Temperature Check
by Grist
Latest episode
Grist 50 2024 Live: Lightning round climate solutions Q&A
Grist 50 2024 Live: Lightning round climate solutions Q&A
About this podcast
Temperature Check is a podcast from Grist at the intersection of climate and justice. It’s about the people leading climate action and climate solutions, and stories that show the pathways to a more sustainable, equitable future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- Grist 50 2024 Live: Lightning round climate solutions Q&A · 10 min · Season 4 Episode 3At the Grist 50 2024 launch event, we grabbed several of the people featured on this year's list for a rapid-fire Q&A designed to get your wheels turning about how to make a…
- Grist 50 2024 Live: Cate Mingoya-LaFortune · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 2A tree planting program gone wrong, and what Cate Mingoya-LaFortune learned about how to empower communities to improve their built environment. Recorded live at the launch of…
- Grist 50 2024 Live: Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa · 12 min · Season 4 Episode 1How language barriers during his time studying in Macedonia set Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa on a path to making climate information accessible around the world. Recorded live at the…
- Taking on big coal to protect Navajo water · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 6After getting her linguistics degree, Nicole Horseherder planned to return home to Black Mesa and teach. But with the region’s aquifers under threat from coal companies, she…
- A life-altering bike ride · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 5Struggling with depression and on medical leave from his corporate job, Olatunji Oboi Reed decided to get his bike out of the basement and go for a ride. That ride set him on a…
- Becoming a future climate doctor · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 4Growing up, Hamid Torabzadeh experienced the impacts of climate change and pollution. In high school, he found a club that showed him his path to doing something about it. Now a…
- From theater kid to climate filmmaker · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 3Maya Lilly had achieved the dream of many a theater kid: studying at Juilliard. But when she realized her environmental activism didn’t have a home there, it set her on a mission…
- Why this climate writer quit to become an electrician · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 2Until last year, Nate Johnson was a journalist at Grist, covering climate. But when he felt his passion for writing start to wane, he found a new direction — as an electrician…
- In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a teacher called to fight · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 1Sharon Lavigne lives in St. James Parish, Louisiana, where industrial pollution causes high cancer rates. For decades, Sharon witnessed her neighbors suffer as air quality…
- Coming soon: Temperature Check S3 · 3 min · Season 3This season, meet 6 very different climate and justice leaders who faced crucial pivot points in their paths to climate action. Each immersive episode follows one person's…
- The power brokers · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 6Valencia Gunder and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin are dedicated to improving the lives of those facing unjust conditions in frontline communities. They discuss what it means to build…
- The connectors · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 5For these two Indigenous women, mentorship is “less about teaching skills and more about welcoming in.” Activists Jade Begay and Eriel Tchekwie Deranger talk about the…
- The scientists · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 4Herpetologist Earyn McGee and science journalist Tien Nguyen bonded over their experiences as women of color in STEM and finding their paths from academia to media. Says Tien…
- The joy-givers · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 3Bringing as many people as possible into the environmental movement is the goal for drag queen Pattie Gonia and science writer Spencer R. Scott. And the best, most inclusive way…
- The intersectionalists · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 2“When you don’t consider the nuances [among different groups of people], it can be really harmful,” says Leah Thomas, who founded Intersectional Environmentalist to do exactly…
- The collaborators · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 1Xiuhtezcatl was an aspiring hip hop artist when he met photographer Josué Rivas. The two have been collaborating ever since, documenting the struggles of Indigenous communities…
- Welcome to Temperature Check, Season 2 · 3 min · Season 2Meet 6 climate and justice leaders and the people who have supported, mentored, and sustained them, as they engage in deep conversations about the world they’re building…
- Access to Public Lands, Running, and Resolutions · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 10In Temperature Check's final episode of the season, host Andrew Simon sits down with Grist CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw to recap the season's standout moments. Then, we hear from…
- Climate and Fatherhood from a Weather Specialist · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 9Host Andrew Simon speaks with renowned climate and weather specialist Marshall Shepherd about what he'll be looking for in the climate arena this year under a new administration…
- How Puerto Ricans are Rebuilding Post-Hurricane Maria · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 8Host Andrew Simon sits down with co-host Justin Worland of Time Magazine to talk about the biggest climate stories of 2020. Then, we hear from filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo about…
