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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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Batteries are finding their way into everything – from cars to heavy equipment to the electric grid. But scaling up production to meet the d...
This week, we're running an episode of Degrees : Real talk about planet-saving careers , from our friends at Environmental Defense Fund: "Th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Putin's assault on Ukraine triggered an energy crisis that sent Europe's economies into a tailspin and put the European energy transition to...
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...
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...
There's been a pretty major shake-up in the world of transit decarbonization. This summer, the California Air Resources Board – a state orga...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Building codes: they might sound boring, but they're actually the front lines in a nationwide battle to decarbonize our buildings. And they...
There are 5.5 million commercial buildings in the U.S. Why are only 700 of them net-zero ? We have the technology to slash carbon emissions...
It's officially summer in North America, and that means one thing – it's getting hot. Every year, heat waves are the deadliest extreme weath...
In this episode, we're touring a home with a buildings doctor. Ian Hamilton is a professor of energy, environment and health at University C...
This week on the show, we meet someone on a mission: to decarbonize America's buildings. Decarbonizing buildings is is actually a huge piece...
Ninety-five. That's the number of times we've mentioned hydrogen on The Big Switch over the past 18 episodes. This week, we're taking a step...
Hydrogen could be essential for the zero-carbon economy, especially for cleaning up concrete, steel, and chemicals. It's also a promising fu...
Steel goes into pretty much everything around us – from buildings and bridges to the furniture in our homes. And decarbonizing the steel ind...
St. James Parish, Louisiana sits in the middle of an 85-mile corridor along the Mississippi river that's home to more than 150 petrochemical...
Petrochemicals. You might not have heard of them, but you certainly use them every day. These chemicals, made from oil, are in almost everyt...
Things have shifted dramatically since we aired our last episode. There's now a crisis in Ukraine and sanctions on Russian oil and gas. This...
This week: A love story about concrete. Melissa and Rebecca Dell , an industrial decarbonization expert, break down our relationship with co...
What does a toaster oven have to do with carbon emissions? This week, Melissa and producer Alexandria Herr dissect one to find out. Turns ou...
We have something different today: A crossover between The Big Switch and The Carbon Copy. If you like this episode, go over to The Carbon C...
Aviation is a notoriously difficult sector to decarbonize. So as Melissa plans a family trip, she wrestles with her options. Which flights e...
When one of the biggest ships in the world got stuck in the Suez Canal, it threw a giant wrench into international supply chains. It exacerb...
Heavy trucks emit an outsize share of greenhouse gasses and toxic pollutants. But we rely on them for nearly everything we buy. What will it...
Electric autonomous vehicles shuttle us to high-tech mass transit hubs. Our fare system is contactless. We've already paid via a customized,...
In the next five episodes, we'll take a deep dive into decarbonizing the entire transportation sector -- everything from bulldozers and plan...
In the first five episodes of this show, we talked about cleaning up our electricity system—the power grid. In upcoming episodes, we're goin...
We have a whole year of episodes coming up. In the first five episodes of The Big Switch, we talked about cleaning up our electricity system...
In episode 2, we explored how to build a championship zero-carbon "team" on the grid. We could have the best players in the world — rooftop...
Matching electricity supply and demand is a high-wire balancing act. As we add more solar, wind and batteries, and shut down thermal generat...
If the grid system is the backbone of a low-carbon economy, then transmission lines are the nervous system. We need a dramatic build-out of...
Building a low-carbon grid is like building a sports team with star players and supporting players. Or, more accurately, it's like re-buildi...
The electric grid is the vast machine that powers everything around us. It's also the part of the energy system where we're seeing the most...
Welcome to our first season of "The Big Switch." It's a five-part series that explores how the power grid works, how it's changing, and how...
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