Earth Day Podcasts

Earth Day Podcasts

From green thumbs to green jobs to the Animal Kingdom, these soundwaves will carry you through some of the most exhilarating facets of Earth.

Episodes

Force Multiplier - "Climate Action: Why One Size Doesn't Fit All"

April 21, 2024 • 34 mins
"When it comes to taking action to solve climate change, steps like recycling, using less plastic, or saying goodbye to plastic straws – our collective intent usually comes with the hope that we will leave our planet a little better than its current state. But what happens when the answers aren't a fit for all people?" In the first part of our climate action conversation, we spoke with two organizations that are influencing change ...
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Parklandia - "Bonus Episode! Ecology 101 with Jesslyn Shields"

April 21, 2024 • 22 mins
The world is made up of living and nonliving things that are all hanging out together in different configurations. The stuff that's hanging out together in Yellowstone — wolves and porcupines and Douglas firs and mayflies and geysers and snowstorms — are different than what you'd find in the Everglades between alligators and turkey vultures and sawgrass marsh and microorganisms. And just like with sports or the stock market or your...
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BBC Earth Podcast - "Defenders of the Earth"

April 21, 2024 • 42 mins
Sebastian and Rutendo celebrate nature’s defenders in all their forms. They argue that vultures should get more credit for their vital role as scavengers. Their super-acidic stomachs kill off deadly bacteria, like anthrax, that accumulates onrotting carcasses. This prevents the spread of disease and recycles nutrients back into the environment.

Molecular biologist Mike Kolomiets tells us that the fragrance of newly mown grass isactu...
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Unf*cking the Future - "Tough Questions with Bill Nye"

April 21, 2024 • 45 mins
Nobody knows how to make complicated concepts easier to understand than Bill Nye The Science Guy. In this episode, he and Chris break down tough questions about the science of global heating and how to communicate the answers to others.
Show notes from Chris:

A big take home message from this week’s show is there is almost complete scientific agreement that global heating is caused by us (humans, if you’re wondering). Recent work lo...
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Sea Change - "Designing With Nature"

April 21, 2024 • 34 mins
As we experience worsening impacts from climate change, we’re wondering: How can we rethink engineering? Instead of trying to control nature, can we design with nature?
There are more than a thousand miles of levees and floodgates lining each side of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Thousands of dams also hold back water and sediment throughout the Mississippi basin. But the thing is, you can’t totally harness a river suc...
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Zero: The Climate Race - "Making renewables a profitable bet… everywhere"

April 21, 2024 • 37 mins
When Brookfield Asset Management launched a $15 billion fund to expand clean energy in 2021, it was the largest private fund of its kind in the world. Now Brookfield is starting a second fund with billions from Alterra, which is backed by the United Arab Emirates. Zero host Akshat Rathi sat down with Brookfield Renewable Partners CEO Connor Teskey to talk about making climate finance work. You can read the transcript of the convers...
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Outside/In - "The mystery of the missing extinctions"

April 21, 2024 • 41 mins
When it comes to protecting the biodiversity of Planet Earth, there is no greater failure than extinction. Thankfully, only a few dozen species have been officially declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the half-century since the passage of the Endangered Species Act.
But, hold on. Aren’t we in the middle of the sixth mass extinction? Shouldn’t the list of extinct species be… way longer? Well, yeah. Maybe.
Producer...
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BrainStuff - "Where Does Earth's Water Come From?"

April 21, 2024 • 11 mins
The water cycle brings Earth's water from the clouds to the ground and back again -- but how did it get here in the first place? Learn about the leading theories in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/water-come-from.htm
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TED Climate - "The tragedy of air pollution -- and an urgent demand for clean air | Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah"

April 21, 2024 • 8 mins
"Breathing clean air is every child's human right," says grassroots campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, sharing the heartbreaking story of her seven-year-old daughter, Ella Roberta, whose asthma was triggered to a fatal point by air pollution. Now, Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is on a mission to raise awareness about the harmful effects of unsafe air on our health and the planet. In this moving talk, she details why governments have an urg...
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Food with Mark Bittman - "Earth Day, with Earth Warrior Bill McKibben"

April 21, 2024 • 39 mins
Mark talks to the astute environmentalist and writer about climate: The good news and the bad, how we can stop setting things on fire, the most important thing an individual can do, and how to make good trouble. Plus: Is Earth Day still relevant? And Kate takes the next round of questions for food stylist Barrett Washburne: all about his essential styling tools and how to take better food photos.

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Stuff You Should Know - "Just Say No to... Bottled Water"

April 21, 2024 • 62 mins
Bottled water is huge business, and terrible for the environment. But where did this all start? Listen in and learn.
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A Climate Change with Matt Matern - "150: Saving the Amazon with Daniel Gutierrez: Indigenous Wisdom Meets Modern Conservation"

April 21, 2024 • 47 mins
Daniel Gutierrez, CEO of Saving the Amazon, discusses reforestation and the fight against Amazon’s 17% deforestation with Matt Matern. Founded in 2015, the NGO, working with indigenous communities in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru, has planted over 674,000 trees.
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Sustainability Defined - "Ep 72: Biodiversity with Dr. Paula Ehrlich (E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation)"

April 21, 2024 • 73 mins
Biodiversity underpins many things we rely on (think food, water, and oxygen). In fact, half of the world’s GDP is dependent on natural resources. This means that about $44 trillion of economic value across the globe relies on nature and its interconnectedness. So... something worth paying attention to! Join us as we dissect this topic with the help of Dr. Paula Ehrlich, President and CEO of the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation...
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Creature Feature - "Animal, Mineral, or Vegetable?"

April 21, 2024 • 66 mins
On today's show I subject my guest to a gauntlet of strange oddities, and he (and you) must guess whether these are animals, minerals, vegetables, or something else entirely...
Guest: DJ Danl
Footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRUT2Ywx6B9XF-1SyNJ8lxVyLX94eY2n06FjiE4x-O8/edit?usp=sharing
Mystery animal sound credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwAgft_kZ8
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