Sustain What?
By Andy @Revkin
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Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier.
Revkin believes sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?
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Can The Online Media Environment Help Save the Real Environment?
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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A Song For These Times: “I Want to Live in a Land Where Money Ain’t God”
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Oct 17, 2026 |
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Tracking America’s Energy Trends and Prospects for the Bipartisan Permitting Reform Bill
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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Suno vs. Homo - Matt Richtel and Andy Revkin on AI and Music
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Oct 09, 2026 |
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Meet Jacob Weisberg, Outing Political and Corporate Trump Sycophants Enabling Autocracy
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Update from Trump’s War: Oil Traders Party While Families Struggle with Surging Energy Bills
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Beyond the Social Dilemma: Navigating the Online Media Crisis - Before the AI Crisis
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Avoiding AI Doom - a Cyber Security Guru and a Tech Philosopher Weigh in
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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Experts Lay Out Paths to a Safer Future in the Unstable, Warming, Crowding Himalayas
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Fresh Updates on the Himalayan Ice and Rock Collapse and Flood Catastrophe
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Want to Protect Your House in the Fiery West? "Think Like an Ember"
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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How to Boost Public Trust and Engagement in Science and Policy
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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For Those Who Work the Sea (and Those Who Don't Return)
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Paths to Safer Seafood Harvests – Lessons and Solutions from Maine's Bountiful, Dangerous Coasts
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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A "Sunday Sanity" Back Porch Song Sift in Open-C Tuning
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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Clearwater Sloop Booted from "Sail 250" Tall Ships Parade in New York City
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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AI for Good? Yes. Really. Meet a Coder Connecting Venezuela Quake Survivors and Kin
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Pursuing Online Weather-Forecast Impact in a Fast-Changing Media Climate
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Meet Researchers Holding a 50-Hour Livestream to Sustain Weather & Climate Science
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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From "The Republican War on Science" to a Climate-Science Pulitzer to Deconstructing Storytelling - a Chat with Chris Mooney
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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🎶 New Song on Cooking in War Zones and Knitting a Red Wool Shield Against ICE
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May 28, 2026 |
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What to Think and Do as the Pope and an AI Founder Weigh in on This Fast-Forward Technology
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May 25, 2026 |
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Burgess, Hausfather, Pielke and Tol on the overdue end to the worst-case RCP8.5 climate scenario
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May 20, 2026 |
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Sustaining Long-Term Science in a Short-Term World
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May 08, 2026 |
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Chat with a Singing Journalist – Me
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May 01, 2026 |
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How the Hormuz Shutdown is Reshaping The Material World
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Remembering Peter Raven, a Plant- and Planet-Loving Force for Nature
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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On the Path to Worldwide Slaughter-Free Meat
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Green Journalism Graybeards Explore Communication Frontiers, from Film to Songs and Beyond
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Using AI Without Losing the Best of Being Human
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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An Alarming Report on the Trump-Driven Surge to Autocracy, American Style
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Andy Revkin with Physicist Adam Frank on Aliens, the Anthropocene, Trump's War on Science and More
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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A Debate About Building Audiences for Good Climate Outcomes Without Putting Climate Change in the Foreground
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Amid All, a Dose of Sunday Sanity with Texas-Spawned Songwriter and Poet Vince Bell
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Libertarian and Liberal Lawyers with a Climate Focus Agree on Big Weaknesses in Trump's Attack on the EPA “Endangerment” Finding
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Meet "Death of Science" author John Horgan and Steve Fuller, a philosopher of knowing (and much more)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Gernot Wager on Surviving Team Trump’s War on Climate “Endangerment”
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Why AI's "Simulated Intelligence" is Great for Grunt Work, But Not Breakthroughs or Creativity
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Extreme Winter Weather in a Human-Heated Climate
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Save Dreams for Sleeping, It's Time to Get Loud
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Meet Former Russian Propagandist Andrew Ryvkin and Propaganda Expert Renee Hobbs
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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How to Navigate a Superstorm of Malicious, Divisive, Dangerous and Distracting Propaganda
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Meet U.S. Scientists Working in Greenland Who are Urging Trump to Respect Greenlanders
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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From the Field: Taking the Temperature Under Antarctica's Most Threatened Glacier
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Sammy Roth on Climate, Culture and the Changing Media Environment
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Exploring the Toxic Politics Around Migration & Population 📈 & 📉
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Can Doomscrolling Be Harnessed for the Public Good?
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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"Kyoto" Playwrights, a Climate Scientist, Journalists and a Campaigner Explore Climate Drama - Onstage and Off
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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A "Buy Nothing Day" Chat With Rev. Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping and Low-Carbon Maven Lloyd Alter
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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A Check-in on COP30 with a Top Brazilian Climate Journalist and Kim Stanley Robinson on the Role of Fiction Facing Inconvenient Facts
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Update from Journalists at the #COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Cory Doctorow Explains How to Disenshittify Your Online Life and Brace for the Impending AI Bubble Implosion
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Between an Explosive Movie and Trump’s “Golden Dome,” a Reality Check on Nuclear Missile Defense
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Making Good Musical Trouble with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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🎶 Life is a Band - Find Your Voice and Build a Band (Musical or Otherwise)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Songwriter Dar Williams on Music that Matters
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Joe Romm and I Agree on Something: We Both Never Foresaw How Bad Trump's Assault on Climate Would Be
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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How “Adversarial Collaboration” Can Improve Research When Scientists Clash
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Skip the Pundits and Headlines for a Moment to Marvel at John Prine's Enduring Magic
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Reviewing the Climate Science Critique Done for Team Trump
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Surviving Trump, Thriving with Solar - an Update from Climate Action Lifer Bill McKibben
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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From Kauai to Your Town - How Data Can Help Cut Climate Threats
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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From Juneau to the Himalayas, Get Used to Potentially Catastrophic Floods
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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A Fresh Look at Climate [In]Justice (and Trump 2.0) with Cass Sunstein
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Podcast: How Trump is Threatening Public Lands and the Agencies We Created to Manage Them
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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When Weather-Control Conspiracies Threaten Public Safety
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Exploring Trust and Mistrust in Climate (and Other) Science
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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What Technology Can, and Can't, Do to Boost Flood Warning Awareness and Safety
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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How to Feed 9 Billion People Without Trashing and Overheating Earth
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Resurrect George Washington to Defy Wannabe King Trump a Third Term?
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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A Day for Showing Your Climate Stripes, and Trying Other Ways to Make Data Matter
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Meet Kate Marvel, the NASA Climate Scientist Who's Written a "Biography of Earth in Nine Emotions"
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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A Visual Tour of American Character(s)
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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From Communities to Corporations - How to Cut Vulnerabilities that Turn Hazards into Disasters
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May 27, 2025 |
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A Poet and a Picker Explore Everything from Romania's Election to How Steve Martin Learned Banjo
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May 19, 2025 |
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Trump's Whiplash Effect on a U.S. Weather Data Pipeline
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May 09, 2025 |
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A Teaching Framework Helping Students (or Others!) Tackle Complex Challenges With Impact in Mind
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May 01, 2025 |
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Facing Trump Attacks, a Funding Implosion and Too Much More, Here's What Journalism is For - and How to Sustain it
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Yes, Climate and Democracy Progress is Possible Despite Trump's Demolition Derby
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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"We Shall Not Be Moved"
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Assessing the Dangerous Trump / Musk Effect on Aviation and Highway Safety
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Essential Insights from a Top Climate Researcher Who Warns Against "Climatism"
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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With U.S. Aid for Lifesaving Overseas Programs Still a Tangle, "People are Dying"
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Amid the Worst Surge Toward Autocracy in a Century, Here's How U-Turns Toward Democracy Can Happen
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Music for Trump Time - 🎶 Save Dreams for Sleeping, It's Time to Get Real
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Caught in the Trump & Musk Flood Zone? Narrative Analyst Randy Olson Has Some Advice
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Wealth Management with Human and Planetary Progress in Mind
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Michael Liebreich on How A.I. Giants Can Help (or Hurt) the Grid
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Clarifying Methane Sources and Solutions
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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What I've Learned and Unlearned in 40 Years of Climate Reporting
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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How do You Stay Sane in Such Turbulent Times? For Me, One Path is Still Music
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Live from Trump's Hate-Filled Madison Square Garden Rally
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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What to Think - and do - About "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters"
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Dissecting the "Scale Monster" Stalking the Energy Transition
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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How Appalachian Geography Amped Up Helene's Flood Impact - and How this Relates to California's watery future
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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As Trump Floods All Zones With Fakery, It's Vital to Spread Propaganda Literacy
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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A Brazil-Eye View of a Supreme Court Justice's Shutdown of Musk's X
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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When it Comes to Climate and Sustainable Progress, What's Art Got to Do it?
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Pathways to Crosstalk, and Impact, in Perilously Polarized Times
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Where and Why Tornado Risk is Growing as Climate - and Communities - Change
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Testing the "Unsettled" Climate-Science Assertions of Steve Koonin
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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A Potent Film, Checkpoint Zoo, Provides an Animal's Eye-View of an Inhuman Invasion
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Meet a Top Guide to Hurricanes and Climate Change as a Hot Atlantic Storm Season Begins
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Moving from "Waste Not" Aphorisms to Action - One Town and Product at a Time
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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One Path to Traction for People Paralyzed by the Climate "Scale Monster"
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Amazon Career Track? Confessed Assassin, 1990, Rising Local Right-Wing Leader 2024
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Hannah Ritchie Bravely Offers Up Data Amid a Maelstrom of Climate and Sustainability Assertions
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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How Imagery Can Spur Clean-Energy Progress
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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A Growing Antarctic Fishery for Tiny Krill Could Reverse the Recovery of Great Whales
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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A Song and Mission for Years Like These
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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An Anthropocene Check-in with an Eco-Focused Actor, a Poet and a Good News Blogger
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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How Technology and Ingenuity Enabled a Giant Squid Quest
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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A Gripping New Film Charts a Death-Defying Scientist's Half Century Quest to Study and Save High-Mountain Ice
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Why it's Not Too Late for Climate - and What to Do
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Amid Brazilian turmoil, revisit my exploration of the legacy of Amazon forest defender Chico Mendes with radio legend Studs Terkel
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Podcast - How to Use Twitter Without Being Abused by it Even as Elon Musk Roils Online Discourse
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Message to Musk: The Side of Twitter That Can Save Lives in Weather Emergencies Also Makes Money
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Sustain What Podcast👂🏼- For Population Impact, Pay Less Attention to 8 Billion and more to 1.3 Billion (15-24-year olds)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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A Climate Prankster, a Mayhem Funder and Sociologists Debate the Role of In-Your-Face Activism
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Avoiding Climate Disaster: A Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Belinda Archibong, Jeff Schlegelmilch
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Paths to Progress Facing Enduring Deep Uncertainty
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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In Conversation with Renegade Economist Kate Raworth and Future-focused Philosopher Roman Krznaric
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Sustain What: How Many Billions Can a Heating, Pandemic-Wrapped Planet Support?
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Hope and Sensemaking in a Pandemic? A "Futuring" Conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon & More
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Overwhelmed by COVID-19, Climate and More? Slow Down and Stretch Your Time Scales
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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The Pandemic was Predicted - So What?
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Risks and Choices as Populations Surge in Flood Zones, Rich and Poor
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Pathways to Impact in Perilously Polarized Times
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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‘Ministry for the Future’ Author Kim Stanley Robinson Meets Inheritors of Our Climate Future
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Herman Daly and Kate Raworth on Pandemic-Resistant Economies
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Jul 26, 2021 |