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Sustain What? — 129 episodes · page 1 of 2
A Song For These Times: “I Want to Live in a Land Where Money Ain’t God”
Tracking America’s Energy Trends and Prospects for the Bipartisan Permitting Reform Bill
Suno vs. Homo - Matt Richtel and Andy Revkin on AI and Music
Meet Jacob Weisberg, Outing Political and Corporate Trump Sycophants Enabling Autocracy
Update from Trump’s War: Oil Traders Party While Families Struggle with Surging Energy Bills
Beyond the Social Dilemma: Navigating the Online Media Crisis - Before the AI Crisis
Avoiding AI Doom - a Cyber Security Guru and a Tech Philosopher Weigh in
Experts Lay Out Paths to a Safer Future in the Unstable, Warming, Crowding Himalayas
Fresh Updates on the Himalayan Ice and Rock Collapse and Flood Catastrophe
Want to Protect Your House in the Fiery West? "Think Like an Ember"
How to Boost Public Trust and Engagement in Science and Policy
For Those Who Work the Sea (and Those Who Don't Return)
Paths to Safer Seafood Harvests – Lessons and Solutions from Maine's Bountiful, Dangerous Coasts
A "Sunday Sanity" Back Porch Song Sift in Open-C Tuning
Clearwater Sloop Booted from "Sail 250" Tall Ships Parade in New York City
AI for Good? Yes. Really. Meet a Coder Connecting Venezuela Quake Survivors and Kin
Pursuing Online Weather-Forecast Impact in a Fast-Changing Media Climate
Meet Researchers Holding a 50-Hour Livestream to Sustain Weather & Climate Science
From "The Republican War on Science" to a Climate-Science Pulitzer to Deconstructing Storytelling - a Chat with Chris Mooney
🎶 New Song on Cooking in War Zones and Knitting a Red Wool Shield Against ICE
What to Think and Do as the Pope and an AI Founder Weigh in on This Fast-Forward Technology
Burgess, Hausfather, Pielke and Tol on the overdue end to the worst-case RCP8.5 climate scenario
Sustaining Long-Term Science in a Short-Term World
Chat with a Singing Journalist – Me
How the Hormuz Shutdown is Reshaping The Material World
Remembering Peter Raven, a Plant- and Planet-Loving Force for Nature
On the Path to Worldwide Slaughter-Free Meat
Green Journalism Graybeards Explore Communication Frontiers, from Film to Songs and Beyond
Using AI Without Losing the Best of Being Human
An Alarming Report on the Trump-Driven Surge to Autocracy, American Style
Andy Revkin with Physicist Adam Frank on Aliens, the Anthropocene, Trump's War on Science and More
A Debate About Building Audiences for Good Climate Outcomes Without Putting Climate Change in the Foreground
We Sent an Army to the Desert To Keep This Country Free - and to Liberate Some Carbon, Baby, for You and Me...
Amid All, a Dose of Sunday Sanity with Texas-Spawned Songwriter and Poet Vince Bell
Libertarian and Liberal Lawyers with a Climate Focus Agree on Big Weaknesses in Trump's Attack on the EPA “Endangerment” Finding
Meet "Death of Science" author John Horgan and Steve Fuller, a philosopher of knowing (and much more)
Gernot Wager on Surviving Team Trump’s War on Climate “Endangerment”
Why AI's "Simulated Intelligence" is Great for Grunt Work, But Not Breakthroughs or Creativity
Extreme Winter Weather in a Human-Heated Climate
Save Dreams for Sleeping, It's Time to Get Loud
Meet Former Russian Propagandist Andrew Ryvkin and Propaganda Expert Renee Hobbs
How to Navigate a Superstorm of Malicious, Divisive, Dangerous and Distracting Propaganda
Meet U.S. Scientists Working in Greenland Who are Urging Trump to Respect Greenlanders
From the Field: Taking the Temperature Under Antarctica's Most Threatened Glacier
Sammy Roth on Climate, Culture and the Changing Media Environment
Exploring the Toxic Politics Around Migration & Population 📈 & 📉
Can Doomscrolling Be Harnessed for the Public Good?
"Kyoto" Playwrights, a Climate Scientist, Journalists and a Campaigner Explore Climate Drama - Onstage and Off
A "Buy Nothing Day" Chat With Rev. Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping and Low-Carbon Maven Lloyd Alter
A Check-in on COP30 with a Top Brazilian Climate Journalist and Kim Stanley Robinson on the Role of Fiction Facing Inconvenient Facts
Update from Journalists at the #COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
Cory Doctorow Explains How to Disenshittify Your Online Life and Brace for the Impending AI Bubble Implosion
Between an Explosive Movie and Trump’s “Golden Dome,” a Reality Check on Nuclear Missile Defense
Making Good Musical Trouble with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
🎶 Life is a Band - Find Your Voice and Build a Band (Musical or Otherwise)
Songwriter Dar Williams on Music that Matters
Joe Romm and I Agree on Something: We Both Never Foresaw How Bad Trump's Assault on Climate Would Be
How “Adversarial Collaboration” Can Improve Research When Scientists Clash
Skip the Pundits and Headlines for a Moment to Marvel at John Prine's Enduring Magic
Reviewing the Climate Science Critique Done for Team Trump
Surviving Trump, Thriving with Solar - an Update from Climate Action Lifer Bill McKibben
From Kauai to Your Town - How Data Can Help Cut Climate Threats
From Juneau to the Himalayas, Get Used to Potentially Catastrophic Floods
A Fresh Look at Climate [In]Justice (and Trump 2.0) with Cass Sunstein
Podcast: How Trump is Threatening Public Lands and the Agencies We Created to Manage Them
When Weather-Control Conspiracies Threaten Public Safety
Exploring Trust and Mistrust in Climate (and Other) Science
What Technology Can, and Can't, Do to Boost Flood Warning Awareness and Safety
How to Feed 9 Billion People Without Trashing and Overheating Earth
Resurrect George Washington to Defy Wannabe King Trump a Third Term?
A Day for Showing Your Climate Stripes, and Trying Other Ways to Make Data Matter
Meet Kate Marvel, the NASA Climate Scientist Who's Written a "Biography of Earth in Nine Emotions"
A Visual Tour of American Character(s)
From Communities to Corporations - How to Cut Vulnerabilities that Turn Hazards into Disasters
A Poet and a Picker Explore Everything from Romania's Election to How Steve Martin Learned Banjo
Trump's Whiplash Effect on a U.S. Weather Data Pipeline
A Teaching Framework Helping Students (or Others!) Tackle Complex Challenges With Impact in Mind
Facing Trump Attacks, a Funding Implosion and Too Much More, Here's What Journalism is For - and How to Sustain it
Yes, Climate and Democracy Progress is Possible Despite Trump's Demolition Derby
"We Shall Not Be Moved"
Assessing the Dangerous Trump / Musk Effect on Aviation and Highway Safety
Essential Insights from a Top Climate Researcher Who Warns Against "Climatism"
With U.S. Aid for Lifesaving Overseas Programs Still a Tangle, "People are Dying"
Amid the Worst Surge Toward Autocracy in a Century, Here's How U-Turns Toward Democracy Can Happen
Music for Trump Time - 🎶 Save Dreams for Sleeping, It's Time to Get Real
Caught in the Trump & Musk Flood Zone? Narrative Analyst Randy Olson Has Some Advice
Wealth Management with Human and Planetary Progress in Mind
Michael Liebreich on How A.I. Giants Can Help (or Hurt) the Grid
Clarifying Methane Sources and Solutions
What I've Learned and Unlearned in 40 Years of Climate Reporting
How do You Stay Sane in Such Turbulent Times? For Me, One Path is Still Music
Live from Trump's Hate-Filled Madison Square Garden Rally
What to Think - and do - About "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters"
Dissecting the "Scale Monster" Stalking the Energy Transition
How Appalachian Geography Amped Up Helene's Flood Impact - and How this Relates to California's watery future
As Trump Floods All Zones With Fakery, It's Vital to Spread Propaganda Literacy
A Brazil-Eye View of a Supreme Court Justice's Shutdown of Musk's X
When it Comes to Climate and Sustainable Progress, What's Art Got to Do it?
Pathways to Crosstalk, and Impact, in Perilously Polarized Times
Where and Why Tornado Risk is Growing as Climate - and Communities - Change