The podcast is back for season 2! This season, we're exploring more joyful and just solutions to the climate crisis through conversations with climate experts. Topics on this upcoming season include equitable environmental policy, offshore wind, transmission, ocean solutions, and more. Stay tuned for weekly episodes about climate solutions shaping a more sustainable future and vision new possibilities.
The podcast is back for season 2! This season, we're exploring more joyful and just solutions to the climate crisis through conversations with climate experts. Topics on this upcoming season include equitable environmental policy, offshore wind, transmission, ocean solutions, and more. Stay tuned for weekly episodes about climate solutions shaping a more sustainable future and vision new possibilities.
Edited and Engineered by Lucy Little
Original theme music by Naima Mackrel
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Kiana: Welcome to Climate with Kiana. A podcast about climate solutions shared through a framework of joy and justice. I'm your host Kiana, a solar and clean energy advocate, passionate about just climate action. This season, we're exploring more solutions to the climate crisis through inspiring conversations with climate experts who are leading important and innovative work to shape a more just and sustainable world.
So much of what we care about and cherish is impacted and threatened by climate change. And it feels more important than ever to uplift the many solutions that we do have to address the challenges ahead.
Aiko Schaefer: "When I talk to people who are really depressed about the demise of our planet, I remind them that inspiration is all around us and we just have to see it and support it."
Kiana: We will face the challenges head on.
Ramon Cruz: "We're not only talking about the effects of sea level rise and extreme weather. But it's the capacity to transition to [00:01:00] a clean economy in a way that we don't repeat the problems of the past with that history of extractivism and colonialism and capitalism."
Kiana: Discuss technical solutions.
Nicole Pavia: "Where can building transmission between areas help make the grid more resilient, more reliable?"
Xaver Kandler: "So much of the narrative that the fossil fuel industry is trying to create around the transition is to scare people about the costs of the transition. But we know actually that if we make these investments, that people are going to be saving money.
They're going to have lower utility rates over time and healthier communities."
Kiana: Explore the intersection of energy, health, and our oceans.
Bodhi Patil: " It's simple, no ocean, no climate, no life. Ocean health is quite literally human health and human health is directly connected to ocean health."
Frances Crable: "The changes in phytoplankton are going to change everything else.
From the fish, to the bears, to the humans."
Kiana: And always bring it back to joy and justice.
Savannah Whitfield: [00:02:00] "Joy is an act of liberation."
" The people that are disproportionately impacted by climate change should lead the movement."
Kiana: So join me in learning about the important climate solutions shaping a more sustainable future. And together, let's cultivate hope and joy by visioning new possibilities.