Elon Musk this year partnered with The X-Prize to create a $100 million prize for the best solutions for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean. This $100 million represents the biggest incentive prize in history, and likely the b

Peter Eisenberger on The Promise of Direct Air Capture

1 Jun 30th, 2020 51m 16s

In this episode we speak to Peter Eisenberger the co-founder of Global Thermostat - one of the leading direct air capture companies in the world. In the interview we talk about how we could create what Peter calls the renewable energy and ma

'Scales of Change' - Technosalvation

1 Jun 10th, 2020 35m 53s

Today we're featuring an episode from one of our favourite podcasts Future Ecologies, and their new mini-series "Scales of Change." In the series, hosts Mendel and Adam take a deep dive into the various "Dragons of Climate Inaction," the psyc

Inside the Plastisphere

May 13th, 2020 59m 58s

It’s the recommendation show! With all the new time many of us have on our hands, we wanted to tip our hat to some of our favourite things we think you should know about. In this episode we speak with Anja Krieger, the journalist behind one of

The "100% Solution" to Climate Change

Apr 7th, 2020 52m 51s

Solomon Goldstein-Rose is a climate activist and former Massachusetts state representative. In his new book, "The 100% Solution" he breaks down what it will take in his view for society to come up with a complete systemic solution to climate ch

Updates: Exciting News in Direct Air Capture

Aug 27th, 2019 43m 38s

Since we first started looking at the science of CO2 removal with our podcast series on direct air capture, a huge amount has happened. So In this episode, we take you inside all the exciting news and developments that have been announced recen

Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO2 into Rock

Jul 19th, 2019 56m 13s

Imagine we overcame the many obstacles and successfully built the giant infrastructure that would be needed to directly capture billions of tons of CO2 back out of the air each year. You might reasonably think that we would have then completel

Envisioning a Future with Large-Scale CO2 Removal

Jul 3rd, 2019 36m 12s

Carbon dioxide removal does already exist, but only at the tiniest of scales. But what could a future where we're successfully capturing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year, actually look like?Where would all the CO2 be

Money, Controversy and Magical Thinking: The Many Challenges of CO2 Removal

Jun 19th, 2019 42m 17s

Taking carbon dioxide out of the air - as we learned in our last episode - is technically possible. And different researchers and start-ups are experimenting with the best ways to do just that. But there's much more than engineering that curren

Has This Scientist Found The Way To Save The World From CO2?

Jun 12th, 2019 52m 21s

For over the past two decades scientist Klaus Lackner has dedicated himself to finding potential ways of taking CO2 back out of the atmosphere, all in a bid to help the world avoid the worst consequences of climate change. In this episode, we l

S2 Episode 1: How Did We Get Here?

1 Nov 8th, 2017 1h 8m

Look pretty much anywhere on our planet and it’s clear that human beings are having an outsized impact on the Earth. And it’s not just climate change. There’s our enormous land footprint, our rapidly growing numbers, our thirst for resources, a

Can Conservatives and Progressives Agree on Climate Action?

May 10th, 2017 24m 12s

Conservatives, especially in America, are known for doubting the scientific basis of man-made climate change, and the need to do anything about it. But earlier this February something surprising happened - several elder Republican statesmen rel

Ex-Irish President Mary Robinson on Hope, Climate Change & Women's Day

Mar 8th, 2017 11m 55s

March 8th marks international women's day, an annual celebration of the achievements of women across the globe. And this year’s campaign is: Be Bold For Change. To discuss climate change and equality, and how it intersects with the role of wo

Voices of Youth at #COP22

Nov 20th, 2016 15m 38s

The Elephant has been in Marrakech Morocco the past week for COP 22. And on Friday, on the last day of the conference, we caught up with a few youth groups from around the world to find out what motivated them to come to the talks, and how they

Nicolas Haeringer: With Trump’s Election, What Does the Climate Movement Do Now?

Nov 19th, 2016 22m 14s

Last week Donald Trump's election sent shockwaves around the world - particularly within the climate community. Trump has long denied that climate change even exists and has vowed to roll back all federal action. So what should those of us who

An Astronaut's View: Spacewalking, Climate Change, and Life on our Pale Blue Dot

Aug 12th, 2016 46m 12s

When humanity first travelled into space, it didn’t just mean exploring new worlds and frontiers. It also meant for the first time seeing our home planet in an entirely new light. What from the ground seemed infinite and indestructible - someth

Storms, Isolation, and Endless Days: Investigating Greenland’s Changing Ice Sheet

Jun 17th, 2016 25m 22s

The Greenland ice-sheet is massive. So massive that if it were to melt completely global sea-levels would rise by more than 6 meters. So it's critical that scientists understand how the ice-sheet is changing because of climate change. Liam C

Noam Chomsky, 'The Human Species Has Never Faced A Question Like This’

May 23rd, 2016 33m 13s

For decades Noam Chomsky has been one of the most important political dissidents and intellectuals in the world. Now in an exclusive new interview with The Elephant, Chomsky reflects on the incredible period in human history we currently find

Why Climate Change is Wreaking Havoc on The World's Coral Reefs

Apr 20th, 2016 51m 44s

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is right at this moment suffering from what is the most devastating bleaching event in its entire fossil history, with 93% of its reefs experiencing at least some degree of bleaching. Many of these reefs will

The Co-Founder of Occupy Wall Street on Bringing About Social Change

Apr 4th, 2016 55m 31s

The Occupy movement of 2011 was one of the most successful activist actions of the last few decades. It changed the discourse, raised the issue of income inequality world-wide, and it galvanized a new generation of activists. But its co-founder

How Canada's Biggest City Reduced Its Emissions

Mar 10th, 2016 40m 45s

Toronto is Canada's biggest city, and it's also one of its biggest successes when it comes to acting on climate thus far. While the average emissions for the country have been going up, Toronto has managed to not only meet its targets for cutti

How Cities Are Leading The Way on Climate

Mar 4th, 2016 34m 36s

How our cities are run and designed can have a huge impact on the carbon footprint we have as individuals. Is there convenient and affordable transit available for example? Or are the buildings heated and cooled efficiently? But fortunately ci

The U.S. Supreme Court v. The Future of The Planet

Feb 24th, 2016 43m 4s

If you care about climate, then it's been a wild couple of weeks on the U.S. supreme court. First, in a surprise decision the court issued a stay against the EPA's Clean Power Plan - dealing a devastating blow to the U.S.'s efforts to reduce ca

The Unforgiving Math For Staying Under 2 Degrees

Feb 12th, 2016 1h 5m

In the Paris accord, 195 countries agreed that they would collectively keep average global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees. But what does science have to say on actually keeping that goal? And how fast, and by how much, will we hav

Ex President of Costa Rica - 'Creating Low Carbon Economies is an Opportunity'

Feb 4th, 2016 22m 51s

Jose Maria Figueres is the President of the Carbon War Room, an organization that supports initiatives by private companies to reduce their carbon emissions. And previously he was the president of Costa Rica. We talked with Figueres about why h