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EPISODE · Apr 22, 2026 · 12 MIN

A cheat sheet for accelerating clean energy | Kimiko Hirata

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After the Fukushima disaster shut down Japan's nuclear reactors, the coal industry rushed in to fill the energy gap. As climate advocate Kimiko Hirata watched dozens of new coal plant proposals quietly surface across the country — each one locking in decades of future emissions — she resolved to make them impossible to ignore. She shares how a small, scrappy civil society movement took on a fossil-fuel-dependent economy and got people to say "yes" to a renewable future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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