Earth Day & Sustainability Week @RCC

Hosted by Dr. Melissa Lott, Research Director at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.

The Big Switch is an excellent introduction to how our energy system is being rebuilt to address climate change. We need to transform buildings, homes, cars, and economy quickly and fairly to a net zero energy system. One of the most insightful analysts of energy in America, Dr. Lott asks: what does “net zero” even mean? What is the electric grid anyway, and how is it changing? Dr. Lott interviews experts in the field and makes their insights accessible to both newcomers and wonks alike.

Hosted by Sapna Mulki.

Breaking Green Ceilings features weekly interviews with underrepresented voices of the environmental community. Sapna Mulki is a second-generation Kenyan Indian with an M.A. in sustainable international development from Brandeis University. Some key 2021 topics include Black women in nature, bringing buffalo back to native lands, and water affordability and equity in America.

The Southern Environmental Law Center. Multiple hosts.

The Southern Environmental Law Center was founded in 1986 by one of the nation's first environmental lawyers, Rick Middleton. Today it is the largest environmental organization in the South, fighting battles against polluters in a traditionally conservative region of the country. From sea level rise in the Mississippi Delta to the struggle between small farmers and oil pipeline developers, Broken Ground focuses on the environmental issues facing the South, with a specific focus on environmental justice. The New York Times calls the podcast “an environmental 'This American Life' for the South.”

Hosted by Ty and Brock Benefiel.

The Climate Pod's hosts, brothers Ty and Brock Benefiel, sound like they are just chilling at home watching TV, but they are well-informed and perceptive interviewers of an A-list of leading activists and experts on climate policy. Each episode is roughly an hour long, so issues are explored in depth. Guests include Bill Nye, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr. Michael Mann, Jeffrey Sachs, Michelle Nijhuis, Sonia Shah, astronaut Scott Kelly, and Tom Steyer.