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Burning Sky brings to life a nightmare scenario in the not-too-distant future when scientists undertake a misbegotten scheme to tame the power of the sun. Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and best-selling novelist John Darnton joins host Ellis Henican on Newsweek's Better Planet podcast.
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Host Ellis Henican speaks with Benji Backer, who provides an intrepid vision for both solving our climate crisis and prioritizing the American national interest. Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji argues that both are dead ends.
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Brian Kateman, cofounder and president of the Reducetarian Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing consumption of animal products, joins Better Planet to discuss the dangers of climate doomerism and optimism alike with your host, Ellis Henican.
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It took nearly three decades, but with COP28, the annual United Nations talks on climate change have for the first time called for a transition away from fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change. Newsweek's Jeff Young joins Better Planet to discuss.
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Dr. Kimberley Miner is a Scientist and Systems Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in California, where she researches and forecasts climate risks. Her research has taken place in the most extreme environments in the world- from Antarctica to Mt. Everest- where her team secured a Guinness World Record for identifying the highest altitude pollutants.
She joins the Better Planet podcast to talk about her latest from Nature.com: I’m a climate scientist. Here’s how I’m handling climate grief
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Tom Rand joins host Ellis Henican to discuss his book: The Case For Climate Capitalism, Economic Solutions For A Planet In Crises, where he argues that a warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those who otherwise agree we must mitigate climate risk.
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Dr. Lukas Kwietniewski, Director Health Care Analysis at Statista, joins us to introduce our listeners to the drive towards green hospitals and sustainability in healthcare. We're then Joined by Catherine Roggero-Lovisi, CEO of Modern Meadow, a biotech company that creates protein-based eco-friendly raw materials for a wide range of industries. Catherine will share how businesses across different sectors can adopt green tech & sustainable practices to drive growth & economic prosperity & Modern Meadow’s Award from the EPA.
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Dr. Michael “Mick” Smyer, founder and CEO of Growing Greener: Climate Action for a Warming World, joins Better Planet host Ellis Henican to discuss psychology, communication strategies and human-centered design to move people from anxiety about climate change to action and habit.
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Paula Glover, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, a bipartisan, nonprofit coalition, joins Better Planet to discuss using energy more productively to achieve economic growth, a cleaner environment, greater energy security, affordability, and reliability.
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Newsweek's new environmental sustainability and governance editor, Jeff Young, joins host Ellis Henican to talk about pushing back against climate doomerism following Climate Week NYC.
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New York Times bestselling author Bruce Piasecki joins host Ellis Henican to talk about his latest book, Wealth and Climate Competitiveness: The New Narrative on Business and Society.
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Author Anne Therese Gennari joins host Ellis Henican to discuss her 2022 release, The Climate Optimist Handbook, in which she offers encouragement, wisdom and practical tools to help us let go of fears about the planet's future, and instead focus on building a better and healthier world.
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Host Ellis Henican speaks with Professor Robert Verchick about what we can do to combat the doom and gloom of climate change pessimism in our first episode of Better Planet at Newsweek.
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Better Planet with Ellis Henican - Coming August 2023 from Newsweek.
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