Warm Regards

Warm Regards

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Warm Regards episodes

  • Thanksgiving thoughts: Do you waste more or less food than most people?
    Just in time for Thanksgiving, Jacquelyn Gill speaks with Victoria Ligon, an expert in food waste from the University of Arizona. If you think you hate wasting food more than most people, you might be surprised to hear what her years of studying the issue have taught her. The good news is she's also got plenty of tips to make sure your grocery bill doesn't go straight to the trash, for the big meal and beyond.
    https://cals.arizona.edu/fcs/grad/victoria_ligon
    54 min
  • Talking to DOI Whistleblower Joel Clement
    Andy Revkin is joined by Joel Clement, the Department of the Interior's whistleblower. Joel talks about his job at DOI, his resignation and "scathing letter", and his concern for Alaska's Indigenous communities.
    Find Joel on twitter at @jclement4maine
    Image courtesy of Tim Evanson: https://www.flickr.com/photos/timevanson/
    32 min
  • Climate Change Got You Down? You Need to Hear This Now
    Andrew Revkin and Jacquelyn Gill talk with Sara Moore about climate adaptation and staying hopeful in what feels like very troubling times.
    Sara Moore's story on climate despair: https://ensia.com/voices/climate-trauma/
    More from Sara: http://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com
    44 min
  • People Power: The Fight for Environmental Justice in the Age of Climate Change
    In one of the most hopeful episodes yet, Jacquelyn and Eric are joined by Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President of Climate, Environmental Justice, & Community Revitalization of the Hip Hop Caucus, (and formerly of the EPA) to discuss the roots of the environmental movement and its intersection with climate change.
    But first up - a primer from Eric on the effects of climate change on Hurricanes Harvey & Irma.
    Read Mustafa's letter to Scott Pruitt here: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032017/epa-environmental-justice-mustafa-ali-flint-water-crisis-dakota-access-pipeline-trump-scott-pruitt
    Follow Mustafa on twitter @EJinAction and check out his work out at: HipHopCaucus.org, PeoplesClimateMusic.com, RespectMyVote.com, and follow @HipHopCaucus on everything.
    56 min
  • Bonus Episode: Climate Change and the world of Game of Thrones
    In this bonus episode of Warm Regards, Jacquelyn and Andy are joined by Kaustubh Thirumalai (paleoclimatologist and postdoctoral researcher at Brown University), Scott St. George (paleoclimatologist and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota), and Michelle LaRue (ecologist at the University of Minnesota) to nerd out about all things Game of Thrones and climate change. Listen in as they discuss topics like the ecological effects of the wall, how seasons may work in Westeros, winter fashions, and who plays the role of scientists in the GoT world.
    Jacquelyn’s blog post can be found here: https://contemplativemammoth.com/2016/06/23/winter-is-coming-climate-change-and-biodiversity-beyond-the-wall/
    Follow our guests online:
    Kau’s website (www.kaustubh.info/) and twitter (twitter.com/holy_kau)
    Michelle’s website (www.drmichellelarue.com)and twitter (twitter.com/drmichellelarue)
    Scott’s website (scottstgeorge.strikingly.com) and twitter (twitter.com/scottstgeorge)
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    Thumbnail image courtesy of Tor-Sven Berge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/torsven/)
    1 hr 2 min
  • Hurricane Harvey and Houston's Four Feet of Rain - Don't Call it an Anomaly (w/ Marshall Shepherd)
    In this quick response episode, former American Meteorological Society President Marshall Shepherd joins Eric Holthaus and Andy Revkin to talk about the ongoing tragedy in Texas, what the unprecedented storm means for the future and how we think about extreme weather.
    More from Marshall:
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/
    Donate to Harvey relief and Google will match your donation:
    https://www.google.org/harvey-relief/
    27 min
  • There's No App for Climate Change: A Manifesto for Moving Forward
    Jacquelyn Gill and Andy Revkin talk with Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute about the dangers of relying on technology to bail us out when it comes to climate change. We also hear the late Pete Seeger's thoughts on science.
    Links!: http://noapp4that.org/
    More of Andy's conversation with Seeger on the Future and the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTpkKt0B4SI&t=120s
    https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/on-flu-strains-folkies-and-faith-in-science/?_r=0
    Population scenarios: http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/39/28-39.pdf
    https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/the-population-cluster-bomb/
    51 min
  • Catching up on climate in the Trump Era and that overheated New York Magazine article
    After a hiatus of a few months, Eric Holthaus, Andrew Revkin and Jacquelyn Gill are back and ready to bring you up to speed on how they've witnessed the first six months of climate news under the Trump administration. The crew also makes a deep dive into a controversial article that went viral this month.
    Links worth clicking:
    Aspen Ideas Festival - https://www.aspenideas.org/session/carbon-dividends-consensus-climate-solution
    Reaction to the NY Mag article: https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/
    The ‘Porn’ Factor in the Climate Fight: https://nyti.ms/2ux3eSR
    Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students - Amy Harmon
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/us/education-climate-change-science-class-students.html
    Theme music by Kevin Hartnell @ kevinhartnell.com
    1 hr 1 min

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Warm Regards is a podcast about life on a warming planet. The show is hosted by Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, and Ramesh Laungani, a biologist at Doane University.…