Presenting: Life Raft - Could We Just Make Our Houses Float?

How to Save a Planet

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there’s got to be a better way to tackle the challenge. For example: could we make our homes float when the water comes? We’re sharing an episode of Life Raft from New Orleans Public Radio, who talked to an architect who has devoted her professional life to answering that question, and visited a Louisiana community where some people have decided that it makes more sense to temporarily float a house than to elevate it on stilts. You can check out more episodes of Life Raft on Spotify, or wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet, I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the show where we talk
0:06.2	about what we need to do to address climate change and how to make those things happen.
0:18.5	Hello, everyone.
0:24.7	If you've been listening to our show for a while, you might remember an episode we did
0:27.8	a while back called Black Lives Matter and the Climate.
0:31.5	In that episode, we spoke with Colette Pishon Battle, a lawyer and activist who's been
0:35.6	working to connect the dots between the climate movement and the movement for Black Lives.
0:40.4	In that episode, Colette talked about growing up in Louisiana in a house that her grandfather
0:44.9	built with his own hands.
0:47.6	After her King Katrina, Colette returned home to find her neighbor had destroyed, but
0:51.3	the house was still standing.
0:53.8	Her grandfather had constructed the house so that flood water would flow underneath it,
0:58.3	something years of living on the Bayou had taught him.
1:02.0	The house is still standing because my grandfather is a G.
1:06.2	Well, there are currently some people in Louisiana who have taken this concept even further.
1:12.0	And instead of building their houses so the water runs beneath, they are building them
1:16.7	to straight up float.
1:18.8	This week, we are sharing an episode from a Louisiana-based podcast called Life Raffed
1:23.6	from WNO, WRKF, and PRX.
1:27.7	The show was hosted by comedian Lauren Malera and reporter Travis Luxe and each week they
1:32.9	take on a different question about adapting to climate change.
1:36.3	And the question on this episode is, in a world with more hurricanes and flooding, what
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