Climate Conversations Archives - Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/category/climate-conversations/ At Home on Earth Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:08:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bluedotliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Bluedot_site-icon-32x32.png Climate Conversations Archives - Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/category/climate-conversations/ 32 32 Running With the Climate in Mind https://bluedotliving.com/running-with-the-climate-in-mind/ https://bluedotliving.com/running-with-the-climate-in-mind/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:16:31 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=13748 Tina Muir is the founder and CEO of Running for Real, host of the award-winning podcast of the same name, and co-host of another podcast called Running Realized. She’s also a mother of two and a former elite runner turned sustainability advocate.

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/running-with-the-climate-in-mind/feed/ 0 Meet Nigerian Environmental Activist Toluwalase Abiona https://bluedotliving.com/meet-nigerian-environmental-activist-toluwalase-abiona/ https://bluedotliving.com/meet-nigerian-environmental-activist-toluwalase-abiona/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:59:57 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=13051 Toluwalase Abiona is a Nigerian environmentalist whose non-profit, Zero Plastic Community, promotes environmental sustainability and is guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She grew up in Lawanson, Mushin, a part of Lagos mainland with a lot of plastic pollution. Environmental laws exist on paper in Lagos but are not implemented or enforced. […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/meet-nigerian-environmental-activist-toluwalase-abiona/feed/ 0 Climate Conversation with Bill McKibben https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-bill-mckibben/ https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-bill-mckibben/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:09:59 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-bill-mckibben/ Writer, organizer and climate activist, Bill McKibben recently visited Martha's Vineyard to talk about Third Act — his latest initiative for those over age sixty.

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-bill-mckibben/feed/ 1 Mason Lee: Harnessing the Power of AI to Prevent Wildfires https://bluedotliving.com/mason-lee-harnessing-the-power-of-ai-to-prevent-wildfires/ https://bluedotliving.com/mason-lee-harnessing-the-power-of-ai-to-prevent-wildfires/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:21:53 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=12352 Mason Lee was a high school graduate in Los Angeles preparing to study at Brown when, after experiencing California’s most severe recorded fire season, he opted instead to fight wildfires on the frontline. Now in his third year of college, Mason is studying artificial intelligence and machine learning. This, along with his interests in firefighting […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/mason-lee-harnessing-the-power-of-ai-to-prevent-wildfires/feed/ 4 Climate Conversation: Jonathan Foley https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-jonathan-foley/ https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-jonathan-foley/#respond Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:50:01 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=8482 Cleo Carney, Annabelle Brothers, and Dorje Dixey represent the members of the Emerging Leaders Program with the Bluedot Institute in this Climate Conversation with Jonathan Foley of Project Drawdown. Project Drawdown's mission is to help the world reach “drawdown”—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-jonathan-foley/feed/ 0 Climate Conversation: Mark Carney https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversations-mark-carney/ https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversations-mark-carney/#respond Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:51:34 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=7142 Bluedot’s student reporter Cleo Carney speaks with Mark Carney. Mark Carney is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, Chair of Brookfield, a company, which is a prominent investor in green energy, and co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (or GFANZ), which is a coalition of distinguished financial institutions committed to expediting […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversations-mark-carney/feed/ 0 Climate Conversation: Catherine McKenna https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-catherine-mckenna/ https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-catherine-mckenna/#respond Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:12:58 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=5176 Bluedot’s student reporter Cleo Carney speaks with Catherine McKenna, who served as a cabinet minister and MP for Canada’s Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021 under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. During her time as a politician, she was the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities. As the Environmental […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-catherine-mckenna/feed/ 0 Climate Conversation: Youth Activist and Climate Grief Researcher Lily Barraclough https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-youth-activist-and-climate-grief-researcher-lily-barraclough/ https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-youth-activist-and-climate-grief-researcher-lily-barraclough/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:55:45 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=4076 “Finding those personal connections and relationships is key for climate grief and eco-anxiety and also solving these issues,” says youth activist and climate grief researcher Lilian Barraclough. In this Climate Conversation, Bluedot’s Toronto-based student reporter Catherine Zita Dias talked with Lily about climate grief, how climate justice intersects with race, and how running for (and […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/climate-conversation-youth-activist-and-climate-grief-researcher-lily-barraclough/feed/ 0 Bluedot Talks With: A Nuclear Engineer https://bluedotliving.com/bluedot-talks-with-a-nuclear-engineer/ https://bluedotliving.com/bluedot-talks-with-a-nuclear-engineer/#respond Thu, 05 May 2022 15:13:22 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/bluedot-talks-with-a-nuclear-engineer/ Jacopo Buongiorno teaches at MIT, is a strong advocate for the role of nuclear energy in our transition away from fossil fuels, and thinks our fears around Chernobyl are “absurdly exaggerated.” We talked to him after Russia invaded Ukraine and commandeered the country’s nuclear reactors at Chernobyl. Bluedot: You were a source for our story, […]

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