Climate Curious

What hope can we take from the intense IPCC report released this week? Climate Curious spoke to five experts to compile our first ever mixtape! A mashup of expert hot takes designed to soothe your soul and raise your spirits. As Isaias Hernandez puts it, “Evidence based hope is not just this wishful type of thinking. It's actually rooted in this continued momentum of progress that is being made.”

Featuring contributions from: 
Mark Dyson, RMI 
Isaias Hernandez, environmental educator
Tessa Khan, Uplift
Jessica Kleczka, climate psychologist 
Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, Girls Not Brides 

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It's confirmed – players say they want more green content, says Deborah Mensah-Bonsu, the founder of Games for Good on TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious. With more than 3 billion gamers on the planet, plus a tonne of green themed content, tune in to explore the ways in which people are playing for the planet, and how games can help us change the world for the better, together. 

Resources: 
Follow Deborah on Twitter
Follow Deborah on LinkedIn
Check out Games for Good
Check out Playing for the Planet
Check out Green Game Jam
Read the Green Game Jam Player Research
Check out the IGDA Climate SIG 

Deborah’s recommended green video games: 
Terra Nil
The Wandering Village 
Riders Republic 

Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on creativity: 
Xavier Cortada, What is an eco-artist? 
Emma Stewart, How your Netflix and chill can save the world
Kumi Naidoo, What is artivism?
Kumi Naidoo, How culture can help us win the climate war
Katharine Hayhoe, Why talking is the most important thing you can do to fight climate change

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Space trash could impact our ability to gather climate data, says former NASA astronaut, Kathy Sullivan, on TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious. As fellow crew members on the spaceship that is planet Earth, tune in to learn about intergalactic waste, why space-based observations are crucial for climate action, and if Kesller syndrome could affect earth’s orbit. 

Resources: 
Listen to Kathy Sullivan Explores podcast episode, ‘You call yourself an astronaut?’
Read up on space debris from NASA.
And from the European Space Agency.

Listen to other Climate Curious episodes on satellites, data and climate action:
Lekha Sridhar, How satellites and AI can help keep 1.5 alive 
Rob Schuwerk, How a database is speeding up fossil fuel’s extinction 
Justin Locke, How storm-proof solar farms can help hurricane alley

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From protecting ancient forests against HS2 to standing up to the CEO of Shell, Scottish #StopRosebank climate campaigner Lauren MacDonald knows a thing or two about climate protest. They join TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious to share why all climate action is equal – it’s the taking part that matters most. 

Follow Lauren on Instagram @laurenthesunflower
Follow Lauren on Twitter @sunfloweryell0w
Follow #StopRosebank on Instagram 
Follow #StopRosebank on Twitter
Check out #StopRosebank’s site 
Email template to tell your MP to #StopRosebank

Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on fossil fuels: 
Tzeporah Berman – Why fossil fuels are the new weapons of mass destruction
Tzeporah Berman – Why fossil fuels were a dirty word at COP
Mark Campanale – How to make big oil go bust 
Mary Anne Hitt – How a grassroots rebellion shut down big coal 
Tessa Khan – How to solve the cost of living crisis

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If you're climate curious, tune in to a guided meditation with Sister True Dedication, a Zen Buddhist Nun ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. Whether you’re sitting on a bus, walking down the street or lying on your sofa, take a pause to breathe and be with the environment you find around you. Inhale… exhale… headphones in. 

If you enjoyed this meditation and want more, explore Zen and the art of saving the planet course. 

Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on joy: 
Dominique Palmer – How to find your climate joy
Daze Aghaji – How to act from a place of climate love, not climate fear  
Liz Zeidler – Why a wellbeing economy is the future, and how we build it
Sister True Dedication – Why mindfulness is key to climate action 

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Mindfulness, meditation and active listening can help us take more nourishing climate action, says Sister True Dedication, a Zen Buddhist Nun ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh on TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious. Tune in to learn why good vibes energy is actually the first step to taking impactful climate action – who knew!?

Explore the Zen and the art of saving the planet course. 
Follow Sister True Dedication on Twitter. 
 

Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on joy: 
Dominique Palmer – How to find your climate joy
Daze Aghaji – How to act from a place of climate love, not climate fear  
Liz Zeidler – Why a wellbeing economy is the future, and how we build it

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How diverse and inclusive really is the climate sector? Could be better, says Andres Jimenez, executive director at Green 2.0. Tune in to this week’s Climate Quickie to hear some pretty juicy findings from their latest research which shares how diversity, equity and inclusion is going inside some of the big environmental NGOs and foundations. Or not, as you’ll discover…

Read the full Transparency Report Card findings at diversegreen.org
Follow Green 2.0 on Twitter

Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on equity: 
David Lammy – Why climate justice can’t happen without racial justice
Leah Thomas – What is an intersectional environmentalist?
Isaias Hernandez –  Why climate has a youthwashing problem 
Rosamund Adoo Kissi Debrah – How we can fight air pollution, together
Toad and Guy – What queerness can teach the climate movement
 

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How do we totally rethink our relationship with food, on a systems level? Not just thinking about what’s on our plate, but creating a consistent global food supply where no-one goes hungry? To share some ideas is Dr. Zitouni Ould-Dada, the Deputy Director in the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. In conversation with Climate Curious co-hosts Ben Hurst and Maryam Pasha at Climate Week NYC, he explains how reconnecting with the basics can lead to better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life for all, leaving no one behind. 

Listen to more foodie episodes on Climate Curious:
Isaias Hernandez – Climate Quickie: How to get started with veganism
Sonalie Figuierias – Climate Quickie: How to have your burger and eat it too
Dee Woods – Climate Quickie: Why cheap food is killing us
Dee Woods – How to be a global food citizen
Christina Hicks – What’s going on with fish in West Africa? 
Ermias Kebreab – How seaweed reduces cow burps

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Climate can feel dull, depressing and doomsdayish. And no wonder! Given how bad climate news tends to be. Enter Jessica Kleczka, the climate psychologist, activist and educator behind ‘Positive Climate News’ – a weekly online series highlighting climate wins from around the world. Tune in to learn how focussing on the climate positives can help us hack our psychological hardwiring. 

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Listen to more climate positive episodes on Climate Curious: 

Dominique Palmer – How to find your climate joy
Daze Aghaji – How to act from a place of climate love, not climate fear
Mary Anne Hitt – How a grassroots rebellion shut down big coal 
Justin Locke – How storm-proof solar farms can help Hurricane Alley
Josephine Latu-Sanft – Why the way we talk about climate vulnerable nations needs to change

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We spend 90% of our lives inside buildings, so why do think of mountains and lakes, not induction hobs and heat pumps, when it comes to taking climate action? Here to explain why electrification is the most cost-effective way to decarbonise your building is Stephanie Greene, RMI’s Managing Director of Carbon-Free Buildings Program. From saving you money, to giving you a better quality of life, tune in with co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst to learn why electrified buildings are a win for our health, our finances, and the planet. 

Join us at TEDxLondonWomen, February 5th. Buy your tickets.

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