America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turned into war. This is Uncivil: Gimlet Media's new history podcast, hosted by journalists Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. We ransack the official version of the Civil War, and take on the history you grew up with. We bring you untold stories about covert operations, corruption, resistance, mutiny, counterfeiting, antebellum drones, and so much more. And we connect these forgotten struggles to the ...
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The Public's Radio에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 The Public's Radio 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
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The Public's Radio에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 The Public's Radio 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
Sick and tired of environmental gloom and doom? Want to know what you can do? Listen to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. New episodes are released every Tuesday. Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts, and leave a rating and review: it helps others find the show. Click here to learn more about Possibly or ask a question.
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The Public's Radio에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 The Public's Radio 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
Sick and tired of environmental gloom and doom? Want to know what you can do? Listen to Possibly, where we take on huge problems, like the future of our planet, and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. New episodes are released every Tuesday. Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts, and leave a rating and review: it helps others find the show. Click here to learn more about Possibly or ask a question.
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This week on Possibly, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse helps explain what options we have to address climate change’s impact on the home insurance industry. The post How do we solve the climate change home insurance crisis? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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1 Climate change is messing up our home insurance prices. What can states do? 1:27
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Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from natural disasters, but climate change is disrupting the industry. This week on Possibly, we look at how states are responding to this problem. The post Climate change is messing up our home insurance prices. What can states do? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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Recent reports by the Senate Budget Committee and the Treasury found that climate change is already upending the US’s home insurance industry. The post How is climate change affecting home insurance? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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On this episode of Possibly, we’re taking a look at the Great Salt Lake. The lake has been shrinking for years, but it’s also doing something strange- it’s creating more greenhouse gas emissions than people expected. The post How can a lake contribute to climate change? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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After fire hydrants ran dry during the wildfires in Los Angeles, listeners wondered why firefighters didn't just use ocean water to begin with. On this episode of Possibly, we explain the tradeoffs of using the ocean to fight fires. The post Can we use ocean water to fight wildfires? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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We hear a lot about climate migration—the idea that people will have to move as climate change makes some places unlivable. But is this something we’re still waiting for, or is it already happening? The post Are people moving because of climate change? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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Air pollution results in over 7 million deaths each year. In this episode of Possibly, we look at the most common way to measure air quality, the Air Quality Index, and what it means for you. The post What does the Air Quality Index really mean? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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Possibly’s founder and the Provost for sustainability at Brown University Stephen Porder recently visited a supermarket chain in France that sells products other stores would have thrown away. The post What can we learn from France about food waste? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Wasted food takes up lots of space in landfills and, while getting a compost bin at home is great, it isn’t enough to solve the problem. This week, we investigate how schools are taking big steps towards eliminating food waste. The post How can schools fight food waste? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
If you have an electric car, and you want to try to reduce the greenhouse gases that are created in order to power that car, when should you charge it? The post When should I charge my electric car? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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A new program in Framingham, Massachusetts is leading the transition from gas to geothermal heating and cooling. The post Are geothermal networks the future of heating and cooling? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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Hospitals have to use a lot of single-use plastics to deliver care for patients. In today’s episode, we look at how one hospital is cutting down through their medical plastics recycling initiative. The post How can hospitals cut their plastic waste? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
With the second Trump administration underway, the Possibly team takes a look at a group hoping to shape the country's energy policy: a Republican caucus in the House of Representatives. The post What is the Conservative Climate Caucus? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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In the summer of 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The law was the US’s largest investment in climate and clean energy ever. But what’s happened since then? Who has actually been implementing the bill? The post What happened to the Inflation Reduction Act? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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We asked our listeners to send in their wildest ideas for addressing climate change. And one listener, thinking about all of the trash Americans throw into landfills, asked if we could send it somewhere else: the sun. The post Could we just fire our trash into the sun? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
As we head into a new year, our Possibly team decided to think about all of our episodes, and how they might inspire our resolutions for 2025. Here’s what some of us had to say. The post Our resolutions for 2025 appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Britain recently announced the closure of the country’s last coal-fired power plant, as well as an ambitious new energy plan. This week on Possibly, we break down what happened. The post No more coal for stockings in the UK appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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1 What do the numbers on the bottom of your plastic products mean? 1:05
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If you've ever looked at the bottom of a plastic item, you may have seen a number surrounded by three arrows around it. Today we take a look into the meaning behind the numbers, and how they actually relate to recycling. The post What do the numbers on the bottom of your plastic products mean? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
Our own Fatima Husain was looking to buy holiday lights and she wondered: which type should I buy? Is there really a big difference between incandescent and LED lights? The post What kind of holiday lights should I buy? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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We played a climate game that is supposed to help you find the highest-impact changes you can make in your life to take effective climate action. Could games like this actually help address the climate crisis? The post Can a game help you take effective climate action? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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1 Wild turkeys were locally extinct for decades. How did they come back? 3:59
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Turkeys are more than just a Thanksgiving meal, they're part of forest ecosystems across the country. In this episode of Possibly, we take a look at how they made a major comeback in New England after being driven to local extinction. The post Wild turkeys were locally extinct for decades. How did they come back? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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1 Can we count the number of people who die because of coal powerplants? 3:58
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You probably know that coal power plants are bad for the climate, and for your health. But how do we know how much of an impact one coal power plant can have? Where does its pollution go? The post Can we count the number of people who die because of coal powerplants? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
Hospitals can be hotspots for greenhouse gas emissions. But Boston Medical Center is part of a movement of hospitals changing their anesthesia to cut their footprint. The post Why are hospitals switching anesthesia? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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1 Why is it so hard for factories to reach net zero emissions? 3:58
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On Possibly, we've talked about how we can cut out greenhouse gas emissions from our homes and cars. But we wondered, how are factories and manufacturers working on this problem? The post Why is it so hard for factories to reach net zero emissions? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Everyone knows that plastic pollutes our environment. But it’s less obvious why plastic would create a lot of emissions. Today, we break down why plastic use is a climate change issue. The post Why is using plastic a climate issue? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
There’s an urgent need to use less fossil fuel, and that includes cutting down on how much gasoline we put in our cars. Does that mean longstanding ideas about what counts as “good gas mileage” are out of date? The post What is good gas mileage anymore? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
Plankton form the basis of the food web in oceans and new research shows that the level of phytoplankton in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay has dropped by half in the past 60 years. We wondered why. The post Where did all the plankton go? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
If you’ve ever spent time in a library or art museum on a hot summer day, you might have felt way colder than you expected. On this episode of Possibly we break down the science of why libraries get so cold in the summer. The post Why is it so cold in libraries? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .…
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1 What is landfill gas and should we be using it as an energy source? 3:58
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This week on Possibly we’re talking about landfills, the methane they create, and why some landfills are capturing it and using it as a source of energy. The post What is landfill gas and should we be using it as an energy source? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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Rhode Island's biggest landfill is expected to fill up by 2043. And there are about 100 inactive landfills across the state. This made us wonder, what can be done with closed landfills? The post What happens to landfills when they close? appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .
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