761.8K
Downloads
983
Episodes
The Climate Minute examines current news on global warming, climate change, renewable energy and the prospects for progress on international negotiations, carbon taxes and clean energy policy.
Episodes
Monday Mar 13, 2017
Think globally, resist locally: The Climate Minute Podcast
Monday Mar 13, 2017
Monday Mar 13, 2017
MCAN’s Local Environmental Action Conference was held on March 5th at Northeastern University. Kandi Mossett was the morning keynote speaker, and presented a powerful image of the destruction fracking has wreaked damage on Native American Communities. For her part, Lois Gibbs was living a normal life in upstate New York until “she discovered that her neighborhood sat atop a toxic dump containing 21,000 tons of buried chemical waste, the infamous Love Canal.” In one of the breakout sessions, Carol Oldham discussed MCAN’s offering to help activist begin the process of finding out where they can help their towns become greener. Listen in!
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Stand together or fall alone: The Climate Minute Podcast
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
The wave of anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-climate sentiment, not to the mention raw racism that is being fed by our new administration, demands that we stand together. Climate Hawks need to fight the “Neo-Know-Nothing” policies of Trumpism on every front. One way to do that is right at home, by setting up a ‘green fuel’ standard to minimize the impact that burning fossil fuels for transport. Listen in as we discuss.
Friday Feb 24, 2017
Can we build a seawall around Scott Pruitt? The Climate Minute Podcast
Friday Feb 24, 2017
Friday Feb 24, 2017
Adaptation and mitigation are common terms in climate discussions, but they come into sharp focus when a massive seawall is proposed for Boston Harbor. Is it wise? Can we make the Koch brothers pay for it? What about the folks on the other side of the seawall, be they in Provincetown or Bangladesh? Is it better to spend that money mitigating carbon pollution? You’ll have to come up with your own answer since Scott Pruitt, the new head of EPA, seems to have little concern for the environment he swears to protect. Listen in.
Wednesday Feb 22, 2017
The world after Trump is what we make it: The Climate Minute Podcast
Wednesday Feb 22, 2017
Wednesday Feb 22, 2017
The election of DJT represents a break point in American history, challenging all the principles and virtues that we presume to hold. Given the disruption caused by our new politics, it will be hard to go back to a ‘November 7th’ world- even if we wanted to. The question is : Do we simply want to go back to the way things were, or should be we planning and fighting for a new vision of our country. President Bannon surely is doing so- shouldn’t we? Resistance is a tool to build a new future. What will that future look like?
Monday Feb 13, 2017
The carbon tax plan a conservative can love?: The Climate Minute Podcast
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Monday Feb 13, 2017
The august greybeards of the conservative movement have proposed a carbon tax to address climate change. That is a good thing, on the face of it, but the deal contains some pills that range from bitter to poisonous. We discuss the ‘conservative climate solution’ in comparison to other carbon fee ideas. Also, listen in for DR’s favorite climate news websites.
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre
Friday Feb 10, 2017
EO gives DAPL a push: The Climate Minute Podcast
Friday Feb 10, 2017
Friday Feb 10, 2017
One of the new administration’s Executive Orders restarted the process of completing the Dakota Pipeline. Construction resumption is imminent, but lawsuits are underway, as are efforts to defund project through divestment. Employees of the EPA are protesting the nomination of Scott Pruitt.
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Immigration is a climate issue: The Climate Minute Podcast
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
The trial of an activist in the Pacific Northwest ends in a hung jury, despite the judge’s hopes. Is this a sea change in the attitude toward direct action on climate? Our so-called President’s immigration ban should be opposed on it’s own merits, but climate driven refugees will only become more numerous as we go forward. Climate Hawks need to help build stronger systems for dealing with the suffering. In the US Senate, the ideologues on the right ‘suspend the rules’ to achieve their end. This is bad for democracy. Listen in.
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre
Friday Mar 11, 2016
To promote the general welfare: The Climate Minute Podcast
Friday Mar 11, 2016
Friday Mar 11, 2016
Some high school kids skipped class and went to an Oregon courthouse to demand their constitutional rights. Kids these days! These young activists are correct in recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to protect the “public trust.” We discuss the background, plus the latest US-Canada move to limit methane emissions. Listen in!
(REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR THE UPCOMING ANNUAL CONFERENCE! )
Check out live links at our blog, http://www.massclimateaction.net/blog.
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre
Tuesday Mar 08, 2016
Leonardo and Bill’s Excellent Adventure: The Climate Minute Podcast
Tuesday Mar 08, 2016
Tuesday Mar 08, 2016
Recently Leonardo diCarpio took a stroll down the Oscar red carpet. He gave a passionate call to action on climate change in his acceptance speech. For his part, Bill Gates made a visit to a planet where miracles still happen and called for new technologies to address climate change. (Note to Bill, we did that already!) We discuss all this, and the MA Power Forward meeting to be held at MCAN’s upcoming conference.
(REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR THE UPCOMING ANNUAL CONFERENCE! )
Check out live links at our blog, http://www.massclimateaction.net/blog.
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre
Friday Mar 04, 2016
Building the clean future: The Climate Minute Podcast
Friday Mar 04, 2016
Friday Mar 04, 2016
Building a clean energy future means creating good policy in the present. We discuss pipeline, wind and solar battles right here in Massachusetts.
(REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR THE UPCOMING ANNUAL CONFERENCE! )
Check out live links at our blog, http://www.massclimateaction.net/blog.
Because we recognize the necessity of personal accountability for our actions, because we accept responsibility for building a durable future and because we believe it is our patriotic duty as citizens to speak out, we must insist that the United States put a price on carbon.
Thanks for listening.
…Ted McIntyre