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Bridging the Carbon Gap
by Catherine Du, Helena Rambler, Cindy Ye, Pierce Siegel, Giulia Di Vincenzo, David Case, Adeline Sauberli, Eli Gitter-Dentz, Marie Fadeyeva, Nicholas Wu, Ajani Stella, Daniel Shneider, Gabriel Gitter-Dentz, Kevin Zhou, Adam Rudt
Because climate change is not formally taught in New York City high schools, City Atlas started this podcast to connect high school students directly with experts to find out how they would design a high school curriculum for climate. Join students at Hunter College High School and Stuyvesant, two schools in New York City, on their journey to gain knowledge about climate change, a topic that is not taught enough to young students across the U.S.
Episodes
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Every teacher in America should hear this
"This summer’s scorching heat, raging wildfires and deadly floods are a warning of what lies ahead. We must make the overshoot above 1.5 degrees as small and short as possible." - UN Secretary-General Antőnio Guterres, speaking about the current UNEP report on "Limiting Overshoot," now that the...
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Ram Ramanathan on what we need: "I call it societal transformation"
In this episode, Catherine Du, a rising sophomore at Hunter College High School in NYC, interviews Veerabhadran "Ram" Ramanathan, a pioneer of climate science and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Climate Sciences and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Dr....
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Morgan Phillips: repairing an individualistic society
"Individualism is an ideology. It has gone hyper and is causing great personal, social and environmental harm. If you are feeling this and want to fight back, The Miracle Inn is here for you." Dr. Morgan Phillips worked at the NGO Global Action Plan for 6.5 years, developing a climate curriculum...
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NYC high school students describe their lack of climate education
In this introduction to our upcoming series of interviews on the role of education in a democracy, Catherine Du interviews four of her ninth grade classmates at Hunter College High School in New York City to find out what they think of the education on climate change they've received so far. Send...
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Jyoti Mishra: mindfulness, climate, and social connection
Dr. Jyoti Mishra is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and in this episode she describes how we may reshape society to cope with the climate crisis. We learned about Dr. Mishra's work first from an article she co-authored in Nature…
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Eugene Kirpichov on building a regenerative economy
Eugene Kirpichov, a former software engineer at Google, describes why he and his colleague Cassandra Xia left their positions at Google to create Work on Climate, a rapidly growing nonprofit aimed at mobilizing the talent that can build a regenerative green economy. Kirpichov calls for…
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Mark Gongloff: what it's like writing about climate change on Wall Street's top financial platform
Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Every week his climate column sends a stark, realistic viewpoint on the urgency of climate change action through the world’s...
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Georgia Silvera Seamans: nature in the center of NYC
Georgia Silvera Seamans, an urban forester, and Giulia Di Vincenzo, a high school student, explore the treescape of Washington Square Park, a public park in New York City that has been famous as a cultural center and gathering place for over a century. Georgia gives Giulia a tour of the trees,...
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Sam Stephenson: the goal of a Cambridge PhD
Dr. Sam Stephenson has just completed his PhD in Energy, Climate, and Net Zero Policy in the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University. In this episode, Sam describes a benchmark report from the UK government-funded research group he worked with at Cambridge, known as UK FIRES. The report,...
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Pete Sikora on how to make activism work
Pete Sikora is the Climate & Inequality Campaigns Director at New York Communities for Change (NYCC). Before a big mayoral election in New York City, Pete sat down to talk with high school students Helena Rambler, David Case, and Pierce Siegel in Cobble Hill Park on a sunny Saturday afternoon.…
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Ellie Johnston on Climate Interactive and climate impacts in her hometown of Asheville, NC
Ellie Johnston is the Director of Programs at Climate Interactive, an organization that builds online simulators to let anyone test out the most effective strategies to limit climate change. Johnston also happens to live in Asheville, North Carolina, a city that bore the full brunt of flooding…
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Adam Aron: psychological insights for building the climate movement
Helena Rambler, a high school junior, and Adam Aron, a professor of psychology at the University of California San Diego, discuss the emotional challenges of addressing climate change. Adam shares his journey from his rise in the field of cognitive neuroscience, to his growing concern about…
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Gail Whiteman: how to explain climate impacts as a risk to what we love
Gail Whiteman is a Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and a social science expert on how decision-makers make sense of systemic global risks from climate change and other environmental threats. Since 2012, Whiteman is the Professor-in-Residence at the World...
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Mariana of Climáximo: the importance of emotions, how to face the truth, and climate as context
Mariana is an organizer with Climáximo, a climate justice direct action group in Portugal. Cindy Ye and Adeline Sauberli, seniors at Stuyvesant High School, and Helena Rambler, a junior at Hunter College High School, spoke to Mariana on November 17, 2024: after the US election which brought Trump...
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Carolyn McGrath and Kate Schapira: An Educator's Guide to Climate Emotions
Carolyn McGrath and Kate Schapira co-authored An Educator's Guide to Climate Emotions, a project from the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. "The human-driven processes and impacts of climate change are disrupting young people’s lives and are putting their homes, institutions, and...
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Christopher Shaw on the social transformation needed to solve climate change
Dr. Christopher Shaw is an independent climate communications expert. Chris was previously Head of Research at Climate Outreach, where among the reports he worked on is the IPCC handbook for climate scientists on how to communicate effectively. Chris is also author of the book Liberalism and the...
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Gianluca Grimalda on international travel without flight, and the impact of climate change on Pacific islands
Dr. Gianluca Grimalda was fired by his employer, a German research institute, after refusing to travel by plane for his return from Papua New Guinea, where he was conducting research on the social impacts of climate change. To reduce his own carbon footprint Dr. Grimalda instead chose to make his...
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Drew Pendergrass: physicist, climate scientist, writer, activist, game developer
With Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass is the co-author of the book Half-Earth Socialism, which comes with a free online video game, play.half.earth. Pendergrass graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 2020 with a BA in Physics and Mathematics and a minor in English, and is now doing his Ph.D in...
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Gaya Herrington: from working in finance to studying paths to global sustainability
While working at the consulting firm KPMG, the econometrician Gaya Herrington undertook an update of the social and environmental projections in the 1972 MIT report "Limits to Growth." Her research formed her thesis for her Masters in Sustainability at Harvard, and then gained attention in the...
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Alice Hu on becoming a full time climate activist after graduating from Columbia University
Alice Hu works with New York Communities for Change and has participated in several of their most visible actions, including storming the Hamptons with plastic pitchforks to call attention to the enormous carbon footprints and destructive investments of the billionaires that vacation there. Hu…
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Julien Dossier on climate politics in France and making a 14th c. fresco into a vision of sustainability
Julien Dossier is an expert in climate policy and the co-author of the 2017 carbon neutrality plan for Paris. He founded Quattrolibri, a consulting firm that designs low carbon transition strategies for clients. His current project is a book and a program, Renaissance Ecologique, for which he...
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Rebecca Willis on solving climate change with more democracy
Rebecca Willis is a Professor in Energy & Climate Governance at Lancaster Environment Centre, where she leads the Climate Citizens project. In 2020 she was an Expert Lead for Climate Assembly UK, the Citizens’ Assembly established by the UK Parliament. Rebecca is a Trustee of the New Economics...
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Stuart Capstick and the Center for Climate Change and Social Transformations
In the first episode of the second season, Daniel Shneider and Ajani Stella, students at Hunter College High School in NYC, talk to Dr. Stuart Capstick, Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST Centre). Dr. Capstick researches public understanding of…
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Ro Randall on the psychology of climate change concern & action
In this episode, we speak with Rosemary Randall, a British psychotherapist who researches how people respond emotionally to information about climate change. With Andy Brown, Randall developed the award winning Carbon Conversations project which uses a psychological, small-group approach to…
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David Bookbinder on teaching climate change in high schools, and Massachusetts v. EPA [Season 1, Episode 6]
In this episode, we speak with David Bookbinder of the Niskanen Center, who as Sierra Club's Chief Climate Counsel initiated Massachusetts v. EPA, the foundational climate law in the United States. We talk about how a climate change-focused high school curriculum could be built, shifting our...
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Kim Nicholas on wine and climate change [Season 1, Episode 5]
In this episode, we join Professor Kim Nicholas of Lund University's Centre for Sustainability Studies to talk about her work and experiences as a climate researcher and activist. Dr. Nicholas is an expert on high impact actions one can take to reduce one’s carbon footprint. We also talk to her...
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Shipping, aviation research, and climate change with Alice Larkin [Season 1, Episode 4]
In this episode, we speak with climate researcher Alice Larkin, Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy and Head of the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester. Dr. Larkin describes her research on reducing the emissions from the vital sectors of shipping and aviation. We…
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Meteorologists and Climate Change with Jeff Berardelli [Season 1, Episode 3]
In this episode, we interview meteorologist Jeff Berardelli of CBS in New York City, who views himself as a teacher of climate change to viewers of the weather on TV. We talked about a story he did on the Dust Bowl, his knowledge about the California wildfires, and how climate change intersects...
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When do rising temperatures pose a risk to us? Climate scientist Radley Horton on how extreme heat and humidity can combine to threaten human health [Season 1, Episode 2]
In this episode, we speak to Dr. Radley Horton of Columbia University about the danger of high wet bulb temperatures, which happen when heat waves and high humidity combine . We go into the impact of rising temperatures on different geographical locations, and how increasing temperatures can…
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Aarne Granlund's Personal Emission Reductions in North Karelia [Season 1, Episode 1]
In the first episode of Bridging the Carbon Gap, we talk to Finnish climate activist Aarne Granlund about personal choices he has made to cut down his individual carbon emissions, from dramatic changes like moving from Helsinki to North Karelia, a region in which there is more concrete action...
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Because climate change is not formally taught in New York City high schools, City Atlas started this podcast to connect high school students directly with experts to find out how they would design a high school curriculum for climate. Join students at Hunter College High School and Stuyvesant, two schools in New York City, on their journey to gain knowledge about climate change, a topic that is not taught enough to young students across the U.S.
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Catherine Du, Helena Rambler, Cindy Ye, Pierce Siegel, Giulia Di Vincenzo, David Case, Adeline Sauberli, Eli Gitter-Dentz, Marie Fadeyeva, Nicholas Wu, Ajani Stella, Daniel Shneider, Gabriel Gitter-Dentz, Kevin Zhou, Adam Rudt
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