Queens of the Blues with Gina Coleman from the band, Misty Blues, will explore the fertile landscape of female artists who were at the foundation of early recorded blues and celebrate music created by female blues artists up to present times. The show will also give space for Gina’s friends, from varied creative backgrounds, to share the works of their most admired female blues artists and how they’ve influenced their artistry.
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The Climate Pod is a wide-ranging conversation with leading experts on the politics, economics, activism, culture, science, and social justice issues at the heart of the climate crisis. Hear from guests like Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Al Roker, David Wallace-Wells, Katharine Hayhoe, Adam McKay, Bill Nye, Robert Bullard, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Ted Danson, Gina McCarthy, Paul Krugman, and many more. Hosted by brothers Ty and Brock Benefiel.
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Beale Street Mama” is entirely about Esther Bigeou. #estherbigeouBy Gina Coleman
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Groundbreaking Economic Study Suggests Greater Climate Damages (w/ Dr. Adrien Bilal and Dr. Diego Kaenzig)
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In 2018, economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model, which was the first neoclassical growth model to incorporate the impacts of a warming planet on the global economy. While celebrated for its economic innovations, the DICE model and its outputs have been criticized…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “You'll Want My Love” is entirely about Lucille Hegamin. #lucillehegamin
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Is Climate Anxiety Keeping People From Having Children? (w/ Dr. Jade Sasser)
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Over the past five years, there have been several studies showing how the climate crisis is impacting major life decisions. Whether it’s where to live, how to invest, or what to study, young people today are being forced to confront a climate-worsened future and decide what’s best for their personal situation given the very public failures of leade…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “When A Woman” is entirely about female fronted power couples. #memphisminnie #Lefever #annikachambers #susantedeschi #jillburnham #erinharpe
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Why Is Climate Change Missing In Our Movies? (w/ Anna Jane Joyner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson)
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Popular films have massive influence over our culture. It's where we go to see the biggest stories on the biggest screen. It's where we go to see Nicole Kidman do that weird commerical before the film starts. Movies are really, really important. So, why isn't the climate crisis, one of the defining issues of our time, on the silver screen more ofte…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Lonesome Woman Blues” is entirely about Alice Moore. #alicemoore #littlealice
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The American Climate Corps Explained (with White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi)
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The American Climate Corps, an initiative that will employ 20,000 Americans in its first year to combat the climate crisis, is launching this week as the Biden Administration delivers on another campaign promise. Learning from previous national service programs such as FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps and AmeriCorps, the American Climate Corps wil…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Whiskey Selling Woman” is entirely about Lucille Bogan. #lucillebogan
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CNN's Bill Weir On The Life Lessons Found In Climate Reporting
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For years, we've watched as Bill Weir has brought climate storytelling to one of the biggest news networks on television. On CNN, Bill has traveled the world to cover everything from extreme weather disasters to cutting-edge climate solutions. And throughout an incredibly eventful career, he's learned life lessons he hopes his children and others w…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Long Tall Mama” is entirely about Bernice Edwards. #berniceedwards
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The Washington Post's Shannon Osaka On Microplastics, Extreme Weather Costs, And Covering Climate In 2024
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Shannon Osaka has been one of our favorite climate journalists for years. So we were incredibly excited to have her on this week for a wide-ranging conversation on a variety of climate issues - like microplastics, extreme weather costs in the US, and covering climate change as we exceed 1.5 degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels. Shannon al…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “My Time Will Come” is entirely about LaVern Baker. #lavernbaker
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Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet (w/ Brett Christophers)
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For decades, the biggest pushback against renewable energy was that it was more expensive to generate than electricity that came from the burning of fossil fuels. But all that changed in 2016 when both solar and wind-generated electricity became cheaper than electricity generated by coal and natural gas, at least when using the industry-standard me…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “One Dime Blues” is entirely about Etta Baker. #etta baker
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How Do You Behave Ethically In A Climate Crisis? (w/ Travis Rieder)
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The climate crisis presents us with a number of moral challenges. We all produce emissions, but there are massive differences and inequities in how much pollution each individual is responsible for and who is harmed the most by the consequences. As the very real impacts of the crisis only become more obvious and deadly, we continue to ask ourselves…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Snap Your Fingers” is entirely about Algia Mae Hinton. #algiamaehintonBy Gina Coleman
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Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Rhetoric vs Climate Reality
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In 2021, Greta Thunberg spoke to the youth climate movement at an event leading up to COP26. Her famous "Blah, Blah, Blah" speech contrasted all of the things world leaders had said about the climate crisis and what those same leaders had actually done to reduce emissions and create policies to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. Three years …
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Trombone Cholly” is entirely about the Godmother of British Blues, Anna Ottilie Patterson. #ottiliepattersonBy Gina Coleman
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Degrowth, Malthus, and the Climate Crisis (w/ Giorgos Kallis)
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Over the last century, economic growth, as measured by increases in countries' Gross Domestic Product, has been the key indicator of success. And while GDP has skyrocketed in many countries, so has fossil fuel use, deforestation, and the destruction of natural ecosystems. On top of that, inequality has actually gotten worse in many countries and in…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Don't Let The Devil Ride” is entirely about Precious Bryant. #preciousbryant
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The Adventurers Behind A Thrilling New Climate Documentary (w/ Dr. Lonnie Thompson, Danny O'Malley, and Dr. Alex Rivest)
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It's incredible how dramatic climate science can be. That was my first thought after I watched the new documentary, Canary, which chronicles the life and career of Dr. Lonnie Thompson. This week, the subject behind the film, Dr. Thompson, and the co-directors of the documentary, Danny O'Malley and Dr. Alex Rivest, explain how the film came together…
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Too Bad,” is curated by special guest Dawn Lepere of LeFever. #dawnlepere #lefeverBy Gina Coleman
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How Can The Climate Movement Build Real Power? (w/ Dana Fisher)
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Who can the climate movement turn to for real change? Politicians? Business leaders? International negotiators? The reality, as Professor Dana Fisher argues, is that despite major gains for climate action in recent years, none of our leaders are adequately advancing solutions at the speed and scale neccessary to meet the actual crisis we face. And …
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The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920’s to present times. This show, entitled “Aggravatin' Papa” is entirely about Joyce Cobb. #Joyce CobbBy Gina Coleman
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What's Keeping Nuclear Energy From Playing a Larger Role in Decarbonization? (w/ Dr. Matt Bowen)
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The International Energy Agency, among other prominent modelers of our energy future, projects that nuclear energy's current global capacity must double by 2050 in order for the world to hit its decarbonization goals. The annual investments needed to reach this doubling far exceed anything that's being invested today in new nuclear facilities. Just…
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