The Meaning of Green

S4 Episode 10: The Devil's Hair Dryer 16.09.2023 29:34 ↓

Grass, leaf blowers, and environmental justice, with stops across the US and in Canada, Brazil, and the EU

S4 Episode 9: The Unicorn and the Lion 06.08.2023 30:37 ↓

Scotland and the rest of the UK leave coal behind, Net Zero, modern struggles between the unicorn and the lion, and my Scottish grandfather

S4 Episode 8: Smoke and Mirrors 01.07.2023 30:24 ↓

Smoky skies, hiking the Oregon desert, wolves, tightening an air pollution standard, Aristotle, and the gospel of GDP

S4 Episode 7: Mt. Mitchell, Zöbelboden, and the Taj Mahal 29.05.2023 30:04 ↓

The Taj Mahal, forests in the US and Austria, an ecologist's lunch with coal executives, and a speech by Margaret Thatcher

S4 Episode 6: Everything Is a Size You Can't See 29.04.2023 30:22 ↓

The Brazilian Amazon forest and the Cristalino River take us on an unforgettable journey, while the violence of history and politics of the present shadow our steps

S4 Episode 5: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg 31.03.2023 29:11 ↓

The most polluted city on earth, seeing Brazil's forests from many angles, the US government and Brazil's military coup, and George Santos's shoes

S4 Episode 4: Shotgun Marriage, Kittens 19.02.2023 30:51 ↓

An historic African American school and a proposed mega-landfill, what happens when landfill protections fail, the proximity principle, and a fierce battle over clean air in Los Angeles

S4 Episode 3: Shotgun Marriage, Cats 30.01.2023 30:44 ↓

Water wars in the American West, US Supreme Court cases on climate change, and state-level renewable energy achievements

S4 Episode 2: The Wings of a Butterfly 02.01.2023 27:17 ↓

The US's messy political system, the states, and a butterfly that affected the course of US climate politics

S4 Episode 1: Pilgrims and Progress 2022 28.11.2022 31:14 ↓

Stories of abundance that fall short, and the disconnect between well being and economic growth

S4 Preview: Déjà Vu and a New US Climate Law 06.09.2022 14:55 ↓

August surprise: Why the US climate and renewable energy policy window slammed open now

S3 Episode 10: Dignity and Banditry 21.06.2022 30:19 ↓

Season 3's finale highlights common themes from places visited in the US, Ukraine, Panama, Kenya, and Brazil

S3 Episode 9: Elephants Grow Grasslands, Cows Grow Trees (Pt. 2) 04.05.2022 30:05 ↓

Wildlife as government cattle in Kenya, colonialism and conservation, experts Dr. Cynthia Moss, Dr. Winnie Kiiru, Dr. David Western, Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Nobel Laureate Dr. Elinor Ostrom, and Kenyan musicians Winyo and Suzanna Owiyo

S3 Episode 8: Elephants Grow Grasslands, Cows Grow Trees (Pt. 1) 24.04.2022 29:43 ↓

Elephant talk, populations decimated from ivory poaching, the Maasai as ecologists, and Waza

S3 Episode 7: Gems of Ukraine 18.03.2022 29:23 ↓

Community based management and biodiversity in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains

S3 Episode 6: I Took the Isthmus 06.02.2022 30:29 ↓

The Panama Canal's dependence on forests, a red phone, toucans, and US imperialism

S3 Episode 5: Garbage In, Garbage Out, and Charlottesville 01.01.2022 29:58 ↓

Race, catadores, garbage transport, and innovation in Italy and Maine

S3 Episode 4: Breaking Even With Nature 20.11.2021 30:06 ↓

The Berlin Wall fall effect, German citizens as renewable energy investors, and a soy field

S3 Episode 3: Some Germans Wake Up Earlier 11.10.2021 30:20 ↓

Germany's energy transition, a pathbreaking court decision on intergenerational climate justice, and a coffee mug

S3 Episode 2: The Power Game 03.09.2021 30:20 ↓

Coal dust pollution, racism, and the many faces of power

S3 Episode 1: Coal Dust Is Black 26.08.2021 29:28 ↓

Vulnerable communities fight for clean air in Appalachia and in Norfolk, Virginia

S3 Preview: Flying Rivers 30.07.2021 23:33 ↓

Magical water delivery systems in Brazil and in the US.

Silver Bullet: Earth Day Bonus Episode 22.04.2021 29:26 ↓

Carbon taxes around the world and public skepticism about economists' claims

S2 Episode 10.1: Resistance 30.12.2020 30:27 ↓

Spillovers, farmers who resist, and the singing revolution

S2 Episode 10.0: Community 13.12.2020 27:17 ↓

Season finale, part 1: unequal burdens, democracy in America, Earth rules, and global connections