How to Save a Planet
Episodes
Are Electric Cars Really Better for the Climate?
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We love listener mail! You've sent us some amazing notes. Some made us laugh, some made us cry, and some made us say – hey, that’s a great questio...
How Much Does the President Matter for the Climate?
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to climate change, it can feel like our future hangs in the balance of this presidential election in the U.S. But how much does the pres...
Presenting: Drilled
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Decades ago, the oil company Exxon made a decision that drastically changed our country’s response to climate change. At the time, the company’s s...
Cold Hard Cash for Your Greenhouse Gas
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about what’s heating up the planet, we may picture CO2 from smokestacks and tailpipes. But there are other greenhouse gases that are e...
Fighting Fire with Fire
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From California's crimson skies to smoke so thick along Colorado's front range that sent people indoors for days, this year has been an especially bad...
How 2020 Became a Climate Election
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For years, American politicians have failed to take climate change seriously. The 2016 presidential debates didn’t even include a single climate que...
Making Republicans Environmentalists Again
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Republican Party has been almost uniformly opposed to climate action for years – nobody more so than President Donald Trump. But it wasn’t alw...
Black Lives Matter and the Climate
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Black Lives Matter is the largest movement in U.S. history, and it’s had environmental justice as part of its policy platform from the start. In tod...
Unnatural Disasters
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As this summer has made clear: from hurricanes to wildfires, climate change is exposing more of us to extreme weather. This week we hear what it's li...
20 Million Trees
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is a big problem — and we’re going to need a big team to solve it. That means reaching people who might not think of themselves as ...
The Green Wave
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It started with students walking out of school to demand more action on climate change, built into an international movement – and then was propelle...
The Witch of Wind
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, coal fueled the town of Somerset, MA. But when the coal plant went bust -- taking with it millions in tax dollars -- the town struggled. ...
How Screwed Are We?
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How screwed are we? When it comes to climate change, that’s the question on a lot of people’s minds. Alex and Ayana ask experts and regular folks ...
Introducing How to Save a Planet
31 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does climate change freak you out? Want to know what we, collectively, can do about it? Us too. How to Save a Planet is a podcast that asks the big qu...