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Flooding, Addiction, and Resilience
Season 3
Substance use is similar to extreme weather due to climate change in multiple ways. Both have had impacts in rural towns and big cities. Both can imp…
3 years, 2 months ago
Urban Embodied Carbon
Season 3
Every material that makes up a building, be it steel, concrete, wood, or plastic, has a greenhouse gas emission associated with it. This is called em…
3 years, 3 months ago
Cities cooled by trees
Season 3
As cities are built, a lot of vegetation is replaced with building materials such as concrete and brick. These materials absorb the sun's heat and th…
3 years, 4 months ago
Climate and health policy solutions
Season 3
Creating laws and policies informed by science and facts was not always the primary method used by legislators and policymakers. Until around 2000, p…
3 years, 5 months ago
Battery energy from waste heat
Season 3
Waste heat has been a challenge that scientists and engineers have been pondering for decades. What can be done with this lost energy and can it be h…
3 years, 6 months ago
Fuels from waste
Season 3
Combustible fuels have been around ever since humans realized that they could burn wood. Over time, we discovered new energy sources—fossil fuels, wh…
3 years, 7 months ago
Cleaner community air
Season 3
A lot of our lives is impacted by the air we breathe, both inside and outside. And where we live is an important factor in this equation. For those l…
3 years, 8 months ago
The art of renewable energy
Season 3
As Mihyun Kang sees it, if renewable energy is the future, then it should be engaging and appealing. She combined that idea with her passion for natu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Energy Art and Design
Season 3 Episode 4
As Mihyun Kang sees it, if renewable energy is the future, then it should be engaging and appealing. She combined that idea with her passion for natu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Farms of the future
Season 3
What does it take to get a piece of steak or chicken to someone's table? The amount of time, energy, water, land, and the resulting carbon footprint …
3 years, 10 months ago