Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
We've entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene, and nothing is as it was. Not the trees, not the seas – not the forests, farms, or fields – and not the global economy that depends on all of these. What does this mean for your investments, your family's future, and the future of man? Each week, we dive into these issues to help you Navigate the New Reality.
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
39 | How World's Farmers are Engaging the Global Climate Apparatus
Agriculture emits roughly 20 percent of all greenhouse gasses, but sustainable management of forests, farms, and fields can turn the world's farms into massive carbon sinks that absorb greenhouse gas…
38 | Natural Climate Solutions at Katowice Climate Talks
The first week of year-end climate talks have wrapped up in Katowice, Poland, where natural climate solutions are finally getting the attention they deserve -- both in negotiations and on the sides.…
037 Oil Palm, The Prodigal Plant, Is Coming Home To Africa. What Does That Mean For Forests?
Samuel Avaala shakes his head as he dips his fork into a bowl of red-red, a traditional Ghanaian stew that gets its color – and name – in part from red palm oil.
“It doesn’t make sense,” he says. “Oi…
036| Can These Indigenous People Sustainably Log And Still Save Their Forest?
Ilson López is the President of Belgium.
Not the European country, but the indigenous village in the district of Tahuamanu, in the Peruvian state of Madre de Dios, at the western edge of the Amazon f…
035 | What The Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Fixing The Climate
In this episode, we speak with the Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, who says climate change and civil rights are inexorably intertwined, and not just because the destruction of our living ecosystems i…
034 | Climate Shock Revisited: the Economics of Carbon Pricing
When countries around the world ratified the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016, they pledged to prevent average global temperatures from rising to a level more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.7 degrees Fa…
032 | Indigenous Leader Hindou Ibrahim on Indigenous People and Global Commodity Companies
Hindou Ibrahim grew up in rural Chad, a member of the nomadic Mbororo people. Today, she co-chairs the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, and she advises -- some would say cajo…
032 | How the Trump Administration Is Undermining the Clean Water Act, Part One
This is the fifth in a five-part series. You can find the first installment here.
US Environmental Protection Agency boss Scott Pruitt is gone – not because of his environmental malfeasance, but bec…
031 How Nature Can Get Us 37 Percent Of The Way To The Paris Climate Target
030 A Green Deal for the Netherlands
Jos Cozijnsen shakes his tangled black mane and adjusts his leathery blue suit – fashioned, it turns out, from overalls discarded by German railroad workers and available through his sustainable clot…
029 | A Tale of Two Companies
Hundreds of consumer-facing companies have pledged to purge deforestation from their supply chains -- often by only buying products that are certified as being sustainably grown. But what happens whe…
028: 2017 Year In Review
I've produced 19 episodes of Bionic Planet since the election of Donald Trump, mostly focused on the work of people trying to fix the climate mess -- and in today's episode I look back on some of the…
027 | Understanding the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
More and more countries across the developing world are launching large-scale, climate-smart initiatives to transform the way local communities derive their livelihoods from forests and broader land …
026| Breakthrough in Bonn: Fixing World's Farms
Under the Paris Agreement, countries were asked to present their own climate action plans, and 90 percent of these action plans -- technically called NDCs, for "nationally-determined contributions" -…
025: Trademarks, Gateways, And Global Climate Talks
Towards the end of summer, climate negotiators learned of three trademark applications that were filed in May of this year. One was for the logo “REDDPLUSX”, which is described as a carbon credit br…
024 The Grand Experiment To Save Appalachia’s Forests
The DOGWOOD ALLIANCE is an environmental NGO based in the Southeastern United States -- a region that produces 12 percent of the world's wood, pulp, and paper.
STAPLES is a massive stationary and off…