The 2 Best How We Survive Podcast Episodes
1) White Gold
To get off fossil fuels, you need a lot of batteries. To get a lot of batteries, you need to mine a lot of lithium. Welcome to Thacker Pass, Nevada, where a proposed lithium mine has sparked protests ...Show More
2) Sci-Fi Intermission
Our favorite place to look for climate solutions: Science fiction. In fact, sci-fi (and its sub-genre, cli-fi) is what got us thinking about adaptation in the first place. Cli-fi can get a little b...Show More
3) "Burning Questions:" A conversation with Bill McKibben about his new book on solar power
A cheap and accessible form of energy lies in a large ball of burning gas 93 million miles up in the sky: the sun. So why haven’t we adopted solar energy more widely? “How We Survive” host Amy Scott r...Show More
4) Burning Questions: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed. What now for the climate?
Last week’s massive spending and tax bill, named the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” was signed into law by President Trump. It includes major cuts to clean energy incentives, pushed forward by the Bi...Show More
5) Burning Questions: How do cuts to NOAA impact all of us?
June marks the start of hurricane season but thanks to the climate crisis we’re dealing with extreme weather year-round. Just in the past month, deadly storms have devastated Kentucky and a brutal hea...Show More
6) ESG, Reincarnated
Can we invest our way out of the climate crisis? That’s the question we started this series with, and in this episode, we try to answer that question. Host Amy Scott pops the hood of her own retiremen...Show More
7) The Death of ESG
In recent years, ESG investing moved from a mainstream strategy promoted by the biggest asset managers in the world, to a polarizing topic. Financial firms scrubbed the acronym from their websites, dr...Show More
8) The God Box
To understand the fierce and widespread backlash to environmental, social and governance investing — and more specifically, climate-conscious investing — it helps to first understand its humble origin...Show More
9) Burning Questions: Is the future insurable?
Since early January, historic wildfires have been burning across Los Angeles. Over two dozen people have died, and more than 10,000 homes have been destroyed. Insured losses may exceed $20 billion. In...Show More
10) Burning Questions: What are the climate wins and setbacks from the election?
Last week’s elections delivered climate wins and setbacks. What will a second Donald Trump presidency mean for climate policy going forward? What can President Joe Biden accomplish in the remain...Show More
Burning Questions: What are the climate wins and setbacks from the election?
15:26 | Nov 12th, 2024