Climate Change

Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine joined a forum hosted by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to discuss the impact climate change is having on public health.

In the new book, "Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets," environmental strategist, speaker, world traveler and author Paula DiPerna looks to de-mystify and unveil today’s most fascinating financial disruption: pricing the priceless to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why.

Bill McKibben is among the world’s preeminent environmentalists and teaches in flood-ravaged Vermont.

Climate Activist Mark Dunlea has spent a lifetime on these issues and is author of the new book: "Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Action and Advocacy." The volume provides an overview of the central issues in the climate movement: Renewable Energy, Environmental Justice, Reparations, False Climate Solutions, Real Life Barriers, carbon pricing, Green New Deal, crypto mining, plastics, and military.

While lawmakers, public officials, lobbyists, and reporters have a reasonably good sense of how much and where New York State government spends money, there is very little publicly available about how well Albany delivers services. When it comes to spending money, legislation is introduced, hearings are held, financial plan updates are issued.

With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers and asks them: "Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?"His book is "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor."

An environmentalist group is holding a demonstration in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Tuesday calling for people to take their money out of banks with fossil fuel holdings.

The meteorological winter of 2022-2023 was tied with 2015-16 for warmest on record

Albany County is moving ahead with a new Climate Resiliency Plan that includes several proposed projects.

Dan Delurey, Senior Fellow for Energy & Climate at Vermont Law and Graduate School, joins us to take your calls. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts. Call with your question. 800-348-2551, or email VoxPop@wamc.org.