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Split Show: The IPCC Report and Anti-Semitism

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We bring you another two-part episode today, starting with a deep dive into the recent report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with guests Nathan Hultman and Natalie Mahowald. Then, we talk to Steven Gardiner about anti-Semitism in the United States. Nathan Hultman is Director of the Center for Global Sustainability and […]

IPCC Predicts a Climate Catastrophe by 2040

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On October 8, 2018, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) approved its latest report at its meeting in Incheon, South Korea.  The report states that human activity has already been responsible for 1 degree Celsius of global warming, and if we continue as we have, we’ll heat up the planet another […]

Open Line: Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice

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For today’s episode, we opened up the phone lines to hear from listeners. Over the course of the hour, Esty and the callers talk about Standing Rock and indigenous rights, water justice, climate change, sustainability, clean energy, and creating the world we want to live in. “I’m so grateful for something like WORT, where I […]

Indigenous Peoples’ Day – The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

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In observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, today’s episode features a conversation with Lumbee Tribe members Malinda Maynor Lowery and Ryan Emanuel. Over the course of the hour, they discuss the importance of singing in Lumbee tradition, the effects of climate change and rising seas on the tribe, pipeline construction in North Carolina, the history of […]

Climate Change from Ancient Farming

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Most agree from the evidence that climate change probably began at the start of the Industrial Revolution. This is when machines were invented that ran on fossil fuels like oil, coal, and methane, and emitted greenhouse gases as waste products. These gases increase the amounts in the atmosphere that are emitted normally through the biological […]

Next on the Climate Change Hit List: The Internet.

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Twenty five years ago, burying communications lines under road rights of way seemed like a great way to keep those increasingly crucial utilities protected from the elements. But as the climate has changed and sea levels continue to rise, many of those seemingly impregnable tunnels may soon fill up with seawater.  That’s a huge potential […]