Part 5: The Battery Recycling Dilemma
This is the final episode of a five-part series exploring the lithium-ion battery supply chain. If you haven't listened to the first four ep...
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The Big Switch
To slow climate change, we need to transform our homes, buildings, cars, and economy quickly. "The Big Switch" explains how to rebuild the energy systems all around us. Dr. Melissa Lott of C...
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Listen to The Big Switch, a Education podcast by Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy. Stream 46 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 46 episodesPart 4: The Great Battery Manufacturing Race
This is the fourth episode of a five-part series exploring the lithium-ion battery supply chain. If you haven't listened to the first three...
Part 3: The High Stakes for Battery Ingredients
This is the third episode of a five-part series exploring the lithium-ion battery supply chain. If you haven't listened to the first two epi...
Part 2: The Mining Conundrum For Critical Minerals
This is the second episode of a five-part series exploring the lithium-ion battery supply chain. If you haven't listened to the first episod...
Part 1: Are Batteries the New Oil?
We need to electrify much of the global economy in order to hit net-zero emissions by 2050. That means installing a lot of batteries in our...
A preview of season 4: Batteries are taking over the world
Batteries are finding their way into everything – from cars to heavy equipment to the electric grid. But scaling up production to meet the d...
Degrees: The fastest electric vehicle fleet makeover in the West
This week, we're running an episode of Degrees : Real talk about planet-saving careers , from our friends at Environmental Defense Fund: "Th...
Part 5: A Crisis Reshapes the Energy Transition
This is the fifth episode of a five-part series exploring the European energy crisis in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you hav...
Part 4: Heat Pumps for Peace
This is the fourth episode of a five-part series exploring the European energy crisis in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you ha...
Part 3: Poland's Coal Legacy and Nuclear Future
This is the third episode of a five-part series exploring the European energy crisis in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you hav...
Part 2: Inside Germany's Race for Renewables
This is the second episode of a five-part series exploring the European energy crisis in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. If you ha...
Part 1: An Energy Crisis in the Making
Putin's assault on Ukraine triggered an energy crisis that sent Europe's economies into a tailspin and put the European energy transition to...
A preview of season 3: Europe's energy crisis
Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked supply shortages, fears of blackouts, and a scramble to find new sources of energy. In this season of T...
In Kenya It's Geothermal for the Win
Geothermal energy doesn't get near the attention that wind and solar do. But to decarbonize our energy systems, we need a team of net zero t...
California's Climate Czar on Banning Gas Cars
There's been a pretty major shake-up in the world of transit decarbonization. This summer, the California Air Resources Board – a state orga...
From Landfill to Solar Farm in a Black Houston Neighborhood
In this episode, a former oil-and-gas man named Efrem Jernigan catches the solar bug. Inspired by the potential for lower energy bills and g...
Taking Co(a)l out of Colorado
On this show we talk a lot about the "big switch" to zero-carbon energy sources. But there's another kind of switch that needs to happen, to...
EV charging stations have an equity problem
Frogs. Bees. Finicky software. There are a lot of things that can cause an electric vehicle charging station to break. We need to replace fo...
Clean heat for all
We're switching things up a bit for the next few weeks. Instead of continuing our sector-by-sector decarbonization tour, we're taking you to...
Cookin' with Electrons
Building codes: they might sound boring, but they're actually the front lines in a nationwide battle to decarbonize our buildings. And they...
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