Podcasts about Global weirding

We are living through the hottest year on record. That's not news, but growing climate impacts make bigger and bigger news. At 1.3C of warming beyond pre-industrial levels, people are reckoning with a planetary system that's out of whack. It's not like the scientists didn't see worsening impacts coming, but many of them have been surprised by the ferocity with which some have played out. On this week's episode of Zero, Bloomberg Green's Akshat Rathi speaks with his colleague Eric Roston, and Texas Tech University professor Katharine Hayhoe explains why we're all experiencing “global weirding.” Explore further: Past episode about the role fire will play in shaping the 21st century. Past episode with UN's global chief heat officer about redesigning cities. Past episode about finding trillions of dollars needed for climate adaptation. Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producers are Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Anna Mazarakis and Alicia Clanton. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do wolves, waste-water treatment plants, and the Gulf Stream have in common? This episode, that's what! It's that wonderful time when we comb through all your wonderful questions and call up some scientists to help us answer them. Some of the more unlikely things that get brought up include dinosaur pee, abandoned shopping carts, and wolves preying on cheese curds. Here's what's on the docket:Why is dog saliva slimier than human saliva? Why do wolves get relocated in the middle of winter?What if the Gulf Stream “shut down?”How do wastewater treatment plants work? Featuring Eric Odell, Alice Ren, and Sri Vedachalam. SUPPORTOutside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or join our private discussion group on Facebook. CREDITSHost: Nate HegyiReported, produced, and mixed by Taylor Quimby, Justine Paradis, and Felix PoonEditing by Taylor Quimby.Executive producer: Taylor QuimbyRebecca Lavoie is NHPR's Director of On-Demand AudioMusic by Blue Dot Sessions, Baegul, Hatamitsunami, and King Sis.Our theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.Outside/In is a production of New Hampshire Public RadioSubmit a question to the “Outside/Inbox.” We answer queries about the natural world, climate change, sustainability, and human evolution. You can send a voice memo to outsidein@nhpr.org or leave a message on our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837).

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe's research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is the Horn Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. Her book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, followed her 2018 TED Talk, “The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it.” The Guardian called her “a committed Christian who has gained a reputation for being able to reach across the most partisan of political divides.” ‘Resources from this episode:For climate communication and advocacy trainings, check out the Science Network Workshop Series from the Union of Concerned Scientists and read Work for Climate's tips for talking about climate change at work.Subscribe to Talking Climate, Dr. Hayhoe's weekly newsletter for good news, not so good news, and things you can do about climate change.Follow Dr. Hayoe on TikTok @dr.katharine and watch her PBS series Global Weirding for fact-based, practical, and hopeful lessons on climate change.If you want to push climate solutions from “the inside” of a workplace that is not doing anything, make sure you have a support network elsewhere. Try the Action Network's Our Climate Voices or find your local Net Impact chapter.To understand more about how people in the US feel about climate change, and how it influences their actions, read this study from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. It will help you think about your approach beyond a believer versus denier binary.Dr. Hayoe recommends finding common ground through the things you love to do or ways you identify. For instance, she started a group called Science Moms, and recommends a blog called Fossil Free Football.Related episodes:How a punk-rocking paralegal harnessed employee power to green MicrosoftHow Heather McTeer Toney is redefining climate action for the next generation of leadersYes, you can turn your climate anxiety into meaningful action***

One of the most surprising aspects of paranormal experience is how often it takes on a storylike form, unfolding exactly as you would expect it to in, say, a Hollywood horror film. Viewers of Karl Pfeiffer's film The Unbinding will get a sense of this in the early sequences of Greg and Dana Newkirk's latest occult adventure. The haunting comes on strong and takes rather familiar forms. But the almost too-good-to-be-true frights -- effective as they are in an almost fairy-tale way -- soon give way to a procedural that invites us to ponder the ethics and methodologies of paranormal investigation in the age of Global Weirding. What do we owe the Others we encounter? What do they owe us? In this episode, JF and Phil discuss some of the questions haunting this brilliant documentary from the creators of Hellier. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird sountrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Planet Weird, The Unbinding (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27485427/) Weird Studies, Episode 67 on “Hellier” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/67) Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFO” (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0090591708317902) Duncan Barford, “Magick Versus Content” (https://oeith.co.uk/2023/09/19/magick-versus-content-comments-on-a-scene-from-the-unbinding/) Gilles Deleuze, [Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masochism:ColdnessandCruelty)_

Our guest in this episode is Shea Cunningham. I met Shea on LinkedIn way back in July 2022. We recorded our time together in early February 2023 and both commiserated about the cold Southern California weather. She is an extremely busy, productive, and visionary woman. Currently, among other jobs, she is the director of Sustainability at ASGN. She will tell us all about ASGN and other organizations with which she works and has worked. Shea studied and majored in International Relations and minored in Latin American Studies at San Francisco State University. Through an internship, she received the opportunity to work in Thailand for two years working on a number of international-related issues. As she says, that wasn't a part of her plan for herself, but “it was a wonderful opportunity”. After Thailand, she went to UCLA's School of Public Policy where she obtained her master's degree in urban planning with an emphasis on Sustainability. Shea will tell us a lot about the subject of “Sustainability” and why it is so important. She uses her life story to discuss how she got so involved in addressing sustainability issues and will show you why it can be an important subject for all of us to ponder and address. About the Guest: Shea Cunningham (she/her) is the Director of Sustainability of ASGN Incorporated. She is a sustainability planning and ESG strategy expert with over twenty years of consulting experience across multiple industry sectors, from the community to international levels. Ms. Cunningham established several sustainability-focused organizations including the Balanced Approach, Focus on the Global South (Bangkok, Thailand), the Culver City Sustainable Business Certification Program, and the US Department of Education Green Ribbon Award-wining sustainability program for the Culver City Unified School District. Ms. Cunningham was also an analyst for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris, France), and a consultant for Sony Pictures, Athens Services and the Malibu Foundation, amongst numerous other businesses, municipalities, and academic institutions. She is the lead author of “Our Climate Crisis: A Guide for SoCal Communities in the Wildland Urban Interface,” and co-author of many other articles, reports and books. In 2021, Shea was awarded the Women in Business Leadership Visionary Award from the Culver City Chamber of Commerce. She holds an MA in Urban and Regional Planning from the UCLA School of Public Policy and is a LEED Green Associate. Shea's recommended links on climate change: The Nature Conservancy's Chief Scientist (and evangelical Christian) Katharine Hayhoe's Ted Talk Katharine Hayhoe's article How to Talk About Climate Change across the Political Divide in the New Yorker A Washington Post article on the US Army's Climate Strategy Methodist Church's Resolution on a Response to Climate Change 1% for the Planet's 10 Viable solutions to climate change Article from NASA on Scientific Consensus on Climate Change http://www.newclimatevoices.org/ About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Well, hi, and yes, we are here once again for another episode of unstoppable mindset. Shea Cunningham is a sustainability expert with over 20 years of experience, and we're going to talk about that she works for a company now. For the company she works for is ASGN. She's the director of sustainability and we're going to have to talk about that and see what all that means. But first, che thanks for being here. And welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Shea Cunningham  01:52 Thank you so much, Michael. I'm really happy to be here with you.   Michael Hingson  01:56 Well, we're we're excited now, where are you located?   Shea Cunningham  02:00 I am in Culver City, which is basically, yeah, it's LA County, West LA adjacent to Santa Monica. That sort of area.   Michael Hingson  02:10 So from up here in Victorville. I could just kind of Chuck a rock down the past and maybe it would find you and pound on your window.   Shea Cunningham  02:18 Yeah, we're not too far apart. That's right.   Michael Hingson  02:20 And we have reasonably decent weather.   Shea Cunningham  02:24 Yeah, today is gorgeous. I actually just took a bike ride i just i That's one of my passions is bike riding road road biking. So it was a lovely, lovely day this morning.   Michael Hingson  02:36 Much better place to do within going and trying to do it in Oh, Buffalo, New York.   Shea Cunningham  02:42 That is true. Yes. I have some friends in Chicago right now. There. Yeah, it's like four degrees. So yeah, I'm very grateful.   Michael Hingson  02:50 Yeah, not quite this pleasant is here. It was 31 degrees this morning when I got up in Victorville. And like yesterday, I think it was or Wednesday, it was down to 22. So but we're a little bit up in the mountains, we're in the high desert. So we get a little bit more of the cold weather, but not nearly as much as the precipitation. As you all saw down there. The the water doesn't tend to drop in Victorville very much. We're in a valley. So clouds have to go up over mountains and other things. So by the time it gets here, it loses a lot of its moisture.   Shea Cunningham  03:24 So you didn't get to experience the atmospheric rivers that we were having around my area, then.   Michael Hingson  03:30 Not so much. I think we maybe got three quarters of an inch of rain, but that was about all.   Shea Cunningham  03:35 Yes, that's good. Because yeah, there was quite destructive not in my community, but around around the larger region.   Michael Hingson  03:44 So yeah, well, I I know, right now, they're saying we have in the Sierras, what about 250% of the normal snowfall for this time here? And it's just going to be a question of how soon it melts. And hopefully it won't too quickly.   Shea Cunningham  03:59 Correct. Yeah. And yeah, it's been hasn't rained this much and produce this much snowpack for over a decade. So it's it's definitely welcomed. But I know, we're also not capturing as much as we need to. And then because our infrastructure is still inadequate. So I'm hoping I'm optimistically hopeful, then that there will be our cautiously optimistic that that there's going to be progress in that regard.   Michael Hingson  04:27 Oh, I hope so. Well, I want to get to a lot of the things that you do and so on, but I'd like to start by you telling us kind of your your roots where you came from going to school and all that and what you what you studied and learned and anything else like that that you want to tell us about the earlier che   Shea Cunningham  04:45 Okay, sure. Well, I I got well, actually, before I went to graduate school, I was at San Francisco State University where I studied international relations and I minored in Latin American Studies, and I had the great fortune too, to actually be my my internship and end my undergrad program basically turned into a real job, I was the research assistant to the executive director. And I got the opportunity opportunity to actually live and work in Bangkok, Thailand for a couple of years, which is not obviously not Latin America was not really on my, my, the planned path that I had. But it was a fantastic experience, I helped to build a sort of a think tank at Chulalongkorn University focused on looking at the impacts of Trade and Development on communities, economies, and the environment. So I basically started working in the sustainability world, before the buzzword sustainability kind of came into the picture. And I was working at the Institute for Food and development policy in San Francisco as well. And then I went to graduate school, at UCLA in the School of Public Policy and got my master's degree in urban and regional planning with a focus on sustainability. And, and I have always been sort of a nature lover at heart, like as a young girl, I was already like, I would be upsetting to see trash on the ground. And, you know, I just I very much have always loved to camp and hike and be in the ocean, that sort of thing. So I'm sort of naturally, you know, became a sustainability. Professional   Michael Hingson  06:36 Chulalongkorn University, is that an outgrowth of the king? And I?   Shea Cunningham  06:41 Well, it is actually the oldest university in, in Bangkok, the very first university ever built right in the center of the city. And it is it is basically named after the king. Yes.   Michael Hingson  06:56 Cool. Well, that I've heard of it before never had a chance to ask the question. But it, it is certainly something that comes to mind. So that's pretty cool. But you spend time there. Well, you you in undergraduate work, you did Latin American Studies and so on. Growing up what got you interested in that, that you decided to go to college and study that?   Shea Cunningham  07:19 That's a good question. Well, I definitely had always, we I had gone with my parents a few times to Mexico for holidays, and, you know, sort of summer vacations. And, and I really was always very curious about learning Spanish, because I wanted to be able to understand what people were saying. And I also had friends who were actually farmworker families in grade school. And so I was just always fascinated with learning Spanish, because that was the second language that I heard in my, in my young life. So and I also just started to really pay attention to the disparities in wealth between my family and the other families, that farmworker families as well as obviously, in Mexico, in some of the places that we stay, we know we'd stay in a resort, and then we'd go into town and was very obvious that there was a lot of poverty. And that was upsetting to me. So that's something that I wanted to sort of learn more about, and see how I could be somehow, you know, improve the situation to, you know, in my own way. So that's kind of where I came into this is because as I mentioned, sustainability is not just about the environment, it's also about the social aspects, social well being as well as, as the economics.   Michael Hingson  08:43 And I would assume that at least to a degree, your parents encouraged the concept and the the idea of those kinds of studies.   Shea Cunningham  08:51 You know, I was kind of like a free range kid, quite frankly. My dad, I live in my parents, sadly divorced at a young age and my I ended up living with my dad and my brother, and you know, so he was kind of like, Mr. Mom. And, and so, you know, he was kind of hands off and my mom as well. So I just sort of just kind of created my own path. And they've always been supportive. Both of them have always been supportive with everything I've chosen to do.   Michael Hingson  09:23 It is so good to have parents who are supportive, no matter what the circumstances like that. It's great that they were what did they do for work?   Shea Cunningham  09:32 Well, I am actually the first person in my family to get a master's degree. And so my mom, she is she actually is an amazing interior designer. She doesn't she's never really done it for money. But she's like, jaw dropping capabilities in that, in that regard. She also got a real estate license and she was As a realtor for quite some time, and my father, he did go and got he got his a degree and then ended up, you know, back in the day when it was not that unusual for people in their early 20s To get married and have babies. That's what they did back in the day. And so he did not enough finished college. And but he did. I'm very proud of him. He started in the mailroom at IBM, and worked his way up to regional manager over the years.   Michael Hingson  10:28 Wow. And that's a pretty good feat. It company like IBM to do that.   Shea Cunningham  10:34 I think so, too. He did. Yeah. He's a smart guy.   Michael Hingson  10:38 He's still doing that. Nope. He retired. He retired.   Shea Cunningham  10:41 Yeah, he was kind of forced into retirement. Actually, he was given the, the sort of the Golden Handshake. When they're, I think when you know, when 2008 When things were falling apart, the wheels were coming off the economy.   Michael Hingson  10:56 Yeah. happens all too often. So did he? Did he find something else to do? Or is he just enjoying retired life after now? What 15 years almost?   Shea Cunningham  11:07 Yeah, he's he's enjoying retirement. And he did a little bit of, of, sort of what was it was like, delivery of legal documents, in a kind of in his car driving around town. He kind of had fun doing that for a couple of years. And then he realized he didn't really need to do that. So he's just just enjoying his life.   Michael Hingson  11:28 Well, that's cool. Well, so you went off to do things in Bangkok, and so on, got a degree and started to deal with public policy? And then what did you do? So what did you do out of college when she got your master's degree?   Shea Cunningham  11:43 Yes, I actually I first Well, first, I did a little exploring in South America. I did you. Thank you. I did I actually lived in, in my, in my undergraduate I didn't mention this. And when I was in my undergraduate program, in my senior year, I did live in Mexico for for like, not not quite a full year in Wahaca, which was amazing. So if you ever get a chance to go to a haka, Mexico, I think it's one of the most special places on earth. So, after graduate school, I did take a little bit of time to do some exploring, and South America, which was an amazing, amazing trip. Being in the Andes, for instance, was just incredible. And just the different cultures, the different cities, I'm especially enamored with Buenos Aires in Argentina. But I, so I kind of brushed up on my Spanish and whatnot. And then I, I was very fortunate, I had the chair of my thesis committee started teaching at last or bone and in Paris, and wait, see, see ASBO I think actually, it's which is an another, like a science based university in Paris. And, and so I got the opportunity to be introduced to the OECD, which is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris is sort of a I liken it to a mini think tank or not, it's really not that many sort of a smaller version of the United Nations. But it's, it's really a think tank between between the Western world countries. So it's like a, it's like, membership. You know, there's member countries basically, so, and it's headquartered in Paris. And I was offered a position there. So I ended up working there for about a year and living in Paris, which is a magnificent opportunity, as well. And I was focused on looking at social innovations across the, across the European region, specifically looking at sort of community community based projects that focused on improvement of both, again in sustainability, looking at the environment impacts on the environment of certain sorts of projects, and impacts on the community. And just also spotlighting just innovations, innovative community projects.   Michael Hingson  14:10 When you were you said in your senior year, you spent most of the year and Wahaca. How did how did that work from a studying standpoint? Was that just part of the university assignment? And did you sort of work remotely? Or how did that work?   Shea Cunningham  14:22 It was really wonderful. It was through the School of International Training. So it was a it was an abroad program that that we didn't have coursework. And we did have field work as well. And so my, so we did have classes, we had a lot of guest lectures, everything from culture to politics to history. And then I had I did a we had to do like a focus project. And so I selected looking at the sea turtles of Wahaca Nick problem, it's actually called Laguna state chicawa, which is where two different types of sea turtles come to lay their eggs. And the and as you probably know, the sea turtles got on the endangered species list. And so that had to stop. And so this was a project run by marine biologists. And so I basically live with them for about six weeks and experienced their project. And I helped it was it was magical I, I was able to help you know, bring the little little, the well the, the eggs that were being laid, and then we would transfer them into a safe area. And then in the evenings, we would liberate them into the sea and watch them watch a little babies crawled down to the sea was incredible. And at night, we would watch the, the moms coming up, the female turtles coming up onto the shore, and then making their nest and laying their eggs. And the reason why that project was happening was because the community there was reliant upon the sea turtle sea turtles for you know, making lotions and, and using their shells to create combs and all sorts of things like that. So then, there was also a project focused on helping to create a new economy, you know, new economic options for the community,   Michael Hingson  16:22 to not so much doing the turtles.   Shea Cunningham  16:25 Exactly. So it became a more sustainable, you know, operation for the community. And obviously, for the turtles.   Michael Hingson  16:33 How big were the adult turtles? Or are they How big are the adult turtles?   Shea Cunningham  16:38 I don't remember exactly in terms of measurement, but I would say, I mean, they're huge. The the green turtles are they get to be like, at least four feet long. Okay. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty big.   Michael Hingson  16:53 So they're big, like some of the Galapagos turtles and so on. Well, not   Shea Cunningham  16:56 as large as those because those the Galapagos are the largest turtle, I believe on Earth, but, but there, there are some moral big ones that kind of take your breath away.   Michael Hingson  17:05 I'm more used to desert tortoises and we don't see them nearly as much now I grew up in Palmdale, we had a pet tortoises growing up. And then later, after I was married, my mother in law went out of her house in Mission Viejo one day, and there was a tortoise just walking up the driveway. And clearly it had been someone's pet. But no one could ever claim it or find it. So we ended up deciding that we would take him and putting him in our yard. And later we got another another tortoise. So it was kind of fun. So we had a male and a female, very sweet bar, like desert tortoises were fun, and we could pet them. And we would give them rose petals and lead us and things like that. And they would also just stick their necks out if you're going to scratch under their necks. They would love it. Oh, yeah. So we made good friends. And actually, it got to the point where they decided that one day they wanted to come into the house. And our screen door or screen door was closed but not locked. And they just popped it open and came in to the consternation of our cat at the time, but everyone got along.   Shea Cunningham  18:19 That's really cute. I love it. I love any kind of turtle.   Michael Hingson  18:25 Yeah, I like turtles and tortoises. I saw one Galapagos turtle, but I was pretty young, only seven or eight at the San Diego Zoo. Oh, wow. But yeah, I like turtles and tortoises in there. They're kind of fun. Well, you so you eventually went off and went to graduate school. And then what did you do after graduate school?   Shea Cunningham  18:46 Well, then, I mean, after working at the the the OECD, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, I ended up coming back to Los Angeles area. And I started to do some consulting actually for the Thai Community Development Center. And another the Community Development Center, which my goodness, I'm forgetting the name of it, but there are I basically started to consult as a sustainability planner for some different organizations. And I also was invited back to UCLA. I was a graduate student researcher at the North American Integration and development center. So I continue to take on some research projects there. I also worked as, as the research director for the Service Employees International Union, focused on the the public sector and actually worked with one of the projects that was especially rewarding and interesting was with people with developmental disabilities. So it was working with people there called people first I'm not sure if you're familiar with that organization, little David I think they're based in Sacramento. So that was that was an interesting project and you know, working also with the with the, with the helpers that you know that the in home care workers and then I, you know, so I bopped around a bit i i also had a full day and I still I still practice it yoga, I started teaching yoga I was I had two children. So my first one, I was really into yoga, and I ended up ended up being asked, well, I just found this really interesting and cost efficient program. And I ended up becoming a teacher through it. And I really just wanted to do that, because I was interested in learning more about the roots of yoga, and you know, just not not just the actual poses and postures. And, and, and then I started teaching and I as a young as a mom with young kids, that was that was a nice sort of side path. And then it took, and then after, after my kids got a little bit older, and I started going to, to elementary school and in my first kid and in elementary school in kindergarten, that's when I noticed that there was not any even recycling happening at the school. And so I kind of kicked it into high gear and said, Okay, we need to, we need to change things here at the school district. And I connected with some like minded parents, and some like minded teachers and the principal. And we, we sort of piloted a waste reduction and recycling program at the elementary school. And then from there, we raised some money through CalRecycle. And then we, I was asked to be a part of a new sort of committee for sustainability for the school district. And then I ended up leading that, and I really went all in with it. So we we raised a couple of large grants and created composting recycling bins across the entire 10 School 10 site school district. And then we worked with we started with that, but then we we really got into building our sort of co curricular awareness program and worked with the with the the janitorial staff and brought in green cleaning supplies so that they're moving. So it's basically healthier for them as well as the teachers and then students, we brought in solar to offset the you know, the fossil fuel burning, and to reduce the carbon emissions and to provide Sun shading for the parking lots and and playground areas. And we also worked on water reduction or water conservation. We we worked in brought in some new landscaping. So it was like for about five or six years, I was really I was very focused on that while doing other sort of consulting projects on the side. I also worked for help Sony Studios, which is also in Culver City, become a become a zero waste studio, because it's really neat. They they, they being the studio, they have friendly competitions with other studios across the region. And so they're they're really into becoming more green and more sustainable. And so I was brought in to help them create a zero waste studio at the headquarters, which was fun. And I mean, I could go on I have a few other projects that I actually because of the work I was doing at the schools, I gave a speech at a green schools Conference, which is an annual conference that happens in Pasadena. And from there I was invited to work. There's a proposition 39 That was created kind of a loophole that there was found for funding, energy efficiency and renewables in public schools. That money is sunsetted. This is bad for about six years, there was a really good amount of money for different schools for LED lighting retrofits and solar panels. And so I basically helped with that program. And and then I and then my sort of biggest, longest term project that I have that's continuing. And I think I haven't mentioned yet that I developed my own business called balanced approach. And it is a certified woman owned business. It's a sustainability doing sort of a micro sustainability planning firm. And I collaborated with a colleague of mine who who is the co director of sustainable works. And we pitched a Culver City sustainable business certification program to the city council took a couple of years to get it going. But now we're in the sixth year of the program. And we have certified over 70 businesses now as sustainable and kind of on the same model of what we did for the or what I did for the school district with my my other colleagues, which is, you know, from working on green cleaning, you know, taking out toxics working on energy efficiency, working on bringing it bringing in renewables, water conservation, and awareness building. And also transportation. That's another aspect because that's a big transportation is a large factor in terms of carbon emissions.   Michael Hingson  25:58 When How long ago was it that you discovered that the school needed to deal with recycling and so on your kid your child was in kindergarten, how long ago was at   Shea Cunningham  26:08 dating myself? Now? My, my son is 18. Now, okay, yeah, that was like 13 years ago.   Michael Hingson  26:17 It is sort of surprising. And that's This is why I was asking the question that that late in the game, well, maybe not. But it's sort of surprising that they hadn't gotten very conscious about doing recycling and so on. So 13 years ago, would have made it about 2010, you would have thought that they would have done more to address the issue, but then you're getting you're dealing with the innocence the government.   Shea Cunningham  26:45 Yes, I would like that's why I was like, Okay, with this is not okay, we need to teach our kids how to be environmental stewards. And it's not it as we know, recycling is not you know, what's, well, there's like the you've heard of the three R's, right? Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Right? And it really isn't that priority, like first we got to focus on reducing our waste and reducing our our plastics and our disposables, and then it's reusing whatever we can, and then, you know, recycle what we can't, you know, reduce and reuse. But yes, too, as to your question, or, yeah, I, I agree with you, it was really surprising that they didn't have that in place, you would think that that would be something that that is everywhere, universally, but it still isn't, I mean, it just still isn't. So we still have a long road to the hall that Culver City Unified now. Thankfully, there, it's become part of the culture. And we actually received a state level and federal level Green Ribbon Award for the work that we did in Culver City. So I'm pretty proud of that.   Michael Hingson  27:50 And you talked about solar and creating shade for parking lots, and so on. So you put the solar panels above the parking lots and so on. So that created shade, but it also generated power through the solar energy process.   Shea Cunningham  28:04 Exactly. Yeah. And then we also in one of the elementary schools, we have also shading the playground. And as you know, we have how, you know, we're having more heat waves, and it's gonna continue, unfortunately, until we, you know, really slow the ship down on terms of our fossil fuel burning. But, yeah, so that's really been helpful, because we've had a lot of hot days out on the playground, so it's nice to have that additional shade.   Michael Hingson  28:28 Oh, is all of that surviving in the winter with the heavy winds and all?   Shea Cunningham  28:33 Ah, so far, so good. It's pretty solid. Thankfully, yes.   Michael Hingson  28:38 Which is cool. And I suppose you could say, in a sense that maybe helps a little bit in sheltering from some of the winds because they're up there, but they're, they're sort of flat. So I'm not sure that it shelters all that much, but it must help a little, yeah, helps   Shea Cunningham  28:51 a little, and it helps reduce also the bills, the costs. Energy,   Michael Hingson  28:58 where does the where does the solar power go to the school? Or how does that work?   Shea Cunningham  29:03 It goes back to the grid, you know, so it goes to the grid, but then, you know, what happens is the because it is a, at least as of when I was, you know, really in the weeds on the program, it was over 50% of the energy needs were met by by the solar panels. So yeah, but yeah, so that's yeah, because it is on the grid, it's not an off grid system, but that is you know, that's something that resilience, climate resilience is is really would be the next step is to have like a battery backup system. So when the when the blackouts happen as we know, they do happen, especially in heat waves and whatnot, then the school will be able to stay and keep the lights on basically. So I was gonna   Michael Hingson  29:55 actually ask you about batteries. I know that the technology hasn't probably progressed as nearly as much as we would like, but has battery backup technology advanced to the point where it makes economic sense to to get batteries. So for example, in our home here, my home, we have solar, we sell back to the grid, and we don't have battery backups. And when we bought solar and set it up six years ago, when the house was built, the person who did it said, batteries are still not worth it. They don't get warranted long enough. And they're very expensive for what you actually get. What do you think?   Shea Cunningham  30:34 Well, I mean, I'm not a full on expert and up on up on that. But I would say this, in general, it's the technology just keeps improving rapidly, the costs keep coming down. And when I was I actually also worked for a couple of years in the city of Malibu and, and battery backups, were going in very rapidly across the, you know, the residents. And I know that's a little bit more affluent. community, but but there are more and more certainly, sort of government agencies and buildings that are that recognize the importance of the battery backup for for sort of public safety. So you might want to weigh it out. I mean, I would just keep I would keep looking out. And also, the other thing I meant to say, is they also have a lot of rebates and what not, because they're, you know, there is government programs that are encouraging people to do this. So I would just say Keep it keep an eye out.   Michael Hingson  31:38 What do you think about the new rules in California, the Public Utility Commission just adopted some new rules that I guess are gonna make a significant change in how much people get back from solar and so on. Are you familiar with those?   Shea Cunningham  31:51 You know, I'm not super up to date on it. But I know that there's stuff going on. And and I think some of it is not in a good direction. Yeah. So yeah. So I think that, yeah, there's that is something to stay abreast of. But I think in the end, you know, it's got to get move in the right direction, because we I can just, I mean, in terms of emission reduction targets, yes, tonsa municipalities have made them, certainly the state has made them a lot of cities have made them, you know, going net zero by 20 2040, I believe is Los Angeles, by 2050, for the state of California. And also, if I'm not mistaking, I think that's also the case for the federal government has made that commitment as well. And then corporations are publicly traded corporations are actually going to be mandated to do so beginning January 1 2024. Because the SEC, the Security and Exchange Commission is going to be there any day. Now, q1, when this this first quarter here in this this year, 2023. They're supposed to be publishing their new regulations, which will be effective January 1 2024. And that's going to that's going to include greenhouse gas inventories, they need to be third party certified, there needs to be target emission reduction targets made and there needs to be progress made upon those targets on an annual basis through reporting. So things are definitely moving in that direction.   Michael Hingson  33:35 Well, we said at the beginning that you were a sustainability expert. And so I'd love to get into some of that what it really is sustainability.   Shea Cunningham  33:45 Sustainability, the the UN, I believe the United Nations calls, defines it as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs a future generations. So that's it in a nutshell. But it's also seen there. There's also a term called the three P's, which is people planet and profit. So it's definitely not just about the environment. It is also equally about the impacts on the community, you know, community well being social well being, as well as the finances of it, like is it? Is it financially sustainable? There's another sort of visual of the three legged stool. So you need each pillar because they won't stand up if it if, if if you have a pillar that's missing. So it's the environment, it's the social aspect, and it's the, like I said, the economy or the financial aspect of it.   Michael Hingson  34:46 So, the the idea, though, is that we do need to look not only for now, but we do need to look for the future. And it just seems to me that when I hear a lot of the debates, and I hear are a lot of the discussions coming out of Washington and other places. There's a cadre of people who just tend to not seem to be thinking much about the future at all. How do we change that? How do we get people to really look more toward the fact that we are all responsible, and we have to take an active effort and all this   Shea Cunningham  35:22 very good point, you really hit it on the head, but it is, it is perplexing to me that there are so many people that are not not really taking the responsibility and not really accepting the fact that that we all need to work together to sort of do our part, because the signs are all out there. I mean, we are we are living in the reality of climate change at a much more rapid pace than the scientists predicted. By but at the end of the day, it Yeah, it's not political. And I think that it's become politicized, sadly. And I think we got to, I think it to really answer your question, I think everybody, everybody wants to live in a clean world, everybody wants, doesn't want to see, you know, a garbage and pollution. Nobody likes that stuff. I think everybody is, is shares that, that desire. And I think that, you know, we, I think that's part of the message that we need to get across is like, you know, we're not, this is not a blame game, we just, you know, we just need to work together on this. And it's not about I mean, the earth is going to be fine. I mean, quite frankly, if humans humans go, the earth is going to repair itself, because we know Mother Nature is amazing. So it's really more about like saving ourselves, quite frankly, and saving our, you know, our, our grandchildren, our children, our grandchildren. So and it's, again, it's not something I want to emphasize, it's not something that's in the future, we're already living in this situation, as you know, the extreme weather events, like very massive storms, elongated storms, larger fires than ever long, long term droughts. We're in a 20 year drought. Now, even though we already have this. Tons of precipitation happening now, that's probably not going to continue. That's, so we have, you know, it's kind of like Global Weirding. I'm not sure if you heard of that term, but I think I really feel like that encapsulates it, there's just crazy weather patterns going on. It's very destructive. And, and that's why businesses are really waking up. In fact, the US military has woken up to this, you know, a couple decades ago, they've been building climate resilient systems because of that. So and then corporations, larger corporations are really, they're out in front of the SEC regulations already, because they're seeing that their supply chains are starting to go wonky, because when you have flooding happening, when you have fires happening, you know, it destabilizes the supply chain, it, you know, obviously cuts into productivity cuts into the cost the revenues. And, and it makes things much more in, you know, it's it's, it's not a shirt, you know, and I'm saying it's, it's, it makes it much more challenging, basically. So they're waking up. And they're, it's, and I think they really, especially with the United Nations, and the Global Compact, which is the sort of corporate member corporate kind of club for engaging in the United Nations and their sustainable development goals and whatnot. They're working together with corporations to, to achieve, you know, to work on progressing and to work on getting more renewables out there. So we have the options to start really bringing down the carbon.   Michael Hingson  38:53 Yeah. And you said that this isn't really a political issue, or shouldn't at least be a political issue. And that makes perfect sense. But unfortunately, it's become so much of a political issue, let's say, at least in this country, you've got people who say, Well, this isn't really set, there's no such thing as climate change, because it's really just nature. And it's the way it's always been, it's the way it's always going to be, how do we get people to recognize that there really is a difference?   Shea Cunningham  39:23 Well, I think it's really there's so much evidence, you know, so I think it's, it's really boils down to education. I think we need to have more kind of roundtable discussions. I think we need to, you know, meet people where they are and and sort of focus in on what what's impacting them personally, and what might be impacting their family personally, but also the coming back to it's really the sciences there. The evidence is there, I think and I'd be happy I don't know if we if this is a possibility, but I'd be happy to, to to I'm give you some links that you can share on your in your program, please do. Okay, so I'll do that. But I think at the end of the day, it's really the education piece.   Michael Hingson  40:12 And people need to be open to be educated, before it gets too late, because this is it's not a new concept that there are things happening. I mean, you can go back to the Silent Spring with Rachel Carson years ago. That's right. So we're not dealing with anything magical here. And the more some people protest, and the more things happen, it's pretty clear that there really is an issue that we have to deal with.   Shea Cunningham  40:41 Absolutely. And so So for you,   Michael Hingson  40:43 you, you did a lot of work and public policy and so on, but what really then drew you to get so incredibly involved in sustainability and so on, was it what happened in kindergarten? Or is it just that you always notice those things are what?   Shea Cunningham  41:01 Yeah, you know, it's, I think it's just in my DNA, Michael, I just, it just really was a no brainer for me that this is what I wanted to do with my, you know, professionally with my life. So I very much, you know, I feel very fortunate actually, to be in this to be in this field. Because it's, it's, for me, it's just deeply meaningful. And I sort of live and breathe it, like I try to be as sustainable as I can in my own life. And, you know, so I make sure that I am, you know, I tried to reduce my own carbon footprint. So I'm, I'm also walking the talk, but it just was a natural fit for me. And, again, as I mentioned, like, I've, I'm a big nature lover, I've always felt better when I'm outside and, you know, taking a walk in the forest, or, or, you know, watching the sunset on the beach. And I mentioned, I loved them or ride my bike, and, you know, go through in being different, explore different routes, you know, and, and I just feel very compelled to do my part to help preserve and conserve and repair and restore our, our environment.   Michael Hingson  42:18 Well, it's, it really is, I think, relevant and important to step out and look at things that are different from what we're used to. I love, for example, going to, when we were in Northern California, places like near woods, and forests, and so on, I love forest, just because the sounds are so different, or in the environment is so different. It was so much fun to be able to be in there and experience a different environment like that. And I've kind of always thought to myself, I can live here. But it's so important that we understand different places then we're specifically used to and as a public speaker, who has been traveling for now, the last 21 and a half years, I've always been so interested and excited to explore new places and just experience different environments, caves and other things like that as well.   Shea Cunningham  43:19 Yeah, I'm with Yeah, I definitely feel the same way. And it's just, it's, you know, it's, it's a way for us to repair ourselves when we when we're out in nature.   Michael Hingson  43:31 You haven't lived until you've been in the middle of New York City just after a blizzard, and you're walking down Madison Avenue, when there are no cars around, and it's so quiet. And nothing is going on. Because there's just way too much snow it was it was so much fun to get to do that once.   Shea Cunningham  43:49 Right on. It's awesome. And there's also nature, you know, I think it's so important to bring nature to the cities to, you know, in terms of like, you know, there's urban forests, for instance. I mean, when we have a lot of trees in the city, it just makes everybody feel better.   Michael Hingson  44:10 Yeah, absolutely. It's, it really is important to, to, if you can't bring people to it, then bring it to people, at least as much as you can.   Shea Cunningham  44:21 Absolutely.   Michael Hingson  44:22 So you talked earlier about what you did when your son was in kindergarten and really noticing the whole issue about recycling and so on. Overall, I guess two thoughts. One, how is it effective and why is it effective to explore and bring sustainability into elementary schools?   Shea Cunningham  44:49 Very good question. I think it is imperative to do that. To bring it to young really young kids, because they are like sponges, you know, so they're are, they're able to pick up these new habits and make them just habits that they don't have to think about in terms of, you know, being good at and reducing their waste, for instance, not bringing, you know, reuse are like water, plastic water bottles, for instance, in plastic bags. And like, in saying, No, I'm going to bring reusable as I have a reusable water bottle, and you know, that's better for the environment, it's better for me. And, and, and being careful about recycling and that sort of thing. It when, when you teach the young kids they are like, like I mentioned, they're little sponges, and so it just becomes habit for them. And then it's not something that they really have to learn and, and whatnot. So that's really, you know, when you get to like, high school, as we all know, something happens to the teenage brain. And, and they are, you know, sometimes it's, they're a little defiant, and, you know, they don't necessarily want to do with what the adults are saying and whatnot, so. So it's harder, it's harder. And as we all know, it's also it's always hard, hard to change, especially for adults. You know, not everybody, it's usually change is hard. I mean, you've heard that term before. But that's one only one thing you can ever, ever really be sure of in life is change, because everything changes. And so we might as well go with the flow, and learn how to be skillful at riding the waves of change. Right. So that Yeah, I mean, I just think that the younger, the better. And if we all did that, if it was universal, you know, within a within a half a generation we'd be we'd be, you know, doing great.   Michael Hingson  46:45 What's ironic, of course, is that, however it happens, we're taught to fear change. Yep. You know, we all say yeah, change is all around us. Change happens. But when it really comes down to it, we're afraid of it.   Shea Cunningham  46:59 Yes, chain. Well, that yeah, they talked about change being hard. And yeah, we kind of go into that reptilian brain of like, oh, yeah, no fear. We gotta watch out for this. And I think it's, I think that makes it the biggest challenge, you know, and it's, and I do think that he is a politician and Al Gore. And if you remember his Inconvenient Truth, Inconvenient Truth. Yeah. I think that's a brilliant phrase, because that's really what it is. Yeah, it's not it's not, you know, we we have built especially in in this country, as you mentioned, it's it's more political in this country than anywhere else in terms of climate action, and, you know, and the awareness of climate change or lack of awareness, but it is it is something that you know, we what am I trying to say, Where am I going with my thoughts? I'm having a moment   Michael Hingson  47:53 well, we continue to fear change, it's yes. And it's it it shouldn't be an inconvenient truth the change happens but you have it on the hand. He's right. I was a while before I actually saw it. I was actually flying to Japan after my first book thunder dog was published and that's where when I actually watched the movie, it was on the on the airplane, but it was so enjoy I watched it twice. But I I really appreciated what he had to say and he is absolutely right. Yeah. And it's it shouldn't be An Inconvenient Truth but we make it something that's inconvenient we just don't like to deal with all of that   Shea Cunningham  48:36 good point and that's what I the the word convenient is what I was get trying to get back to that we have created this culture and in America I think it really started in the 1950s of convenience creating a culture of convenience Yeah, so you know like Oh, TV dinners and fast food and disposable water bottles and you know does everything is to go coffee to go with with a disposable you know, cup and lid and we've we we are we are literally swimming and like we're you know way over our heads and waste now we have a serious waste problem, which of course is also carbon emission problem as well. And we have so much waste in this country and it's and it's all because of like oh you know creating this sort of like it's a mirage really of like, oh we're better off because we have all this stuff that we can collect and we can you know just enjoy once and throw away and you know and so that's the kind of stuff that it is hard but we got to change that that we can't keep living like that. Are there   Michael Hingson  49:42 any water bottles so they throw away water bottles that actually are recycle and Will are biodegradable and so on? Have we done any of that?   Shea Cunningham  49:51 There are there are bio plastics, but that's actually a whole nother problem. Because our infrastructure, our recycling info structures inadequate, and to handle those bio plastics, they have to be basically heated up to a really high degree. And very, very few municipalities have that capacity at this point in time. But, you know, there is something about like being up, you know, in terms of the source is better, because it's not fossil fuel driven, or, you know, it's not made by fossil fuels are made from fossil fuels. But, but, you know, standard plastic bottles can be recycled, but at the end of the day, you know, only about I mean, it's really, it's really kind of like, oh, like, only about like, 10% of total recycling stream really gets recycled. And it's because they're, you know, so I know, there is some hope in California, there is a bill that finally got passed. It's been like up for passage for many, many, many years. But all I forget exactly the year, I think it's not till 2025, maybe 2030, which is too far into the future, from my perspective, but that all packaging has to be actually recycled or composted by that date in in, in California. And you know, when California when something as big as the California economy makes a change like that, then it will, it will have reverberate reverberations across other states as well. So I'm somewhat hopeful that we're moving in a in a good but very slow direction, in the right direction. But, you know, besides just like the disposable, sort of packaging and whatnot, it's, it's just, you know, like a fast fashion, I'm sure you've heard of that term of like, you know, Textiles and Apparel, that sort of thing, and, you know, purchasing of stuff, we don't really need, that. That's the kind of stuff that I think we just need to be more reflective and mindful in our in our society.   Michael Hingson  51:57 Yeah, we, we need to recognize that we need to be the solution and not the problem are not part of the problem. And we're just not collectively doing nearly as much of that as we should. And another example of some of that we hear about a lot is greenhouse gases, where where do they come from? And where do greenhouse gases fit into the whole equation of what we're talking about? Right.   Shea Cunningham  52:23 Good question. So greenhouse gases, I have been mentioning emissions, and I was referring to greenhouse gas emissions. So that is basically what is what happens when fossil fuels are burned. So fossil fuels are, you know, mined or are extracted from the earth. very, they're very, very polluting. And they, they're basically through the through the energy industry. That's one of the major sources of fossil fuel burning and greenhouse gas emissions in our country, and actually, mostly around the entire world. Industry. And transportation is another another source of the greenhouse gas emissions, it's up to depends on you know, it's kind of any, there's different ways to slice and dice the pie of in terms of where the emissions come from. But I've read many, many different sources that say about 40% of our emissions come from fossil fuel burning of in cars, and trucks. So that's one of the reasons why it's so important to move away from fossil fuel burning cars and move into electric cars. I know that there is gap greenhouse gases that are emitted in the making of the cars, but in terms of in terms of driving the electric vehicle vehicles, especially if you are charging, you know, in a house or a home that is that is has solar energy, right? Yes, then you really are making a big impact and big positive impact.   Michael Hingson  54:06 Yeah, and that, that makes a big difference. And I know we're going to get there. I do hope it happens sooner than later. I I'm absolutely, totally supportive of the whole concept of electric vehicles. Although I do think that we need to be responsible. And there have been laws passed about this. But too many electric vehicles still Don't make a noise. So those of us who don't see those cars coming are put in danger. And it's now been 13 or 12 years. And since the law was passed the pedestrian enhancement Safety Act that said the cars need to make noise, and they're still playing with standards and trying to deal with it and the reality is that the best ironically, from at least my perspective, maybe scientifically, someone will come up with something different but I happen to hurt it. At the best way for me to deal with a vehicle and making noise is the sound of an internal combustion engine. And they ought to be able to emulate that sound in cars because I can tell the difference between a bus and a car and a truck. And I can tell more about whether the car is speeding up or slowing down because of all the different nuances of an internal combustion engine sound. So one tone isn't going to do it. But they haven't done that yet, really. And at some point, once again, it's going to have to be addressed because even NITSA has said that when cars are quiet, for the total population, there's 1.5 times as likely hood of an accident happening and the pedestrian doesn't just blind people anymore. Right? You know, that that's what got the law passed in the first place?   Shea Cunningham  55:59 How interesting. Thank you for telling me that, because that's something I never thought about that's really opens my mind to that?   Michael Hingson  56:05 Well, it is it is something that needs to be dealt with. And but I love the concept of electric vehicles. And you know, I have I've actually driven a Tesla down i 15. And the driver was the the normal owner and driver was in the car and said you want to drive it? I said, Sure. So I drove about 15 miles and appreciate what it can do. And I realized that we've really are on the cusp of the whole concept of autonomous vehicles. What we have now is not anything like what we're going to have in 20 years, and the viability and the the foolproof nature of what they can do is going to come. But we have to start somewhere.   Shea Cunningham  56:49 Absolutely. Yeah, that's, that's gonna be fair. I mean, I'm a little nervous about it. But you know, again, change is hard.   Michael Hingson  56:57 Well, I think there's reason to be nervous. Because we can't move too quickly or otherwise, we're going to push the cars beyond the limits of what they can do today. But we're seeing constant improvements in the whole concept of autonomous vehicles. And the time is going to come when they really will be as safe and as foolproof as we would like them to be. Or as we read about in science fiction books, that's coming.   Shea Cunningham  57:25 Pretty wild.   Michael Hingson  57:26 I know, isn't it? Well, how about carbon, a measurable carbon emissions and so on measuring them. And dealing with all the reporting and studying of such such things? That's obviously important. And I would assume that one of the values of that is it really helps us get to a better understanding of whether we are we're not having an effect on the environment in a positive way.   Shea Cunningham  57:53 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So that's the greenhouse gas inventory that we you can do, you know, on a personal residential level? And of course, you know, municipalities do it. And businesses do it. And a lot of businesses are not doing it yet. But as I mentioned, many corporations are doing it and are demanding that their suppliers do it. And and the Security Exchange Commission will be mandating it. So that is, you know, in a nutshell, it's basically, you know, for for business, it's looking at the different sources of greenhouse gases, which I'm not sure if I mentioned, it's really the major cause to global warming, which is like, which I think is it's more aptly called Global Weirding. Because there's, there's extreme cold, that's snaps that happen, as well as extreme heat. And as you know, glaciers are melting ice, and sea levels are rising the whole business. But But so, in terms of the greenhouse gas inventory, and we look at the different sources, which of course, buildings are a major source, you know, using the energy in the buildings, and then we calculate, you know, what, what is that in greenhouse gases, in terms of energy, and we look at the transportation, we look at business travel, we look at, you know, so airplanes, as we know, our jet fuel is very polluting, thankfully, we're seeing the aviation industry start to starting to move toward making commitments at least to have electric planes, at least starting to phase them in by 2030. Because 2030, by the way, is sort of the year that the United Nations has focused on and to like, we need to have really measurable reductions and like half of our emissions need to be reduced by 2030 globally. And then, in terms of going back to like the business travel, you know, there's more hotels as well that are just starting to make commitments as well to be net zero hotels by a certain date. So, you know, and it's really the the proof is gonna be in the pudding like, we need to see the progress. We can't just say, Okay, we're gonna do that and then share best practices and 2030 No, every year, we need to win, you know, we need to redo the inventory, we need to put programs into place to incentivize people to, to take alternative transportation to work, including public transportation, carpooling, you know, if you're going to buy a new car, go, Evie. You know, if you can ride your bike to work, if you're not that far away, choose to do that do active transportation, that sort of thing. So we need to get those sorts of things in place and incentivize people tend to make it fun, because Because change is hard, you gotta kind of gotta be smart about it, and be creative about it, and make it something that is going to be engaging, and is going to, you know, people are going to open their minds to it. So and So basically, we take all the different sources of the data, where the greenhouse gases are coming from, and then we crunch the numbers. And then we like we, you know, we have our, our carbon emissions, sort of portfolio, so to speak. And then we know where, okay, this is where we are this year, this is where we need to get next year. So we have to do short term, medium term and longer term planning for year after year for, you know, reducing the carbon and in terms of the corporations as well, there's, at least in terms of like office based work, I think it's very important that we maintain, and it's looking like it's feasible to maintain sort of hybrid work schedules and flexible work schedules. So we are not, you know, needlessly driving back and forth to the office every single day,   Michael Hingson  1:01:43 I think we're starting to grow to realize that there's value in so many ways to allow people at least to have a hybrid schedule and do some work at home, helps family helps mindset, it helps everyone to sometimes be able to do a little bit more on your own schedule, rather than, Oh, there's just one process to do it. Right. And so you are the director of sustainability for ASTN   Shea Cunningham  1:02:12 ASGN incorporated in and what is ASGN. ASGN is a is a company that is it's a publicly traded firm in the Fortune 600. And there and they are an IT consulting and staffing firm. And as Jan's main clients are really the top sort of 25 of the Fortune 500 Club. And so Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, IBM, and others are the main clients. And so that's where the and especially Microsoft have to give a shout out to Microsoft, they're the ones who are really the most sort of at the at the forefront of of making target reductions, and also requiring suppliers to follow their lead.   Michael Hingson  1:03:01 All well, it's going to be exciting to see how things evolve over time. I really appreciate what you're doing. And I hope the people who are out here listening will learn from it. And definitely please send me links and maybe links to things you have written and so on. And we will ensure that those are in the show notes so that people will have access to all of   Shea Cunningham  1:03:25 that. We'll do we'll do thank you so much, Michael. Well, this   Michael Hingson  1:03:28 has been really fun. Well, I definitely want to thank you Shea for being here. How can people reach out to you or get in contact?   Shea Cunningham  1:03:36 Well, you can either go on LinkedIn and look me up Shea Cunningham, S H E A Cunningham. And also, as I mentioned, I still have my certified woman owned business balanced approach. And my email is just Shea S H E A  at balanced approach.net.   Michael Hingson  1:03:53 There you go. Direct contact all the way. Well, absolutely. This has been fun. I hope you've enjoyed listening to us today in this conversation. I'd love to hear your comments, feel free to email me at Michaelhi at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. And while you're thinking about access to be go to the website and do a free audit of your own website and see how accessible it is, which is another whole story. But you can also go to Michael hingson.com/podcast hingson is h i n g s o n and we hope that you'll give us a rating wherever you're hearing the podcast and that you go back and listen to some of the other podcasts. We really appreciate it. But a five star rating and your comments are absolutely invaluable and we hope that you'll give us any thoughts that you have. Shea for you and anyone listening. If you have any thoughts of other people we should have on his guests on unstoppable mindset. Please let us know please email me. Let us know about guests. Give us introductions. We'll bring them on.   Shea Cunningham  1:04:57 Well do.   Michael Hingson  1:04:58 I appreciate that? Well again, Shea, thanks very much for being here with us and doing this today.   Shea Cunningham  1:05:04 Thank you so much, Michael. Take care. You too.   Michael Hingson  1:05:12 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. 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Episode 174 Notes and Links to Allegra Hyde's Work       On Episode 174 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes  Allegra Hyde, and the two discuss, among other things, her lifelong love of reading and love for librarians (like her mom!) and libraries, her varied reading and writing genres, inspirations for her dazzling and inventive worldbuilding, dark humor, the main throughline of her story collection, ideas of climate change, “global weirding,” action and inaction, encroaching technology, misogyny and patriarch with regard to climate issues, and why she has hope for our world.      Allegra Hyde is the author of ELEUTHERIA, which was named a "Best Book of 2022" by The New Yorker. She is also the author of the story collection, OF THIS NEW WORLD, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her second story collection, THE LAST CATASTROPHE, is out in the world as of today, March 28, published by Vintage.    A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Hyde's writing has also been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. Her stories, essays, and humor pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, American Short Fiction, BOMB, and many other venues.    Hyde has received fellowships and grants from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the Jentel Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere.    She currently teaches at Oberlin College.     Buy The Last Catastrophe   Allegra Hyde's Webpage   Our Culture Mag Profile of Allegra Hyde and The Last Catastrophe     At about 7:10, Pete compliments The Last Catastrophe, referring to Allegra's work as “prophet[ic],” and Allegra talks about her mindset with her book now entering the world   At about 9:15, Allegra talks about her childhood relationships with the library, reading, and writing; she shouts out her love for The Chronicles of Narnia and audiobooks in general   At about 10:45, Pete wonders about any childhood experiences that may have steered Allegra to particular types of reading    At about 12:10, Pete highlights a particular story from the collection that is indicative of Allegra's skill with worldbuilding; she explains her approach to worldbuilding   At about 14:10, Allegra describes the “privilege” in doing authorial research and she and Pete shout out librarians and decry the recent spate of book banning   At about 15:40, Pete asks Allegra about who/what she is reading these days; she highlights Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon and Thornton Wilder   At about 17:15, Pete references the book's blurb as “dazzling and inventive” (Alexandra Kleeman) and Allegra describes her approach in writing one of those “dazzling” stories   At about 18:55, Allegra defines “retrofuturism,” and she describes how it was guiding her in these stories; she points out her story “Democracy in América” as an example   At about 20:15, Allegra characterizes the throughline of her short story connection, defining and expounding upon the term “Global Weirding”   At about 23:05, Pete cites an important and evocative opening line of the collection and asks Allegra about the line's larger meaning and if it served as a catalyst   At about 24:45, Pete and Allegra discuss the plot and significance of the story “Mobilization”   At about 27:55, Pete references a joke from Marc Maron and inaction on climate change/global weirdness; Allegra highlights the need to approach the crisis from a communal lens   At about 29:20, Pete refers to grass and drought issues and its connection to wealth and    At about 30:05, Pete quotes from the book and he and Allegra discuss ideas of optimism and pessimism regarding the future, particularly with regard to climate change/global weirdness   At about 32:35, Pete references the story “Zoo Suicides” and Allegra speaks to the story's intent and how it was “after” Donald Barthelme and Dana Diehl   At about 35:00, The two discuss the power of the dark humor in the book, and Allegra discusses the story “Afterglow” and its connections to global weirding and a more individual story of grief   At about 38:45, Allegra discusses the gender identity of the narrator of “Democracy in América” and talk about issues particular to America, especially as seen from outside the US   At about 40:55, Allegra describes the process of “Consignment,” which speaks to ideas of consumerism and an American obsession with youth and beauty, from the above story   At about 42:25, Commodification and issues of wealth inequality are discussed with regards to her story collection, especially with regards to how wealth and global weirding are so closely linked   At about 44:40, Pete highlights “The Future is a Click Away” as a standout story and he and Allegra discuss “The Algorithm” in the story as almost “mythical” and “god-like”   At about 47:30, “Cougar” is discussed as another story that deals with encroaching technology, and Allegra talks about “merg[ing] real pieces from her life with research and imagination   At about 49:40, “Endangered” and its statements on the state of art and artists, as well as captivity and endangerment in today's world, is discussed    At about 52:30, Misogyny and what Allegra calls “the mysterious nature of ‘Chevalier' ” are discussed, as well as ideas of invisibilia, both by the world at large and by the narrator of the story, who may be more directed by love than she would let on   At about 56:00, Allegra connects her stories to patriarchy and global weirding   At about 58:00, Pete and Allegra discuss legislative action and other ways in which women and other oppressed groups are being ignored and degraded    At about 58:55, Allegra explains why she “chafe[s]” against her writing being described as “satirical”    At about 59:30, Pete laugh over the absurd and awesome story involving a woman    At about 1:00:25, Allegra explains how she finds cause for optimism despite some often dark topics that populate the world and her work   At about 1:03:15, Allegra shouts out her upcoming tour dates, and shouts out Ben Franklin/Mindfair Books as one of many places to buy her book   At about 1:04:35, Allegra highlights her exciting upcoming project-there are caves involved!    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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To celebrate the publication of her new story collection, The Last Catastrophe, Allegra Hyde discusses climate fiction, the concept of “global weirding,” the inspiration behind her speculative premises, the value of literary magazine publication, her revision process, what it was like to appear on a late-night show to discuss her debut novel, literary agents for short fiction writers, her writing process for novels vs. stories, creating art at the end of the world, and more.   Allegra Hyde is the author of Eleutheria, which was named a “Best Book of 2022” by The New Yorker. She is also the author of the story collection, Of This New World, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her second story collection, The Last Catastrophe, was published in March 2023 by Vintage. A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Hyde's writing has also been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She currently teaches at Oberlin College.   Mentioned in this episode: Oberlin College Alexis de Tocqueville John Simmons Short Fiction Award Erin Harris at Folio Literary Management Poets & Writers lit mag article Late Night with Seth Meyers Martha Stewart Oberlin Arboretum   Photo credit: Tanya Rosen-Jones   Page Count is produced by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, visit the episode page. To get in touch, email ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org (put “podcast” in the subject line) or follow us on Twitter or on Facebook.

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The climate crisis was on the minds of many Americans as they voted in the midterms, and Hayhoe offers insight about what productive action looks like in the critical years to come. She says we need to spend less time wringing our hands, and more time connecting the climate to each others' values. As part of that conversation, producer Regina de Heer is joined by members of the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions to hear how these ideals are put into practice on a local level. Find more in Professor Hayhoe's bestselling book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World and her Global Weirding series on Youtube. The Global Weirding segment mentioned in this episode can be found here.   Companion listening for this episode: Nothing You Do Alone Will Save the Climate (9/20/2021) New science finds we've got less than a decade to avoid catastrophe. Activist and author Bill McKibben says the only solutions that can beat that deadline are collective. 'How to Start Saving the World' was originally published on August 1, 2022. Listen to more episodes here.   “Notes from America” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our broadcasts. To catch all the action, tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on notesfromamerica.org or on WNYC's YouTube channel.   We want to hear from you! Connect with us on Instagram and Twitter @noteswithkai or email us at notes@wnyc.org.

As a wine lover, what can you do to help mitigate the impact of climate change? Why do many experts consider the phrase “global warming” a big marketing mistake? How is climate change pushing the boundaries of where great wine comes from?   In this episode of the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, I'm interviewing Brian Freedman, wine and spirits educator and author of Crushed: How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink.   You can find the wines we discussed at https://www.nataliemaclean.com/winepicks   Giveaway Three of you are going to win a personally signed copy of Brian Freedman's terrific new book, Crushed: How a Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink. To qualify, all you have to do is email me at natalie@nataliemaclean.com and tell me that you'd like to win the bottle. I'll select the winners randomly from those who participate. Good luck!   Highlights What surprised Brian about the impact of climate change on the world of spirits? Why do many experts consider the phrase “global warming” a big marketing mistake? How does climate change disproportionately impact those who can least afford it? Why is a long-term planning horizon essential in the wine industry? What does it mean for a wine to “channel the ineffable truth of a vineyard”? Which rich, complex aromas and flavour notes can you expect from Kutch Pinot Noir 2016? Why do I especially love Sperling Vineyards Speritz Pet-Nat of the various Pet-Nats I've tried? What fascinating long wine history exists in the Judean Hills, Israel? How does Shiloh Secret Reserve Petit Verdot 2018 highlight the diversity and range of the Israeli wine industry? Why is it so important to keep an open mind about wine? How is climate change pushing the boundaries of where great wine comes from? How will Crushed help you to broaden your palate? What impact has Brian seen with climate change on Canadian wine? What's Brian's prognosis for the future of the wine industry? Who are the two people Brian would most want to be able to share a bottle of wine with? Which inspirational wine message would Brian put on a billboard?   Key Takeaways I loved Brian's practical tips for what we can do, as wine lovers, to help mitigate the impact of climate change. I agree with him that the phrase “global warming” is a big marketing mistake. Global weirding is much better in describing the extreme weather events we're experiencing around the planet. I found Brian's insights into how climate change is pushing the boundaries of where great wine comes from fascinating.   About Brian Freedman Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer, restaurant and beverage consultant, and wine and spirits educator. He regularly contributes to Food & Wine, Forbes.com, Whisky Advocate, and SevenFifty Daily, and has contributed to Travel + Leisure, The Bourbon Review, and more. He also hosted wine and spirit pairing segments on the CNN Airport Network. Freedman has traveled extensively throughout the world and the United States to experience the food, drink, and culture for his work. He lives outside of Philadelphia.     To learn more, visit https://www.nataliemaclean.com/203.

Scientist Katharine Hayhoe has a simple request for the 93 percent of people who know there's a climate crisis: Talk to each other about it more and start with your values. Plus, producer Regina de Heer is joined by members of the Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions to hear how these ideals are put into practice on a local level. Find more in Professor Hayhoe's bestselling book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World and her Global Weirding series on Youtube. The Global Weirding segment mentioned in this episode can be found here. Companion listening for this episode: Nothing You Do Alone Will Save the Climate (9/20/2021) New science finds we've got less than a decade to avoid catastrophe. Activist and author Bill McKibben says the only solutions that can beat that deadline are collective. “The United States of Anxiety” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. To catch all the action, tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on WNYC.org/anxiety or tell your smart speakers to play WNYC.    We want to hear from you! Connect with us on Twitter @WNYC using the hashtag #USofAnxiety or email us at anxiety@wnyc.org.

Andy Bochman, Senior Grid Strategist, Idaho National Lab and Bob Stone, Business Manager, IBEW 2150, join host Kristin Gilkes to discuss a range of issues including preserving jobs and reliability in the coal to cleaner power transition, and how Andy's coined the term "global weirding." A must-listen episode that serves as a follow up to our recent conversation with Brent Ridge of Dairyland Power Cooperative about their exploration of nuclear energy.

Hayhoe explains the phrase she coined "global weirding."

Lisa is joined by Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist who studies what climate change means to us here and now, and how our choices will determine our future to discuss her latest book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Katharine is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University; she also serves as climate ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance.  Katharine has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers, Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders and Working Mother's 50 Most Influential Moms. She is a United Nations Champion of the Earth and hosts the PBS Digital YouTube series, Global Weirding and is a founding member of Science Moms. Follow @KHayhoe on Twitter for frequent updates on the latest climate change science, and https://www.facebook.com/katharine.hayhoe for more in-depth discussions. Book description: Called “one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field—recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Christmas Eve, enjoy catching up with these recent conversations about connecting: Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village and the author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World (Harmony, 2021), offers a guide for getting past today's tribalism and competition to see that we are all in this together. Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech University, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, lead author for the Second, Third, and Fourth US National Climate Assessment, host of the PBS digital series Global Weirding and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021), talks about how to avoid letting political polarization derail actions, big and small, to address climate change. As families gather to celebrate the holidays, many singles and unmarried couples might face questions from family members about their relationship status. Katherine Hertlein, relationship therapist and professor in the couple and family therapy program at Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada Las Vegas, offers advice for responding to their intrusive questions. Before we gather with folks with different media diets, WNYC's The United States of Anxiety host Kai Wright and senior digital producer Kousha Navidar offer an experiment to get past the filter bubbles that define what information gets to us. Anna Sale, host of the WNYC Studios podcast Death, Sex & Money and author of the book Let's Talk About Hard Things (Simon & Schuster, 2021), shares her tips for how to have conversations about tough subjects, and why she thinks it's beneficial to talk it out.   These interviews were lightly edited to fit the format; the original web versions are available here: Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on Coming Together (Nov. 9, 2021) Climate Science for All (Sept. 23, 2021) How to Respond to Meddling Family Members (Dec. 6, 2021) My Bubble, Your Bubble (Nov. 23, 2021) Hard Conversations Can Be the Best Conversations (May 4, 2021)

Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. She is also the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and a Professor at Texas Tech University. She has been named a United Nations Champion of the Earth and one of Time 's 100 Most Influential People- Katharine was a lead author for the U.S. Second, Third, and Fourth National Climate Assessments, hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and has written for The New York Times. Her TED Talk “The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It” has been viewed over 5 million times. She has a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an MS and a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Katharine Hayhoe has been called One of the nations most effectice communicators on climatechange, by the New York times and in September her new book Saving Us A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, was published. Photo: Ashley Rodgers

This week, Matt and Rachel are talking all about climate change with Katharine Hayhoe. Katharine is leading the way in helpful, hope-filled conversations about the environment, diving into the ins and outs of climate change, and offering tangible solutions that we can all do, big and small, to turn things around. Her care for the environment and this planet all stems from one place- her love for Jesus.Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University. Her book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,”  released in Sept 2021 and she also hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, currently in its fifth season. Katharine has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, the United Nations Champion of the Environment, and the World Evangelical Alliance's Climate Ambassador. ++++To support Make It Simple, head to mpm.simple donation.comCheck out What Matters Most, daily teachings from Matt Popovits, available wherever you get your podcasts.For more information on MPM, head to mattpopovits.comSupport the show (https://mpm.simpledonation.com)Support the show (https://mpm.simpledonation.com)

Join world renowned climate scientist and CCL Advisory Board Member Dr. Katharine Hayhoe for a CCL-exclusive one hour conversation with our favorite climate communicator about her new book! In SAVING US: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World Dr. Hayhoe draws upon interdisciplinary research and personal stories to demonstrate that whether you're a parent or a person of faith, a beachgoer or a sports fan, a foodie or a travel junkie, climate change affects someone or something you care about, which means you already have power to act for change. While other books in this space offer doomsday scenarios, Hayhoe ‘s approach is optimistic and inclusive. She argues that climate action isn't about being a certain type of person or voting a certain way. It's about connecting with our communities based on the values we already have, to inspire collective action. Order your book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Saving-Us/Katharine-Hayhoe/9781982143831  Dr. Hayhoe's TIME Essay: https://time.com/6089999/climate-change-hope/  Global Weirding on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow   Yale's Research on Shifting Republican Views: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/shifting-republican-views-on-climate-change-through-targeted-advertising/  More about Dr. Hayhoe: Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University. Her book, “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,” will be released in Sept 2021 and she also hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, currently in its fifth season. Katharine has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, the UnitedNations Champion of the Environment, and the World Evangelical Alliance's Climate Ambassador

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Katharine Hayhoe, the author of “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”, to discuss the urgency for a more empathetic approach to the conversation surrounding climate change. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. She is also the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. She has been named a United Nations Champion of the Earth and one of Time 's 100 Most Influential People, and serves as the climate ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance. Katharine was a lead author for the U.S. Second, Third, and Fourth National Climate Assessments, hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and has written for The New York Times. Her TED Talk “The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It” has been viewed over 5 million times. She has a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an MS and a PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this interview, Professor Katharine Hayhoe, one of climate change's most effective communicators, provides inspired guidance on how to navigate all sides of the conversation on a topic that is currently one of the most politicised and divisive. Katharine discusses her new book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, illustrated her arguments with stories from her personal experiences. Katharine argues we need to go beyond facts and statistics and begin essential climate conversations with shared values, connect the issue to our individual identities, and help inspire collective action. For Katharine,  urgency of action is paramount: “The key conclusion of the IPCC is simply this. Every year counts, every action matters, every choice can make a difference.” Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist—and a professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is co-director of the Climate Science Center. She has served as lead author on the Second, Third, and Fourth National Climate Assessments. Katharine also hosts and produces the PBS Digital Series, Global Weirding, and serves on advisory committees for a broad range of organizations including the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, the Earth Science Women's Network, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has recently become Chief Scientist, at the Nature Conservancy, the world's largest conservation organization- her new book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World has just been published.

Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech University, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, lead author for the Second, Third, and Fourth US National Climate Assessment, host of the PBS digital series Global Weirding and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021), talks about how to avoid letting political polarization derail actions, big and small, to address climate change.

Climate change has become a politicized issue, from whether or not it's occurring at all, to how it can be addressed. But what if we re-frame the debate around our shared values? On Today's Show:Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech University, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, lead author for the Second, Third, and Fourth US National Climate Assessment, host of the PBS digital series Global Weirding and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021), talks about how to avoid letting political polarization derail actions, big and small, to address climate change.

Ben speaks with globally recognized atmospheric scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, PhD. "I don't accept global warming on faith", Hayhoe asserts,  "I crunch the data, I analyze the models, I help engineers and city managers and ecologists quantify the impacts.In 2014, Hayhoe was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and the Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers. In 2015, Hayhoe was named one of the Huffington Post's 20 Climate Champions.  In 2017 she was named one of FORTUNE's world's greatest leaders.  Dr. Hayhoe speaks with Ben about the big issue that exacerbates many disparities, and humanitarian emergencies we're all facing together around the globe, and a way political polarization and tribalism that keeps us from just talking about it can be absent in a true coming together to heal our planet.   More info on Dr. Hayhoe can be found at KatharineHayhoe.com

A few degrees is no big deal. Outside temperature can go up or down by that much in a single hour, right? So why are scientists so worked up about such a little change? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change, that's one of those environmental issues. It's fine for people who eat granola for breakfast, but it's just not something that someone like me would care about, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Canada's got more trees sucking up carbon than we have people producing it, so nothing we do will really make a difference to stop climate change, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change isn't just an issue for future generations anymore or for people or animals who live far away. It's already affecting us right here in the places where we live and the more climate changes, the bigger impacts we'll see. Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change isn't just an issue for future generations anymore or for people or animals who live far away. It's already affecting us right here in the places where we live and the more climate changes, the bigger impacts we'll see. Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change isn't just an issue for future generations anymore or for people or animals who live far away. It's already affecting us right here in the places where we live and the more climate changes, the bigger impacts we'll see. Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change isn't just an issue for future generations anymore, or for people or animals who live far away. It's already affecting us right here in the places where we live. And the more climate changes, the bigger the impacts we'll see.  Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

There's no way carbon dioxide is a pollutant! Every living thing needs carbon to grow, and heck! I'm breathing it out right now, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Fossil fuels are terrible. If I could get in a time machine and go back to the 1700s, I'd do everything I could to make sure the industrial revolution never happened, right? The answer may surprise you! Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

You can't trust those climate models. They're already fixed to get the exact answer you're looking for. And even then they're always wrong, right? The short answer is no, the long answer is on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

First they told us it was the spray cans, now they're saying it's our cars that are the problem. I thought they fixed that hole in the ozone, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

It's freezing outside, so clearly all the global warming is a bunch of hooey, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Karen talks with climate justice activist and professor, J. Mijin Cha (https://twitter.com/jmijincha​) about the weird weather we're having and how we can make it stop and environmental racism. #ClimateControl #JMijinCha #WellnessWednesday

Poor people and developing countries need fossil fuels to reach the standard of living we enjoy. It's completely unfair to tell them they can't, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

You're just one kid. What can you do to fix global warming? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

"Climate change is not just an environmental issue—it is a threat multiplier. It takes everything we care about including the most devastating humanitarian crises, and makes them worse. It's like a hole in the bucket." —Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist According to Katharine Hayhoe, we're stuck in a system that must change. As a scientist, professor, director of the Climate Center, founder and CEO of ATMOS Research, and a principal investigator for the Department of Interior, Katharine's work has resulted in over 125 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts and other publications. She has led climate impact assessments for numerous American cities, the findings for which have been presented before Congress and used across the country. But here's what Dr. Hayhoe really wants you to know: you don't have to be a certain kind of person to care about, or act on, climate change. All you have to do is to care about it, as a person living on planet Earth. Dr. Hayhoe's TED Talk: “The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: Talk about it.” (November, 2018) “The Bible doesn't talk about climate change, right?” video from Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe "On Being a Good Neighbor", sermon draft by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This episode produced by Laura Finch Theme Song “Turning Over Tables” by The Brilliance Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Stitcher | RSS Follow us on Twitter: @kentannan | @drjamieaten | @laura_e_finch (Note to the listener: In this podcast, sometimes we'll have evangelicals, sometimes we won't. We thinking learning how to do good better involves listening to lots of perspectives, with different insights and understanding with us. Sometimes it will make us uncomfortable, sometimes we'll agree, sometimes we won't. We think that's good. We want to listen for correction. Especially in our blind spots.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The easiest ways to fix climate change are controlling our population and going vegan, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

If you've ever gotten those morning newsletters in your email box from the New York Times, then you know just how revealing their talking points can be. In this one recent issue, a Times reporter attempts to explain the connection between frigid weather and global warming. The question was asked if there was any relationship between this week’s storms and climate change? Here was their answer: There’s interesting science that suggests the effects of a warming world have something to do with these sudden bursts of Arctic cold, as well. The cold air at the top of the world, the polar vortex, is usually held in place by the circulating jet stream. The Northern Hemisphere’s warming appears to be weakening the jet stream, and when sudden blasts of heat in the stratosphere punch into the vortex, that Arctic air can spill down into the middle latitudes. They went on to use the phrase “global weirding.” The Texas Freeze fallout is still being felt, and the blame game is on full display. “The people responsible for this must be held accountable. Greg Abbott must be held accountable for his lack of planning," Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said. Yet on the other side of that debate is: "Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans blamed green energy for Texas’ power woes. But the state runs on fossil fuels," explains The Texas Tribune. As Malcolm points out, how rich? We've gone from global warming to climate change and now global weirding. They'll keep making names up so long as people will buy into their money scheme!

If people don't care about climate change, the best way to get them on board is to scare the pants off them, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

If we can keep the Earth's temperature from warming more than two degrees, we'll be totally fine. But if it goes even a tiny bit above, we're screwed right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

What happens in the Arctic stays in the Arctic... We don't really need glaciers and sea ice, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Isn't a warmer world a better world? I mean, who minds a little warmer weather, right?  Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

I've heard that those white streaks we see criss-crossing the sky are part of a secret government experiment to control the population... Is that true? Learn more about conspiracy theories surrounding climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change, it's just a money grab for scientists to rake in millions of dollars from government grants, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Climate change matters to life on land, but the oceans... They're so big! They'll be fine, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Are the latest hurricanes caused by global warming or not? These days it seems like there's no shortage of devastating weather events unfolding around the entire world. Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Carbon dioxide is plant food, and animals can adapt to a changing climate because they've done it before, right? So what's the big deal? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

"Renewable energy." It's a nice fad, but it's way too expensive, right? Learn more about the emergence of renewable energy, energy storage, and more on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

All this worry about warming when it's just a natural cycle. Climate's always changed and today's no different, right? Learn more about the ins and outs of climate change on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

When it comes to climate change, the cake is BAKED! It is too late to do anything about it! At this point all we can do is sit back and get ready for a truly wild ride... right? Learn more about what actually CAN be done and why it's not too late to change our fate on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

I'm just one person, and climate change is such a huge overwhelming problem! No matter how hard I try and no matter how small I shrink my carbon footprint, it won't make a difference, right? Learn more about what one person can do to be a part of the solution on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

My elected official isn't on board with climate science; they're saying crazy things like the data is fake or the planet's not even warming. Could you just come and talk to them? If you explain the science clearly, I know they'll get it... right? Learn more about the reasons why some people reject climate science on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

I'm an Evangelical, so climate can't be changing because God's in control, not us! And even if it is, who cares, the world's going to end anyways. That's what all Evangelicals think, right? The answer may surprise you on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

In June of 2015, the Pope issued a formal report called an encyclical on climate change. Some were puzzled, "they're not a scientist!" they said, "why is a religious leader weighing in on climate change?" Learn why climate change isn't just a scientific issue on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Crazy weather? We see it all the time. Here in Texas, WE GET IT! Hail and haboobs, blizzards and heat waves, tornados and tropical storms. So there's been a lot of extreme weather in the news lately, that doesn't mean anything's different, right? Learn a bit about weather, climate and more on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

The world is getting warmer, so what? Sure it matters to the polar bears and maybe some people who live on low lying islands in the South Pacific, but honestly the world's just warmed by a degree celsius or a degree and a half Farenheit. We've weathered far bigger changes than that before, right? Learn more about Global Warming than just polar bears and ice caps on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Scientists are always changing their mind about stuff. One day coffee's good for you, the next day it's bad. We should just wait until they figure out this global warming thing for good before we take it too seriously, right? Learn about the scientific consensus on climate change and how it's become one of the most polarizing political issues in the United States on this episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Texans don't care about climate change, this state will live and die on fossil fuels, right? Learn a bit about the great state of Texas that might surprise you on this second episode of Global Weirding!   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Global warming... Climate change... Whatever people are calling it these days, it hasn't been around for that long, right? Learn about the history of climate science and how we got to now on this first episode of Global Weirding.   Global Weirding was originally a video series. You can watch even more episodes of Global Weirding at globalweirdingseries.com

Regardless of what we might think about climate change, many of us have bought into a very insidious myth about it...   You are listening to Global Weirding, the podcast! Visit globalweirdingseries.com to watch video versions of every episode!   Global Weirding is produced by Texas Tech Public Media.

2020 has been a wild year for Planet Earth, and many of us would like this roller coaster to end. Unfortunately, the threat of climate change looms over the horizon, and we have already seen its effects on our most vulnerable populations. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is an endowed professor in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University, she hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and she has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Joel and Ted interview Dr. Hayhoe on what we can actually do about climate change, as well as what to do when you run into Martha Stewart at an awards ceremony. Follow Dr. Hayhoe: Twitter // @KHayhoe Instagram // @katharinehayhoe www.katharinehayhoe.com --- Project Drawdown (drawdrown.org) --- Follow VENN: Instagram // @vennthepodcast Twitter // @vennthepodcast --- Follow Joel: Instagram // @joel.sam.i.am | Twitter // @joelthesamurai Follow Ted: Goodreads --- Contact us at vennthepodcast@gmail.com

The CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program is excited to launch our new podcast -- Theories of Change -- with our first guest, Dr. Katherine Hayhoe. Katherine is an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center. With host Sarah Ladislaw, Katherine walks us through how prepared the world is to combat climate change and where we need to be in the coming decades. She also shares with us how to find common ground when talking about how to find climate change solutions. More about Katherine can be found here. Be sure to check out her videos and lectures, especially the Global Weirding series.

The dialogue surrounding climate change is often passionate and sometimes contentious, especially when it touches on people’s livelihoods, religion, or political beliefs. So how can those seeking action get past the rancor and have a constructive dialogue? In this episode of Heat of the Moment, host John D. Sutter speaks with Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of political science at Texas Tech University, who regularly engages with audiences in deep-red states and other places where going green is seen as political treason. Hayhoe also hosts a digital video series for PBS called Global Weirding that seeks to present the discussion on climate change in an inclusive way. Later on in the episode, Belgian journalist Jan De Deken discusses why he created the Polar Project, an effort to tell the story of those impacted by climate change using a wide range of mediums including virtual reality and live performances.

The dialogue surrounding climate change is often passionate and sometimes contentious, especially when it touches on people’s livelihoods, religion, or political beliefs. So how can those seeking action get past the rancor and have a constructive dialogue? In this episode of Heat of the Moment, host John D. Sutter speaks with Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of political science at Texas Tech University, who regularly engages with audiences in deep-red states and other places where going green is seen as political treason. Hayhoe also hosts a digital video series for PBS called Global Weirding that seeks to present the discussion on climate change in an inclusive way. Later on in the episode, Belgian journalist Jan De Deken discusses why he created the Polar Project, an effort to tell the story of those impacted by climate change using a wide range of mediums including virtual reality and live performances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil deGrasse Tyson explores coronavirus and climate change with co-host Chuck Nice, Gavin A. Schmidt, PhD, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and climate scientist and Global Weirding host Katharine Hayhoe, PhD. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/coronavirus-and-climate-change-with-neil-degrasse-tyson/ Thanks to our Patrons – Taylor Brandt, Carlene Goodbody, Leonard Saldana, Kaden Kartsone, Nicole Deschaine, Jeremy Newman, Nathan Hwee, and Nicholas Marazoff – for supporting us this week. Photo Credit: Earther/Gizmodo.

Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist. And she’s a Christian. You may have noticed that climate change is not a topic that is often brought into the church because it often seems to divide people more than bring them together. But Katharine wants to change that. Her science doesn’t come in spite of her faith but because of it. She sits down with Jim Stump to talk specifically about some of the common misconceptions about climate change, the science of how we know about past climate changes, and the effects we see in the world today. She ends with some practical solutions and a call for rational hope.  Katharine Hayhoe is the Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law in the Department of Political Science, a director of the Climate Center, and an associate in the Public Health program of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Texas Tech University. She and her husband wrote A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions, a book that untangles the complex science and tackles many long-held misconceptions about global warming. Her TED talk titled “the most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it” has been viewed over 2.5 million times. Find a conversation about this episode at the BioLogos Forum. Find Katharine on Twitter for any follow-up Recommended Resources: Climate CaretakersClimate StewardsThe Evangelical Environmental NetworkGlobal Weirding with Katharine HayhoeLIT Consulting for energy auditsProject DrawdownWorld Evangelical Alliance Clean Energy InitiativeYoung Evangelicals for Climate Action

In this episode we’re talking about Climate Change and Climate Crisis Non-Fiction! We talk about being depressed, capitalism, actions individuals can take, and more! Plus, we ask the important question: Are scientists people? You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Helen Brown Things We Read Un autre regard sur le climat by Emma On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States by US Global Change Research UN’s IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees of Global Warming  SOS: What You Can Do to Reduce Climate Change by Seth Wynes  Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times by Mary Francis Berry UN’s IPCC Climate Change and Land report Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health by Jay Lemery, Paul Auerbach Other Media We Mention When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells The 2019 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Ensuring that the Health of a Child Born Today is not Defined by a Changing Climate   The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health: Reports on global food resources and the planetary health diet  Science Council of Canada reports: Report no.16: It Is Not Too Late Yet Report no. 27: Canada as a Conserver Society: Resource Uncertainties... Links, Articles, and Things Helen’s Climate Change and Climate Crisis Reads spreadsheet Global Weirding by Katharine Hayhoe  Helen says : “I should have mentioned these videos created by a climate scientist that are actually really nice and not depressing to watch. Watching Dr. Hayhoe is a very nice, friendly way to absorb climate science. She also does many interviews, writes articles, and is very active on Twitter.” Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 17th we’ll be talking about Objectifying Books! Then on Tuesday, April 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Historical Fiction!

Bernice Butler and Co-Host Tony Keene from EarthX, welcome expert Katharine Hayhoe. In this special episode Hayhoe addresses climate-deniers, clean energy, and faith. Hayhoe dives into energy production, where 75% of our pollution comes from fossil fuels, and the easiest and most impactful way to combat this is clean energy. However, the richest corporations in the world are currently being subsidized by the tax payer to keep the cost of fossil fuels low. This is a fact that most people don’t realize. Many people think that clean energy is being subsidized because of the rebates we receive when we purchase electric vehicles. In reality, these rebates are 10% of the subsidy that are given to the fossil fuel industry (the International Monetary fund breaks this all down). It all breaks down to fact that big industry is profiting from taxpayer’s money to continue our reliance on an outdated, and frankly dirty way, of producing energy that we have since outgrown. The bad news about our current energy sectors, 200,000 people day in the USA alone from air pollution, chemicals and dangerous pollutants leach into our streams and waterways and soil every day from the fossil fuel industry causes endless health risks. The good news, we’re making progress, United airline is running biofuel flights out of LAX. Energy and fuel are straightforward ways to implement clean energy. Other spheres are more complicated, but with a mix of new clean energy technology we can tackle all our energy sectors. Further, Hayhoe reminds our listeners that the only “type of person” you have to be to care about climate change is a human. We don’t need to move climate change up to the top of our list, because climate change impacts everything on our list already. We must come together on what we already care about, may it be our faith, our jobs or our health, to connect the dots to climate action. For the number one most important thing we can do about climate change is…TALK ABOUT IT. Hayhoe references her incredible Youtube series Global Weirding, watch her series on nadallas.com, healthylivinghealthyplanetradio.com and of course on her youtube channel. Community Pulse: General Honoré joins HLHP to speak about climate change, leadership and mobilizing action. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University and is the host and producer of the PBS series Global Weirding. I asked her everything you want to know about climate change but were afraid to ask. Hayhoe has a positive, upbeat manner that leaves listeners feeling as if she’s talking about planning the best birthday party ever rather than warning about climate change. Perhaps that is her appeal. She has earned a reputation—she’s been named to Time’s 100 most influential people list and Fortune added her to their World’s Greatest Leaders list—for being able to communicate climate science better than most. She explained why a difference as small as two degrees actually matters, why she calls it global weirding, how she explains climate science to skeptics who are religious, and the respective roles of big business, entrepreneurs and individuals in fighting climate science. Customarily, I think it is my role as a Forbes contributor to distill a source’s insights into digestible bites for my readers. Hayhoe is such an effective communicator that I’ve instead chosen to provide you with a lightly edited transcription of most of our conversation (I still hope you’ll watch or listen to the full interview.) Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2YzW7FV.

I talk with Karenna Gore, Director of the Center for Earth Ethics from Union Theological Seminary about climate justice, spirituality, and how to parent our children through climate anxiety. She talks beautifully about how the climate justice moment is clarifying our interconnectedness and how to find authentic community in the social movement for life. Lots of recommendations for more resources, see the links below. There’s really some deep wisdom in this episode all, don’t miss it! Links (affiliates included): Center for Earth Ethics - https://centerforearthethics.org  Karenna Gore on twitter - https://twitter.com/KarennaGore  The Blessing of a Skinned Knee - https://amzn.to/2QUUDnK  How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk - https://amzn.to/2XO5xgy  The Uninhabitable Earth - https://amzn.to/2DmAUpk  Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow Parenting Forward Conference Recordings - https://www.parentingforwardconference.com  Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt  Parenting Forward, the Book - https://amzn.to/2GB6eDB  *** EPISODE CREDITS: If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com 

In the next episode of our series, we get to hear from one of the world's leading climate scientists, Katharine Hayhoe. She's done her homework and knows her stuff. Katharine has a huge heart for people and cares deeply about communicating her message in a way people will hear and understand. Let's dive into how Church and Climate cross paths. For more information, visit Katharine's website, watch the Global Weirding series, or read her articles here and here.

Matthew H. Goldberg (@MattGoldberg100) is my guest on this episode. He's a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. He's an expert in social psychological topics related to communication, such as attitudes and persuasion, motivated reasoning, and ideology.  We discuss Matt's recent paper A Social Identity Approach to Engaging Christians in the Issue of Climate Change, published this month in Science Communication. We also talk about related work at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, where Matt works.  Matt talked about Katherine Hayhoe, an Evangelical Christian and climate activist, during the episode. Here is a short biographical video on Katherine Hayhoe from NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers series. Her YouTube channel is Global Weirding with Katherine Hayhoe. Here is a transcript of this episode. Related Links: * Open Science Framework: Persuasive Climate Change Messages to Christian (data from the studies we discussed) * Yale Climate Opinion: Visualizations and Data * Matthew Goldberg on Google Scholar * A Social Identity Approach to Engaging Christians in the Issue of Climate Change by Matthew H. Goldberg, Abel Gustafson, et al. * Discussing Global Warming Leads to Greater Acceptance of Climate Science by Matthew H. Goldberg, Sander van der Linden, et al. * Perceived Social Consensus Can Reduce Ideological Biases on Climate Change by Matthew H. Goldberg, Sander van der Linden, et al. Rating the Show If you enjoyed this show, please rate it on iTunes: * Go to the show’s iTunes page and click “View in iTunes”* Click “Ratings and Reviews” which is to the right of “Details”* Next to “Click to Rate” select the stars. See the full list of episodes of Half Hour of Heterodoxy >>

This week we talked to Dr. Bryan Mark and Jim DeGrand at Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center about “Global Weirding” and what we as central Ohioans can expect from and do about our changing climate.

QUICK/READ: What world do you hope to save from the devastating impacts of climate change? Changing Climate Times posted that question to Twitter a while back. We got answers from an Irish artist, an online climate denial warrior and iconic climatologist Michael E. Mann, among others. Me, I’m trying to save the kick-up-your-heels world shown in the photo below. Not to mention pawpaw ice cream from seeds once shat out by a wooly mammoth. For all the answers we got, listen to podcast 3, issue 21 of Changing Climate Times. Or read the transcript below, if that’s more your thing. If this issue was forwarded to you, subscribe to the newsletter & podcast at: changingclimatetimes.substack.com | Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and wherever you listen to podcasts. | Follow us on Twitter at @TimesClimateBe well. | CCT Curator, Concierge and Host Douglas John Imbrogno | PS: Thanks to Kyle Vass for his primo podcast coaching!ONE | Introductions Are in OrderI am trying to save a world in which my Italian grandmother dances the Tarantella with her youngest son at her 50th wedding anniversary at the American Slovak Club in Lorain, Ohio.Like a lot of journalists these days, I got washed out of a job last year. My editor handed me  a white envelope in the newsroom to let me know my 30 year news career was kaput. I was a feature writer and editor for that newspaper for a long time.One of the ways I've spent my time—lots of time—since being laid off is publishing a free climate change newsletter and companion podcast called The ChangingClimateTimes.Free as in, like, no-money-at-all free.Every day, I scour world media and social media for the latest news and views on the unfolding climate crisis. I offer my commentary or that of climate scientists, activists and communicators.I try to steer a course—as the newsletter's pitch puts it—"between the dire news and what to do.” I also add homemade climate memes and climate-themed cartoons to spice the mix.Going from straight feature writing to advocacy has been a real change-up for me. At my old newspaper, I’m still (in)famous for writing the paper’s longest-ever feature. More than 100 inches! It concerned the—I will still argue—fascinating history of the ancient pawpaw tree and its custardy fruit, “How the Pawpaw Was Found, Got Lost, and Was Found Again.” (Don’t get me started. Did you know old-timers hung roadkill in pawpaw branches since their flowers are pollinated by flies and…)What’s do pawpaws and flies have to do with this climate crisis?TWO | Count to One MillionImage from 11/27/18 New York Times article “The Insect Apocalypse Is Here.”Maybe you’ve heard about the recent United Nations report. It stated one million species are at risk in decades ahead from an overheated Earth. That number would likely include pawpaw trees and their delicious banana-mango-flavored fruit. And that list of one million species? Probably the average fly, too. The pawpaw fruit is born from flies pollinating the flowers. And flies are in the cross-hairs of the  ‘insect apocalypse,' a pretty scary phrase that refers to the collapse of insect populations from a climate going haywire.Last year, the New York Times ran an article, “The Insect Apocalypse Is Here. What Does It Mean for the Rest of Life on Earth?”An insect apocalypse. The effects of this apocalypse are noticeable in our own backyards, as we sit on our porches gazing into the dark and wondering “Where did all the fireflies go?”As the conservation site firefly.org notes: “Fireflies are disappearing from marshes, fields and forests all over the country—and all over the world. And if it continues, fireflies may fade forever, leaving our summer nights a little darker and less magical.” Pause a second to absorb that United Nations report number: 1,000,000, in all its zeroes. That is a pretty impressive screw-up by one species—to do to so many other species.If, that is, we can somehow transform our eat-the-Earth global economy.If.“If” is the linchpin in all climate crisis discourse.If — we can toss out climate change denying and delaying politicians who don’t seem to give a damn about the future of this world. Or give a damn, it even seems for their own children and grandchildren.If — we can claw back power from the coal-fired, petroleum-addict “petro-states,” small and large. Like Saudi Arabia. The United States. Venezuela. China. The Soviet Union. List your country here…THREE | Strike Now!A global climate strike is coming to planet Earth Sept. 20 to 27, 2019Then, you get to petro-states’ partners in climate crime: the King Midas-rich 'fossil fuel-industrial complex.’Frontline climate scientist Michael E. Mann calls this industry the wealthiest, most powerful one in human history. It holds the fate of the planet and humanity in its smudged and oily hands.The fossil fuel industrial complex wants you to be impressed by the millions of dollars they have spent showcasing their ‘commitment’ to renewable energy. Instead, focus on the bottom-line billions, earned weekly by this industry. They’re on a CO2-fueled, permafrost-melting, extreme-weather intensifying bender. If any of this news sounds shocking to you—it’s shocking to me, even after 21 issues of Changing Climate Times—then it might be time to hit the streets for the planet-wide global climate strike coming the week of Sept. 20 to 27, 2019. Greta Thunberg’s solo school strike (the one that began in Stockholm, Sweden in late 2018) has inspired global youth climate strikers to take action. Let’s join them—mark the week of September 20 to 27 on your calendars— There are more than 150 countries where youth strikes now take place every Friday. Plan a local action where you live at globalclimatestrike.net.Strike now, you might say.While the planet is hot.FOUR | Pawpaws and MamawsPawpaws eaten today may have originated from wooly mammoth poop. | Photo: Indiana Public MediaRecently, I posed a question on the @TimesClimate timeline with the hashtag #ClimateTwitter. Why do this work of climate science? Of climate activism? Of climate communication? Why do it, given the long odds of transforming the fossil fuel industry?I, mean, really. At an intensely personal level. Why do you do it?It’s a lot of work. Even for weekend warrior climate communicators like myself. For the high-profile, full-time climate science professionals and activists, it comes with no small amount of grief. For Greta Thunberg, her grief isn’t just watching the planet she loves turn to an actual hell (complete with fire and brimstone). Greta is routinely portrayed as a pawn of avaricious parents. Climate change deniers pan her as a pawn to some economy-destroying, socialist cadre of United Nations globalism.High-profile—heck, even medium- and low-profile climate figures—face powerful pushback from fossil fuel industry minions and climate science deniers This pushback includes death threats and character assassination. Climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe, who hosts the popular “Global Weirding” podcast,  says she has been likened to “the handmaiden of the Antichrist.” So, here’s the question I tweeted to the #climatechange cognoscenti: Dear #climatetwitter: What world are you trying to save with your climate work?To start off my list of the world I was trying to save, I posted to Twitter a photo of my Calabrian-born Italian grandmother, shot decades ago at the American Slovak Club in Lorain, Ohio. She was a dear, oversize woman—a big waddling lovable penguin who always wanted to put some meat on my skinny bones.The photos shows her in a blue dress, kicking up her heels as she dances the Italian Tarantella beside her youngest son, who is also kicking up his heels in a suit and tie. I wrote in my Twitter post:I want to preserve a world where my Italian Grandma Catherine dances the Tarantella with her sons at her 50th wedding anniversary.But let’s go back, way back. Before my Grandma Catherine’s birth on a steep southern Italian hillside. Did you KNOW the pawpaw is so old that 50 million years ago giant North American sloths, wooly mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers ate pawpaws. Then, they shat pawpaw seeds far and wide across what we now call America, establishing future pawpaw patches? So, I also fight to preserve a world where you can buy a pawpaw ice cream cone, made from local West Virginia pawpaws at Ellen’s Homemade Ice Cream shop in downtown Charleston, W.Va. From wooly mammoth to a crisp waffle cone.Now, that’s a world worth saving. (Like I said, don’t get me started on pawpaws.)FIVE | ‘Climate Is Killing Us Already’Artist Elida Malques wants to be able to make whistles with apricot stones for every Spring to come. | Image by Elida MalquesOther answers rolled in on Twitter.As  a 2017 Guardian commentary once noted: “From Africa to the US to Haiti, climate change is a race issue,” among other things:“Climate change and the extreme weather events it produces disproportionately affects black and poor communities,” that commentary noted.So, a response came in from the Twitter account Tamara To’L . Tamara Toles O’Laughlin describes herself as an analyst and environmental “advocate for people and planet.” She responded with a happy family photo of a smiling kid and two adult women.She added an often missing perspective of how climate change is already walloping the non-powerful and non-wealthy. As she wrote:“I’m trying my best to lift up the diaspora of the black community. Climate is killing us already, taking the little we have, swallowing our homes, hope and land, it’s a multiplier that breaks and separates our families in ways set and served up by the status quo.” Another response came from the Twitter account ‘Elidasaur.’ Elida Malques is a visual artist and teacher based in Bray, Ireland. What world was she trying to save? She answered:“I want to be able to make whistles with apricot stones, every Spring to come. “Whoa, wait! ‘How do you do make a whistle from an apricot pit?’ I asked back.Being an artist, she answered with the illustrated guide above. PS:  I dearly hope someone will add her apricot pit whistle-making instructions to the Wikipedia entry for apricot.SIX | ‘Happy kids and unbroken adults’A Twitter climate change warrior friend named Peter, who runs the Twitter account ‘Peter Believes in Science Not Dogma,’ answered the question. Peter’s account toils at the front-lines of climate science denialists on Twitter. He spends endless hours refuting and engaging with this denialists. Peter patiently goes mano-a-mano with deniers. May the gods bless him. He flags bots and hopeless trolls. He tries to engage with the engageable. Peter is not a climate scientist, but a private citizen. According to one of Peter’s tweets, he decided in 2018 “to stop watching trolls attack climate science and DO something about it.”“I can only relate my own personal experience defending science against trolls as well as educating the public,” he writes. “I'm not paid to spend my time on social media in any way, nor do I make any money here.” But Peter’s response to ‘What world are you trying to save?’ had nothing to do with climate science denial:“The world I grew up in is one of happy illusions, but it's still a good one. We NEED a world of happy kids and whole, unbroken adults. I want to help CREATE a world where everyone is able to reach their potential, and to do so without curtailing that of others—a tall order.”Two responses to the question were more melancholic. A French woman responded from the Twitter account @arraigneedusoir:I want to preserve a world where desert islands hide treasures, not abandoned cities or traces of people and animals long gone.A response arrived from Byron Williston, whose Twitter account announces: “Philosophy professor, climate ethicist, Gaia-smitten extinction rebel. Egregious stupidity blocked.”His response was more tough-love maudlin. He name-checked Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning, post-apocalyptic novel, “The Road”: I’d be happy if the whole bloody thing doesn’t just become The Road. Low expectations.EIGHT | Save the Leaping DolphinsMichael E. Mann is determined to have his family and descendants be able to return and again marvel at the natural wonders of the Floria Keys.Climate scientist Michael E. Mann responded to my tweet. He posted an excerpt from the epilogue to his 2013 book, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines.” The book details the relentless, bare-knuckled attacks on the early work on climate change by Mann and fellow scientists. Their research produced the famous “hockey stick graphic.” The graphic earned a global audience with a 2001 U.N. report on climate change.The graphic revealed how fast our planet’s temperature has risen in contemporary times, compared to the stable climate of the past 1,000 years. The hockey stick graphic became an iconic climate change image. As one writer put it, the “hockey stick” was not just scientific data made shockingly clear. But an “implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.”But Mann did not post graphics or data in response to my question: What world are you trying to save with your climate work? He sent along a poignant excerpt from the epilogue to “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” about a visit with his young daughter to the Florida Keys. Here is the excerpt in full:My four-year-old daughter was entranced by the Keys—the mangrove forests, the sonorous birds, the leaping dolphins, the coral reefs with their exotic and colorful fish. It was unlike anything she had ever seen. In fact, three generations of my family—my parents, my wife and me, and our daughter—were all sharing this mutual opportunity to enjoy one of Earth’s true wonders—and authentic key lime pie. I didn’t have the heart to tell our daughter that this island paradise was under assault—by us. That the warming and increasingly acidic ocean was slowly killing the reefs, that increasingly destructive hurricanes would subject them to further insult, and that projected sea level rise over the next few decades under “business as usual” emissions would literally submerge vast regions of the Florida Keys, including the wildlife refuges home to so many of its unique species. Nor do I have the heart to tell her now that the majestic scene of giraffes and elephants looming in the foreground of Ernest Hemingway’s “Snows of Kilimanjaro” may soon become a casualty of our warming of the planet.I am determined to do whatever I can to make sure that it will be possible for us to return decades from now—my wife and me, our daughter, her children, and perhaps theirs—to again marvel at these natural wonders. While slowly slipping away, that future is still within the realm of possibility. It is a matter of what path we choose to follow. I hope that my fellow scientists—and concerned individuals everywhere—will join me in the effort to make sure we follow the right one.NINE | What World Do You Hope to Save?If you’d like to respond to the question, I’ll post the best answers in a future edition of Changing Climate Times newsletter. So ponder this: What world are you trying to save?Respond in the comments below or at changingclimatetimes.substack.com or to douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com.If this issue was forwarded to you, subscribe to the newsletter & podcast at: changingclimatetimes.substack.com | Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and wherever you listen to podcasts. | Follow us on Twitter at @TimesClimateBe well.CCT Curator, Concierge and Host Douglas John Imbrogno | PS: Thanks to Kyle Vass for his primo podcast coaching! Get on the email list at changingclimatetimes.substack.com

Meet Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist with Atmos Research and Consulting and Professor & Director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. Sometimes, I unexpectedly bump into a guest at an event, conference, or randomly out in the world.  Other times, a friend, like Andrew over at the Sounds and Vision podcast, will suggest a guest because they know who or what will make me geek out - like today’s guest, Katharine. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist to some and a self-proclaimed Jezebel of climate change. Her research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people in the places where they actually live. (Breathe! She’ll describe what that means in this episode in a non-science-y way for us layfolks). As a first time beekeeper and lover of long walks in nature, climate change is definitely something I think (ok, worry) about on the regular. Katharine’s also a Professor at Texas Tech University and the host of the PBS digital series Global Weirding. She's been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and Fortune’s 50 world's greatest leaders.  In this episode, we talk about climate change, including how it’s affecting those of us living in Northern America. We also talk about how we talk about any complex issue, like climate change, and what we can actually do to change it in our own unique ways.  We talk about girl power (and the impact of daughters on their conservative dads). We chat about science-y and religious-y smokescreens, including how to recognize and dismantle them. We tackle toxic trolling and the toxic package of fear and loss.  As you listen to this episode, I have two challenges for you. First, I challenge you to think of a woman in your life that needs to know about Katherine and her work. Who would nerd out about this topic, too? Please share this episode with them. Second, think about one tiny action that you can take to make a positive impact on climate change today. Katharine (and the book Drawdown below offer so many choices). We all need to do our part. Have a listen.  Selected link love + resources from the episode can be found here:  https://www.vitalcorpswellness.com/blog/lvcs-0070-katharine-hayhoe    

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is a professor at Texas Tech University, she hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and she has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and Fortune’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders. CCL 2019 Conference Presentations & Videos: http://cclusa.org/presentationsFollow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/CitizensClimateLobbyTwitter: https://twitter.com/citizensclimate

Guy Mcpherson, author most recently of 'Only Love Remains', joins Thom in studio to consider if it may be too late to human-caused climate change. Do you think he is right? Is there time to fix the damaging climate change effects or has the Arctic melted too much for us to stop it? ~~~ Thom's insightful listeners add their ideas to the climate change debate. ~~~ Thom reads from 'Cities: The First 6000 Years' by Monica L. Smith. ~~~ Nuclear power plants are not prepared for the effects of climate change. Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter discussed the dangers of flooding, earthquakes and climate change on America's nuclear power infrastructure. ~~~ Thom reads from 'Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster' by Adam Higginbotham. ~~~ Thom checks in with Luke Vargas, Chief Foreign Correspondent for Talk Media News.

We are excited to announce the finalists for our April Flash Fiction Contest.  Below you will find all four stories.  Check them out and then vote on our Facebook poll and on Twitter.  The winner will receive the $50.00 cash prize.  April's topic was "The Global Weirding", and we were all truly impressed with the quality of work submitted.  If you did not make the finals this month feel free to submit next month as we will announce the flash fiction topic on May 1st for the May Flash on the Horizon contest.     Finalist #1 TEETH by Laura Ryan   We were on week three of the quarantine when the man arrived. Ioni noticed him first and ran excitedly into the living room where mother was removing the last of papa’s teeth. “Hold still,” she hollered as she twisted and yanked inside his mouth. She held the pliers in one hand and a bloody kitchen towel in the other. Ioni yelled excitedly but she was hard to understand. Her teeth were removed a week ago and she still had trouble speaking clearly. The rest of us had already learned how to use our tongues in a way to make speech comprehensible. Mother stopped what she was doing, mid yank, when she finally understood what Ioni was saying. I was in the corner sharpening the knives and stopped suddenly, feeling a sudden tightening in my chest. Mother’s panic was contagious. “Get in the basement. NOW!” I jumped up and grabbed Ioni and hollered for the others as we headed for the cellar. We practiced this drill countless times since the quarantine began. Sometimes mother and papa woke us up in the middle of the night, startling us with shouts and loud noises, so that we were automatically programmed to run to safety. Huddled on the old couch in the basement we listened to the voices above us. We heard mother and papa and then a stranger, the man, talking in words that were unintelligible. But we understood the tones —- harsh, guttural, pleading. Silence. Then the man’s voice became louder. We understood that he was now inside the house. I looked over at my brothers and sisters, wide eyed. We had not seen another person outside of the family for months, even before the quarantine. Our farm, miles away from the nearest neighbors, afforded us unique protection. We were prepared with food and supplies, and our generator kept our batteries charged. We knew about the virus, the chaos, the danger of others. We also knew about the danger of ourselves. Once the virus infected the central nervous system, it destroyed the prefrontal cortex of the brain. No more rational thought, no more mind controlling the brain. The brain operated solely via the amygdala, which became a hot locus of rage under the virus’ command. Rabies was the old name, a lyssavirus that was transmitted from the saliva of animals, now mutated to spread between humans. This mutation appeared out of nowhere, and with the rampant destruction of civilized society, its origin was impossible to determine. Those with the infection were attacking others, in a blind rage, spreading the virus through bites. Death was rapid, hastened by injuries, and inevitable due to hydrophobia, a virally mediated fear of water. I silently crept to the base of the stairs, straining to hear anything from above. Silence. I slowly climbed the steps despite the wild gesturing of my siblings. No one made a sound but their terror was palpable. I continued to the door and pressed my ear against it. Silence. I pushed the door open a crack and peered through. I could see mother’s body on the floor, blood pooling around head. Despite my fear I pressed on, needing to know what lay around the corner. I pressed my back tightly against the wall and continued to edge further from the basement door. I saw him then, crouched in the corner of the living room, examining the knives I had been sharpening just minutes before. He turned to look at me, wild, disheveled, a layer of grime coating his face. His eyes were black, but his teeth. His teeth were a grotesque, dazzling white. Finalist #2 The Monolith by Ross T Byers Today, God crushed Svetlana under His stone heel, mashing her meat and marrow deep into the soil.  God, like the wind over the steppes, never ceases when one is in the way.  Or, perhaps it is more accurate to say that the wind is like God, never pausing to notice us.  The steppes are littered with cragged, sharp, broken stones, the bones and bodies of God’s brothers, whom He slew.  He broke them apart, divine fratricide, and scattered the pieces.  The grass is low and yellow, the sky is always gray, and the wind never rests.  It is best to get close to God at night, for his body blocks the wind, but those too near are crushed to death when He rolls over in his sleep.  It is safer to sleep near the bones of His long-dead brothers, though the wind always finds its way around to us.  In the morning, we scrub the bird excrement off God.  We must do it in the early light, before He wakens and rises.  Those who plummet from His towering stone shoulders, or who are crushed under His massive granite feet are left in the mud, their blood nourishing the yellow grass.  We must always follow God.  He is our protector.  He is our life, our purpose, our joy.   II. Once, Nadezhda failed to climb down from scrubbing God before He awoke.  She clung to the fissures in God’s torso, wedging her finger-tips into the crevices as God stood.  God looked down at Nadezhda, gravel flaking from His neck, His wind-worn face no more than an outline, a suggestion, its expression fixed.  He cupped Nadezhda in His left hand.  We wept at the sight.  We knelt in awe.  God had never acknowledged or touched one of us before.  Nadezhda lay prostrate in God’s palm, senseless with bliss.  Then God braced the middle finger of His right hand against His thumb, and flicked Nadezhda off His palm.  For a moment, a misty red cloud hung in the sky, suspended above God’s palm as the pieces of Nadezhda scattered to the horizon.   III. The wind always wins.  Many people tire of its ceaseless howling, the endless struggle, how it always blows in our faces no matter in which direction God is leading us.  He is our only shelter.  He walks forward, into the wind, never blinking or halting.  We avoid His footprints, which are deep and wide, and sometimes fill with groundwater.  Only when there is a flooded footprint can we slake our thirst.  His footprints are long and wide enough for ten families to kneel and drink.  It takes us one hundred steps to match one of His.  Though his stride is long, it is slow, which allows us to keep pace at a respectful distance behind Him.  Stones fall from God as he walks.  We keep those that are small enough to carry.   Those of us who carry a piece of God are blessed.  The wind whips our hair and tugs at our flesh.  Those who tire of the wind run ahead of God, in order to stand under His falling stone foot.   Finalist #3 The Cry of the Demon Elk by Bryan Dyke   “You’re perfect,” the woman says to me as she sits up in the bed.   Her body is a work of art; smooth lines merge with the soft sheets as the gentle, morning winds caress her. The succubus eyes flash as her dark lashes flutter and her jet hair parts.   I can feel the ground shake softly. Something is wrong.   My smile breaks and I look away from her, through the bedroom and French doors, past the balcony to the tops of the buildings. There is the sprawl of New Orleans beyond those doors; the ramshackle glory of a ruined city sprawls in the morning sun. The shape of rickety sheds atop run-down buildings are crisscrossed with slouching cables and a web of over-loaded clotheslines. The city smells of burning tires, rotten milk spread across pavement, and, of course, stale bourbon. The heat is already swelling in punishing waves. There is a playful sound from the street, a haphazard jangle of horns and laughter, the subtle shouts of both pain and pleasure, the barks and growls of nearby dogs fighting for food.   I look back to the bed and watch her once more; white sheets and white walls, the light is blinding. There is a drink by the pillows that sparkles clear as crystal. She waits for me there.   “Come back to bed,” she purrs prowling.   For the first time in as long as I can remember, my head doesn’t hurt and feel wrong. I ignore the humid waves of air as they swoon from the street. I take the glass and drink, but the water tastes like my own mouth, hot, a broiled nothingness of spit and blood, the thirst unquenched, the craving unappeased. Before I can touch her, however, there is a knock at the door.   Now the stale pause hangs sure. Lust is gone, leaving horror and heat… leaving wrong.   “Who could that be?” she asks.   I know the answer. My hand finds the pistol under the mattress. I get up and the ground shakes harder now. I’m nearly lifted off my feet.   “What was that?” she demands. The passion and desire are gone from her eyes, surrendered to fear. I know the look well.   The door knocks with even more anger. Relentless. Pounding. I rack the bolt to the Glock and listen for them through the door.   “Get under the bed,” I order.   More tremors rumble outside. Now the balcony is covered in sooty clouds. The haze is a choking smoke covering the city. The heat has come alive.   Again, the ground shakes. I can feel the world shimmy as if I’m on a boat riding the waves. Thunder sounds, louder than anything I’ve heard before. Louder than even the bombs as they dropped over San Francisco and broke the world.   The knocking hammers. Wood splinters. I hear voices in German outside my door. Boots. They’re here. The bastards finally found me.   I fill the door with two rounds…maybe three…my ears scream in protest.   “Where’s my rifle?” I bark at the woman on the bed. For a frantic moment, I’m lost in the confusion. Then I see it. The carbine is leaning against a chestnut dresser ready. Yet before I can reach it, glass shatters and I’m shoved by an unseen force out on the balcony.   Flashbangs erupt within the apartment. My head slams the wrought iron gates and blood trickles down. My ears are on fire.   The armed soldiers flow into the room- an orderly stack of helmets and grey bodies clad in bullet-proof vests with submachine guns. The point man barks commands in German, all muffled through his gas mask.   “Police, freeze!” someone else shouts. His accent is thick. My eyes are burning with oleoresin capsicum and the sensation wakes me out of my sweaty stupor. Not a dream.   I raise my pistol and blast the lead man in the neck. Red blood spits outward. The next man freezes in the door, unable to get past his fallen comrade. I plug him as well, but his thick vest takes the round and merely knocks him flat. I fire four more shots, two blindly into the drywall next to the door.   I need my rifle, I think, but it’s nowhere to be found.   I can feel the woman tug at my arm to lift me up, her nails sinking into my flesh. She is screaming but now I can’t hear her voice. I lift my hand to my ears and feel them coated in blood.   Now I look back again to the French doors and outside. Oven doors. Dusted plaster is everywhere, the city is a pocket of hell. This is not another nuclear bomb. The heat is rising, unbearable.   The sky ripples with crackling booms. I cannot take my eyes off the smoke outside, off the clouds and sky. Distant, there is the call of an elk, an ungodly animal-like cry, and my whole body quakes.   “Sich...” the German voice calls from the breach, but I interrupt him with two more rounds toward the door and wall.   The hall outside goes silent. The world has stopped. Just then, I notice I’ve been shot as well. The red blood drips from my shoulder, but all I feel is burning heat and listen to a silence interrupted by the sizzling of my blood as it taps upon the wrought iron.   The city goes dark, I look out across the clotheslines, and rooftops, to see the maw of hell itself open. A black spire of awful storm churns. The ground boils. Madness. The clouds part and the form of the colossal knee-cap and elephantine shin lumbers through the sliver of sunlight. A shin. The shadow above it is huge, a giant humanoid mountain, a monster beyond anything I could imagine. A shadow….a shadow that burns.   I drop my pistol. This is the way the world was broken. The distant sound of an elk cries. Blood and tears boil away.   Finalist #4 Clean Slates by Eleanor Sciolistein Aside from the event that changed the world forever, May 11th was a typical Tuesday. People got up and had breakfast. They sent each other emails and commuted to their jobs. They talked, and fought, ate and made love. They laughed and cried, were born and died. Just like any Tuesday. Some, living in the parts of the world where the sun rose first, had already said goodnight to Tuesday by the time the blackout came. They’d set their alarms for Wednesday, and blindly fallen asleep, confident that the next day would be pretty much the same. Only, it wasn’t. The blackout came at 5.15pm GMT. It lasted exactly 7.4 seconds. 7.4 seconds in which everyone, the whole world, went to sleep. When they awoke, in their new reality, every person’s soul, was visible. For most, to experience even a seven second blackout, was terrifying. There were of course circumstances where those seven seconds made a big difference. There were hundreds of thousands of accidents globally. Some people died as a result of the blackout. For those who remained, it took a while to realise that it wasn’t just you.  Everyone had felt it. One minute you were going about your day, then suddenly, it was like someone had hit the pause button. When you came to, you knew time had passed. Only a tiny sliver, but, you knew. Then of course, there were the nodes. By 5.16pm GMT on Tuesday 11th May,  every human being on the planet had grown a node. It sat between the eyebrows, around the size of an aubergine and looked as if it were made of delicately blown glass. Inside, a thick white liquid swirled and eddied. Within days doctors had proclaimed to the world’s frantic media, that the nodes were connected via tissue and nerves to the human brain at a point between the eyebrows, where some cultures believed the so called ‘third eye’ was located. How the entire globe had suddenly sprouted a new, visible, organ in the centre of their foreheads was a matter of much discussion. Some said it was a form of evolutionary process that we were unaware of. Others, a spontaneous mutation brought about by some massive cosmic event. The consensus only really formed when the nodes started to change. For the first week or so, everyone’s node was the same. Early in the second week however, some people’s nodes started to alter. The effect was like seeing a droplet of indian ink fall into a bowl of milk. A small black spot would appear and slowly begin to bleed out, leaking into the pearlescent whiteness of the liquid. Then, more black spots would appear, like cavities in a tooth, spreading with a sense of creeping decay. It was in the third week that people began to agree on what the nodes were. Somehow and in some way, the transparent bulb in the centre of each person’s forehead, was the physical, visible, content of their soul. It was noted that children had bright white nodes that would remain virtually unblemished ‘till adolescence. Newborns, still innocent, had nodes so white they almost seemed to glow. In prisons across the globe, violent offenders attempted to shield the fact that their nodes were blackened, like something burnt. Experiments were done to track the effects. Evil deeds made it blacken, selfless deeds made it whiten, though some stains were hard to remove. Who the arbiter of the nodes was, remained a mystery. As did their origin and purpose. What was no longer a mystery however, was a person’s character. Highly respected individuals were revealed to be venomously wicked people with soot black souls, their protestations of innocence falling upon deaf ears. Some politicians had their nodes tattooed to conceal their blemished souls. Secretive wrongdoers suffered. Their evil exposed. Their souls, like rorschach tests, splattered and stained by their deeds.   The first year of visible souls was beautiful. There was peace, harmony, a species of love. Knowing that their every action was visible and held a consequence made people behave differently. They became gentle, considerate, more thoughtful toward each other. The world was almost, for a moment, loving. It was not, however, truthful or free and the cracks began to show. It was early in the second year that dissenting voices were heard. They talked about freedom, human nature, survival of the fittest. They said that whiter than white, was unachievable, unnatural. They said that a life being ‘good’ for fear of punishment was a life wearing chains of your own making. They said the human soul was meant to have dark spots, that evil didn’t exist, but that violence was natural. Violence drove survival, our evolution. Within weeks the phrase ‘Free Will’ was plastered on every surface. Overpopulation was still a problem that needed to be fixed.  As pressure increased, thoughts of now and of me, became more important. People became less forgiving, less tolerant, less pathetic. Soon enough, the colour of the soul, helped the strong pick out the weak.   Something snapped and a necessary change occurred. The whitest souls were labelled as freaks, burdens and parasites. First they were rounded up, then many were eliminated. In the fight for resources, being kind doesn’t help. The stained were the strong, they said. The unblemished  were the weak. Only the stained are really free they said, only the stained are truly human. Noone wants to be unblemished now. Sin is survival. You learn to be a predator or end up as the prey. Last year we crowned a leader. His node is black as ebony and this, they say, is right. Now the stained rule, the unblemished live as slaves. I can’t help but wonder, if whoever gave us souls, would despair to see what we have all become,  or if,  instead, they’d rejoice at what they’d helped us to achieve. The true realisation, of who we were really are.

Host Peterson Toscano visits with 3 Evangelicals fighting climate change, Kyle Meyaard-Shaap, Corina Newsome, & Rev. Josh Gibson. Comic creation, Tony Buffusio from the Bronx, talks climate change in the Bible. Scientist Dr.

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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist, a professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She is also a brilliant climate communicator and the host of the Global Weirding web series. She chats with show host, Peterson Toscano, about what has changed since she her famous address at the 2015 Citizens Climate International Conference. There is no more speculation; climate change is here. She talks about the many ways people are adapting, and she provides excellent climate communication tips. Dr. Hayhoe also reveals where she finds hope in these troubling times.  The Art House Dr. Jeffrey Bennett and illustrator Roberta Collier-Morales created the whimsical and moving illustrated children's book, The Wizard Who Saved the World. While most of his Dr. Bennett's Max the Dog books are about space travel, Jeff felt it was time to write about what was happening on earth with global warming. Not only did he need to tap into deep emotions, he had to find a new illustrator who could capture the story of Diego, a boy suddenly alarmed by climate change and motivated to do something about it. To create the vibrant images about Diego's inner and outer world, Roberta Collier-Morales drew on her own childhood struggles with dyslexia and the role imagination played in her young life. Puzzler Question Listener Sherri Michalovic answers the question, What does your faith have to do with climate change? She makes connections to a changing climate, asthma among children in her city, and the mandate she feels as a Christian to love her neighbor.  New Puzzler Question You are part of a group that pursues bi-partisan economic solutions to address climate change. One of your co-workers, Janet is a Progressive Liberal who also wants to see us do something about climate change. But she is pushing back against your ideas. She says, “Right now I don’t trust any plan that has Conservatives involved. How do I know this is not some group that is  lying, greenwashing, and is an enemy of environmental justice?” Janet has fears and doubts that need to be addressed. How would you respond? Send your answers to Peterson by January 15, 2019. Leave your name, contact info, and where you are from. You can email your answers to radio @ citizensclimate.org or leave a voicemail of 3 minutes or less at 518.595.9414. (+1 if calling from outside the USA.)  Feel free to connect with other listeners, suggest program ideas, and respond to programs in the Citizens’ Climate Radio Facebook group or on Twitter at @CitizensCRadio. Links Dr. Katharine Hayhoe http://katharinehayhoe.com/wp2016/ Dr. Jeffrey Bennet http://www.jeffreybennett.com Illustrator Roberta Collier-Morales http://robertacolliermorales.com Global Weirding https://www.pbs.org/show/global-weirding/ Story Time from Space http://storytimefromspace.com Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol 1 https://science2017.globalchange.gov Fourth National Climate Assessment Vo1 2 https://nca2018.globalchange.gov

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center. She is the CEO of the consulting firm ATMOS Research and Consulting, helping organizations plan for ways that climate change might impact their industries. She was named in Time magazine's 2014 100 most influential people in the world list. Her book, A Climate for change: global warming facts for faith-based decisions, looks at the science and misconceptions around global warming. (you can watch her presentation of the book at Cornell University where she gives the Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society in October 2012. The Q&A time is really worth your time.) In 2012 she was named by Christianity today as one of 50 women to watch and named one of Foreign policy's 100 leading global thinkers Through various avenues, such as her PBS show, "Global Weirding", she helps people see how the changing climate affects them and what they can actually do about it. And as a Christian, she deeply cares about the ways that climate change impact the world, the poor, the unreached, and the ways that we try to share good news in a world where the environment itself is crying out for salvation. Steven Spicer and Paul Dzubinski host this edition of the Creation Care Missions Podcast. The full text of talk that Dr. Katharine Hayhoe gave can be found at www.CreationCareMissions.org

Join us this week on the Small Business Show for an insightful interview with Winemaker Tony Biagi to hear his story of moving from being employed by wineries to starting his own consulting business and eventually creating his own wine label, Patria. During this episode, you'll learn about how Tony built his own brand equity with his consulting business and how Tony learned early on to "not chase money, let it chase you". Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton discuss with Tony the challenges of stepping into situations where you are there to solve problems and how he works through the "because we've always done it this way" mentality. Tony talks about how nature plays a huge role in his business and how he has adapted to take advantage of the good and downplay when things don't go right. We ask Tony about his favorite mistake and we were not surprised to hear a common answer of "apprehension" and not taking the jump early enough to go out on his own. Listen in for all this and more before you join us over on the Small Business Support Group with your questions and comments. 00:00:00 Small Business Show #178 for Wednesday, July 4, 2018 00:01:42 Tony Biagi Winemaker, Consultant, Entrepreneur Patria Wines 00:02:43 Winemaking: a marine biologists dream Wine Aroma Wheel 00:04:38 Formulating a plan… and seeing it through to fruition Don't chase money, let it chase you 00:07:28 Building your own brand equity while consulting 00:09:30 Trust your gut, own your decisions. 00:11:17 Think critically, be proactive 00:12:07 Blossom yourself and your business by empowering others to do the job 00:14:49 Every decision needs a purpose “Because we did it before” is not a good answer 00:17:00 Stop and recognize the charmed life 00:18:44 When nature plays a role in your business 00:20:55 Protect your reputation 00:21:40 Weather patterns, “Global Weirding”, and Risk Management 00:23:31 Tony's favorite mistake: Apprehension 00:24:51 Believe in yourself and take the jump! 00:25:06 Stop chasing your competitors and start working on your business 00:26:26 Accept your role Chase what you love, money will find you 00:28:22 Focus on what's next Relationships and people 00:30:38 Find Tony Biagi: tony@patriawines.com Patriawines Instagram Why not What 00:36:00 You're buying the person and the product 00:36:57 SBS Outtro

Welcome back to the Horror Pod Class!  Today is everything ecohorror and we are discussing your favorite and not so favorite (looking at you The Happening) films and books.  In specific, we are going to be discussing the 2012 found footage film, The Bay. Shownotes: 1:30-  Tyler just watched Ready Player One and has a ton to tell you about it over at SignalHorizon.com.  Check out his discussion of RP1 and the downsides of nostalgia.  He is also currently reading Pack by Mike Bockoven, you can check out more about it on the author's website.   2:40-  Mike is reading Bash Bash Revolution, which at first glance looks a bit like Ready Player One, but is actually something quite different.  Review will be out soon on Signal Horizon! 3:50-  We are all super excited about the Hugo Awards nominees this year, there is a great mix of science fiction short stories, novellas, movies, and more. 4:20- A big congratulations to Scott Gable from Broken Eye Books for his successful Kickstarter Welcome to Miskatonic University.  Also, congrats to the Dark Magazine on their successful Kickstarter as well! 5:50-  There has been a bumper crop of great cult documentaries and docudramas out lately.  Check out Wild Wild Country over on Netflix and Heaven's Gate Podcast.  8:00- On this week's creepy corners of the net, we feature the Horror Hill podcast where you can find a wonderfully narrated short story by Brian Hodge.   10:25-  Today's essential question is, "What is EcoHorror and how can we use it in the classroom?" 11:00-  Clip from The Happening, because it is Tyler's favorite movie. 20:40-  Want to see found footage/mockumentary at its best? Lake Mungo is where you need to go. 25:10- Bear baiting in Missouri was actually a thing.  Here is the proof.  25:50- Global Weirding, you gotta check this one out.  Real life EcoHorror.   28:35-  Tyler claims that bugs are going to start getting bigger and he is actually backed up by some scientists.   29:10-  Memory Palace podcast episode all about Thomas Midgley, leaded gasoline, and freon.   32:00-  Here is a list of some other EcoHorror movies to check out: Them The Last Winter The Happening (Of course) Long Weekend Early "creature feature" movies Piranha 35:00-  Deep Ecology and Gaia Theory.  You can also go play the old DOS game based on Gaia Theory named Sim Earth right now in your browser over at Classic Reload.  49:15-  Next week we are going to be talking about Westworld, so get in the thinking robot mood by reading the Hugo nominated short story "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer.

“It was a complete breakthrough for me to realize that sharing from the heart, which is the opposite of what we’re taught to do as scientists, was the way for me to connect with people,” Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist, tells us in this episode of the Mongabay Newscast. She is an acclaimed climate communicator and a professor at Texas Tech University and last year, she teamed up with her local TV station to write and produce a web series called "Global Weirding," which tackles common questions, misconceptions, and myths around climate science, politics, and religion. We check in with Hayhoe right as she’s in the midst of shooting Season 2 of "Global Weirding." We are also joined by Branko Hilje Rodriguez, a PhD student from Costa Rica, where he’s studying the soundscapes of different successional stages of the tropical dry forest in Santa Rosa National Park, the largest remaining remnant of tropical dry forest in Mesoamerica. In this Field Note segment, Hilje Rodriguez plays for us a number of the recordings he’s made in the park, allowing us to hear the sounds of the dry forest during different stages of regrowth and different seasons, as well as some of the iconic bird species that call the dry forest home. Please help us improve the Mongabay Newscast by leaving a review on its page at Android, Google Play, iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, or wherever you subscribe to it. Thanks!

We talk with world-famous climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe about overcoming the divide, why facts alone are not enough, and how her evangelical faith inspires her work. Katharine has been called the best climate communicator of our generation and was recently recognized by Time and Fortune Magazine as one of the world's most important leaders. - No Place Like Home is hosted by Mary Anne Hitt and Anna Jane Joyner, and produced, edited and mixed by Zach Mack - Our theme music is by River Whyless - Special thanks to our guest Dr. Katherine Hayhoe Links: Website: www.katharinehayhoe.com PBS' Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe: www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow

On Episode 27 of Totally Deep Podcast, Doug Stenclik and Randy Young of www.cripplecreekbc.com bring you the lowdown on the world of uphill and backcountry skiing and boarding. Gear, technique, fashion, jargon, guests, and assorted spray from two guys who know how to earn it in the backcountry. The world's best backcountry skiing podcast. More info about TDP at Totally Deep Podcast Blog on Cripplecreekbc.com On Episode 27 of Totally Deep Podcast: 1. Guest Joel Gratz of opensnow.com 2. Opensnow app. 3. Joel's ski jam. 4. Control your stoke, up your knowledge. 5. Secret BC resources: CAIC weather station list. SNOTEL. 6. El Niño, La Niña, LA Nada. 7. Joel's first BC rig.  8. Global Weirding. Comments: info@cripplecreekbc.com Or leave a voicemail: 970-510-0450 Backcountry Skiing, Uphill Skiing, Rando (skimo?) Racing, Splitboarding, its all here. SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES  

Fresh off her #SXSL White House appearance with Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio, we welcome (10:54) to the podcast this week atmospheric scientist extraordinaire, Katharine Hayhoe, Professor at Texas Tech, and one of the world's most active and talented communicators about the dangers of climate change (http://katharinehayhoe.com). We discuss how climate change became such a highly polarizing political issue in the United States and what motivated her to become a climate scientist in the first place. Katharine explodes the myth that only a certain type of person cares about climate issues and she describes her work with evangelical communities in West Texas to counteract the misconception that climate science is somehow anti-Christian. We talk about climate change as a tragedy of the commons, her insights into the schizophrenic character of oil companies, and about corporate cultures that lose sight of our collective responsibility to each other and to the planet. We compare climate denialism and evolution denialism and Katharine tells us why, in her view, anyone who reads the Bible carefully would be at the front of the climate change movement. We close on her media projects like James Cameron's Years of Living Dangerously (http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com) and her new Global Weirding web series in partnership with KTTZ (http://kttz.org/term/global-weirding). Enjoy!