The Climate Daily
98% of all climate change news is gloom and doom. Not at The Climate Daily! Each weekday, co-hosts Jeffrey James and Maude Madison deliver solutions-oriented, positive action climate change news. Their mission is to help you feel less overwhelmed, less anxiety and better prepared to grapple with climate change.
The Climate Daily brings people together, provides strategies and offers solutions, and all in about eight minutes!
Did you know there are people in all walks of life who are taking action to combat climate change? That’s why The Climate Daily exists: to educate intelligent, curious people like you who care about working to combat climate change but who aren’t climate change experts. The Climate Daily podcast shares stories of people working together, especially BIPOC communities, working to limit the effects of Climate Change.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 645
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Over 50% of UK Power Generated by Wind in 2020, Climate Change Warning Stickers on Gas Pumps in What US City? Norway Has Big Low Carbon Plans, Pikas Defy Extinction Rumors
Britain Announces for the first time Over 50% of its Electricity Generated By Wind! Plus Cambridge, MA first US City to to plaster Climate Change warning stickers on gas pumps. Norway’s low-carbon pl…
UK Okays World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Cranberry Farms Harvest the Sun, Canadian Kids Instruct Their Teachers to Divest from Oil, and Canada Prioritizes Protection of Ecosystem Hot Spots
UK Okays World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Cranberry Farms Harvest the Sun, Canadian Kids Instruct Their Teachers to Divest from Oil, and Canada Prioritizes Protection of Ecosystem Hot Spots
Hungarian Company Claims Its Product Eats Plastic, Reducing Space Junk Pollution with Wooden Satellites? Japan's Banks Kill Coal Plant Investment, Stockholm Takes Stock of COVID and Climate Change
Hungarian company claims their product could rid the Earth of single-use plastic, reducing space junk pollution with wooden satellites. Stockholm experts discuss the COVID-19 and climate change, plus…
Some Coral Reefs are Surviving Ocean Warming, Wood in the 'Hood Reclamation Company, Germany achieves 2020 Climate Targets, and World's Most Unlikely Solar Farms
Scientists discover some coral reefs are surviving warming oceans, plus Baltimore Wood Project-- a company that reclaims lumber from abandoned row homes. Germany achieves its 2020 climate targets, an…
Stockholm to Become "Impact Capital of the World", Russia Expresses Interest in Climate Change, More Gretas On the Horizon, Scientists discover 12 New Marine Species
Stockholm mayor pledges to make Stockholm the "Impact capital of the world," plus a Russian Arctic research vessel sets sail into the Neva River. Sweden's environmental education is building a genera…
#CutOutCutlery, Saving Keystone Whitebark Pines, French Launch "Tara" to Study Climate Change, How Much Solar Energy Do We Need to Save Climate?
#Cutoutcutlery--One woman's quest to remove excess plastic cutlery from food apps, plus plans to save Keystone Species Whitebark Pines across the United States. French schooner Tara sets sail on scie…
Green Profile--The Intersectional Environmentalist, Louisiana Invests $32 Million to Save Marsh, German Coal Plant Transformed to Hydrogen Hub
$32 million effort is underway to restore a Louisiana marsh, plus plans to transform a former German coal plant into a hydrogen hub. We meet The Intersectional Environmentalist, and it's Natural C…
EU Investment Bank Declares "Gas is Over!", No More Mining Near Yellowstone? Green Spotlight on "We Got Next", Energy Resilient Communities Act
President of the European Investment Bank Declares ‘Gas is Over’, plus an end to a mining proposal near Yellowstone National Park. "We Got Next!” now applies to being on the cool great outdoors tea…
UN 2020 Young Champions of Earth Winners, Rockefeller Foundation Stops Investing in Fossil Fuels, Jet Fuel from CO2? And another Zero-Waste Delivery Co.
UN Environment Program Announces winners of its 2020 Young Champions of the Earth Prize, plus zero-waste grocery delivery grows by one more company. Rockefeller Foundation, the world’s largest oil-fu…
Human Poop Powers Trains? GOP Climate Change Generation Gap, "All We Can Save"--A Great Read, 12 New EV's Coming to Market
A quick review of the hopeful-yet-forceful must read All We Can Save, plus engineers find a way to use human poop to power trains. The GOP faces a climate change generation gap, and 12 New Electric C…
Meet TikTok ocean-cleaning superstar, Shane Brown, in our "Profiles in Green," Researchers Unveil ‘Four Steps for Earth’ to Help Protect Biodiversity. Electric School Buses Arrive in DC Suburb, and a UN Global Climate Poll Finds the People Want Action
Meet TikTok ocean-cleaning superstar, Shane Brown, in our "Profiles in Green," plus, researchers unveil ‘Four Steps for Earth’ to help protect biodiversity. Electric school buses arrive in suburban …
50 Countries Pledge to Protect a Third of Earth, WURD's ecoWURD Enviro Justice Summit, French Courts Make Landmark Climate Justice Ruling, Snowy Owl Makes Once-In-A-130-Year Appearance
WURD Radio’S ecoWURD Environmental Justice Summit, plus a Landmark Ruling for French Climate Justice. Over 50 countries pledge to protecting 30% of planet's land and water, and a snowy owl spotted …
Britain Stops Foreign Oil Investment, Pakistan's PM Calls for End of Coal, India's Fastest-Growing Sustainable Food Source, and Canadian Arctic Indigenous Building COVID Resilience
Pakistan’s prime minister calls for an end to coal power plant construction in that country, plus Britain will stop funding investments in foreign oil and gas exploration. A Canadian Arctic indigenou…
Africa's Great Green Wall, Canada's Climate Pledge Collective Bank Switch Project, Airlines Race to Reduce CO2, and Elon Musk's $100 Million Carbon Capture Challenge
Canada's Climate Pledge Collective, initiates Project Bank Switch, plus airlines race to reduce carbon emissions. Africa's Great Green Wall, and Elon Musk offers a $100 million award for the 'best' …
Jeffrey's Irrational Exuberance, Crayola Initiates Marker Recycling Campaign, Meet SCA's Dr. Mamie Parker, and Bipartisan Groups Tells Biden How To Save Amazon
Reining in my irrational exuberance, plus a bipartisan group offers recommendations for how President Biden help save the Amazon. Dr. Mamie Parker to lead Student Conservation Association, and Crayol…
Brits Measure Massive Iceberg, Scotiabank Stops Funding Future Arctic Oil Exploration, East African Coral Refuge, and ESGs Focus on Climate Change
Why Climate change will be a ‘really big’ focus for ESG investors in 2021, plus Scotiabank becomes fifth major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge. Scientists discover a ‘cl…
Welsh Farmers Paid to Stop Climate Change, European Bison Off Endangered Species List, FDIC Calls for US Climate Change Collaboration, Macron Wants French Constitution to Protect Climate
The government of Wales pitches radical new concept to its farmers: paying them to help stop climate change, plus European Bison are no longer on the “endangered species list.” Who knew Europe had bi…
2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners, Brazilian Scientists Try for 2nd Lungs of the Planet, Grocers Boycott Brazilian-Grown Soybeans, Hindus Take On Climate Change
The 2020 The Goldman Environmental Prize winners are announced. Plus scientists in Brazil are set to grow a second set of “lungs of the planet”...just in case. In a related story, several of the wor…
Hot-Rod Companies Build EV Motor for Everybody, London's "School Streets", EU Announces LIFE Awards, and Big Bison Back in South Dakota
Two after-market car companies build an electric motor that’ll fit almost any American hotrod paving the way for classic car electric motor retrofits , plus London initiates the “school streets” prog…
Seeking Signs of Positive Climate Action in Texas, The First 300-Megawatt Lithium Ion Battery, America Rejoins the Paris Agreement, Canada Funds Makeover of World Heritage Site
And then there's Texas....We look to Texas for any signs of positive climate action in the midst of the recent humanitarian crisis. And, President Biden celebrates his 30th day in office by having Am…