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The Elephant
Welcome to The Elephant! An interview and storytelling podcast investigating up-and-coming solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. Supported by Climate-KIC
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The $100 Million Prize for Carbon Dioxide Removal
Elon Musk this year partnered with The X-Prize to create a $100 million prize for the best solutions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere o...
Peter Eisenberger on The Promise of Direct Air Capture
In this episode we speak to Peter Eisenberger the co-founder of Global Thermostat - one of the leading direct air capture companies in the world.
'Scales of Change' - Technosalvation
Today we're featuring an episode from one of our favourite podcasts Future Ecologies, and their new mini-series "Scales of Change."
In t...
Inside the Plastisphere
It’s the recommendation show! With all the new time many of us have on our hands, we wanted to tip our hat to some of our favourite things we think yo...
The "100% Solution" to Climate Change
Solomon Goldstein-Rose is a climate activist and former Massachusetts state representative. In his new book, "The 100% Solution" he breaks down what i...
Updates: Exciting News in Direct Air Capture
Since we first started looking at the science of CO2 removal with our podcast series on direct air capture, a huge amount has happened. So In this epi...
Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO2 into Rock
Imagine we overcame the many obstacles and successfully built the giant infrastructure that would be needed to directly capture billions of tons of CO...
Envisioning a Future with Large-Scale CO2 Removal
Carbon dioxide removal does already exist, but only at the tiniest of scales. But what could a future where we're successfully capturing billions of t...
Money, Controversy and Magical Thinking: The Many Challenges of CO2 Removal
Taking carbon dioxide out of the air - as we learned in our last episode - is technically possible. And different researchers and start-ups are experi...
Has This Scientist Found The Way To Save The World From CO2?
For over the past two decades scientist Klaus Lackner has dedicated himself to finding potential ways of taking CO2 back out of the atmosphere, all in...
S2 Episode 1: How Did We Get Here?
Look pretty much anywhere on our planet and it’s clear that human beings are having an outsized impact on the Earth. And it’s not just climate change....
Can Conservatives and Progressives Agree on Climate Action?
Conservatives, especially in America, are known for doubting the scientific basis of man-made climate change, and the need to do anything about it. Bu...
Ex-Irish President Mary Robinson on Hope, Climate Change & Women's Day
March 8th marks international women's day, an annual celebration of the achievements of women across the globe. And this year’s campaign is: Be Bold F...
Voices of Youth at #COP22
The Elephant has been in Marrakech Morocco the past week for COP 22. And on Friday, on the last day of the conference, we caught up with a few youth g...
Nicolas Haeringer: With Trump’s Election, What Does the Climate Movement Do Now?
Last week Donald Trump's election sent shockwaves around the world - particularly within the climate community. Trump has long denied that climate cha...
An Astronaut's View: Spacewalking, Climate Change, and Life on our Pale Blue Dot
When humanity first travelled into space, it didn’t just mean exploring new worlds and frontiers. It also meant for the first time seeing our home pla...
Storms, Isolation, and Endless Days: Investigating Greenland’s Changing Ice Sheet
The Greenland ice-sheet is massive. So massive that if it were to melt completely global sea-levels would rise by more than 6 meters. So it's critica...
Noam Chomsky, 'The Human Species Has Never Faced A Question Like This’
For decades Noam Chomsky has been one of the most important political dissidents and intellectuals in the world. Now in an exclusive new interview wi...
Why Climate Change is Wreaking Havoc on The World's Coral Reefs
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is right at this moment suffering from what is the most devastating bleaching event in its entire fossil history,...
The Co-Founder of Occupy Wall Street on Bringing About Social Change
The Occupy movement of 2011 was one of the most successful activist actions of the last few decades. It changed the discourse, raised the issue of inc...
How Canada's Biggest City Reduced Its Emissions
Toronto is Canada's biggest city, and it's also one of its biggest successes when it comes to acting on climate thus far. While the average emissions...
How Cities Are Leading The Way on Climate
How our cities are run and designed can have a huge impact on the carbon footprint we have as individuals. Is there convenient and affordable transit...
The U.S. Supreme Court v. The Future of The Planet
If you care about climate, then it's been a wild couple of weeks on the U.S. supreme court. First, in a surprise decision the court issued a stay agai...
The Unforgiving Math For Staying Under 2 Degrees
In the Paris accord, 195 countries agreed that they would collectively keep average global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees. But what does...
Ex President of Costa Rica - 'Creating Low Carbon Economies is an Opportunity'
Jose Maria Figueres is the President of the Carbon War Room, an organization that supports initiatives by private companies to reduce their carbon emi...
George Monbiot - 'Climate Change is Bigger Than Capitalism'
Guardian columnist and journalist George Monbiot is one of the foremost political and environmental thinkers in Britain today and for decades he has b...
When The Heirs to Big Oil Divested
In 2014 a surprising announcement was made that ricocheted around the world - the heirs to the Rockefeller oil fortune would be divesting their entir...
D12 Protest Coverage ft. Naomi Klein & Bill McKibben
On Saturday Dec 12th, as the final hours of the Paris agreement were coming together, a mass mobilization of over 10,000 climate activists gathered ne...
New Business Models for a Sustainable Future? A Look at Climate-KIC
The economy hasn't exactly done a great job of taking care of our planet's climate. And one might say that business models oriented towards profit whi...
Naomi Klein on Why Climate Change is ‘Threatening To Our Elites’
We sit down with Naomi Klein to speak about Paris, why climate change is threatening to elite power, and why when it comes to dealing with the crisis,...
Climatologist James Hansen - 'We’re already at a level of emergency'
Former NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen is one of the most respected climate scientists in the world. In fact he's famous for helping first-bring the i...
Power, Hope and Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth May on COP 21
Nearly 150 world leaders have assembled here in Paris for the start of COP 21, the UN climate summit. And whatever may come out of it over the course...
The Long Walk to Paris - An Interview with Yeb Saño
Yeb Saño for years was the lead negotiator at UN climate talks for the Philippines. But he first came to worldwide prominence in 2013 when he delivere...
The Insider’s Guide to the Climate Talks in Paris
The United Nations climate summit in Paris - or COP 21 - is just around the corner. But there's a lot to get a handle on with how these negotiations a...
Can Economics Save Climate Change?
With the birth of the industrial revolution and the creation of the modern world, economics helped us in a sense get into the mess we're in today with...
How Antarctica Is Changing and Why It Matters
Antarctica's ice sheet contains enough water to rise sea-levels by over 60 meters, yet we know surprisingly little about the frozen continent to our s...
Meet The Climate Scientist Behind Pope Francis
John Schellnhuber is one of the world's most influential climate scientists, advising politicians, governments, and influential figures on the numbers...
Action 2: Bodies On The Line
During the dark early hours of a morning this past July, 13 Greenpeace protesters descended off a bridge as part of an ingenious and daring plan that...
Action 1: Yale & The Story of a Sit-In
The first in our short series highlighting inspiring on the ground climate actions taking place around the world. What happened earlier this year when...
Noam Chomsky on Activism and Social Change
Noam Chomsky shares his insights into the threat of climate change, what can be done by ordinary citizens to combat it, and reflects on why it's so "c...