The Climate Minute

Many renewable energy technologies make use of uncommon elements, such as the lithium in your cell phone battery or the neodymium in your EV. Climate Hawks should ask questions about how those materials are mined and purified. The time is now to think about just and sustainable methods to fuel the renewable energy revolution. Listen in and then head to "MassClimateAction-dot-org-slash-blog" for the hot links to what we talked about!

Good news. As we install more solar panels, we keep learning how to do it more cheaply. This helps predict big solar electricity cost reductions over the foreseeable future. Listen in and then head to "MassClimateAction-dot-org-slash-blog" for the hot links to what we talked about!

The pandemic shock offer the chance to build a new world, using ‘ideas that are lying around.’ Neoliberals built a list of ideas to be implemented in a crisis. Now progressives have a better list of things to do in the face of the pandemic.A recent article in ‘The Correspondent” makes the case that progressives have the right policies to meet the moment, if we fight hard enough for them. Listen in and then head to "MassClimateAction-dot-org-slash-blog" for the hot links to what we talked about!

While humans have spread to all parts of the globe, they prefer a narrow band of temperatures. (How would the Roman Empire have fared if Remus and Romulus had been born in Helsinki?) Global warming is threatening to make the places in which most people much less tolerable. Listen in and then head to "MassClimateAction-dot-org-slash-blog" for the hot links to what we talked about!

The ideas contained in the Green New Deal can help us recover from the pandemic economic distress. They ought to be presented as a pragmatic solution to the current crisis, in order to combat the distortions already being pushed by some.

The predicted 5% reduction in carbon pollution due to the worldwide pandemic shutdown provides insight into how we can achieve the more challenging 7%-per-year-for-the-next-10-years that we need to do next. Listen in and then head to "MassClimateAction-dot-org-slash-blog" for the hot links to what we talked about!

What will be the new normal? However they are defined, after these current difficult times pass, what will survive? What good features of our current experiences will persist? Listen in as we imagine. John Lennon would be proud.

We check in with the Executive Director to find out what MCAN is doing in this time of social isolation. It turns out quite a lot, from helping activist learn new tools for uncertain times to webinars about the EZ building code. Listen in to hear the discussion and stay on for a bonus virtual roadtrip to the MCAN website.

Michael Moore has released a dishonest movie. It fails on journalistic integrity, by using outdated footage and refusing to allow a response from it's targets. It misinforms based on a narrow and biased narrative perspective. It distorts serious issues in a fun-house mirror image of climate activism. If you must watch this sad piece of videography, listen first to our podcast. It will arm you to comprehend the damaging lies contained in this movie.

Forests everywhere are under threat from climate change. Some students in Germany took action to plant resilient species of trees in an at-risk forest near Bayreuth. This effort has many aspects, like the feeling of satisfaction and hope in the future that comes from planting a tree. Listen in and then head to "MassClimateAction-dot-org-slash-blog" for the hot links to what we talked about!