What are YOU Doing To Tackle Climate Change? Four Stories From Our Listeners

How to Save a Planet

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Science, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It’s How to Save a Planet’s second birthday! To celebrate, we’re sharing stories of climate action taken by our very own listeners. We'll hear from a listener who ran for an unexpected office, a grandmother who helped save her county’s recycling program, a mom who was inspired to launch a whole new business, and a group of students who took on one of the biggest oil companies in the world – and won. Calls to Action: Do your climate action Venn diagram! You can find a template and other resources here. Send us pictures of your Venn diagram – and when you take action, tell us about that too! Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by Anna Ladd and Janae Morris. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz, and Daniel Ackerman. Our supervising producer is Matt Shilts. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Our intern is Janae Morris. Sound design and mixing by Hansdale Hsu with original music from Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Our fact checker for this episode was Claudia Geib. Special thanks to Sarah Seidschlag and Soham Ray. 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. This is the show about what we need
0:08.8	to do to address climate change and how to make those things happen.
0:24.8	How To Save a Planet listeners. Today is a very special day. It is How To Save a Planet's
0:31.5	second birthday. That's right, this podcast is officially a toddler. We're walking, we say
0:37.8	short sentences, and we've made over 60 episodes exploring climate solutions all over the world.
0:45.1	In those 60 episodes, we have seen the extreme measures people will take to stop greenhouse
0:49.7	gases from getting into our atmosphere. Like the two businessmen who will go anywhere
0:54.5	any time to pick up your old polluting refrigerants. We ended up in the bedroom of this man.
1:02.5	As I recall, he not only did he have, you know, a pants on, but he also had no shirt
1:06.4	on. I just bought three on from a nude man. We met the congressman who changed his mind
1:13.4	about climate change because of his very own son. I remember Robert coming to me and
1:19.7	saying, Dad, I'll vote for you, but you're going to clean up your act on the environment.
1:25.1	And we've learned some very effective, if unintuitive ways to prepare for extreme weather.
1:29.7	One of the best things you can do to prepare for disaster is to bring your neighbors a basket
1:34.3	of muffins. And as we've been putting together all these episodes, profiling all these
1:39.7	different people, taking all these different kinds of actions in all these different ways,
1:44.5	we've had a not-so-secret agenda that you, our listeners, would take inspiration from
1:50.2	these examples that we're presenting each week. You would see all the different solutions
1:54.1	there are out there and all the different ways that people are helping to implement
1:57.9	them and find ways to take action yourselves. And spoiler alert, our not-so-secret agenda,
2:05.3	it is working. To hear how, please welcome how to save a planet producer Anna Ladd, Hannah.
2:11.5	Hello. Hi, you've been here at How to Save a Planet since, I guess it's birth. If we're
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