The Climate Minute

Would you enjoy a planned power outage? The Climate Minute

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.

What is Ranked Choice Voting? The Climate Minute

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.

Energy Equity Explained: The Climate Minute

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.

A Conversation with MCAN’s new Executive Director: The Climate Minute

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.

MA climate bill at risk: The Climate Minute

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

A Pop Quiz on Climate: The Climate Minute

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

A joy flight to climate catastrophe: The Climate Minute

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. 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s environmental legacy: The Climate Minute

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

How should science and society collaborate in a warming world? The Climate Minute

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? 

The media and climate truth: The Climate Minute

Is the media’s sudden new interest in climate change a sea change? How will we know when the coverage is authentic? Is Facebook’s new climate information center a bona fide effort or just evasion of the real truth?