Drilled
Critical Frequency
A true-crime podcast about climate change. Reported and hosted by a team of investigative climate journalists, Drilled examines the various obstacles that have kept the world from adequately responding to climate change.
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Jan 7, 2022 • 33min
Climate Crisis, Meet Democracy Crisis
A conversation with Max Berger, a longtime progressive organizer who helped incubate the Sunrise Movement and has also worked in the past for Cori Bush and Elizabeth Warren, about movement building, the climate crisis, and the current unraveling of American democracy. (Check out Scene on Radio's climate season here: http://www.sceneonradio.org/the-repair/) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 17, 2021 • 46min
Drilled Presents | Scene on Radio, The Repair | Episode 9: Pachamama
In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of Mother Earth.Listen to the complete Scene on Radio season: http://www.sceneonradio.org/the-repair/Check out Degrees podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/degrees/id1536627537 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 10, 2021 • 34min
The Influence Industry and Climate Obstruction
Groundbreaking new research from Brown University's Dr. Robert Brulle shows just how much oil companies have spent on PR in recent decades, and tracks how PR firms helped to architect climate obstruction. PR whistleblower Christine Arena joins with Dr. Brulle to discuss his research and the many tentacles of the influence industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 7, 2021 • 28min
One PR Firm Works on More Climate Obstruction Than Any Other
In a new study, sociologist Robert Brulle examined which PR firms work for the various industries obstructing climate action. Only one firm was in the top 3 for every single segment. Listen to find out which one, and learn about some of their other contributions to the world of spin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 26, 2021 • 29min
Fracking the Outback: Australia's Plan to Go Big on Fracking & Plastic
As the rest of the world is beginning to realize that fracking comes with more downsides than upsides, Australia is readying itself for a fracking boom, eyeing basins on Indigenous land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 19, 2021 • 53min
Melissa Aronczyk on the History of Greenwashing
Melissa Aronczyk, media studies scholar at Rutgers University, is one of my go-to sources on all things disinformation. In this episode, she walks us through the history of environmental PR and how it's shaped the broader disinformation system we're all grappling with today. This history is also the subject of Aronczyk's new book, with co-author Maria Espinoza, A Strategic Nature (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-strategic-nature-9780190055356?cc=us&lang=en&) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 5, 2021 • 20min
The ABCs of Oil | Katie Worth on the State of Climate Education in the U.S.
Reporter Katie Worth has been researching climate education in the U.S. for years and that research forms the basis of her new book Miseducation. In this interview we delve into what she found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 29, 2021 • 31min
The ABCs of Big Oil | So... What Do We Do About This?
Over the last five episodes we've tracked how long the fossil fuel industry has been investing in schools, why, and what impact it's had. In this episode, we look at what can be done, and who's trying to do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 1min
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ben Franta Talks to Us About Big Oil on Campus
Bringing you our entire interview with Stanford researcher Ben Franta on fossil fuel influence at universities because it was just too good not to share.Check out Degrees pod: https://link.chtbl.com/degrees?sid=podcast.SHOWNAME Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 15, 2021 • 36min
The ABCs of Big Oil | Ep 4: We're Going Streaking
We're wrapping up our series with Earther this week, with a look at how fossil fuel companies influence curricula and research at the university level. (Also working on a bonus episode on solutions to this problem, stay tuned for that!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
