This week we have part two of our interview with Harvard political scientist Nancy Rosenblum who talks about conspiracies by the fossil fuel industry, the decline of climate denial, why we are in a heightened age of conspiracy theories and misi

"People do something because someone asked them to"

Oct 7th, 2020 21m 3s

We talk with political scientist Nancy Rosenblum of Harvard University about the best motivators for action, communicating uncertainty, and why she says that in a crisis "it's neighbors who matter most."

"Meet your audience where they are at"

Oct 2nd, 2020 24m 25s

This week we have part two of our interview with Lisa Fernandez of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and we talk about the intersection between the climate movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement, how widespread support for

"Most people don't understand that they are in the majority"

Sep 23rd, 2020 23m 45s

Lisa Fernandez from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication joins us this week to talk about the six American attitudes on climate change ranging from the alarmed to the dismissive and the spiral of silence around climate change. She

"Born in a world where you get to meet Lorde"

Sep 17th, 2020 27m 2s

This week we have have part two of our interview with David S. Meyer, professor of sociology at University of California Irvine. We talk about the polarization of our culture, the American activist experience versus that in other parts of the

"Saints and psychopaths protest under normal circumstances"

Sep 9th, 2020 28m 15s

We're joined this week by David S. Meyer, professor of sociology at University of California Irvine. We talk about how activists lay the groundwork for mass movements, a letter to an aspiring young activist, the commonalities between movements

Introducing the PARTS PER MILLION Podcast

Sep 1st, 2020 6m 52s

Just as only a few hundred parts of CO2 out of a million in our atmosphere can have a big impact, individual actions eventually do reach a tipping point to bring about systemic change.Social change is the work of decades of hard-fought battles

Introducing the PARTS PER MILLION Podcast

Aug 12th, 2020 6m 52s

Social change is the work of decades of hard-fought battles but when real change does arrive it can seem to do so with startling speed. PARTS PER MILLION looks at the factors surrounding mass movements, what we can expect going forward on clima