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Welcome to Season 3 of A Matter of Degrees
Welcome back, climate-curious friends — it's time for Season 3 of A Matter of Degrees. This season we'll tackle some critical topics and big questions, starting with one we're all asking when it comes to the climate crisis: "What can I do?"
This is a Big (Climate) Deal: What's in the Inflation Reduction Act?
Welcome back to A Matter of Degrees! While we've been hard at work producing season three of the show, the climate movement has been going through a lot of twists and turns. Most recently, after announcing he would not support climate inves
How Gender Equality Can Save The Planet
This episode is a collaboration between A Matter Of Degrees and the Gimlet podcast How To Save A Planet. Take a look at many of the spaces where climate-related decisions are being made — from government to business to media — and you'll no
Paid in Blood
In the jungles of the Brazilian Amazon, groups of farmers and their families get by on what they can grow with the land beneath their feet. They're known in Brazil as "landless workers," a social movement with the goal of increasing land ac
The 'Win-Win-Win' Strategy To Retire Coal
This episode is a collaboration between A Matter Of Degrees and the Gimlet podcast How To Save A Planet. Coal-fired power plants are closing at record rates. But many are still scheduled to remain operational for the foreseeable future -- d
The 'Bond Vigilante' Exposing Fossil Fuel Risk
Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, banks and large investors have dumped $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels. It's a staggering number. This is why writer and activist Bill McKibben calls money the "oxygen" that fuels the fir
The Devious Plan to Keep Us Hooked on Gas
Advocates are turning their attention to a new front in the climate war: the fossil-gas hookups in our homes that fuel burners, boilers, and other household appliances. If we want to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, we need to electrif
A Farming Solution for a Hotter, Less Stable World
When Hurricanes Maria and Irma hit Puerto Rico in 2017, they destroyed the island's fragile food system. Farms of all sizes were battered, with around 80 percent of the island's crop value wiped out. But a group of Puerto Rican farmers prac
Green Jobs...For All?
President Biden's American Jobs Plan promises big investments in the clean-energy economy, including clean energy workforce and education programs. Economic progress and clean climate action are inextricably linked. But how can we make sure
Healing the Soil, Healing Ourselves
Abuse of soil, the atmosphere, and communities of color have gone hand in hand. Through reclaiming ancestral connection to the soil, Black farmers are healing the entangled harms of colonization, capitalism, and White supremacy and moving a
'Let's Go Get Us A Clean Electricity Standard'
Baked into the American Jobs Plan is an ambitious proposal to set a federally-mandated Clean Electricity Standard of 100% carbon-free electricity by 2035. It would put the US on track to get emissions under control and avoid the worst impac
The 'Prestige Problem' Making Fossil Fuels Powerful
Fossil fuel companies are tapping into America's "best and brightest" at top banks, public relations and advertising firms, law firms, and strategy consulting firms. These organizations supply critical services to keep the fossil fuel indus
Biden's Climate Plan Could Reshape America (Live w/ Julian NoiseCat)
We're back with another live edition of the show! So much is happening in the Biden era. We didn't want to wait until our second season to unpack all the activity. This week, we feature a conversation with Julian Brave NoiseCat that we reco
The State of Global Climate Talks (Live w/ Mary Robinson)
As we work on season 2, we're sharing a live episode of the show that we just recorded at the Bloomberg Green Summit. The conversation is all about where things stand in the lead-up to global climate talks in the fall. We were fortunate to
The 'Darth Vader' of Electric Utilities
In 2013, a series of attack ads blitzed television sets across Arizona. They warned of a dire threat to senior citizens. Who was the villain? Solar energy. These ads came from front groups funded by Arizona Public Service, the state's large
Presenting: How to Save a Planet
We're pleased to introduce an episode of "How to Save a Planet," produced by our friends at Gimlet and Spotify. The show is co-hosted by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Alex Blumberg. "How to Save a Planet" has a lot of similarities to our own,
The Stages of Black Climate Grief
This week, we have a special episode featuring activist and researcher Nikayla Jefferson. Most of us are in the first stage of climate grief: denial. But what does it feel like to enter the stage of grief? And how is that grief different fo
Changing Woman: One Navajo's Fight for a Just Transition
This week, we have a special episode about the long and winding energy transition in an often overlooked place: the Navajo Nation—the largest Indian reservation in the United States. Journalist and climate policy expert Julian Brave NoiseCa
Cleaning Up the Carbon Mess
We've made a carbon mess. How do we clean it up? Imagine the atmosphere as an overflowing bathtub. The water keeps gushing from the tap. Clearly, we need to turn it off. We have to bring emissions of heat-trapping gases down to zero, stat.
After Trump: The Silver Linings Playbook
It's official. Joe Biden will be the next president. And he ran on a platform that put climate at the top of the agenda. There's still a lot of tension. What will happen to the balance of power in Congress? Can we make progress on climate,
The Big Fossil Fuel Bailout
In July, the FBI charged Larry Householder, Ohio's Republican Speaker of the House, with a conspiracy to pass a $1.5 billion bailout in return for $61 million in dark money. The racketeering was allegedly orchestrated by Householder and the
An Electric Number: 2035
When talking about climate change, we often get deep into the weeds quickly and throw a lot of numbers around. And these numbers can feel really disconnected from our lives: Two degrees, 415 parts per million, 36 billion tons of carbon diox
A Breakthrough Moment?
Climate change is no longer a far-off scenario. It's happening now. It's getting more intense every year. And young people are seeing a scary future play out right in front of them. In recent years, the youth climate movement has gained unp
Give Up Your Climate Guilt
The biggest climate stories blame "all of us," or cast solutions as "impossible." These narratives leave people feeling hopeless and confused about what we actually can do. In our first episode: individual actions versus structural change.
Introducing 'A Matter of Degrees'
People don't often hear the real story about climate change: it's happening now; fossil fuel companies with money on the line have lied about it; and it doesn't have to be this way. This show is for the people who know climate change is a p
