Matt and Nick discuss The International Energy Agency’s 2021 Renewables report, including how 2021 looked for the renewable energy sector, projections up to 2026, and more!

If you’d like to check out the report, you can find the executive summary here: Executive summary – Renewables 2021 – Analysis - IEA.

The full 175-page report is also available here: Renewables 2021 - Analysis and forecast to 2026 (windows.net).

Matt and Nick’s Quick Hits of the week include how climate change is impacting food prices (Food prices remain high into 2022 on shortages due to extreme weather | Financial Times (ft.com)),

The UK’s government protecting fossil fuel interests (invites fossil fuel companies to help write rulebook on climate-busting new oil drilling | The Independent),

Rilu the Snow Leopard’s death (Snow leopard dies after contracting Covid-19 at Illinois zoo - CNN),

Pine trees and climate change in Patagonia (An imported tree fuels Patagonia’s terrifying summer fires (nationalgeographic.com)),

And the DiCaprio Tree discovered in Cameroon (Kew scientists name new tree after Leonardo DiCaprio - BBC News).

The boys also joked about refinancing student loans, so here’s Matt’s referral code if you want to do that: https://refer.splashfinancial.com/l/1MATTHEWNOR03/

Matt and Nick break down some of the stories from the end of 2021, including reducing livestock in the Netherlands (Netherlands announces €25bn plan to radically reduce livestock numbers | Netherlands | The Guardian),

Fact checking Senator Joe Manchin’s opposition to climate measures (Manchin's take on climate measures are misleading : NPR),

The relationship between Texas Climate Deniers, New England Fishermen, and the first major offshore wind farm in the US (Vineyard Wind Challenged by Mass. Fishermen, Texas Climate Deniers (gizmodo.com)),

And New York City banning gas in new buildings (New York City Banned Gas in New Buildings. Here’s What You Need to Know - THE CITY).

Matt and Nick are back for their first episode of 2022. Quick Hits Friday features a solar farm in Kentucky (Coming Soon to This Coal County: Solar, in a Big Way - The New York Times (nytimes.com)),

Food waste in California (New California law creates opportunities to waste less food (ktnv.com)),

A wind farm in Montana (Montana's largest wind farm underway near Miles City | State & Regional | billingsgazette.com),

The Marshall Fire in Boulder, Colorado (Marshall fire explained: Why Boulder County had 100+ mph winds that stoked wildfire (denverpost.com)),

And fossil fuel free flights in Denmark by 2030 (Denmark to make domestic flights fossil fuel free by 2030 - BBC News).

Matt and Nick kick off their last show of 2021 with a few extra Quick Hits before their Holiday Sendoff. The boys talk about what TPT and their listeners have meant to them this year and their goals for the show in 2022!

Their Quick Hits include are greenhouse gases for vegetarians (https://www.ecowatch.com/vegetarian-meat-greenhouse-gases-2655937991.html),

Helping manatees in Florida (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/climate/manatees-florida-feeding.html?referringSource=articleShare),

11 million oysters being added to the Hudson River in New York (https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/11-million-oysters-added-to-hudson-river-in-lower-manhattan/ar-AARGMYB?ocid=uxbndlbing),

The tornados that hit Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois (https://news.yahoo.com/are-the-deadly-kentucky-tornadoes-linked-to-climate-change-163255350.html),

Bugs breaking down plastics (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/14/bugs-across-globe-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds),

And a black box documenting climate change (https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/world/earth-black-box-climate-change/index.html).

TPT was recently ranked #7 on Feedspot’s Top 20 Wildlife Conservation Podcasts list, which you can check out here: https://blog.feedspot.com/wildlife_conservation_podcasts/

Matt interviews Miss Delaware, Sophie Phillips, prior to the Miss America Competition, which begins the day this episode drops!

First Matt and Nick break down their Quick Hits of the week, starting with a dual-use solar and blueberry farm in Maine (https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/11/agrivoltaic-pilot-program-set-to-provide-critical-insights/),

Conservationists fighting to save the smallest rabbit in North America (https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/pygmy-rabbits/),

The rising cost of Carbon in Europe (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/european-benchmark-carbon-surges-above-80-euros-for-first-time),

And desertification in Brazil (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/world/americas/brazil-climate-change-barren-land.html).

You can vote for Sophie for Miss America by searching for “Miss America DE Spotfund” or at the link below. Tune in to the Miss America finals December 16 on the free version of Peacock!

https://www.spotfund.com/story/7e9d1588-1fe6-4518-9e83-d9fd3fc33342

Matt and Nick discuss Episode 1 of Netflix’s Down to Earth with Zac Efron! Zac was unfortunately busy this week, so he didn't answer our DM's to be a guest.

First, their Quick Hits are cutting methane through cow feed (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-19/cow-feed-that-cleans-potent-methane-burps-nears-europe-rollout),

how roundabouts impact climate change (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/climate/roundabouts-climate-emissions-driving.html?referringSource=articleShare),

a report from the US Interior department about drilling for oil and gas (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/climate/climate-change-drilling-public-lands.html?referringSource=articleShare),

and the latest survey about climate change in the US (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/americans-climate-change-real-survey_n_6196a0b6e4b044a1cc048d83).

Happy Thanksgiving! Matt gives a quick update on some big changes coming to The Planet Today starting in January of 2022.

Matt interviews Keith Hutchings of The Comfortable Home Project!

First, Nick and Matt’s Quick Hits of the week are:

Youth climate activists petitioning the United Nations (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/10/youth-activists-petition-un-to-declare-systemwide-climate-emergency?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1636528594),

Timber poachers and tree DNA (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/us/justin-wilke-maple-fire-tree-dna-sentenced.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur),

the health of the River Thames in London (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/11/sharks-thames-river-london/?utm_source=reddit.com),

and a recap of how COP26 ended (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/13/climate/cop26-glasgow-climate-summit/cop26-glasgow-climate-deal?referringSource=articleShare).

For more about The Comfortable Home Project, click here: https://www.thecomfortablehomeproject.com.au/?fbclid=IwAR3Vovn7qIuYMC_S99i6xvy0CF9_90hw4isMGn1R2QS7p6aQr9GqQ06vb00 or here: https://www.facebook.com/The-Comfortable-Home-Project-1560280234274991/?ref=page_internal

Keith can be found on LinkedIn here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-hutchings-09927148/

Matt and Nick are joined by guest co-host Giselle Herrera to talk about the impact that the world’s richest 1% have on the environment.

Their Quick Hits of the week include a bold plan for Ithaca, NY (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/11/03/ithaca-new-york-decarbonize-electrify/),

a project at the University of Minnesota to reduce bird collisions (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/minnesota/articles/2021-11-08/university-of-minnesota-project-aims-to-stop-bird-collisions),

Toyota’s climate history (https://www.carscoops.com/2021/11/toyota-named-third-most-obstructive-company-towards-climate-change-after-exxonmobil-chevron/),

the first week of COP26 (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/so-what-has-cop26-achieved-so-far),

and the Infrastructure Bill passing in the House (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/roads-transit-internet-infrastructure-bill-81005655).