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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.
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Oct 22, 2020
Oct 22, 2020
20 min
The words we use in discussions of climate change matter, as do the stories we tell. How should we talk about climate? A Renaissance scholar analyzes word choices, and helps us see the bigger picture. Listen in.
Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020
18 min
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.
Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
28 min
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.
Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020
22 min
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.
Oct 8, 2020
Oct 8, 2020
16 min
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.
Oct 5, 2020
Oct 5, 2020
14 min
A committee of the MA legislature is meeting to reconcile two versions of climate legislation. We review the issues and the stakes.
Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020
21 min
For the first time in decades, a climate question was raised in a presidential debate. What was said and what does it mean?
Sep 28, 2020
Sep 28, 2020
19 min
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.
Sep 24, 2020
Sep 24, 2020
20 min
We review RBG’s environmental achievments, and consider the future of climate legislation in the SCOTUS.
Sep 21, 2020
Sep 21, 2020
18 min
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?