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Planet Progress

Planet Progress

Google.org Impact Challenge

The future - it's closer than you think. But what does it look like? And how do we get there? In this series Dr Hannah Fry meets the organisations who are building a greener, more resilient planet, today. Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more visit g.co/ClimateChallenge.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Planet Progress episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Planet Progress for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Planet Progress episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Planet Progress - 7: De la ferme à la fourchette
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05/28/21 • 25 min

La production de nourriture est à l’origine d’un quart des émissions de CO2 dans le monde. Le projet Open Food Facts permet de mieux choisir les produits alimentaires grâce à un Eco-Score présent sur les emballages.

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Planet Progress - 6: From farm to fork

6: From farm to fork

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05/18/21 • 24 min

Food production creates a quarter of global carbon emissions. Open Food Facts want to compute the environmental impact of millions of food products across Europe, and help consumers and producers take action to reduce their carbon footprint. By putting an Eco-Score on every label we can make smarter choices about the food we eat.

Recorded remotely in April 2021.

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Open Food Facts website https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge

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Planet Progress - 5: Measure what matters
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05/05/21 • 30 min

Normative want to help measure what matters in a sustainable world, and the first step to mitigating climate change is for companies to measure their climate impact. Normative's automated carbon reporting calculates emissions along a business's entire supply chain, and identifies ways for them to reduce their carbon footprint. Recorded remotely in April 2021. Links Normative's website https://normative.io/

Summa Equity's website https://summaequity.com/

Peter Singer's TED talk, 'The why and how of effective altruism': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc

Nick Bostrom's paper, 'Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development': https://www.nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html

Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge

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Planet Progress - 4: The ground beneath our feet
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04/28/21 • 29 min

For years we’ve shaped our agriculture for high yields and food security. Climate Farmers think it’s time to reward a different and very important goal: soil health. By helping farmers measure their ecosystem health and diversity, their goal is to store even more carbon in the ground. Recorded remotely in April 2021. Links Climate Farmers' website https://climatefarmers.org/ Bodemzicht's website https://en.bodemzicht.nl/ Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge

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Planet Progress - 3: Navigating an ocean of data
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04/19/21 • 31 min

Events in the Atlantic Gulf Stream have a far-reaching impact on global weather systems. Understanding them is key to predicting global carbon emissions. Saildrone create and deploy uncrewed, wind and solar powered ocean vehicles to report this data in real time in one of Earth’s harshest ocean environments. Recorded remotely in March 2021. Links Saildrone’s website https://www.saildrone.com/ Saildrone’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/saildrone/ Richard Jenkins setting the land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle in 2009 at Ivanpah Dry Lake on the California-Nevada border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRFRQXPtXTs Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge

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Planet Progress - 2: Can a city act like a forest?
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04/09/21 • 26 min

For billions of years natural habitats have thrived by producing vast quantities of materials for growth without creating landfill or waste. Materiom have been taking notes. By turning the abundance of materials around us into the building blocks for new growth — and sharing that data open-source — they are helping us rethink our relationship with waste. Recorded remotely in March 2021

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Materiom’s website https://materiom.org/

Materiom’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/materiom_/

Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things, a 2002 book by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart about circular economies https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/108/1083868/cradle-to-cradle/9780099535478.html

Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge

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Planet Progress - 1: Rewilding = tradition + technology
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04/09/21 • 24 min

The sub-Arctic area stretching across Canada, Scandinavia and Russia stores as much carbon in its soil as the Amazon rainforest. In this episode Hannah Fry meets Snowchange Cooperative to understand how their work rewilding this habitat will help keep that carbon in the ground — and help ensure bio-security for the whole planet. Recorded remotely in March 2021 Links

Snowchange Cooperative’s website: http://www.snowchange.org/ The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for which Tero Mustonen is a lead author https://www.ipcc.ch/ A map of Selkie, Finland: https://goo.gl/maps/Ly6zyaiV44pW5Bvx7 Planet Progress is part of the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate. Google.org brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone. To learn more, visit g.co/ClimateChallenge.

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Planet Progress - Planet Progress trailer
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04/09/21 • 2 min

Coming soon: a new podcast from Google about the people building a greener future for our planet, today. It’s called Planet Progress, and your host will be Dr Hannah Fry.

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How many episodes does Planet Progress have?

Planet Progress currently has 8 episodes available.

What topics does Planet Progress cover?

The podcast is about Tech, Earth Sciences, Podcasts, Google, Technology and Science.

What is the most popular episode on Planet Progress?

The episode title '7: De la ferme à la fourchette' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Planet Progress?

The average episode length on Planet Progress is 24 minutes.

How often are episodes of Planet Progress released?

Episodes of Planet Progress are typically released every 8 days, 20 hours.

When was the first episode of Planet Progress?

The first episode of Planet Progress was released on Apr 9, 2021.

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