Envirocast

With new numbers on the cost of the climate crisis being released frequently, how are we paying for the cost of climate destruction, climate mitigation, and climate adaptation? To answer this, I interviewed Dr. Gautam Jain of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.

As Trump is about to retake office in January, many are wondering what his environmental policy is and how it will impact the Climate Fight? Join me as I speak to Dr. Sabrina Ashjian, clinical supervising attorney and project director for the Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and the California Environmental Legislation & Policy Clinic at UCLA School of Law, as I seek to answer this question.

For the past half year or so, I have been a fellow at the organization the Jewish Center for Justice, abbreviated JCJ. JCJ advocates for change on a plethora of issues with the goal of building a more compassionate and just society. In this podcast episode, I interview the founder of the organization, Rabbi Joel Simonds, on how he runs his organization and to gain a first hand account of what it is like advocating for change.

**TAKE DR. ARRAN STIBBE'S ONLINE COURSE** Ecolinguistics - the study of how stories change the way we perceive the climate threat - is a subject I only came across by chance, after doing a massive amount of brainstorming research for a new podcast episode. What I found was a field of subject so important to the climate fight, considering our perception of this issue is so important to the extent to which we avoid climate disaster. To answer my questions, I spoke with Dr. Arran Stibbe, a Professor in Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire and the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association.

AI has been in the news A Lot lately, and being a high schooler has only meant that discussions about it surround me even more, as students explore the use of AI technology such as Chat GPT and Photomath – not me though. Considering that this environmental podcast connected to current events, I thought it was only fitting to learn more about AI’s implication in our fight against climate change. To answer this question I spoke with Dr. Konstantin Klemmer, an expert on the intersection of AI and climate change. He is a former researcher at Microsoft and volunteers at Climate Change AI, a global non-profit that catalyzes impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.Social Media (Please Follow Me!):Instagram: @Envirocast_podcastX (Twitter): @EnvirocastPQuestions? Email Me!: DylanWestheimer@yahoo.com

I have always had a massive interest in entrepreneurism. This interest intersected with a time where government support for climate policy – at least in the United States – seems so unreliable, to make me wonder whether capitalism and the private sector can be used to decarbonize our future. To answer this I spoke with Akshat Rathi, A senior climate reporter at Bloomberg News, author of the book Climate Capitalism, and host of the podcast Zero: The Climate Race. Social Media (Please Follow Me!): Instagram: @Envirocast_Podcast X (Twitter): @EnvirocastP Questions? Email Me!: DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

Europe is having some of the largest snow storms in decades, which are causing havoc on infrastructure, mobility, and the vaccine roll out. And yet they are happening in the middle of Spring. So, why are these snow storms happening, how are they effecting the people and the ecosystem in the region, and how is climate change, which is synonymous with heating the planet, helping cause these snow storms. To answer these questions and learn more about these storms I Interviewed Dr. Wenger. He is a Marie Biologist by trade, but he has been working in polar regions for the last the last 16. He has years mainly been working in those regions as a tour guide but he switched to become an online editor for a couple of online platforms before founding polar journal, an international online platform for the polar regions. Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

The 2021 flood season in Australia just happened and it was devastating and fatal. So, in today's podcast episode we look at how why the floods happened how the floods impacted the region and what Australia can do to make sure that the floods don't effect the region as much. To answer these questions I interviewed Matthew Cappucci. He is a meteorologist t for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang, and loves everything weather.  Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

Leave a Review HERE The main culprit for climate change is our emissions of Carbon Dioxide, and because of that, the rise in temperature and the rise in the concentration of carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere have been synchronously rising for decades. But, Carbon Dioxide levels have just reached a new level in, what scientist think, could be the history of the earth, reaching 420 Parts Per Million, or PPM. So today we ask what is the science  behind measuring PPM and what do the levels being above 420 mean for the future of our Earth? To answer that I interviewed Chelsea Harvey. She is a climate change reporter for E and E News. Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

President Biden just announced a brand new infrastructure plan, better know as the American Jobs Plan, and when it was announced there was a large emphasis on the environment. So, because of that, in todays episode we look at what the proposal is, how the bill effects the environment, and whether it has a good chance of getting passed. To answer those questions I interviewed Nat Mund. He is director of federal affairs and the head of the Washington DC office for the Southern Environmental Law Center. They focus on all environmental issues but primarily on environmental issues which affect Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

China's new much anticipated 2021-2026 5 year plan has just been shown to the public, and many environmentalist expected it to have a very green forward agenda, but is it as green as it was made off to be. To answer that question I interviewed Isabel Hilton. She is a journalist who has worked in multiple mediums before becoming the founder of China Dialogue. China Dialogue which was the world's first bilingual Chinese english website. Its goal is to look at climate change and china's environmental crisis. I asked her what China's 5 year plans are, if this brand new plan is good for the environment, and if this plan will allow china to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2060 Social Media(please follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions or Suggestions? Email me! DylanWestheimer@yahoo.com

You probably already know that food waste is a huge problem, but the United Nations Environmental Program just came out with a report which shows that it might be much bigger than we think. To talk about the problem I interview David Lazarus. He is the consumer columnist for the Kay times and does daily consumer segments with KTLA. I asked him, why is food waste such a big problem, how is food waste connected to Climate Change, and what did the new UN report say about the issue.  Social Media(please follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions or Suggestions? Email me! DylanWestheimer@yahoo.com

You can leave a review HERE While some more prominent pipelines like the keystone pipeline, the fight is still on to block oil pipelines which put people and the United States goal to be carbon neutral by 2050’s goal at stake. Today we are talking about the Line 3 Pipeline. To learn more about the pipeline and the fight against it I interviewed Owen Jakel. Owen Jakel is a College Senior living in St. Paul Minnesota. He works with a couple of Environmental Organizations in Minnesota including The Minnesota youth for climate justice and Minnesota Environmental Justice Table. I asked him why the line 3 pipeline is so problematic and how it is being stopped. Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

The 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Meltdown just passed, so in this episode we ask the question, do we really need nuclear energy in a carbon free future. To answer this question I interviewed Joe Lassiter. He was an engineer and for the past 20 years and was the Hines professor of environmental management at the Harvard business school before he retired. We asked him, what is nuclear energy, do we really need it in a carbon free future, and how can we stop another nuclear disaster from happening again. Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com

Like me, you probably hear about the Green New Deal all the time, but what exactly is the Green New Deal. Well, in this podcast episode we answer that exact question. To answer that question, I interviewed David Roberts. He is a journalist which covers clean energy. He has worked for many news outlets, but he now runs a Newsletter called Volts, which is a newsletter on clean energy and politics.  Social Media (please Follow me!!): Twitter: @EnvirocastP Instagram: @Envirocast_podcast Questions, Email me!! DylanWestheimer@Yahoo.com