America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Donate here! Listen here . Now on Spotify ! Year in Review! In episode 56 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons hosts three amazing guests: Jayde Lovell, host of SciQ on the Young Turks Network, Dr. Tim Watkins, science education specialist, and Shaun Martin, Senior Director of Adaptation and Resilience at the World Wildlife Fund.  Doug and his guests co...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android In episode 54 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with Dr. Chad Nelsen , the CEO of the world famous Surfrider Foundation! Chad discusses the work of Surfrider Foundation and how it's ramping up its climate change adaptation work. Doug and Chad discuss the implications of sea level rise on coastlines and even its impact on the sport of surfing. C...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Listen here . In episode 54 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons attends the 2017 American Association of Landscape Architects conference in Los Angeles .  In this episode, we discover the burgeoning role of landscape architects in adaptation planning. Doug talks with a wide swath of landscape architects, from living legend Martha Schwartz, to young gra...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Listen here . Now on Spotify ! In episode 53 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with Monsanto's   Dr. Jeff Seale , Monsanto's Agricultural Environmental Strategy Lead & Associate Science Fellow. Doug and Jeff cover: acknowledging some of the controversies surrounding Monsanto; Monsanto's goal of being carbon neutral by 2021; how large corporatio...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Listen here . Now on Spotify ! In episode 52 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with demographer Dr. Matt Hauer from the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia .  Doug and Matt discuss his research paper on the role of future sea level rise on future migration within the United States. Matt explains the origins of the p...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android David Roberts Quotes: "People's gut impressions and instincts are not reliable guides to social policy." "We need to be all guns blazing on mitigation." The only people capable of changing the minds of the right wing base on climate change...is right wing elites. There's no set of magical words that environmentalists can say to break this spell of d...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Now on Spotify ! In episode 50 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with Dr. Pat Michaels , Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the libertarian Cato Institute .  Doug and Pat discuss free market approaches to adaptation and the potential role of the Cato Institute in this emerging field. In this Episode: NATURAL ADAPTATION – Dr. Mic...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Now on Spotify ! In episode 49 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons is invited to Harvard University to cover the Graduate School of Design's end of semester studio seminar.  In the spring semester, graduate students collaborated with the East Boston community to develop an adaptation action plan.  The results of those efforts were presented during the...

In episode 48 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with adaptation reporter Erika Bolstad .  Doug and Erika discuss her role at E & E News as their first adaptation reporter.  They talk about the state of adaptation reporting before they dig into her story on the emerging issue of 'climate gentrification', a topic that touches real estate, environmental justice and migration. Subscribe on Apple...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Now on Spotify ! In episode 47 of America Adapts , Doug talks with noted climate change skeptic, Marc Morano of Climate Depot.  Doug and Marc discuss his motivation to be a contrarian voice on climate change and his history working on environmental issues, from being a reporter for Rush Limbaugh, to being chief spokesman for noted climate skeptic Se...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android In episode 46 of America Adapts , it's a two segment show. First, Doug talks with Charlie Abrams and Jeremy Clark, two 13 year olds from Portland, Oregon about their amazing climate change activism. The second segment is our third edition of Australia Adapts with Dr. Johanna Nalua , where she talks with Dr. Jean Palutikof , the Director and Founder...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android In episode 45 of America Adapts - in a first - host Doug Parsons travels to Kampala, Uganda to cover the CBA11 (Community Based Adaptation).  This podcast consists of multiple conversations with conference attendees representing countries from Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States.  If you want to learn how the rest of the world approaches adap...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android In episode 44 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with world famous climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe , professor in the Dept. of Political Science  and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University!  Katharine and Doug dig deep into the issue of religion and what are some solutions in reaching out to skeptical audiences on...

Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Now on Spotify ! In episode 43 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with the Climate and Adaptation Reporter at Bloomberg News, Christopher Flavelle . Also in this episode, Doug announces that America Adapts Media is now a 501(c) 3 tax deductible charitable organization! Dan Ackerstein guest hosts a segment asking Doug what this means and how people...

In episode 42 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with Dr. Benjamin Preston , the Senior Director of the Infrastructure Resilience and Environmental Policy Program at the RAND Corporation . Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Now on Spotify ! Donate to America Adapts (We are now a tax deductible charitable organization!) WHAT IS RAND?  Doug and Ben discuss RAND and its background as...

In episode 41 of America Adapts , Australia Adapts is back! Dr. Johanna Nalau from Griffith University interviews a fellow adaptation researcher, Dr. Susanne Becken ,  Director of the Griffith Institute for Tourism at Griffith University, in Queensland, Australia. Professor Becken is an expert in Sustainable Tourism, specifically the impacts of climate change on tourism. Subscribe/listen to podcas...

Now on Spotify ! In episode 40 of America Adapts , I'm on location in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the banks of the Mississippi River attending the National Adaptation Forum ! This daily digest - a partnership with the American Society of Adaptation Professionals - I go around talking to forum attendees about why they are attending and discuss some of the exciting developments in the field of adaptatio...

In episode 39 of America Adapts , I talk with Barrett Ristroph , an adaptation and environmental lawyer based in Alaska.  Barrett is also a PhD candidate studying adaptation planning. Also in this segment, Doug reports back from the massive climate change march in Washington, DC. Donate to America Adapts (We are now a tax deductible charitable organization!) Subscribe to America Adapts on Itunes h...

Now on Spotify ! In episode 38 of America Adapts , I talk with fellow podcaster Andrew Lewin of Speak Up For Blue !  Andrew's podcast focuses on all things related to ocean conservation – he's 'speaking up' for the oceans! Andrew and I talk about the multitude of topics he covers and the diverse set of ocean experts he gets on the show. In the second half of the episode, Andrew, who's Canadian, wa...

Now on Spotify ! On the inauIn episode 37 of America Adapts , we kick off the premiere episode of Australia Adapts! Adaptation researcher Dr. Johanna Nalau , Research Fellow from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia joins the show for a semi-recurring segment where we interviews experts in Australia. gural episode, Doug interviews Johanna, which is followed by a segment where Johanna inter...

"It is beyond a reasonable doubt, humans are contributing to climate change." In episode 36 of America Adapts , host Doug Parsons talks to Judge Alice Hill of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.  Judge Hill shares her experiences as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Resilience Policy on the National Security Council within the White House under the Obama admin...

It's an Earth Day extravaganza! Earth Day Co-Founder Denis Hayes and climate change icon Bill McKibben visit America Adapts .  This episode is coming out on the same day that President Trump rescinded the climate change rules established under President Obama. Take action by listening to Bill and Denis share their experiences, as they offer advice on what to do next. Donate to America Adapts (We a...

In an Earth Day 2017 special episode of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with Valorie Aquino, Co-Director on the Organizing Committee for the March for Science ; Dr. Nancy Knowlton, organizer of the April 21-23rd Earth Optimism Summit ; and Dr. Randy Olson, scientist-turned-filmmaker. Now on Spotify ! Subscribe to America Adapts on Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-clima...

Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Now on Spotify ! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 Listen here . On Google Play here . Please share on Facebook ! On Twitter: @usaadapts In episode 33 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks with Dr. Katharine Mach , Director of Stanford Environment Assessment Facility - Stanford Woods Institute for the...

Subscribe/listen to podcast on Apple Podcasts. Now on Spotify ! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 Listen here . On Google Play here . Please share on Facebook ! On Twitter: @usaadapts Donate to America Adapts (We are now a tax deductible charitable organization!) In episode 32 of America Adapts , Doug Parsons talks "Cli-Fi" with Dr. Amy Brady, Seni...