A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
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“What Can I Do?” Part 1 — The Personal
A Matter of Degrees
09/15/22 • 55 min
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As climate people, we hear this question again and again: “What can I do?” Many of us are trying to figure out how to help address the climate crisis. So, we’re taking on that critical question in a three-part miniseries. The first episode is all about The Personal — key ways we can act on climate in our own lives and create meaningful, durable change. Hint: it involves stoves and cash.
This episode features Sarah Lazarovic, artist, writer, and head of communications and brand at Rewiring America, and Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund and author of Sustainability at Work.
For more info on electrifying your home, head to Rewiring America’s guide to Electrify Everything in Your Home. For more info on moving your money, turn to Marilyn’s guide to Sustainable Banking and Investing. Also mentioned: Carbon Collective, Sphere, Atmos Bank, and Earth Equity Advisors.
Be sure to check out Sarah’s comic “100 Things You Can Do to Help in the Climate Crisis,” her book A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy, and her newsletter Minimum Viable Planet. We quoted from Leah’s essay “A Field Guide for Transformation,” in the anthology All We Can Save that Katharine co-edited, and Bill McKibben’s invaluable newsletter The Crucial Years.
Next time, our miniseries will turn from the realm of The Personal to the realm of The Professional. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and don’t miss a single episode this season!
09/15/22 • 55 min
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The Stages of Black Climate Grief
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12/15/20 • 39 min
This week, we have a special episode featuring activist and researcher Nikayla Jefferson.
Most of us are in the first stage of climate grief: denial.
But what does it feel like to enter the stage of grief? And how is that grief different for black people?
Even if you’ve seen the impacts of climate change up close, even if you’ve felt the tropical winds whip your cheeks, stood in floodwater knee deep in your own home, watched a fire come down the ridge line, said “wow, I can’t remember a summer this hot” -- you are likely stuck in some state of denial.
In this episode, Nikayla shares her journey breaking through denial and into grief. She also talks with
As a black person, grieving for the planet can look different, feel heavier and more immediate.
Featured in this episode: Nikayla Jefferson, Jacqueline Patterson, and Princella Talley.
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12/15/20 • 39 min
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The ‘Darth Vader’ of Electric Utilities
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01/07/21 • 51 min
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In 2013, a series of attack ads blitzed television sets across Arizona. They warned of a dire threat to senior citizens. Who was the villain? Solar energy.
These ads came from front groups funded by Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest utility. It was part of a years-long fight against rooftop solar that turned ugly.
“I mean, for Star Wars fans, APS became the Darth Vader of electric utilities in America. I mean, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a utility that behaved as badly as APS did in the last decade,” explains former regulator Kris Mayes.
But APS isn’t alone. It’s a prime example of how monopoly utilities abuse their power to influence regulatory decisions and slow clean-energy progress.
What happens if your electric utility starts doing things you don’t agree with? What if they start attacking solar and proposing to build more and more fossil gas plants? What if they actively resist clean energy progress?
Well, you don’t get a choice. You have to buy electricity, and you have to buy it from them. As a customer you’re funding that.
In this episode, we’ll detail how it happened in Arizona -- and how public pressure forced APS’ to come clean.
Featured in this episode: Ryan Randazzo, Kris Mayes, David Pomerantz.
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01/07/21 • 51 min
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Presenting: How to Save a Planet
A Matter of Degrees
12/22/20 • 48 min
We're pleased to introduce an episode of "How to Save a Planet," produced by our friends at Gimlet and Spotify. The show is co-hosted by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Alex Blumberg.
"How to Save a Planet" has a lot of similarities to our own, so we think our listeners will like the stories they tell. In this week's episode: a story about the Black Lives Matter Movement and how the fight for black lives connects with the struggle for climate justice.
Find more of their episodes here. And stay tuned for our final episode of the season, coming soon.
12/22/20 • 48 min
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A Breakthrough Moment?
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10/15/20 • 54 min
Climate change is no longer a far-off scenario. It’s happening now. It’s getting more intense every year. And young people are seeing a scary future play out right in front of them.
In recent years, the youth climate movement has gained unprecedented strength. Borrowing from the civil rights movement and early environmental activists, young leaders are forcing politicians to grapple with climate change in new ways. Are we truly at a breakthrough moment? Or a breaking moment?
In this episode, we’ll hear stories from Erin Bridges, Isha Clarke, Varshini Prakash, and Mary Anne Hitt.
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10/15/20 • 54 min
Introducing 'A Matter of Degrees'
A Matter of Degrees
10/07/20 • 3 min
People don’t often hear the real story about climate change: it’s happening now; fossil fuel companies with money on the line have lied about it; and it doesn’t have to be this way.
This show is for the people who know climate change is a problem, but are still trying to figure out how we tackle it.
10/07/20 • 3 min
The Big Fossil Fuel Bailout
A Matter of Degrees
10/29/20 • 45 min
In July, the FBI charged Larry Householder, Ohio’s Republican Speaker of the House, with a conspiracy to pass a $1.5 billion bailout in return for $61 million in dark money. The racketeering was allegedly orchestrated by Householder and the utility FirstEnergy to kill Ohio’s renewable energy law and prop up aging coal and nuclear power plants.
What’s happening in Ohio is part of a broader story playing out under the Trump Administration. Fossil-fuel companies like FirstEnergy have used their ties to the Trump regime to push massive bailouts for dirty energy. And the pandemic was the perfect opportunity for the industry to grab more money.
In this episode, we’ll detail how these companies are raking in billions of government dollars in the wake of the $2 trillion covid stimulus package -- while millions of Americans struggle financially from the pandemic.
Featured in this episode: Neil Waggoner, Antonia Juhasz, Alexis Goldstein, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin.
Don't forget to read the climate change voter's guide before casting your ballot.
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10/29/20 • 45 min
Give Up Your Climate Guilt
A Matter of Degrees
10/14/20 • 44 min
The biggest climate stories blame “all of us,” or cast solutions as “impossible.” These narratives leave people feeling hopeless and confused about what we actually can do.
In our first episode: individual actions versus structural change. What’s the right way to think about the role they each have in addressing the climate crisis? We’ll explore the nuances and misperceptions.
Leah and Katharine dig into their own personal histories and revelations. Plus, we’ll hear from Bill McKibben about why plastic straws and lightbulbs do very little about the problem. And we’ll hear from Dr. Shahzeen Attari about how individual behavior can have an impact on the climate crisis.
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10/14/20 • 44 min
Changing Woman: One Navajo’s Fight for a Just Transition
A Matter of Degrees
12/08/20 • 45 min
This week, we have a special episode about the long and winding energy transition in an often overlooked place: the Navajo Nation—the largest Indian reservation in the United States.
Journalist and climate policy expert Julian Brave NoiseCat is our guide.
Ten percent of Navajos lack access to electricity. Some spend up to $700 per month on fuels to travel to places with electricity, or charge electronics in their cars and trucks.
But the Navajo Nation isn’t exactly an energy-poor place. In fact, until recently, the reservation was home to two of the largest coal strip mines in the world. In recent decades as many as five coal-burning power plants surrounded Navajo lands. For many Navajo, power lines connecting coal to major cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles, have come to symbolize this vastly unequal system.
We’ll look at the deep history of energy extraction and colonialism that led to the current clean-energy transition for the Navajo people.
Featured in this episode: Wahleah Johns and Andrew Curley.
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12/08/20 • 45 min
An Electric Number: 2035
A Matter of Degrees
10/22/20 • 56 min
When talking about climate change, we often get deep into the weeds quickly and throw a lot of numbers around. And these numbers can feel really disconnected from our lives: Two degrees, 415 parts per million, 36 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
In this episode, we've got one number we really want to focus on: 2035. It’s a date that carries a lot of hope and opportunity. If we can make progress by 2035, then we can actually make a lot of changes to our energy system and really our entire economy.
And guess what? We have nearly all the tools to achieve that aim. In this episode, we’ll detail the reality of climate solutions -- they’re right here, right now.
Katharine and Leah will explain: why 2035? Where did this date come from? It’s a radical departure from what the clean energy community had been talking about. Up until last year, most people were planning for the electricity system to be cleaned up by 2050. And suddenly, that number has been pulled 15 years forward.
Featured in this episode: Tim Echols, Donnel Baird, Sonia Aggarwal, Jesse Jenkins, Bracken Hendricks and Sam Ricketts.
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10/22/20 • 56 min
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How many episodes does A Matter of Degrees have?
A Matter of Degrees currently has 39 episodes available.
What topics does A Matter of Degrees cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Documentary, Podcasts and Government.
What is the most popular episode on A Matter of Degrees?
The episode title '“What Can I Do?” Part 1 — The Personal' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on A Matter of Degrees?
The average episode length on A Matter of Degrees is 46 minutes.
How often are episodes of A Matter of Degrees released?
Episodes of A Matter of Degrees are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of A Matter of Degrees?
The first episode of A Matter of Degrees was released on Oct 7, 2020.
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