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The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
We all know about the doom and gloom associated with environmental issues. We need to tell ourselves a new story. Instead let's talk about energy independence, green jobs, livable cities, clean water, clean air, and healthy children. This is where politics, perceptions, and life-style meet the catastrophe that is unfolding in front of our eyes. Here's a suggestion — subscribe, tune-in, and stop doom-scrolling.
Episodes
105 episodes
From Hyper-Consumer to Active Global Citizen: Rediscovering Community in a Changing Climate
As Trump's tariff policies trigger economic uncertainty, consumer confidence is dropping. With those new tariffs rattling global markets, we're seeing something remarkable: Americans consuming less while becoming more engaged as cit...
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Season 7
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Episode 105
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Transforming America: The Coming Storm of Trump's Second Term: Part Three (Eco-Edition)
NOTE: This episode from November 2024, just before he took office, predicted Trump's impact with eerie accuracy. Listen to understand what's happening now—and more importantly, what comes next. And even more importantly — what you ...
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28:54
Transforming America: The Coming Storm of Trump's Second Term: Part Two
NOTE: This episode from November 2024, just before he took office, predicted Trump's impact with eerie accuracy. Listen to understand what's happening now—and more importantly, what comes next. And even more importantly — what you ...
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40:22
Transforming America: The Coming Storm of Trump's Second Term: Part One
NOTE: This episode from November 2024, just before he took office, predicted Trump's impact with eerie accuracy. Listen to understand what's happening now—and what comes next.Introduction The unthinkable has happened — ...
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40:01
Beyond Catastrophe: What's Really at Stake in the Climate Crisis
EPISODE 104 SHOWNOTESWe begin with a gripping look at the birth of modern environmentalism, when a burning river and devastating oil spill sparked America's largest-ever demonstration: the first Earth Day. This unprecedented show of unit...
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32:01
Are We Living at "Peak" Civilization?
Do you think we owe something to our future descendants who will be painfully aware of our actions, or lack of action? Our radical alteration of the climate does not end in the year 2100. Let's go out eight generations, that is about 200 years....
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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30:29
Don't Despair – The Climate Fight is Far From Being Over
It's easy to despair. Too easy. The future hasn’t already been decided. The future is as uncertain as it’s ever been. Knowing this, there is still a chance to seize the best-case scenario rather than surrender to the worst....
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16:55
A REPUBLICAN RECKONING: A Fanciful Tale from Climate Denial to Renewable Revolution
An Imagined Scenario from 2024—2028.Presenting a very special Green Elephant Podcast Episode. Having just come off a 3-Part Podcast Series entitled: “The Most Dangerous Organiza...
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Season 5
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Episode 83
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42:58
Eco-bad guys who had a change of heart and taking a closer examination of our bright renewable future.
1. Meet people whose profession was destroying the planet that had a change of heart. Not only did they quit what they were doing, but became advocates for what they had been working against. Meet a rancher, logger, fisherman, and author who ex...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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36:24
Donald J. Trump vs. Life on Earth (Part 3 of 3)
SHOWNOTESIn this, the third podcast in a three-part series, we start buy discussing the fundamental difference between Republican and Democrat voters. Next, a deep dive on how Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 — ...
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Season 7
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Episode 100
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27:59
Donald J. Trump vs. Life on Earth (Part 2 of 3)
SHOWNOTESIn this second of three episodes in series, we are delving into what an unnatural force of nature, Donald Trump will be. Worse than any fire, flood, or hurricane, for the future of our planetary systems, and also on...
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36:42
Donald J. Trump vs. Life on Earth
This is the first of three episodes about how Donald Trump, if elected, will strangle Climate and Environmentalism in it’s crib. In this episode:Trump and his party have a new climate-strategy — acknowledging that chan...
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Season 7
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Episode 98
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30:01
Letters of Warning and Hope: Climate Scientists Write About the Crisis
Hundreds of climate scientists were asked this simple question: “What do you feel about climate change.” The result was poignant, angry, bewildered, and in some cases hopeful letters from climate scientists that most importantly, spell o...
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29:01
Climate Crisis vs. Culture Wars: The Green Backlash
This year elections are taking place across the globe covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year on record as the climate crisis intensifies. Around the world, nations are choosing t...
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32:04
Climate End-Game: This is Not Your Daddy's Gloom & Doom
The Climate End-Game is when global temperatures exceed 3°+ Celsius over this next century and beyond. If that were to occur, there could be multiple tipping points sparking each other at the same time, jacking the scorching heat even highe...
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30:16
CLIMATE: Nobody Cares Anymore
Right at the moment when climate impacts are dramatically manifesting themselves, concern from global citizens is shrinking. We have lost that loving feeling toward the living world. We have lost any sense of urgency. As tempe...
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27:41
Battling the War on Logic, Reason, and Common Sense: The War on Science
Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time in modern history. Despite that the marvels of scie...
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37:04
Shame as a Catalyst: Transforming Inaction into Climate Action
Can shaming help mitigate the climate crisis? As the climate crisis has worsened, experts have put forth numerous solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions and stop rising temperatures. Could shaming be one of them?
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28:48
Climate Denial: Are you a Luke-Warmer?
Most people are not climate deniers. It is an unreasonable and frankly, a stupid position to take. Recent polling shows that the majority (73%) of Americans strongly believe that climate change is happening and that it is caused...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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34:56
The Climate, the Environment, and the Media: Part 2
SHOW NOTESUPDATED INFORMATION: In this acclaimed classical rebroadcast we take the news-media to task for its appalling lack of coverage in this critical time of climate and ecological breakdown. We need ...
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29:40
The Climate, The Environment, and The News-Media (Part 1): Rebroadcast
UPDATED INFORMATION: In this acclaimed classical rebroadcast we take the news-media to task for its appalling lack of coverage in this critical time of climate and ecological breakdown. We need to hold the media ...
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Season 4
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Episode 55
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26:21
Where's the Outrage? The Paradox of Inaction in the Climate Crisis
In this episode we revisit the complicated human emotion of FEAR. In our last episode we argued that fear could be the driving motivational factor for inciting eco-action. We took another look human psychology of fear, and fo...
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25:48
A Climate Reckoning: From Ecological Grief to Environmental Action
We are caught in an economic and political system that encourages our collective participation in our planet’s daily disintegration. Why would we expect to feel good, and good about ourselves, while we are a part of the decimation of life on Ea...
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Season 6
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Episode 90
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29:35
From Personal to Planetary: Why We Need Both Individual and Systemic Climate Action
In our last episode we explored this question: Is it possible that individual actions will move the needle on large scale eco-issues such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and widespread habitat loss, or is individual action virtually pointl...
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