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  • The Importance of Earth Day Education

    The Importance of Earth Day Education
    2024/04/21
    In this podcast, Richard Matthews emphasizes the central role of education on Earth Day. Originating as a response to a devastating oil spill, Earth Day's founders put education at the center of the inaugural event. Today, Earth Day pedagogy focuses on an ever-expanding web of themes. In recent years the event has leveraged the psychology of communications to advocate for the health and well-being of people and the planet.

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    5 分
  • How Earth Day Unifies Us and Why This is Critically Important

    How Earth Day Unifies Us and Why This is Critically Important
    2024/04/14
    Dive into the significance of Earth Day as a unifying force that pushes back against societal divisions. Explore how this inclusive event brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds, transcending political polarization and economic divides. With the planet facing escalating crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss, Earth Day is a rallying point that amplifies the urgent need for collective action. Discover how Earth Day fosters diverse participation, fuels global cooperation, and promotes scientific consensus to address pressing sustainability challenges. Join the movement to unite around a shared purpose and drive positive change for the future of our planet.

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    13 分
  • The Origin of Earth Day and its Evolution Towards Holistic Sustainability

    The Origin of Earth Day and its Evolution Towards Holistic Sustainability
    2024/04/02
    Discover the evolution of Earth Day and its pivotal role in global sustainability efforts. From its inception in 1970 to its influence on policy, regulation, and global governance, this podcast reviews how Earth Day has shaped environmental activism worldwide. It has impacted issues ranging from climate change to social justice. Over the years it has grown in both size and scope. It now encompasses the full range of sustainability issues.

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    12 分
  • AI's Impact on the Sustainable Development Goals

    AI's Impact on the Sustainable Development Goals
    2024/03/18
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help us to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While AI offers significant benefits for advancing sustainable development, it also poses challenges. Solutions to these problems are proposed as an essential part of maximizing the benefits of AI.

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    17 分
  • The Illusion of Growth and the Fallacy of Kuznets Curve

    The Illusion of Growth and the Fallacy of Kuznets Curve
    2024/03/10
    Much of what conventional economic wisdom perceives as growth harms both humanity and the environment. The evidence contradicts the conventional economic wisdom that over time, economic growth reduces inequality and benefits biodiversity. The obsession with growth fuels globalization, exacerbating inequality and environmental degradation. Moreover, traditional measures like GDP fail to account for true well-being and progress. We need sustainable economic models that prioritize social and environmental realities over the preoccupation with growth.

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    13 分
  • COP 28’s Litany of Loopholes

    COP 28’s Litany of Loopholes
    2024/01/04
    This episode reviews how petrostates and oil producers sneakily added some major loopholes into the final agreement coming out of the most recent UN-sponsored climate summit (COP28). These loopholes include vague language, reliance on carbon capture, restricting the phasedown to "unabated" fuels and the inclusion of the "transitional fuels" loophole that embraces natural gas.

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    12 分
  • Who Won the Fossil Fuel War at COP28?

    Who Won the Fossil Fuel War at COP28?
    2023/12/15
    This episode addresses the outcome of the most recent UN-sponsored climate conference (COP28). While many are celebrating the phasedown of fossil fuels agreed to by almost 200 nations in attendance at the conference, others are decrying the fact that we did not get a phase-out. While agreement on a phase-down of fossil fuels is historic, weaknesses in the final draft give us cause for concern.

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    10 分
  • Petrostates are Asking the Impossible of Carbon Technologies

    Petrostates are Asking the Impossible of Carbon Technologies
    2023/11/22

    In this podcast, we review how petrostates and the fossil fuel industry are advancing widely unrealistic expectations for both carbon capture and carbon removal technologies. There is a yawning disparity between what they are promising and what the technologies can deliver. The sheer scale of the build-out, needed for meaningful impact is simply not achievable. Making false promises about the capacity of these technologies is designed to focus attention on carbon capture mitigation, rather than the only real solution--phasing out fossil fuels.



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    14 分