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Marta and Pam discuss youth climate movements. This episode is packed with an interview with one of Danielle's close friends back in Scotland and conversations with young activists here at Cornell and abroad. 

In this episode Pam and Danielle discuss the Green New Deal, including what is actually written in the plan, what it means and the need to use this political McGuffin to move the conversation forward on climate action at the national level. 

In this episode Dr. Danielle Eiseman discusses recent field work she did in the Dominican Republic with colleagues from the Cornell Emergent Climate Risk Lad and the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research. You will here clips from the field describing the process of taking tree cores, what the cores are used for and how to study past climate from tree rings. In the second part of this episode Danielle chats with Dr. Dimitris Herrera about their field work and why this type of work is useful.

In this episode, Pam visited Penn State and spoke with Kaila Thorn about climate change impacts on farming. 

In this episode Danielle sits down with her former classmate, Chef and Creative Culinary Director Andres Padilla. Danielle sat down with Andres at Leña Brava, one of Rick Bayless' restaurants ins Chicago. The interview will be incorporated in the book Danielle is co-authoring with CICSS Executive Director Michael Hoffmann and the ever talented Carrie Koplinka-Loehr.  Andres was able to share his experiences with climate change, how it effects specific items on the menu such as the Chicago-favorite ramps which come into season in the spring, as well as morels and unagi. 

In this episode Pam sits down with our new team member, Gerry from Penn State to discuss the economic impacts of climate change. Gerry will be joining us regularly.

Another weekly news brief on what is happening in the changing climate. 

Julie and Marta took part in the Cornell University Wind Symphony service-learning tour to Haiti and the Dominican Republic last month, starting in Port-au-Prince, traveling up to Jacmel, and eventually making our way over the border to the DR. We were there to collaborate with Port-au-Prince’s Holy Trinity Music School Orchestra, the national orchestra of Haiti. The partnership between Holy Trinity and Cornell is an ongoing project organized by our conductor, James Spinazzola, and the Holy Trinity Orchestra conductor, Father David Cesar. We saw this as the perfect opportunity to learn a bit about climate change and environmental issues in Haiti, and as you’ll see, it also turned into a chance to make a few interviews on the topic. This podcast is split into two parts; first, a discussion of environmental, governmental, and international policy issues facing Haiti, and second, a more general discussion of approaches to human rights, dignity and the environment. Our journey through Haiti was an extraordinary o

With the new year we have done some re-organizing and will be providing weekly climate change news briefs. We will still be publishing longer format interviews, however those episodes take much longer to produce. We hope you enjoy these updates and as always, feel free to join the conversation via Twitter. 

In this episode Danielle chatted with Dr. Elliot Swartz from the Good Food Institute.  Elliot is a former neuroscientist currently working as the academic research advisor for GFI. His experience in stem cell research and cell culture allows him to work closely with universities and research organizations to seeking alternative methods for producing meat. Listen to learn more about his work and the Good Food Institute.

This episode we partnered with another podcast here at Cornell, from the Polson Institute. Pam sat down with other students working in the Polson Isntitute to discuss green development in China. 

We're back! In December, Marta attended the American Geophysical Union meeting. It is the largest gathering of Earth and Space scientists. Hear about her experience at AGU and perspectives from scientists she met while there. 

With all of the climate reports coming out in such a short amount of time, Danielle and I decided to sit down and discuss the implications of their findings. More specifically, we chose to focus on the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which was mandated by Congress and a collaboration between at least a dozen agencies. It also cited research done by a few Cornell professors, two of whom, Toby Ault and Mike Hoffman, have been on the pod before! When you see the information and statistics presented in these reports, it is always important to consider what it means for you, your family, and your community.

In this episode, Marta and Danielle discuss issues around consumption, including ethical and sustainable consumption. We discuss the role advertising has in fostering a culture of consumption, as well as ways to shift consumption towards more ethical and environmentally sustainable practices.

Somehow, against all odds (long lines at the bagel shop where I got breakfast before recording, a concerningly small amount of sleep, even for college students, and the first fifteen minutes of the interview not recording), we have a brand new episode for you about environmental governance, featuring Dr. Steven Wolf! After reading the New York Times article “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” by Nathaniel Rich, Marta and I had one big overarching question: “Why haven’t we effectively responded to the science of climate change with policy?” Naturally, with a inquiry as big as that, we had to seek some help from experts in the subject. This led us to Professor Wolf, who teaches the Environmental Governance course here at Cornell. I was really excited to do this episode, not only because it is the concentration that I chose for my major, but also because it was interesting to expand upon some of the ideas that we had brought up in past episodes and apply them to new scenarios. As a side n

In this episode Marta, Pam, and Jake discuss the recent straw ban. They also take a different approach in this episode by dissecting some of the misconceptions and arguments made against the straw ban.

In this episode, Jake, Marta, and Pam have a little fun by taking a brief look at the environmental impact of Halloween.

Julie, Marta and Pam sit down to discuss how climate change has been politicized in the United States, the various perspectives on climate change and their own personal views on governmental action on climate. As future leaders it is interesting to hear their thoughts on how governments should respond to climate change and who should take responsibility when it comes to mitigating climate change.

This is not a full episode, but is a clip Toby sent in as they recovered the balloon, late in the evening Saturday. If you are curious about how they managed to recover the balloon after it had landed in a tree on someone's private property, take a listen!

This is another special episode for DTE! We joined Dr. Toby Ault's Emergent Climate Risk Lab and Wicked Instruments to launch a weather balloon Canaseraga, NY. The balloon reached a height of about 100,000 feet. It reached the highest parts of our atmosphere and photos the balloon took are incredible. The balloon held sensors that captured data on humidity, pollutants, temperature and more. The hope is that by launching more of these balloons in the future we can improve weather forecasts. Toby describes the project, the motivation behind it and future work. I also captured reactions during the day as we chased the balloon across the state.