What's Your 2022 Climate Resolution?

How to Save a Planet

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Science, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

At the end of every episode of this show, we give you all calls to action – things that you, our listeners, can do to address climate change. This week, we’re giving ourselves some calls to action, and setting climate action New Year's Resolutions. Oddly enough, they have to do with rats, poutine, Delia’s jeans, and more. Also, Mr. Beast is back with another environmental stunt, and we’ve got an update for you. Calls to Action Set your climate action New Years Resolution! If you’re not sure what to do, try making the climate action Venn diagram we talked about in the episode, Is Your Carbon Footprint BS?!. And once you’ve set one, send us a voice memo about it here! Mr. Beast is trying to raise 30 million dollars to remove 30 million pounds of trash from oceans, rivers, and beaches! Get involved at teamseas.org and check out our episode 20 Million Trees. You can also learn more about what the ocean and plastic have to do with climate change in our episodes An Origin Story of the Blue New Deal and Recyling! Is it BS? 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. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz, and Hannah Chinn. Our supervising producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Our intern is Nicole Welch. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard and Lonnie Ro with original music from Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Our fact checker for this episode was James Gaines. 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
0:07.0	about what we need to do to address climate change and how we make those things happen.
0:23.4	So as many of you probably already know, at the end of every episode of this show, we
0:27.8	give you all calls to action, things that you, our listeners, can do right now to address
0:32.6	climate change and sometimes when you do them, you call us up and tell us about it.
0:38.8	A few minutes ago, I left messages in mailboxes of two senators and two congressmen.
0:42.8	I let an hour-long online workshop titled Stewarding our Planet with Hope, Joy,
0:47.2	a meaningful action. I started making a video to serve as an invite to a letter writing campaign,
0:52.6	addressed to the CEO of Shell. I have found ways to get involved in climate action as a conservative.
1:00.1	After six years of saving, I was finally able to buy an electric car of my own.
1:06.4	So cool, letter writing campaigns, EVs, we love to see it. And it's an example of what we've
1:12.7	talked about in previous episodes. One of the most important things we can all do isn't just
1:17.0	act, but to share our actions, share what we're doing. Because when you talk about it,
1:21.9	other people can get on board and your individual action starts to ripple.
1:26.9	So as we head into the new year, four members of the How to Save a Planet team and I have set some
1:32.9	climate action new year's resolutions that we're going to share with you.
1:38.2	Oddly enough, they involve rats, poutine, delias, genes, and more. That's coming up after the break.
1:47.8	Spark Your Creativity With The Sims
1:52.7	Spark Your Creativity With The Sims
1:55.5	Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative,
1:58.5	but you have to go and search of your creative spark again.
2:01.4	Maybe this is catching up with creative friends,
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