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What does malaria have to do with climate change? In short, a hotter planet means more bugs. And more extreme weather events means more flood water, which mosquitos adore. But thanks to incredible efforts, lots of solutions are in action to help right the historic injustice of malaria, which sits right at the intersection of climate and health.  United to Beat Malaria's and United Foundation's executive director Margaret McDonnell joins Climate Curious to share the progress.

Learn more at beatmalaria.org

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Created by TEDxLondon
Produced by Josie Colter
Edit, mix, master by Ben Beheshty
Curated by Maryam Pasha 
Hosted by Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst 

 

Climate change can feel like an impossible crisis these days. Every week there is some new report about the irreversible damage we’re doing to our planet and the havoc it will bring to people’s lives. We all know cutting emissions is the solution, yet governments and companies seem no closer to meeting the goals that scientists say we must hit. It can feel hopeless.

There is one possible controversial solution to climate change many in the mainstream haven’t discussed. It’s so controversial, in fact, that some experts say we shouldn’t even be discussing it. But University of Chicago Professor David Keith says we need to talk about it. It’s called solar geoengineering—the process in which you reflect a small fraction of sunlight back into space. As the founding director of the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at UChicago, Keith is leading a team that will research solar geoengineering and other novel solutions to climate change. 

If you can't imagine a future, how can you create it? The collective stories we tell ourselves have a powerful role in how we understand our climate agency, says Pip Wheaton, from the Planet & Climate team at Ashoka, on Climate Curious by TEDxLondon. Tune in to learn about Ashoka’s latest research which gives actionable insight on how to activate climate changemakers: making it personal, curating support, and realigning systems.  Recorded live at Skoll World Forum in Oxford. 

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Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on the psychology of climate action:
How cognitive dissonance impacts your climate agency, with Pip Wheaton 
Why you’re hardwired to dislike climate change, with Kris De Meyer
Why climate doomism needs to stop, with Josephine Latu-Sanft
What is the climate positive movement? with Jessica Kleczka 
Why mindfulness is key to climate action, with Sister True Dedication 
Why there’s much more to climate action than reducing your carbon footprint, with Kris De Meyer


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Carl Safina is an American ecologist and author. He writes about our relationship with the natural world and the other beings that share it.

‘In my writing I explore our relationship with the living world—and how it could be better. My more recent work also probes how free-living animals experience life. What drives my work is a devotion to free-living things and wild places. And what drives that devotion is my deep love and wonder for the living world. ’  (from Carlsafina.org).

During our conversation, Carl expressed his deep concerns with overpopulation, pollution, climate change, habitat destruction,  and the cruelty we inflict on other species. He attributes these issues to a fundamental failure of the education system:

“What do we learn by the time we’re out of high school? We learn to buy things. We’re equipped to just be consumers, not human beings. We don’t really learn ethics, we don’t learn how to take care of each other, how to take care of the world. We don’t learn any kind of perspective that would give us wisdom, let alone some of the humility that you would see in indigenous cultures who revere the world. 

And what do we all do in the way that we live? We use stuff up. We use things that we don’t understand the consequences of. We don’t understand their origins. We don’t really know anything.”

Carl's books include Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace; Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; The View From Lazy Point, and others.

He is the founding president of the Safina Center which explores how humans are changing the living world and its ecosystems.

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Click here to read Carl's article on protecting half of Earth

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Energy bills making you feel climate furious? Here to debunk how electricity is made and why gas prices have gone crazy recently is Mark Dyson, a Managing Director with the Carbon-Free Electricity Program at RMI. In conversation live from Climate Week NYC with Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst, Mark shares why he’s 10 out of 10 sure that we can make a just transition to carbon-free electricity using wind and solar power, why coal-plants are dying but they’re not dead yet, and what a carbon-free future looks like. 

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While the climate crisis may make us feel fearful, overwhelmed, or exhausted, many organizations in the Denver area inspire hope for our future. Altius Farms is a local urban farm, which is working toward building stable and lasting farms that produce beautiful greens all year round, locally. In this episode, Sally Herbert, co-founder and CEO of Altius Farms, discusses seed to table process, vertical urban gardening, and their journey to sustainability.

As the city of Denver grows, many of our neighbors are becoming displaced due to high cost of living and gentrification. The Globeville Elyria-Swansea Coalition Organizing for Health and Housing Justice (GES Coalition) is advocating to protect historically marginalized neighborhoods, to preserve affordability in housing, and to build a culture of welcome and hospitality. In this episode, Alfonso Espino of GES Coalition explores how these efforts are interconnected with the climate crisis and environmental justice.

Historically marginalized people suffer disproportionately from the climate crisis. Environmental hazards, such as pollution, contaminated materials, and industrial waste, often plague low-income communities of color. Pastor Eugene Downing, Senior Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church and member of Governor Polis' Community Access Enterprise, discusses how black communities in Denver are being affected by the climate crisis and how local government is responding to marginalized communities.

Welcome to BeCause and Effect, a podcast from The Winnipeg Foundation, where we talk to people about the causes they care about and the effect it has on their lives. My name is Nolan Bicknell.

Today’s guest is Emma Gilchrist, Editor in Chief and Co-Founder of The Narwhal. The Narwhal is a team of investigative journalists that focus on Canada’s natural world, and write incredible stories the climate crisis we find ourselves in. 

We connected with Emma because The Narwhal and the Winnipeg Free Press are partnering to establish a new reporter here in Manitoba that will focus on climate reporting. Very cool connection there, and I was honored to be able to speak with Emma Gilchrist today.

Without further ado, my conversation with Emma Gilchrist: co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Narwhal.

If Earth's lifespan were to be compressed into one calendar year, humanity would show up just before midnight on December 31st.

Sustainability, what even is it? Dave Attenborough explains on a mountaintop.

There is currently no snow in Denver and snow in Hawaii.

We interview Harvard sustainability scholar Allegra De Angelo.

Mike lets you know this is your last chance to learn about how you can't trust sheep.

American systems actively silence and minimize the voices within Indigeneous communities, resulting in young Native Americans struggling to find representation. Spirit of the Sun, an Indigenous womxn-led nonprofit in Denver, empowers Indigeneous youth to become leaders and amplifies their voices as they advocate for systematic change. Join us on November 15 as we welcome Shannon Francis, Executive Director of Spirit of the Sun, who will discuss the interplay of environmental racism, indigeneity, and the climate crisis.

The article by Olga González in the Denver Post was edited down in this interview due to length. Read the article in its entirety here.

As we learn more and more about the effects of climate change, we find ourselves feeling overwhelmed rather than driven to create change. In his album "Still No Mother," musician Logan Farmer tells the story of our reckoning with the impending reality of climate change through American folk music. In this episode, Logan Farmer plays a few selections and discusses his inspiration to explore the climate crisis in his album "Still No Mother" and how he uses music to weave our personal struggle into this global crisis.

As European settlers came to the Americas, they prepared to claim and conquer the land, exploiting its various resources to further human life. Dr. Tink Tinker, Professor Emeritus of American Indian cultures and religious traditions at Iliff School of Theology, explores in many of his works how this worldview contrasts with Native American religious and cultural ideology. In this episode, Dr. Tinker discusses the Eurochristian roots of the climate crisis and indigenous understanding of human relationship to the land. 

This "On Offal" episode is the first of a special two parter that features fascinating insights, nutrition facts and inspiration from Kate Wingett and Grant Hilliard. Join us as we talk about ‘offal, supply chains and making more of these delicious and nutritious foods - to minimise waste, better value animals and all in all get back to our Grandmother’s Wisdom by enjoying eating more of the whole animal, ‘nose to tail’.  

The Italians and French call it the Fifth Quarter, Americans talk about ‘organs’ and ‘variety meats’ and Brits about innards and ‘offal’. Kate and Grant are two wonderfully knowledgeable people with deep knowledge and understanding of the animal ‘value-chain’ and how  it currently does – and perhaps does not – work for human health, animal wellbeing and the environment.

Food waste is a huge issue and it’s a lens current great debates around meat and food waste seem to barely touch upon.  Globally, one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted: if it were a country, it would rank No3 behind China and the USA for greenhouse emissions. 

So are we making waste of offal? And what are the nutrient and other great benefits that it offers that we could make more of? And enjoy! It’s affordable – did you know really good mince and sausages can be packed with super nutritious offal? It’s what gives the flavour hit Grant tells us…

Kate Wingett B.V.Sc (hons) is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. She has worked as a private practitioner veterinarian for 19 years in Australia and the United Kingdom. Five years ago, Kate started as a government  veterinary policy officer in Animal Biosecurity in NSW and is now a senior veterinary policy officer. Currently, Kate is completing her PhD on the role of the Australian sheep meat system in achieving food and nutrition security, with a focus on monitoring production and consumption of products from the value chain.

Grant, is many things, a former film-maker and wine expert, who with partner Laura Dalrymple is the co-author of the wonderful book 'The Ethical Omnivore – A Practical guide and 60 nose-to-tail recipes for sustainable meat eating' that was released in September 2020. With Laura, Grant  owns and runs the very special Feather and Bone Butchery in Sydney. Grant and Laura actively champion regenerative agriculture and whole of animal consumption through their butchery, writing, talks and other contributions. 

Great reading suggestions 

• Kate Wingett, Margaret Allman-Farinelli, and Robyn Alders,  “Food loss and nutrition security: reviewing pre-consumer loss in Australian sheep meat value chains using a Planetary Health framework”, CAB Reviews 2018 13, No. 033
• Laura Dalymple, Grant Hilliard, Feather and Bone, The Ethical Omnivore – A practical guide and 60 nose-to-tail recipes for sustainable meat eating

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