Podcasts, what did we do before them. While on this journey to learn more about climate change and solutions, podcasts have become one of my favorite resources. Podcasts on climate change provide science, actionable items, expert insight, and stories galore. Also, podcasts can be enjoyed while doing the many other tasks of life like gardening, or cooking. Here are 7 podcasts on climate change that have been my go to and a few more on my list to start listening to.
We can’t know everything on climate change. So thank goodness there are resources like podcasts to better inform ourselves on the various interconnected solutions of effective climate action.
Podcasts on Climate Change
How to Save a Planet
How to Save a Planet is hosted by marine biologist and policy powerhouse Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and radio journalist Alex Blumberg. On How to Save a Planet they cover the wide range of climate change solutions out there. From refrigeration management to our vast potential in the oceans and everything in between. One of my favorite episodes of How to Save a Planet is titled, Is your Carbon Footprint BS? Oh does this one dig in to all of it.
A Matter of Degrees
A Matter of Degrees, is hosted by another pair of climate solution phenoms Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson. These two bring stories about the powerful forces behind climate change to the climate curious like ourselves. The forces behind climate change they cover go beyond greenhouse gas emissions. They discuss the public utilities commissions, banks, and law firms fueling climate change too. In their story telling they also uplift the people and organizations working to hold these powerful groups behind climate change accountable.
Drilled
If you like True Crime podcasts then Drilled might be just for you. Host, Amy Westervelt, a climate journalist, exposes the stink that the fossil fuel industry used to cover up their own scientists confirming climate change in the 1980’s. They flipped the trajectory of addressing climate change through advertising tactics, questionable scientist experts, and no good political lobbying. All of this was covered in only the first season of 5. The fossil fuel industry choosing to cover up climate change still leaves me hot.
Hot Take
For more heated discussion on climate change, check out Hot Take. Amy Westervelt together climate justice writer Mary Annaïse Heglar host this podcast. They share their heated expert views through an intersectional “feminist, race-forward lens” along with their guests. In their newsletter they review recent climate news and articles.
Resistance
The Resistance team describes their podcast best. “Resistance is a show about refusing to accept things as they are. Stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change.” The resilience, and courage of the Black people in the stories shared by host Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr are galvanizing. For those of us who need more energy and inspiration to keep working for systemic change to address climate change the stories in Resistance will bring you just that.
Be Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi antiracist scholar and author of How to Be Antiracist is now the host of the Be Antiracist podcast. Kendi and his guests discuss antiracism in our lives and what an antiracist society could look like. For example, with guest Heather McGhee, an economics expert, they discuss how a racist society impacts everyone and the opportunity we have to turn it around working as a collective. Does this sound familiar? Antiracism work and addressing climate change go hand in hand. So, if you are like me and have more to learn about being antiracist, then this podcast is for you.
All My Relations
All My Relations is another podcast with two hosts Matika Wilbur and Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear. Matika Wilbur is a visual story teller from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples. Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and Chicana and a professor in Indigenous erasure and resistance. Previously, the podcast was co-hosted by Adrienne Keene who is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and expert in Native Culture, Communities and Education. She has taken a break to work on her two upcoming books.
In All My Relations the hosts discuss their experiences as Indigenous women. I’ve only listened to one episode so far about Native Appropriations. While listening to this episode I occasionally felt uncomfortable. However, as a white passing multi-racial woman I understand my discomfort means I have more to learn. And I am excited to keep learning from Matika, Desi, and Adrienne.
More Climate Change Podcasts
These are some more climate change podcasts I am interested in checking out but haven’t gotten to yet. This doesn’t mean you have to wait on me to hit play.
Dismantled
Dismantled comes to us from the incredible team at Intersectional Environmentalist. The conversations are lead by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities and centered on climate justice.
Brown Girl Green
Fellow Filipino-American Kristy Drutman is the creator behind browngirlgreen media series and podcast. Her podcast focuses on environmental racism and inequity. She also covers self care and saving money as we fight for climate solutions.
Mothers of Invention
Former Irish president Mary Robinson, comedian Maeve Higgins, along with series producer Thimali Kodikara bring Mothers of Invention to our ears. Mothers of Invention shares the feminist climate change solutions we need.
Our lives are busy and podcasts keep our climate efforts going while we are on the go. Share in the comments below which of these climate podcasts you enjoy. Or share with us another climate podcast we should keep our ears perked up for.
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