Climate Futures Podcast
1) Energy Future(s), Part 2: Natural Gas
When Congress has a question about natural gas, they turn to Michael Ratner. The Congressional Research Service expert joins us today for a deep dive into this unique and widely misunderstood fossil f...Show More
2) Energy Future(s), Part 1: Modeling the Energy System
Energy systems modeler Kimon Keramidas opens our three-part special on energy - the most central element of decarbonization, and one of the most difficult to understand. Kimon gives a thorough introdu...Show More
3) Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Climate Futures
What can political theory offer us in thinking about climate change? This episode we talk to OSU Professor Joel Wainwright, a human geographer, whose book Climate Leviathan (co-authored with Geoff Man...Show More
4) A World-Changing Event: Indigenous Climate Geographies
Does land have to be a resource? Do economies have to be aimed at production? Professor Andrew Curley and PhD candidate Majerle Lister talk to us about indigenous scholarship's answers to these questi...Show More
5) Greening Healthcare
Kathy Gerwig chats with us about the health effects of climate change and the carbon emissions of healthcare systems, and outlines her vision of the hospital of the future. Gerwig was the driving forc...Show More
6) Solar Geoengineering
Harvard’s Professor David Keith might just be the world’s foremost solar geoengineering researcher. He talks to Climate Futures about the extraordinary plan to inject sulfur into the stratosphere and ...Show More
7) The Climate Coin
Dr. Delton Chen’s Carbon Reward was the direct inspiration for Kim Stanley Robinson’s writing on a climate blockchain. Dr. Chen argues that we need a whole new type of carbon pricing: a currency that ...Show More
8) The Right to Climate?
Attorney at Our Children’s Trust Kimberly Willis tells us about the legal rights of young people to a safe and stable climate. Kimberly explains why young people can sue the U.S. government to take cl...Show More
9) Space-Based Solar Power
Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysicist Dr. Martin Elvis explains how beaming power down from solar panels in space might help us decarbonize travel - and how the iron from asteroids might make it all poss...Show More