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The podcast on plastic, people, and the planet by @anjakrieger. Plastics have become the basis for our modern lives, but they also pollute the planet. Will we be able to develop a healthy relationship with these materials we’ve created? Follow Anja on a journey into the world of synthetic polymers, their impacts on nature and ourselves, and the global quest to tackle plastic pollution. Each episode explores the issue from a different angle, featuring a diverse set of voices and viewpoints.
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There is so much to be angry about, if you are a clean energy guy. Every day, so many things that happen around the world make me angry when I look at them with lenses colored by the climate change chaos unfolding everywhere around us. And I am especially angry because I know we can solve the climate change crisis if we were only trying.Each week, I will share with you a few topics that struck me and that I was very angry about – and this will generally have to do with climate change, solar ...
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Your Planet, Your Health

Ralph Levinson & Luc Lewitanski

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"Your Planet, Your Health" strives to summarise the science behind earth's climate and our existence on it – Our aims are to contextualise the history of discourses and ideas about the environment and to debunk misinformation – We share positive stories, and explore the knowledge and tools that we can use to be good earthlings. This podcast on planetary health is hosted by Ralph Levinson, MD Health Sciences Professor (emeritus) School of Medicine, UCLA, and Luc Lewitanski, a journalist cover ...
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Ecopify's Podcast is a show dedicated to help educate and inspire people to live more sustainably and to make a positive impact on the planet. Whether you're just beginning your sustainable journey or looking for new ways to reduce your carbon footprint, this podcast is for you.
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Welcome to Plastic: The Last Straw, the podcast all about plastic! Join us on our journey from the invention of plastic, all the way to the very last straw, as we look at the plastics problem from the perspectives of a range of experts and organisations working in the field. This mini-series is produced by TuneFM at the University of New England and is created in partnership with the Environmental Protection Authority of NSW.
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Nature Breaking

World Wildlife Fund

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Join host Seth Larson as he interviews experts on some of the biggest environmental issues affecting people and our planet, including climate change, habitat loss, endangered species, and more. Learn something new about nature in every episode. This show is produced by World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
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Break Some Dishes

SURROUND Podcast Network

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Defying the rules to inspire design. Under the lens of creativity, Verda Alexander and Jon Strassner swap stories with the unlikeliest of heroes in this fight to save our planet.
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An environmental podcast with tips on how to live plastic free! Host Andrea Fox tackles big ethical issues with her knowledgeable guests, all in the hope of overcoming the climate change overwhelm and battling the single-use plastic guilt.
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Quakers Today

Friends Publishing Corporation

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Quakers Today features writers, musicians, and thinkers who are seeking wisdom and understanding in a rapidly changing world. We do not pretend to have all the answers. Instead, we have a place where you can hear people speak from the heart, grapple with faith, and share the insights they have found along the way. It is also a place where you will have the opportunity to share your own insights, reflections, and questions. Hosted by Peterson Toscano he/him and Miche Mcall they/them, Quakers ...
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Save Sea Life

Dee Daniels Media Podcast Network

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Welcome to the Save Sea Life Podcast, I’m your host Liddy - 9-year-old Ocean Conservationist, Author, & Artist. Protecting our oceans is a big job, but we can all help!! My mission is to let people know that no act is too small and you’re never too young to make a big difference. Let’s dive in!
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Real World Nutrition

Shelley A. Rael, MS RDN LD

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Move past the fads, gimmicks, trends, detoxing, cleanses, fasting, and other unrealistic ideas about eating in the real world. If you want to eat and enjoy food without being deprived because you live in the real world, join Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Shelley A. Rael as she sorts through the hype and gives and real talk about eating healthier.
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Welcome to the official free Podcast site from SAGE, with selected new podcasts that will span a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. Our Podcasts are designed to act as teaching tools, providing further insight into our content through editor and author commentaries and interviews with special guests. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and ...
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The Earthlings Podcast takes a look at the big issues facing humanity in the early 21st century and our relationship to our environment, technology, and each other. Each episode, award-winning journalist, and former NPR reporter Lisa Ann Pinkerton hosts experts, scientists, and leaders working to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Together, they cover wide-ranging topics including environmental solutions, emerging technologies, what the future might look like, and more. Support us on Patr ...
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Living on Earth

World Media Foundation

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As the planet we call home faces a climate emergency, Living on Earth is your go-to source for the latest coverage of climate change, ecology, and human health. Hosted by Steve Curwood and brought to you by PRX.
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SunCast

Nico Johnson

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Nico Johnson takes you into conversations with those at the forefront of Renewable Energy. SunCast gives an inside look into what is happening in renewable energy. From conversations with the biggest Solar Panel manufacturers in the world to the small startups creating the future of renewable energy, such as carbon capture and battery technology breakthroughs. SunCast is dedicated to providing the knowledge, research, tools and expert guidance you need to understand, grow and be ahead of the ...
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When we were making the script for the podcast our goal was to show how plastic is affecting the earth. It has impacted many things including us so if we do not stop it soon then there will be no more fish in the sea and we will be swimming in plastic. I don’t know if you could image that but it would be a really big problem and it would be too hard to fix that but right now we can do our best and find a solution. Cover art photo provided by Erik Eastman on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@er ...
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Everyday Climate Champions

Everyday Climate Champions

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Inspiring conversations with our San Francisco Bay Area neighbors, as they act on home, work, school, community, or policy levels to put real climate solutions into action. Both educational and inspirational, each 15-minute episode supports everyone, everywhere, in becoming a climate champion. Let's shift to the 21st-century 'new normal' of climate-friendly living! The Everyday Climate Champions podcast is produced by the Climate Reality Project - Bay Area Chapter. Transcripts always include ...
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About Sustainability…

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

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About Sustainability… is a podcast presented by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, featuring IGES staff and guests having in-depth discussions about sustainability-related topics. Each episode addresses a different topic of conversation -- be it an upcoming event, a debate of interest, or an interesting research finding. With the topic as a starting point, we see where the conversation takes us. We aim at a broad audience, so we avoid using jargon and try not to assume lots o ...
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UN News interviews a wide range of people from senior news-making officials at Headquarters in New York, to advocates and beneficiaries from across the world who have a stake in helping the UN go about its often life-saving work in the field.
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A holistic approach to life, gym, exercise, and healthy habits you can implement into your daily routine to make a better you. Follow Louis on Twitter: @EmailLD Facebook:www.facebook.com/LDHealthandExerciseCoach Instagram: ldhealth_exercise_coach
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True Heroes

Urban Changemaker Coalition

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Sustainability. Justice. Community. Compassion. True Heroes celebrates the ordinary people with extraordinary missions to make this world a better place, one place at a time. Social entrepreneur and inclusive cities advocate Rosaline Oh hosts honest and hilarious conversations with the inspiring people behind social change.
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A combination of women from the South are speaking out on things we were always told we shouldn't talk about and think about, but we do anyways! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emily-canfield/support
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Lakes Chat

Alliance for the Great Lakes

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Dive into Our Lakes Chat! Every other Tuesday, the Alliance for the Great Lakes will chat with a special guest(s) about Great Lakes Issues and dig into what it all means for you and your community. Learn more about us: https://greatlakes.org/
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According to statistics from 2024, at least 14 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean every year. The amount of trash on beaches is staggering. During the 2021 International Coastal Cleanup in the United States, approximately 3 million waste items were collected, including 500,000 cigarette butts, food wrappers, and plastic bottle caps. That's…
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The plastics industry needs to show more responsibility and put their money where their mouth is on cutting harmful waste and pollution, especially as it impacts small island States. That’s according to Director General of the Pacific islands environment agency, SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra of Fiji, who told UN News the outcome document adopted at last …
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Happy World Environment Day! We’ve got a treat for you. There’s a new podcast series which is really great – and we wanted to share it with you. It’s called Forever Chemicals, and it’s produced by Meg Carney and team at Black-Footed Ferret Productions. Listen to the teaser here on Plastisphere and then head over to https://www.theoutdoorminimalist.…
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Ever get annoyed when you order takeout and they give you the obligatory plastic wrapped napkin and plastic cutlery? If you’re like me, you politely decline, but most just take them and dispose of them directly in the waste bin. The world is drowning in plastic waste, and current solutions to a useful alternative aren't cutting it. PlantSwitch, a N…
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Clouds of diesel fumes clog the air in Beirut, Lebanon where the virtual collapse of the power grid has led residents to rely on diesel generators. The city’s air is now so badly polluted researchers at the American University of Beirut are linking it to a startling 30% spike in cancer cases. Also, Isaias Hernandez is an environmental activist and …
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It has now been over 1,000 days since the Taliban, the de facto authorities in Afghanistan, banned education for girls beyond sixth grade, a figure described by the Executive Director of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, as “a blatant violation of their right to education” resulting in “dwindling opportunities and deteriorating mental health”. To r…
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Welcome to Episode 141 of the Real World Nutrition podcast! In this installment of our summer series debunking common nutrition myths, Shelley tackles the pervasive myth that you need to detox your body regularly. Detox products, from detox teas to juice cleanses, are marketed as essential for removing toxins and rejuvenating your system. But do yo…
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The UN’s digital technology agency (ITU) launches ‘UN Virtual Worlds Day’ on Friday a pioneering event designed to integrate the metaverse – ‘an integrated ecosystem of virtual worlds’ – to improve how societies and governance work to greater benefit the public. Virtual reality offers new opportunities for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals…
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When you hear the expression “the kids are alright,” it’s referring to Sophie Horvath and Joshua Swift-Rawal, students at Berkeley High School in California. The friends noticed that a lot of their favorite restaurants were using single-use products, despite new reuse laws in their city, and they decided to do something about it. They started a pro…
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Nuclear power has been a source of optimism and fear since the mid-Twentieth Century. On one hand, it evokes the destructive power of nuclear bombs, the catastrophic explosion of Chernobyl, the Fukushima disaster or, more recently Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Europe’s largest, which has come under fire since Russia’s full-scale inva…
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Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun, has cast the vision of the leading solar brand in North America as a clean energy lifestyle company. She recently shared with Nico how Sunrun is accelerating the transition and nearing its millionth customer despite the typical electric utilities' “no and slow” culture. Under Powell's leadership, Sunrun installed more th…
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Eight months into the war in Gaza, families have been forced to adapt to what humanitarians often call “negative coping strategies” to survive, as unemployment reaches a staggering 80 per cent. For many in the Gaza Strip, this has meant sending their children out to work, despite the dangers, the UN labour agency, ILO, has warned. Details of this w…
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Anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) are nothing new; they have plagued US-based solar developers and decision-makers since 2011. These duties, aimed at preventing unfair trade practices, greatly impact pricing and timelines of solar projects and generally seed uncertainty in the marketplace (at the outset, at least). We now have a new r…
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As we approach the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, today’s episode is about environmental justice. You’ve probably heard that term before, but in short, it refers to the notion that underserved and historically underrepresented communities with higher populations of black, indigenous, and other peoples of color, have born a disproportionate share of t…
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Hello Earthlings! For this week’s episode, we’re starting our summer schedule where we’ll be posting a rerun of a relevant episode every other week. We’re starting our summer schedule off with a very timely episode we did with Steve Boyle of Rubicon Carbon back in 2023. Once again, carbon credits are back in the hot seat after The Biden Administrat…
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Did you know that heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide? Quite often, the culprit behind this appalling statistic is the silent buildup of plaque in arteries, influenced by cholesterol levels. While genetics can predispose you to heart disease, you can take the reins of your heart's health by eating the right foods. Just as hig…
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Streams in northern Alaska are turning a cloudy orange, and scientists think the cause is metals like iron leaching from melting permafrost as the Arctic rapidly warms. Also, summer has barely begun in the Northern Hemisphere but extreme heat is already baking Pakistan, where climate disruption is also bringing frequent catastrophic floods. What it…
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