Facts and Figures on Materials, Wastes and Recycling

• BBC — US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

• Slate — Go West, Garbage Can! Are we running out of room for our garbage?