The election is in two days. Climate is on the ballot.

My friend and college roommate Pat DePoy and I discuss Trump, Biden, climate plans, climate ads, and what we think will happen this week.

What's your voting plan?

"Should I eat this mushroom?" "Never munch on a hunch, dude." Ethan and I share our experience hunting for mushrooms over the last few weeks. It has been joyful, awe-inspiring, and soul-soothing. We have found turkey tail, birch polypore, witch's butter, cauliflower fungus, and tippler's bane! But we still seek some choice edibles - things like lion's mane and chicken-of-the-woods. You should definitely go mushrooming too!

Ah, yes. The leaf blower. One of my favorite devices in the whole world...

I drop some facts about pollution, particulate matter, and noise. It's probably worse than you think.

And I end with my ode. O, leaf blower...

The last time I flew in an airplane was on October 6, 2019. So on October 6, 2020 I celebrated my First No Flyiversary. And I couldn't be any happier.

Why did I decide to stop flying? Reasons include catastrophic climate breakdown, climate injustice, and my own mental health.

When will you celebrate your First No Flyiversary? I can't wait to celebrate with you!

Guest #3! My friend Corey and I break down capitalism and how it relates to climate breakdown.

Is capitalism sustainable? And if not, then what should we do about it? How is capitalism connected to Gross Domestic Happiness?

Thanks, Corey, for hanging with me today! 

My Climate Beast had been whispering in my ear: "Your individual actions don't matter. What you're doing is too small. The scale and severity of the climate crisis to too big."

Well, I slayed my Climate Beast. Here are 5 reasons why individual actions DO matter.

And remember - you matter. And what you do matters.

In this episode I outline the scale and severity of the climate crisis.

It's a temperature check of the earth. In September 2020.

Some of this might be uncomfortable to hear. It might make you feel shock, outrage, fear, despair, hopelessness, numbness, or grief. That's normal. I've felt all of those things before.

We must take urgent action to stabilize our climate.

I decided to go with something a bit more playful this week - Why I love riding bikes!

In this episode you will:

1. Meet Red Shadow and Leproduck, my two best friends.

2. Hear about the time when irony flipped me over the handlebars of a BMX bike. 

3. Laugh at my failed bike trip through the desert in Nevada in July.

I'm a big fan of Eric Holthaus and his book - The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming.

You should totally read it. Why?

"You were born at exactly the right time to change everything."

I had never phonebanked before because I was too scared. But I did it! I signed up with the Sunrise Movement to call voters in Massachusetts for Ed Markey's reelection to the United States Senate.

Ed Markey is one of the cosponsors of the Green New Deal. He must be in the Senate - for the sake of the planet.

Here's what happened!