Bernie Crane
Communications Fellow
It’s July, and we’re still seeing record-breaking heat waves across much of the country. We hope you and your family are finding time to hit the road and take a well-deserved vacation! If you are, we’d love to recommend a few climate and clean energy-inspired playlists and podcasts to keep you company on the drive. 🙂
Playlists 🎶
- Electric Ride 🔋🚗 (Our collab with Reverb!)
- Canary Media’s Crowdsourced Playlist
- Appreciating Nature
- Songs about Climate Change 🌎
- Family Road Trip
Podcasts 🎧
A Matter of Degrees – This podcast coming to you from Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson the latter of whom was recently a speaker at our program Amplifiers: Atlanta, discusses the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. Check out their most recent episode about how the climate crisis is breaking insurance!
Boiling Point – Los Angeles Times climate reporter Sammy Roth hosts a podcast that covers everything from man-made climate disasters to renewable energy to how activists are taking up the climate fight. For your first episode, we couldn’t recommend anything other than Sammy’s episode with our very own amazing comedian-in-residence, Esteban Gast, who joined the show to discuss using humor to alleviate climate anxiety while making clean energy and other environmental solutions more interesting—and even fun.
Drilled – Are you a true-crime junkie and a planet lover? Drilled is the perfect podcast for you. Drilled covers climate and clean energy stories in true-crime fashion, making it a fun way to stay informed while staying engaged. Check out the first episode of their newest season releasing this summer.
NPR Climate Week – In June, NPR released a series of special episodes for their climate week. They focused on the fact that the energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution. And that climate change is threatening communities with risks like floods and wildfires. Check out the first episode about how climate change is increasing flood risks and how towns are making themselves more resilient.
Broken Ground –Just around the corner from Gen180’s HQ in Charlottesville, Virginia, is our neighbor, the Southern Environmental Law Center. Their amazing podcast focuses on telling stories from communities that have historically been on the outskirts of national conversations. The latest season, out now, focuses on uncovering environmental issues in the rural South. Repeatedly, polluting industries have forced the costs of consumption onto small Southern towns—towns they’re betting are out of sight and therefore out of mind. Meet the small-town neighbors fighting to build a better future, together.
