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) The Uncanny Valley of Meat
If you have ever bitten into a plant-based burger and felt dissatisfied, or even grossed out, you’re not alone. In this episode, we explore the uncanny valley of meat and dive deep into what makes mea...Show More
4) Food tour of the future
Climate change is changing what we eat. As the planet heats up, foods like salmon, chocolate and coffee might be harder to come by and more expensive to buy. In this episode, the “How We Survive” team...Show More
5) “How We Survive” returns Oct. 15
Imagine a future where chocolate and coffee are rare and expensive; where cheap, nutritional staples, like corn and wheat, are threatened.The climate crisis is a food and agriculture crisis. A third o...Show More
6) The climate crisis is an economic crisis (bonus episode)
We’re dropping into your feeds today to share this special bonus episode.It’s a conversation between host Amy Scott, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Elizabeth Ko...Show More
7) "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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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