When the aluminium smelter at the bottom of the South Island shuts up shop, there’ll be enough sustainable, carbon-friendly hydro-electricity to power a major city going spare. So what should New Zealand do with it? Physics professor and nanotechnologist Nicola Gaston has some surprising suggestions.

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As climate-change denialism starts to fade into history, activists are picking new battlegrounds, including the courts. Jenny Cooper QC, president of Lawyers for Climate Action, explains why it's time for the suits to get their hands dirty – and why her organisation is also calling for a profound change to New Zealand's legal system.

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Right now, there’s a heatwave in one of the coldest parts of the planet. So sound recordist Mark Michel travelled to the bottom of the world and brought back the unbelievable sounds of the melting Antarctic continent. He talks with Eloise about his big adventure, and about the challenges of raising awareness of climate change.

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Elizabeth Knox is one of New Zealand’s best-known authors, with bestsellers including The Vintner’s Luck, the Dreamhunter novels and The Absolute Book. She's famous for creating extraordinarily detailed alternate worlds, but she’s also an astute observer of this world – especially the conundrums and challenges of climate change.

She talks to Eloise Gibson about climate grief, climate hope, the complications of gardening in a changing climate – and why our politicians and policy-makers should take lessons in writing science fiction.

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Since Covid-19 struck, Auckland physicist Shaun Hendy has been constantly in the news for his work modelling the virus’s spread. But before then, he was best known for his very public refusal to get on a plane – or rather, his refusal to get on any planes at all for an entire year. He comes on the show to discuss the personal costs of climate activism, and to explain why he’s calling for the restoration of the daily train service between Auckland and Wellington.

The One Hot Minute podcast is a companion series to Stuff’s One Hot Minute video series, in which guests get just 60 seconds to deliver their big idea about climate change. Then in this podcast we dig deeper into that idea. To watch the videos, see www.stuff.co.nz/onehotminute. The series is part of Stuff’s Forever Project.

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At Standing Rock, native American protesters faced down the fossil fuel industry, turning off the tap on a vast oil pipeline. As Greens co-leader Marama Davidson explains, the infamous standoff in the Dakotas is just one example of the ways climate activists and indigenous peoples are finding common cause around the globe – including in New Zealand. Plus, she shares her hot tips for talking to children about climate change.

The One Hot Minute podcast is a companion series to Stuff’s One Hot Minute video series, in which climate-change changemakers are given just 60 seconds to deliver their big idea about climate change. Then in this podcast we dig deeper into that idea. To watch the videos, see www.stuff.co.nz/onehotminute. The series is part of Stuff’s Forever Project.

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