Tonight the Perpetual Notion Machine welcomes professor and climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas, author of the book Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World. Professor Nicholas discusses her book and how to make changes in daily life that will positively affect your personal climate budgets and environment. Plus PNM host […]
Texas Power Outages Reveal Cracks in the System
It’s been reported that a third of Texans are still dealing with disrupted water service and others are still without power after last week’s major winter storm. First up on today’s show, we learn what the crisis in Texas means about our energy grid with energy systems expert Line Roald. Then, emergency response researcher Laura […]
The New Climate War
In his latest book, The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, climate scientist Michael E. Mann argues that governments and corporations—not just individuals—need to fix the problem they’ve created, and he outlines a plan for pursuing effective climate solutions collectively. Today, we host Michael E. Mann on the show to talk […]
No More Landfill! Complex Plastic Recycling in Post-Industrial Waste
Tonight the Perpetual Notion Machine talks with Professor George Huber and Professor Reid van Lehn of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Department of Energy’s Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. They are the co-authors of the paper ‘Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials by solvent-targeted recovery and […]
Project Drawdown’s Mission of a Net-Zero Emissions Future
It’s one of the major questions of this generation: how can we solve the problem of global warming? For today’s show, we focus on the collaborative solutions offered by Project Drawdown, a climate initiative focused on reaching “Drawdown”—the point in the future when we’ll finally see greenhouse gas levels start to decline. We’re joined by […]
Erin Brockovich on America’s Water Crisis
Twenty years ago, Erin Brockovich became a household name thanks to the award-winning film about her historic class-action lawsuit against the energy company Pacific Gas and Electric in California over groundwater contamination. Today, Erin Brockovich join Patty on the show to discuss her new book, Superman’s Not Coming, about our national water crisis. Erin Brockovich […]
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