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A Matter of Degrees
Give up your climate guilt. Sharpen your curiosity. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. This show makes sense of big climate questions and critical topics. Our episodes are filled wit...
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The Only Good Planet
Dr. Kate Marvel builds climate models — digital worlds that simulate our possible futures. They can tell us how hot it will get, how high the seas wil...
The Sun Is Having Its Day
”In the midst of a lot of big, bad things happening, there's one big good thing happening on planet Earth right now.”
Today on A Matter o...
Cash In On Clean Tech Incentives (Before It's Too Late)
Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” took a sledgehammer to U.S. climate policy, including tax credits for clean cars and appliances....
The Climate Crisis Is Breaking Insurance
Thousands of people lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires. Now, they’re looking to their insurance companies to help them rebuild. But as the...
Presenting: L.A. Wildfires: Rebuilding for a Hotter, Drier Future
This week we are sharing a special bonus episode from Boiling Point, a new podcast produced by the LA Times and hosted by climate columnist Sammy Roth...
Leah Stokes: 2024 Schneider Award Winner
In this episode of A Matter of Degrees, we partner with Climate One to share an inspiring conversation between Dr. Leah Stokes and Greg Dalton, the fo...
Cleaning Up Industry
The industrial sector makes all of our physical stuff – the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the buildings we live in, and much more. It’s also one...
The Questions We Ask Matter with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
In this live episode of A Matter of Degrees, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson joined Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson for a conversation on Ayana’s new book, What I...
What the Election Means for Climate Policy
The election is over, but climate progress doesn’t have to be. How can we continue to push for equitable climate policies and defend current investmen...
Minnesota’s Climate Breakthrough
On this episode of A Matter of Degrees, we tell the story of how a powerful grassroots movement, ambitious lawmakers, and Governor Tim Walz turned Min...
Project 2025
Project 2025 has been all over the news lately. But what exactly is this conservative playbook for the Federal government? And what does it mean for c...
A Look Back at Vice President Kamala Harris on Climate Leadership, Justice, and Solutions
Welcome back for a special bonus episode of A Matter of Degrees! In this episode, we are taking a look back at our live conversation with Vice Preside...
Live Episode: A Climate Book Talk with Rebecca Solnit
Welcome back for a bonus episode of A Matter of Degrees! We were lucky enough to sit down with Rebecca Solnit — author, historian, and climate activis...
The Tongass: A Way Forward For The Forest
In our season three finale, we’re transporting listeners to the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world and a vital carbon sink: the Tongass....
The Journey of Justice40
In his early days in office, President Biden took executive action to deliver environmental justice. Are those policies delivering justice in practice...
The ‘Darth Vader’ of Electric Utilities
Electric utilities are falling short on climate action. To explain why, we’re bringing back our season one finale. This episode features former utilit...
The Case of the Killer Heat
In this episode, we explore the growing impact of heat on people and the planet. We talk to scientists and “climate detectives” trying to hold the per...
New Year’s Reflections, Resolutions, and Inspiration from Sherri Mitchell
At the start of 2023, we’re reflecting on past progress and setting climate intentions, both small and large, for the year ahead.
And we...
Petrochemicals and Plastics: A Fossil Fuel Lifeline?
The fossil fuel industry is banking its future on petrochemicals — the toxic precursor to plastics. In this episode, Katharine and Leah speak with act...
Bold vs. BS in Corporate Climate Pledges
In this episode, we investigate corporate climate commitments and how to make them stronger. We get to the root of zero-emissions pledges and greenwas...
Crypto Has a Climate Problem
This episode delves into the murky world of cryptocurrency and its impact on our planet. Join Katharine and Leah as they discover how digital currenci...
How To Cope with All the Climate Feels
This episode is all about feelings. You’ve heard the phrase “climate grief,” right? But how do we deal with what it does to our hearts, minds, and bod...
Live Episode: Vice President Kamala Harris on Climate Leadership, Justice, and Solutions
"We must understand that we are in a very specific moment in time, and this window is going to shut on us. But it doesn’t have to shut on us, if we ac...
“What Can I Do?” Part 3 — The Political
The third and final installment of our miniseries considers the question “What can I do?” from a political perspective. Our expert guests share storie...
“What Can I Do?” Part 2 — The Professional
In this episode, we continue to unpack the question “What can I do?” The second installment of our miniseries zeroes in on our professional lives — wa...
“What Can I Do?” Part 1 — The Personal
As climate people, we hear this question again and again: “What can I do?” Many of us are trying to figure out how to help address the climate crisis....
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...
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 l...
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...
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 kn...
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...
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 n...
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 hou...
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...
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. Ec...
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...
‘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 2...
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 co...
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 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 ab...