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Podcast 11/7/25 radio show: Growing Grid Crisis, Ethan Howland

11/8/2025

What to do about skyrocketing electricity costs and blackouts risk? We speak with Ethan Howland, Senior Reporter for Utility Dive about all this. Also on this show Linda Rosenwein's report on grid news and PAIPL's Faith and Fossil Fuels report. Listen to the show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/growing-grid-crisis-ethan-howland-utility-dive-11725/

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Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs on 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia & gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. For more go to: https://www.planetphiladelphia.com/ Please support Planet Philadelphia and Gtown Radio, https://gtownradio.com/donate/. Thank you!

Podcast 10/17/2025 radio show: Economic Benefits of Sustainability, Richard Damania & Flora Cardoni 10/17/25

10/18/2025

Richard Damania is the Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Practice Group of the World Bank. He talks about their new report on how worldwide economic growth and jobs can benefit from sustainable practices, rather than suffer from them.
Flora Cardoni is Deputy Director of PennEnvironment. She discusses a new study from their organization about the economic and other benefits of putting solar installations on or around schools.
Local resident Amanda Stebbins, about the importance of voting to retain Pennsylvania Supreme Court judges on November 4th election.
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Listen to the show:
www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/economic-benefits-of-sustainability-richard-damania-flora-cardoni-101725/

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Podcast 10/3/25: Eye opening! Ocean Energy & Life, Andrea Copping, François Ribalet

10/4/2025

How can the ocean sustain us and how can we sustain its vital functions?

Andrea Copping is a Distinguished faculty fellow the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. She will tell us how we could use renewable ocean energy on land and to reduce the use of greenhouse gases.
François Ribalet is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle will discuss his research on the effects of global warming on phytoplankton.

Listen to the show:
www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/eye-opening-ocean-energy-life-andrea-copping-françois-ribalet-1032025/

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Podcast 9/19/2025 radio show: Solutions for Environmental Problems? Katie Surma, Alison Young, Liz Robinson

9/20/2025

Many of the big seemingly intractable problems have solutions. Here are some different ways to look at and solve these problems.

Katie Surma, reporter at Inside Climate News on a growing global movement to address gender and environmental endangerment and injustice.
Alison Young, Director of Outreach at iNaturalist, an app for people to record nature findings, meet other nature enthusiasts.
Liz Robinson, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Solar Energy Association, on the local and nation-wide September 21st Sun Day celebrating solar energy fun.

Listen to the show:
www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/solutions-for-environmental-problems-katie-surma-alison-young-liz-robinson-9192025/

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Podcast 9/5/2025 radio show: Cities’ Sustainability: Dr. Stach, Dr. DiSantis, Dr. Pastore, Philly CM Jamie Gauthier, PGW Settlement

9/6/2025

What are some of the things cities are doing to foster sustainability and make them more resilient and healthier places to live? Here are some global and local Philadelphia examples. Guests:

Dr. Edgar Stach, Dr. Katie Isselmann DiSantis, Dr. Christopher Pastore, TJU’s Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities.
Philadelphia Councilmember Jamie Gauthier
PGW settlement with environmental justice activists.

Listen to the show:
www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/cities-sustainability-dr-stach-dr-disantis-dr-pastore-philly-cm-jamie-gauthier-pgw-952025/

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Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs on 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia & gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. For more go to: https://www.planetphiladelphia.com/
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Podcast 8/15/2025 show; Finding Common Ground In The Climate Crisis - Eileen Flanagan

8/16/2025

Eileen Flanagan is a Quaker activist, facilitator, author, and teacher introduces her new book “Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation.”
Listen to the show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/finding-common-ground-in-the-climate-crisis-eileen-flanagan-8152025/#

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Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show airs on 92.9 FM in NW Philadelphia & gtownradio.com, 4-5:00 PM ET the 1st & 3rd Friday/month. Find out more at https://www.planetphiladelphia.com/about.html. Please support Planet Philadelphia and Gtown Radio at gtownradio.com/donate/. Thank you.

Podcast 8/1/2025 show: Global Environmental Economic Trends, Peter B. Meyer, Ph.D.

8/2/2025

Peter B. Meyer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Economics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Louisville. He talks about global environmental economic trends, as well as their relationship some of the currents.
Listen to the show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/global-environmental-economic-trends-peter-b-meyer-phd-812025/

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Podcast 7/18/2025 show: Help For Climate Anxiety, Jedidiah Siev & rising electricity rates, Linda Rosenwein

7/19/2025

On this show:

Jedidiah Siev, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Swarthmore College, discusses his research on aspects of climate anxiety and approaches to treatment.
Linda Rosenwein, Planet Philadelphia Assistant Assistant Producer/Reporter, gives a first-rate analysis why our electricity rates are going up so fast.

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Listen to the show:
www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/help-for-climate-anxiety-jedidiah-siev-rising-electricity-rates-linda-rosenwein-41825/

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Podcast 7/4/25 show: New non-GHG way to use coal? Dr. Nicola Ferralis

7/5/2025

We’ve been burning coal in the US, and polluting our world, since the mid 1850s. Do we really need to continue this 19th century way of doing things? Dr. Nicola Ferralis, Research Scientist at MIT, says there are far better ways to use coal than burn it. Coal could even be the new climate cooling mineral.
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Podcast 6/20/25 radio show: Housing, Dave Braneck + Urban Watersheds, Drew Rinaldi Subits

6/21/2025

Our rapidly changing climate poses many hard challenges. On this show we talk with guests about two big challenges we face.

How can we house people affordably, equitably, and sustainably with our rapidly changing climate? We talk with Dave Braneck, freelance journalist, about this troubling topic. He recently published a documentary for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) about climate change’s impact on housing affordability.
Watershed are also facing big challenges. We talk with Drew Rinaldi Subits, Director of Landscape and Maintenance, Tookany/Tacony-Frankfort Watershed Partnerships (TTF) about watersheds, and challenges to small streams and parks, especially in an urban environment.

Listen to the show:
www.mixcloud.com/PlanetPhiladelphia/climate-change-challenges-housing-urban-watersheds-dave-braneck-drew-rinaldi-subits-62025/

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Podcast 10/3/25: Eye opening! Ocean Energy & Life, Andrea Copping, François Ribalet

Podcast 9/19/2025 radio show: Solutions for Environmental Problems? Katie Surma, Alison Young, Liz Robinson

Podcast 9/5/2025 radio show: Cities’ Sustainability: Dr. Stach, Dr. DiSantis, Dr. Pastore, Philly CM Jamie Gauthier, PGW Settlement

Podcast 8/15/2025 show; Finding Common Ground In The Climate Crisis - Eileen Flanagan

Podcast 8/1/2025 show: Global Environmental Economic Trends, Peter B. Meyer, Ph.D.

Podcast 7/18/2025 show: Help For Climate Anxiety, Jedidiah Siev & rising electricity rates, Linda Rosenwein

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