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The Defender Podcast — 84 episodes

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Good News for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee!

2

Wisconsin Farmer Answers Your Questions About Wind Energy

3

How to Take the Trash Out of Your Life

4

Can Small Farms Save Wisconsin's Water?

5

Do AI Data Centers Hurt Your Health?

6

Are You Ready for the Plastic-Free Challenge?

7

Is Ethanol a Scam?

8

What's in the Rain (and Snow)?

9

What's Standing in the Way of Line 5?

10

The truth about AI data centers and our water

11

How Chefs Can Protect the Planet

12

What's a Data Center Tariff and Why Should You Care?

13

Meet The Teen Who Is Suing Wisconsin Over Climate Change

14

Chaos Theory

15

The Truth About Grassfed Beef

16

How Superior, WI Defeated a Gas Plant

17

The Nuclear Option

18

Why Wisconsin should be more like Texas

19

Why Help on Forever Chemicals is Taking… Forever

20

What did the EPA just do?

21

How Caledonia WI Defeated a Data Center

22

What to know about PFAS pesticides

23

Goodbye Grocery Store?

24

Hey Tech Companies, Your Gas is Showing!

25

Who's Paying for Data Centers?

26

How to protect the planet by doing nothing

27

Wisconsin's Forbidden Fruit

28

Data Center Secrets

29

The Climate March is Coming!

30

150 Million Reasons to Listen to This Episode

31

How much would you pay? Finding the value of a clean environment

32

Nothing to see here! Why the EPA says climate change won't hurt you

33

Lambscaping! Why sheep are loving Wisconsin's solar farms

34

Move People, Not Oil

35

WI Supreme Court delivers victory for science

36

Latest on Line 5: The crude oil project that threatens northern Wisconsin

37

Where Art Meets Environmental Justice: Inspiring a Movement in Milwaukee

38

Ready for a REAL Energy Crisis?

39

Cows, Tall Grass & Wind Turbines

40

Pesticides and Our Bodies

41

The hidden pesticides that could be lurking in your pollinator garden

42

Wisconsin's Class of 2025: The bright future of clean energy

43

Meet Wisconsin's Conservation Dogs!

44

Surprising environmental impacts of solar in Wisconsin

45

The Truth about No Mow May

46

Solar's Hype Girl: Meet the advocate convincing Wisconsinites to let the sunshine in

47

The long list of Trump Administration attacks on our environment

48

Feast or Famine: What’s ahead for Wisconsin’s weather?

49

Microplastics are in our bodies: How much do they hurt us?

50

Farmers for Solar

51

Wisconsin’s bees are acting weird. Here’s why.

52

From Grain to Glass: Why you should be drinking beer brewed with Kernza® grain

53

How to defend climate progress in WI and beyond

54

Our Salty Waters: Are you using too much road salt?

55

Trump’s Threat to Safe Water (and how WI can fight back)

56

Leaded Skies: A small town's fight against leaded aviation fuel

57

Opening the door to joy: One woman’s journey to get fossil fuels out of her home

58

Introducing the Defender

59

How to Eat for the Environment

60

What Trump 2.0 means for our environment

61

Neurotoxins On Our Plates

62

A Case for Optimism: The energy transition we need, and what's standing in the way

63

All the Money in the World: The cost of removing PFAS from our environment

64

Supreme Court Power Grab

65

Who Are the Science Moms?

66

Three Cheers for Climate Beer!

67

No Mow May: Does it work?

68

Truth About Natural Gas

69

Last Line of Defense: Battle over Wisconsin Gas Plant intensifies

70

A Toast to 1939

71

Health Harms of 'Forever Chemicals'

72

Uncovering Air Pollution

73

Wisconsin's Vanishing Bee

74

Suppressing Solar? Alliant Energy, MG&E target home solar in rate plans

75

Tainted Water: Dairy lobby sues Wisconsin over water protections

76

Farming the Sun: WI Farmers Find a Lifeline in Solar

77

The Disinformation Game

78

Confronting a Clean Energy Backlash

79

I’ll drink to that! New Glarus Brewing Captures its Carbon

80

Solar vs Corn for Ethanol: Which land use produces the most energy?

81

Crisis of Contamination: Toxic PFAS in our Great Lakes

82

Power to the People

83

Kernza Crunch: The race to develop the world’s first perennial grain crop

84

Trailer: This is the Defender