The words we use in discussions of climate change matter, as do the stories we tell. How should we talk about climate? A Renaissance scholar analyzes word choices, and helps us see the bigger picture. Listen in.

If planned power outages helped cut greenhouse gases right now, could you live with it? Would you find a way to make is good experience? Is continuous electricity a right? Who should pay the price for reducing emissions? Listen in.

Ranked Choice Voting is a simple improvement to how we vote. It allows us to find candidates who represent a true majority of the voters. RCV is a ballot question this fall in Massachusetts. Listen as we discuss with an expert.

The concepts of “Energy Equity” and “Energy Democracy” arise from new ways of thinking about the climate crisis. MCAN’s Executive Director gives a master class in what these terms mean.

The Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) speaks on behalf of its chapters to improve our town’s energy and climate policies and programs. Recently, Sarah Dooling joined the organization as it’s new Executive Director.  Listen in as we learn more about her experiences and plans for the future.

A committee of the MA legislature is meeting to reconcile two versions of climate legislation. We review the issues and the stakes.

For the first time in decades, a climate question was raised in a presidential debate.  What was said and what does it mean?

Transportation in the post covid world will be different. While airlines offer “joy rides”, new insight about the impact of jet emissions comes to light.  Here on the ground, Massachusetts struggles with it’s outmoded “auto-centric” transportation philosophy.

We review RBG’s environmental achievments, and consider the future of climate legislation in the SCOTUS.

US government agencies like the National Science Foundation are the result of a tacit post-WWII scientific contract. The terms of the contract were that the NSF would fund science in the public good. Naomi Oreskes argues that contract is broken, because too many American politicians find accurate science inconvenient. What will replace it? Also, given smoke out west and floods in the south, what should we expect for climate migration inside the US?