We all know that a key part of addressing climate change involves getting off fossil fuels. But renewable energies, such as solar energy, are not without costs. One key cost? It uses a lot of land. The team at How to Save a Planet takes a look at one creative solution to this problem – mixing solar panels with agriculture. And they are not at all sheepish about the role of one very adorable four legged animal.
Featuring How to Save a Planet.
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CREDITS
How to Save a Planet is a Spotify original podcast and Gimlet production.
Host: Alex Blumberg
Episode producer: Kendra Pierre-Louis
Show producers: Anna Ladd, Rachel Waldholz and Hannah Chinn
Intern: Nicole Welch
Supervising producers: Lauren Silverman and Kaitlyn Bogucki
Editor: Caitlin Kenney.
Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard
Original music by Peter Leonard, Catherine Anderson and Emma Munger
Fact-checking: James Gaines
Special thanks to Alex DePillis at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, and Tonje Waxman and Brooks Mixon at Sun Raised Farms.
Outside/In team: Justine Paradis, Taylor Quimby, Felix Poon, and Jessica Hunt.
Executive producer: Rebecca Lavoie
Theme: Breakmaster Cylinder
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