Top 10 Best Podcasts for Understanding Climate Change in Your World
This list of podcasts was curated and written by: Yesh Pavlik Slenk
On August 16th, 2022, the biggest climate law in U.S. history was signed into law – which is expected to create 9 million green jobs over the next ten years. That’s a lot of jobs!
As you know, podcasts are an excellent resource for educating yourself, creating community, and enacting change. That’s exactly what this list does: it offers you ten great podcasts to listen to that will not just share fascinating and noteworthy stories or news related to climate change, but ones that will give you the information you need to enact change in your personal lives, community, and workplaces.
Plus, some might just help you get paid to save the planet.
Whether you’re looking to learn more about climate change through the lens of specific industries or are looking for advice and information on how to create or find your own green career, this list is here to support (and entertain!) you.
Podcasts for Understanding Climate Change in Your World
Podcast: Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers
Episode: How a psychology major is on the frontlines of decarbonizing a global industry
Description: Want to use your job to tackle climate change? Today there are more opportunities across industries to find a job and have impact. Join Climate Corps network manager Yesh Pavlik Slenk for candid conversations with everyday changemakers about careers, motivation, how they're fighting climate change — and how you can too.
Podcast: How to Save a Planet
Episode: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Helps You Find Your Climate Superpower
Description: Climate change. We know. It can feel too overwhelming. But what if there was a show about climate change that left you feeling... energized? One so filled with possibility that you actually wanted to listen? Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds, as we bring you smart, inspiring stories about the mess we're in and how we can get ourselves out of it.
Podcast: My Climate Journey
Episode: Jamie Alexander, Drawdown Labs
Description: A growing body of knowledge about climate change and potential solutions. This series traverses disciplines, industries, and opinions with hundreds of deep-dive conversations with science, technology, and climate leaders. Hosted by Jason Jacobs and Cody Simms.
Podcast: Sustainability Defined
Episode: Sustainable Weddings with Gina Lett-Shrewsberry
Description: Sustainability Defined is the podcast that defines sustainability, one concept (and bad joke) at a time. Hosts Scott Breen and Jay Siegel explore a new topic each episode with the help of an expert in the field. Each concept falls into one of seven sectors -- Energy, Cities, Natural Environment, Transportation, Business, Policy, and Social -- and is visually represented in a Sustainability Tree found here.
Podcast: GreenBiz350
Episode: Learning from Failures
Description: GreenBiz 350 is a weekly podcast taking you behind the headlines in green business. Original stories and interviews cover renewable energy, clean technologies, sustainable supply chains, cities, food, climate change and more.
Podcast: The Energy Gang
Episode: What does the IRA mean for the world?
Description: Weekly discussions about the latest trends in energy, cleantech, renewables, and the environment from Wood Mackenzie.
Podcast: Hot Buttons
Episode: How we got addicted to fast fashion
Description: Hot Buttons is a show about the future of fashion and culture on a changing planet. Each week, Christina Binkley, Rachel Kibbe, and Shilla Kim-Parker unwind the breaking news, industry moves, cultural trends, and tech breakthroughs that are shaping sustainable fashion. The fashion industry is one of the world’s biggest polluters. Can we change it?
Podcast: Climavores
Episode: Got plant-based milk?
Description: Climavores is a show about eating on a changing planet. Each week, journalists Tamar Haspel and Mike Grunwald explore the complicated, confusing, and surprising relationship between food and the environment.
Podcast: Climate Rising
Episode: Strengthening carbon offsets: The Oxford Principles
Description: Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.
Podcast: A Matter of Degrees
Episode: A farming solution for a hotter, less stable world
Description: Give up your climate guilt. Sharpen your curiosity. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. This show makes sense of big climate questions and critical topics. Our episodes are filled with stories of bold climate leadership, groundbreaking campaigns, and people doing their best to be part of the solution.
About Yesh Pavlik Slenk
Yesh Pavlik Slenk is the senior manager of Global Climate Corps Network at Environmental Defense Fund and host of Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers. The podcast ranked on Apple’s Top 25 careers podcasts in 2021. Yesh manages EDF’s Climate Corps network of more than 3,000 sustainability and energy management professionals worldwide.
Yesh trains and mentors Climate Corps fellows in companies and cities to help accelerate clean energy projects and climate goals. Collectively, fellows have helped identify energy savings worth more than $1.6 billion, the equivalent of over 2.2 million metric tons in carbon emissions.
The impacts of climate change are here now, and more people want to take action. The good news is that green jobs are growing in nearly every industry. Yesh covers this growth with up-close conversations with CEOs, experts, innovators, and career changers who are turning climate awareness into action. Yesh highlights how people can get paid to help save the planet.
Yesh blogs frequently about sustainability careers on EDF+Business. Her writing has been featured in GreenBiz and Ms. Magazine. Outside of work, Yesh is a dance-party-loving wife, mother of two, and Chicagoan who is deeply pleased by gummy worms, a glass of wine, and nature documentaries.
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