Warm Regards

About Warm Regards

Warm Regards is a podcast about life on a warming planet. The show is hosted by Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, and Ramesh Laungani, a biologist at Doane University. Produced by Justin Schell, with transcription and social media support from Joe Stormer and Katherine Peinhardt. Our conversations are often honest and raw, as we talk with newsmakers, researchers, activists, policymakers, artists, and others as we push past the graphs and the headlines to get at the heart of what it means to live and work in a warming world. Our current season focuses on the often unexpected human stories behind climate data, from how it's collected to what we do with it. We're just as much a podcast about what it means to be human as we are about climate change--how we think, decide, love, grieve, change our behavior, and roll up our sleeves to tackle our toughest challenges.

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jun 2016

Latest episode

10 Dec 2023

Latest episodes

73 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Dec 2023

   Introducing: Jax and Phoebe Make a Planet!

   A new podcast from Jacquelyn Gill of Warm Regards. Check out: Jax and Phoebe Make a Planet! Hi! We're Jax (Jacquelyn Gill) and Phoebe (Phoebe Cohen), and we’re baking an apple pie. But first, we have to make a planet — and not just any planet, but the best planet: Earth! It's a project that's been 4.56 billion years in the making, and we've got all the ingredients right here: Comets! Asteroids! Volcanoes! Oxygen! Water! Carbon! Now we just need a few billion years. Better preheat those ovens … ! Jax and Phoebe Make a Planet is a limited-run podcast airing in 2024 that will explore all the major chance events in Earth history that needed to take place to get to the moment where two humans (us!) are able to hang out and bake an apple pie together. Along the way, our listeners will learn about why Earth is such an incredibly special place — and one worth protecting. Each episode will focus on an important moment that changed the trajectory of our planet, and life itself — the formation of the moon, the evolution of the oxygen-producing bacteria that created our breathable atmosphere, how plants made it onto land, the asteroid impact that ushered in the Age of Mammals, and more. Along the way, we’ll explore the origins of all the ingredients needed to make an apple pie (Sugar! Butter! Apples!). The show will include a blend of scripted essays, conversation, and interviews with the diverse scientists helping us understand how we got here, and why it matters. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! For more information, visit our website at https://makeaplanetpod.earth/ For a version of this trailer with no music, visit: https://soundcloud.com/makeaplanetpod/introducing-jax-and-phoebe-make-a-planet-no-music

2. 

   29 Mar 2021

   Building our Climate Futures Through Storytelling (Pt. 2), w/Kendra Pierre-Louis and Mary Heglar

   In the finale to our season on climate data, we continue our exploration of storytelling as a way to imagine and build climate futures. Jacquelyn and Ramesh first speak with climate reporter and podcaster Kendra Pierre-Louis about science fiction, representation, and her own shift from writing apocalyptic stories to working on the solutions-focused podcast How to Save a Podcast. Next, they speak with Mary Heglar, co-creator and co-host of the Hot Take newsletter and podcast (along with Amy Westervelt), about the authors and works that influenced how she saw her role in a warming world, including Octavia Butler, James Baldwin, and more, as well as the importance of grappling with climate grief and the historical injustices that have given rise to the consequences of climate change, both now and in the future. You can find a transcript of this episode on our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/building-our-climate-futures-through-storytelling-pt-2-w-kendra-pierre-louis-and-mary-heglar-dff39a779957 Kendra Pierre-Louis Her personal website: https://www.kendrawrites.com/ Follower Kendra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KendraWrites A republished version of her essay about Wakanda and climate change: https://time.com/5889324/movies-climate-change/ All We Can Save: https://www.allwecansave.earth Subscribe to How to Save a Planet: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet Mary Heglar Follow Mary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryHeglar Listen to Hot Take and subscribe to their newsletter: https://www.criticalfrequency.org/hot-take Climate Change Isn’t the First Existential Threat https://zora.medium.com/sorry-yall-but-climate-change-ain-t-the-first-existential-threat-b3c999267aa0 Feel Something, Learn Something, Do Something: A Care Package for Climate Grief https://medium.com/@maryheglar/feel-something-learn-something-do-something-a-care-package-for-climate-grief-394cc83933d2 Climate and the Personal Essay — A Reading List https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/02/11/climate-personal-essay-reading-list/ The big lie we’re told about climate change is that it’s our own fault: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/10/11/17963772/climate-change-global-warming-natural-disasters Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/70962fbf-178f-40f5-882d-510a9f46c70e Official website of the Octavia Butler Estate: https://www.octaviabutler.com The Octavia Butler Legacy Network: http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com The Expanse & Climate Change https://io9.gizmodo.com/if-you-care-about-earth-you-should-watch-the-expanse-1836708366 The Day After Tomorrow & Climate Awareness https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2014/11/the-long-melt-the-lingering-influence-of-the-day-after-tomorrow/ https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/before-and-after-the-day-after-tomorrow/ Katharine Hayhoe: the most important thing we can do about climate change is talk about it: https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_hayhoe_the_most_important_thing_you_can_do_to_fight_climate_change_talk_about_it?language=en Eric Holthaus: On Being a Climate Person: https://thecorrespondent.com/98/on-being-a-climate-person/12973890622-af2e1b83 You can subscribe to Sustain 267 here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sustain267-podcast/id1512446379 Please consider becoming a patron on Patreon to help us pay our producer, Justin Schell, our transcriber, Jo Stormer, and our social media coordinator, Katherine Peinhardt, who are all working as volunteers. Your support helps us not only to stay sustainable, but also to grow. www.patreon.com/warmregards Find Warm Regards on the web and on social media: Web: www.WarmRegardsPodcast.com Twitter: @ourwarmregards Facebook: www.facebook.com/WarmRegardsPodcast

3. 

   8 Mar 2021

   Building our Climate Futures Through Storytelling (Part 1), w/Eric Holthaus + Kim Stanley Robinson

   In the first episode of our two-part finale of our season on climate data, we’re going to focus on fiction, not facts: specifically, on the world-building, future-crafting writers who tell stories to warn us, teach us, inspire us, and motivate us to work for the future of our choosing. In speaking with authors Eric Holthaus and Kim Stanley Robinson, they discuss how hope, empathy, and, of course, climate science and climate data, informed their most recent work, Eric’s The Future Earth and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. You can find a link to a full transcript of this episode on our Medium page: https://ourwarmregards.medium.com/building-our-climate-futures-through-storytelling-part-1-feat-5b2a8077e4b1 You can follow Eric Holthaus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus You can read more about and purchase his book, The Future Earth, here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-future-earth-a-radical-vision-for-what-s-possible-in-the-age-of-warming/9780062883162 Finally, you can subscribe to Eric’s newsletter, The Phoenix, here: https://thephoenix.substack.com Kim Stanley (Stan) Robinson: You can read more about and purchase his book, The Ministry for the Future, here: https://bookshop.org/books/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780316300131 A comprehensive, though unofficial, website dedicated to Stan’s work: http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info On the power of speculative and science fiction: ‘We’ve already survived an apocalypse’: Indigenous writers are changing Sci-Fi: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/books/indigenous-native-american-sci-fi-horror.html Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, and the language of Black speculative literature: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/afrofuturism-africanfuturism-and-the-language-of-black-speculative-literature/ On climate fiction: Climate fiction: Can books save the planet? https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/climate-fiction-margaret-atwood-literature/400112/ The influence of climate fiction: an empirical survey of readers: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/10/2/473/136689/The-Influence-of-Climate-FictionAn-Empirical The rise of apocalyptic novels: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210108-the-rise-of-apocalyptic-novels With the world on fire, climate fiction no longer looks like a fantasy: https://grist.org/climate/with-the-world-on-fire-climate-fiction-no-longer-looks-like-fantasy/ Amy Brady’s “Burning Worlds” column for the Chicago Review of Books: https://chireviewofbooks.com/category/burning-worlds/ On futurology: Smithsonian will celebrate 175 years with an exhibit about the future: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/01/972409626/smithsonian-will-celebrate-175-years-with-an-exhibit-about-the-future 10 ways science fiction predicted the future: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/10-ways-science-fiction-predicted-future/z6dynrd Please consider becoming a patron on Patreon to help us pay our producer, Justin Schell, our transcriber, Jo Stormer, and our social media coordinator, Katherine Peinhardt, who are all working as volunteers. Your support helps us not only to stay sustainable, but also to grow. www.patreon.com/warmregards Find Warm Regards on the web and on social media: Web: www.WarmRegardsPodcast.com Twitter: @ourwarmregards Facebook: www.facebook.com/WarmRegardsPodcast

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

133 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

6 ratings