8th Podcast: Unsung Climate Victories

We’ve just released the eighth episode of our podcast “Your Planet, Your Health”, titled Unsung Climate Victories.

In this bite-sized episode, we take a respite from the US' current denialist frenzy and step back to celebrate recent global victories in the fight to preserve our environment. Since the climate does not follow national borders, we spotlight some news from around the world that gives us hope: the popular clamor for governments to tackle climate change, the newly favorable economics of renewable energy, alongside initiatives by cities, states and nations to foster a more livable planet.

You can listen at yourplanetyourhealth.com/8 or right here:

Sources:

• International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) report “Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2023”, September 2024.

• Washington Post, “Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.” by Naema Ahmed and Chico Harlan, April 2025.

• The New Yorker, “4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment” by Bill McKibbon, July 2025.

• Atlas US National Poll by AtlasIntel, July 2025.

• Princeton University ZERO Lab “Impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill On The US Energy Transition” by Jesse Jenkins, Jamil Farbes and Ben Haley, July 2025.

• The New York Times, “How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator” by Max Bearak and Mira Rojanasakul, August 2025.

Check out our previous episode, The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity, in which we unpacked how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front lawns.

Or…

Check out another good news story we did, How Diplomacy Closed the Ozone Hole, about an environmental success story of people coming together to avert planetary disaster.

Or…

Check out an episode which we mention, Gaslighting, a deep dive into the history of how oil companies impeded curbing greenhouse gases through a sustained disinformation campaign.