Climate Curious

TEDxLondon

Are you Climate Curious? If you care about the world, but find the current conversation about climate change confusing, scary or boring – then this might be the podcast for you. Join TEDxLondon and co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst as we lift the lid on the climate emergency by speaking to the world’s leading and most relatable climate pioneers. Find out why cities are key to the climate fight, why we need to tackle systemic problems (and not just plastic straws), and why we’re all a bit crap at sustainability.

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327 episodes
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Sep 29, 2022 · 5 min
Climate Quickie: What is nuclear energy? And is it any good?
Nuclear energy gets a bad rap, but is it deserved? To clear up the confusion we’re joined by this week’s Quickie expert, Mark Dyson, a Managing Director with the Carbon-Free Electricity Program at RMI (formerly Rocky Mountain Institute). Live from Climate
Sep 29, 2022 · 27 min
How satellites and AI can help keep 1.5 alive
How do we measure the success of climate action if we don’t have timely data? That’s the question Lekha Sridhar, Senior Policy Analyst and Climate TRACE set out to answer. Building a satellite and AI-powered dataset to help identify where precisely emissi
Sep 22, 2022 · 5 min
Climate Quickie: Which Netflix shows to watch (climate edition)
We’re all partial to a bit of Netflix and chill, but what if maxing and relaxing could also save the world? To share some hot off the press green Netflix recommendations is this week’s Quickie expert, Emma Stewart, Netflix’s Sustainability Officer. Live f
Sep 19, 2022 · 32 min
How we go beyond greenwashing
You know what they say about greenwashing: “you know it when you see it”. But how do we move beyond it? We speak to the CEO cracking the climate whip by building influential networks and holding organisations accountable – Helen Clarkson from Climate Grou
Sep 15, 2022 · 6 min
Climate Quickie: How to write a climate bill
The world’s youngest policy maker Scarlett Westbrook joins us for this week’s Climate Quickie to share the story behind how she built the Climate Education Bill. Tune in to hear the awe-inspiring student demanding for schools to teach climate ABCs. How it
Sep 14, 2022 · 30 min
How to make big oil go bust
Defunding big oil is our best shot at forcing change, says Mark Campanale, the founder of non-profit think tank, Carbon Tracker Initiative. Tune in to Climate Curious live from The Conduit in London with co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Clover Hogan to connect t
Sep 8, 2022 · 5 min
Climate Quickie: Why you're hardwired to dislike climate change
Care about the world, but find the climate conversation, well, a bit, meh? You’re not alone. Your brain isn’t optimised to process the climate crisis, but finding a personal connection with it can make it easier, says neuroscientist Dr Kris De Meyer. Tune
Sep 7, 2022 · 32 min
How to solve the cost of living crisis
Reducing our dependence on fossil fuels can solve the cost of living crisis, says Tessa Khan, a lawyer, campaigner, strategist and founder and director of Uplift. Tune in to Climate Curious live from The Conduit in London with our special guest co-host Cl
Sep 2, 2022 · 5 min
Climate Quickie: How to have your burger and eat it too
We’ve all heard of meatless meats, but what exactly are they and how are they made? To put the patty in the bun is this week’s Quickie expert, Sonalie Figueiras, founder and editor-in-chief of Green Queen Media. Tune in to understand the three ways altern
Aug 31, 2022 · 1 min
Coming Soon: Season Four
On September 7th 2022, TEDxLondon launches its fourth season of Climate Curious. Seeking to unpick the complexity of climate change, week-by-week, co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst take a solutions focussed approach to explore the big systemic and inter
Aug 26, 2022 · 33 min
How life in plastic can still be fantastic
A circular plastics system is helping people make low carbon choices on the daily, thanks to ‘the plastics man’ Peter Goult, a Programme Director at SYSTEMIQ. A story of climate innovation, pragmatism and optimism in action, this week’s freshly wrapped (b
Aug 22, 2022 · 32 min
How to act from a place of climate love, not climate fear
Love, duty and care are climate’s secret weapon, says Daze Aghaji, a 22-year-old climate justice activist and artist on the Climate Curious podcast by TEDxLondon. We’ve all seen the ‘soft life’ trend on TikTok this summer, but to what extent can you apply
Aug 15, 2022 · 26 min
Why creativity is climate’s uncut gem
Creativity can help us demand clean air, says founder of creative industry alliance COPI Humphrey Milles on the latest episode of Climate Curious by TEDxLondon. Its most effective campaign to date? A postcode checker alerting people to levels of pollution
Aug 10, 2022 · 31 min
How inequality affects the air we breathe
An invisible killer; air pollution is a hard topic to drive action around. But 19-year old co-founder of Choked Up Destiny Boka Batesa found a way. Launching a hard-hitting air pollution campaign, they made national news, sparking a UK-wide conversation a
Jul 1, 2022 · 36 min
What queerness can teach the climate movement
The category is: climate realness. As part of a Pride Climate Curious series featuring guest co-host, Jamie Windust, we hear from the co-founders of PermaQueer Guy Ritani and Toad about the systemic resilience that their queer, permaculture community has
Jun 17, 2022 · 3 min
Pride Climate Quickie: Why climate’s got a diversity problem
“I created Queer Brown Vegan because my queerness has been something that I really have often hidden away in environmental research”, says Isaias Hernandez, an environmental educator, explaining how male, pale and stale climate spaces gatekeep the climate
Jun 10, 2022 · 4 min
Pride Climate Quickie: What is queer ecology?
This Pride, we're revisiting a Quickie with iconic environmental and intersectional drag queen, Pattie Gonia. They give us a quick introduction to queer ecology – we're talking gender shifting fish, intersex birds, and even how trees can impregnate thems
May 25, 2022 · 6 min
Climate Quickie: What is artivism?
“You need to understand you are much, much more powerful than the head of any big organisation that does not know how to sing and dance properly,” says Kumi Naidoo, a South African human rights and environmental activist, explaining how we can use our cre
May 18, 2022 · 5 min
Climate Quickie: Why Guyana is a climate hero
“It's not a story that gets told very often… about former colonial peoples standing up against the oil industry,” says Melinda Janki, the environmental lawyer taking on Exxon Mobil in one of South America’s most beautiful nature spots, Guyana. In this Cl
Apr 29, 2022 · 4 min
Climate Quickie: What it feels like to sue the government
Hear about how you take on a government and win in this week’s Climate Quickie with legal powerhouse and founding CEO of ClientEarth, James Thornton. We revisit the clip where he shares his story about shutting down coal fired power stations in Poland, on

Climate Curious

Climate Quickie: What is nuclear energy? And is it any good?

How satellites and AI can help keep 1.5 alive

Climate Quickie: Which Netflix shows to watch (climate edition)

How we go beyond greenwashing

Climate Quickie: How to write a climate bill

How to make big oil go bust

Climate Quickie: Why you're hardwired to dislike climate change

How to solve the cost of living crisis

Climate Quickie: How to have your burger and eat it too

Coming Soon: Season Four

How life in plastic can still be fantastic

How to act from a place of climate love, not climate fear

Why creativity is climate’s uncut gem

How inequality affects the air we breathe

What queerness can teach the climate movement

Pride Climate Quickie: Why climate’s got a diversity problem

Pride Climate Quickie: What is queer ecology?

Climate Quickie: What is artivism?

Climate Quickie: Why Guyana is a climate hero

Climate Quickie: What it feels like to sue the government