Australia is on fire. The current Australian bushfire season has been the worst in recent history, burning an estimated 26 million acres across the continent, particularly in the south-east. Last month, the New South Wales Government declared a state of emergency due to record-breaking temperatures and drought. An estimated six thousand buildings have been destroyed […]
Reporting Back from the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid
As we embark on another year of urgent climate activism, today’s episode focuses on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) held in Madrid from December 2–14, 2019. Our guests are local COP 25 attendees Brian Lavendel from the Sustaining All Life delegation and Carol Phelps with Christian Climate Observers Program, who share their experiences […]
What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Climate Change?
Rising sea levels, calving icebergs, drought, floods, hurricanes, refugees…. these don’t seem like the stuff of comedy. Maybe, though, a little laughter is just the sugar we need to help the medicine go down. University of Wisconsin alum Maxwell Boykoff now co-directs “Inside the Greenhouse” project at the University of Colorado Boulder. The project explores […]
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change with Robert Henson...
With the energy of the Global Climate Strike still buzzing, today we spend the hour getting a fuller picture of climate change: the science, the politics, the solutions. Our guest is Robert Henson, author of the newly revised Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change from the American Meteorological Society. Robert Henson is a meteorologist and […]
Science Policy
“Science and society…have each invaded the other’s domain, and the lines demarcating the one from the other have virtually disappeared.” 20 years after Michael Gibbons wrote that, scientific developments from CRISPR to AI have made the lines between science and society even hazier. As scientists themselves have increasingly taken up the call toward civic engagement, […]
The Global Economy and Recession on the Horizon with David McNally
Is the global economy slowing down? Are we headed for another deep recession? What might that mean as the global environmental crisis accelerates unimpeded? On this hour of radio, Allen explores these questions with economic historian David McNally. David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and Director […]
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