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The Elephant

Welcome to The Elephant! An interview and storytelling podcast investigating up-and-coming solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. Supported by Climate-KIC

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George Monbiot - 'Climate Change is Bigger Than Capitalism'

George Monbiot - 'Climate Change is Bigger Than Capitalism'

Guardian columnist and journalist George Monbiot is one of the foremost political and environmental thinkers in Britain ... Read more

30 Jan 2016

1hr 2mins

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Noam Chomsky, 'The Human Species Has Never Faced A Question Like This’

Noam Chomsky, 'The Human Species Has Never Faced A Question Like This’

For decades Noam Chomsky has been one of the most important political dissidents and intellectuals in the world. Now in... Read more

23 May 2016

33mins

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S2 Episode 1: How Did We Get Here?

S2 Episode 1: How Did We Get Here?

Look pretty much anywhere on our planet and it’s clear that human beings are having an outsized impact on the Earth. And... Read more

8 Nov 2017

1hr 8mins

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How Cities Are Leading The Way on Climate

How Cities Are Leading The Way on Climate

How our cities are run and designed can have a huge impact on the carbon footprint we have as individuals. Is there conv... Read more

4 Mar 2016

34mins

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Has This Scientist Found The Way To Save The World From CO2?

Has This Scientist Found The Way To Save The World From CO2?

For over the past two decades scientist Klaus Lackner has dedicated himself to finding potential ways of taking CO2 back... Read more

12 Jun 2019

52mins

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The Co-Founder of Occupy Wall Street on Bringing About Social Change

The Co-Founder of Occupy Wall Street on Bringing About Social Change

The Occupy movement of 2011 was one of the most successful activist actions of the last few decades. It changed the disc... Read more

4 Apr 2016

55mins

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Money, Controversy and Magical Thinking: The Many Challenges of CO2 Removal

Money, Controversy and Magical Thinking: The Many Challenges of CO2 Removal

Taking carbon dioxide out of the air - as we learned in our last episode - is technically possible. And different resear... Read more

19 Jun 2019

42mins

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The U.S. Supreme Court v. The Future of The Planet

The U.S. Supreme Court v. The Future of The Planet

If you care about climate, then it's been a wild couple of weeks on the U.S. supreme court. First, in a surprise decisio... Read more

24 Feb 2016

43mins

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Can Conservatives and Progressives Agree on Climate Action?

Can Conservatives and Progressives Agree on Climate Action?

Conservatives, especially in America, are known for doubting the scientific basis of man-made climate change, and the ne... Read more

10 May 2017

24mins

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Can Economics Save Climate Change?

Can Economics Save Climate Change?

With the birth of the industrial revolution and the creation of the modern world, economics helped us in a sense get int... Read more

23 Nov 2015

51mins

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Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO2 into Rock

Iceland and the Surprising Science of Turning CO2 into Rock

Imagine we overcame the many obstacles and successfully built the giant infrastructure that would be needed to directly ... Read more

19 Jul 2019

56mins

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The Insider’s Guide to the Climate Talks in Paris

The Insider’s Guide to the Climate Talks in Paris

The United Nations climate summit in Paris - or COP 21 - is just around the corner. But there's a lot to get a handle on... Read more

27 Nov 2015

52mins

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Envisioning a Future with Large-Scale CO2 Removal

Envisioning a Future with Large-Scale CO2 Removal

Carbon dioxide removal does already exist, but only at the tiniest of scales. But what could a future where we're succes... Read more

3 Jul 2019

36mins

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Storms, Isolation, and Endless Days: Investigating Greenland’s Changing Ice Sheet

Storms, Isolation, and Endless Days: Investigating Greenland’s Changing Ice Sheet

The Greenland ice-sheet is massive. So massive that if it were to melt completely global sea-levels would rise by more t... Read more

17 Jun 2016

25mins

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Nicolas Haeringer: With Trump’s Election, What Does the Climate Movement Do Now?

Nicolas Haeringer: With Trump’s Election, What Does the Climate Movement Do Now?

Last week Donald Trump's election sent shockwaves around the world - particularly within the climate community. Trump ha... Read more

19 Nov 2016

22mins

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Voices of Youth at #COP22

Voices of Youth at #COP22

The Elephant has been in Marrakech Morocco the past week for COP 22. And on Friday, on the last day of the conference, w... Read more

20 Nov 2016

15mins

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Naomi Klein on Why Climate Change is ‘Threatening To Our Elites’

Naomi Klein on Why Climate Change is ‘Threatening To Our Elites’

We sit down with Naomi Klein to speak about Paris, why climate change is threatening to elite power, and why when it com... Read more

7 Dec 2015

23mins

Ranked #18

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Climatologist James Hansen - 'We’re already at a level of emergency'

Climatologist James Hansen - 'We’re already at a level of emergency'

Former NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen is one of the most respected climate scientists in the world. In fact he's famous... Read more

5 Dec 2015

26mins

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Ex-Irish President Mary Robinson on Hope, Climate Change & Women's Day

Ex-Irish President Mary Robinson on Hope, Climate Change & Women's Day

March 8th marks international women's day, an annual celebration of the achievements of women across the globe. And this... Read more

8 Mar 2017

11mins

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How Antarctica Is Changing and Why It Matters

How Antarctica Is Changing and Why It Matters

Antarctica's ice sheet contains enough water to rise sea-levels by over 60 meters, yet we know surprisingly little about... Read more

6 Nov 2015

59mins

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