what happens to native wildlife
when seasons change due to climate change.
Little Ice Age
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discusses the impact of the Little Ice Age, a period of significant cooling from the 15th to early 19th centuries that caused widespread famine, drought, and socio-economic…
Chicago kept its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power
It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicago’s more than 400 municipal buildings every year. As of January 1, every single one of them—including 98 fire stations,…
Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?
In this episode, I chat with author Cory Doctorow about "enshittification," his viral term for how digital platforms and smart technologies inevitably get worse over time. We explore how monopoly…
Tires and Microplastics
and fossil fuel waste
African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate
When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which is focuses on the experiences of Black people in the…
A Tiny Town Is Betting on a Sand Battery to Heat Homes. It Could Revolutionize Energy.
Never underestimate the power of a pile of pebbles.
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like
Silicon Valley has long had an almost religious fixation on the concept of innovation. Venture capitalists and tech startup entrepreneurs are constantly portraying themselves as people breaking through the crust…
Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
Century of Tree Planting Stalls the Warming Effects in the Eastern United States, Says Study
A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows. The pioneering study of…