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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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The $100 Million Prize for Carbon Dioxide Removal

The $100 Million Prize for Carbon Dioxide Removal

Elon Musk this year partnered with The X-Prize to create a $100 million prize for the best solutions for removing carbon... Read more

6 Jul 2021

58mins

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Peter Eisenberger on The Promise of Direct Air Capture

Peter Eisenberger on The Promise of Direct Air Capture

In this episode we speak to Peter Eisenberger the co-founder of Global Thermostat - one of the leading direct air captu... Read more

30 Jun 2020

51mins

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'Scales of Change' - Technosalvation

'Scales of Change' - Technosalvation

Today we're featuring an episode from one of our favourite podcasts Future Ecologies, and their new mini-series "Scales ... Read more

10 Jun 2020

35mins

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Inside the Plastisphere

Inside the Plastisphere

It’s the recommendation show! With all the new time many of us have on our hands, we wanted to tip our hat to some of ou... Read more

13 May 2020

59mins

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The "100% Solution" to Climate Change

The "100% Solution" to Climate Change

Solomon Goldstein-Rose is a climate activist and former Massachusetts state representative. In his new book, "The 100% S... Read more

7 Apr 2020

52mins

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Updates: Exciting News in Direct Air Capture

Updates: Exciting News in Direct Air Capture

Since we first started looking at the science of CO2 removal with our podcast series on direct air capture, a huge amoun... Read more

27 Aug 2019

43mins

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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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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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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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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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