Luc Lewitanski

“There is no creativity that can exist by definition in any AI model, because it is data-driven,” Strauss added.

We also cite a quote from the illustrious @pkrugman.bsky.social at 12:55:
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In this episode, we cite reports from the International Renewable Energy Agency @irena-official.bsky.social to spotlight how the cost of generating solar power was decimated over the last decade. This efficiency gain is the fruit of technological advances borne out by funding research & development.

YouTube video by Luc Lewitanski Unsung Climate Victories – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 8

Prof Ralph and I just released a brief overview of good news about the environment from the past year. We talk about congestion charges, urban planning to make cities greener and more walkable (like Barcelona’s superillas), Vanuatu’s ICJ ruling, and solar energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=07a5...

the only people LLMs are qualified to replace are the people who think LLMs are qualified to replace anyone

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

In that case, I think you’d love our episode! Is your handle related to untamed meadows as a healthier alternative to lawns?

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to trace back the origins and dissemination of this artificial aesthetic. We also look into solutions, ranging from bans on gas leaf blowers to cash schemes to encourage people to quit their lawn. We read a poem about the lunacy of leaf blowers, and highlight ways in which manicured suburban imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. Sources: • Ann Leighton, American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, 1986. • Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns”, The New York Times Magazine, May 1989. • Georges Teyssot, The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, 1999. • Monique Mosser, The saga of grass: From the heavenly carpet to fallow fields, 1999. • Cristina Milesi, “More Lawns than Irrigated Corn”, NASA Earth Observatory, November 2005. • Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are, 2007. • Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007. • Elizabeth Kolbert, “Turf War”, The New Yorker, July 2008. • Joseph Manca, "British landscape gardening and Italian renaissance painting", Artibus et Historiae (297-322), 2015. • Jamie Banks and Robert McConnell, National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2015. • Christopher Ingraham, “Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them”, The Washington Post, August 2015. The photos of Ralph's yard were taken by his wife, Susan Levinson. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: Local bans on gas-powered lawn equipment 01:48 Poem about leaf blowers by Touch Moonflower 03:59 Commenting on the poem 06:51 How did lawns become so common in the USA? 07:56 Versailles' green carpet and Italian Renaissance landscapes inspired the British lawn 18:59 How 18th Century aristocratic English turf grass took root on the new continent 21:53 Thorstein Veblen on why American elites found lawns so respectable 24:10 Founding fathers disseminate the pastoral ideal 27:05 Planning communities of continuous lawn: Andrew Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted 32:03 Frank J. Scott tells suburbanites that homogenous manicured grass is neighbourly 34:48 How the lawn got cemented into the American imaginary in the aftermath of World War II 37:16 Post WWII suburban developments empowered Home Owners Associations (HOAs) 41:01 Quantifying the environmental impacts of modern US lawns 45:47 Why imported turf grass is a synecdoche for colonialism 50:40 Carpets of grass are fuel that spreads wildfires 51:38 Gas powered leaf blowers are huge polluters 55:00 How loud are leaf blowers? 55:51 Lawn care is a Sisyphean task of sterilisation 57:53 Norms around lawns are socially enforced 59:59 What solutions have helped people quit their lawn? 1:09:50 Conclusion and wrap up: the zeitgeist is shifting! 1:11:50 Luc's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

If after listening to 99% invisible, you'd like to hear more about leaf blowers and the history and impact of the American lawn, might I also suggest this podcast, which we released last week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

Do you mind sharing what town has this code? That seems oddly draconian!

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to trace back the origins and dissemination of this artificial aesthetic. We also look into solutions, ranging from bans on gas leaf blowers to cash schemes to encourage people to quit their lawn. We read a poem about the lunacy of leaf blowers, and highlight ways in which manicured suburban imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. Sources: • Ann Leighton, American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, 1986. • Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns”, The New York Times Magazine, May 1989. • Georges Teyssot, The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, 1999. • Monique Mosser, The saga of grass: From the heavenly carpet to fallow fields, 1999. • Cristina Milesi, “More Lawns than Irrigated Corn”, NASA Earth Observatory, November 2005. • Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are, 2007. • Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007. • Elizabeth Kolbert, “Turf War”, The New Yorker, July 2008. • Joseph Manca, "British landscape gardening and Italian renaissance painting", Artibus et Historiae (297-322), 2015. • Jamie Banks and Robert McConnell, National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2015. • Christopher Ingraham, “Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them”, The Washington Post, August 2015. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: Local bans on gas-powered lawn equipment 01:48 Poem about leaf blowers by Touch Moonflower 03:59 Commenting on the poem 06:51 How did lawns become so common in the USA? 07:56 Versailles' green carpet and Italian Renaissance landscapes inspired the British lawn 18:59 How 18th Century aristocratic English turf grass took root on the new continent 21:53 Thorstein Veblen on why American elites found lawns so respectable 24:10 Founding fathers disseminate the pastoral ideal 27:05 Planning communities of continuous lawn: Andrew Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted 32:03 Frank J. Scott tells suburbanites that homogenous manicured grass is neighbourly 34:48 How the lawn got cemented into the American imaginary in the aftermath of World War II 37:16 Post WWII suburban developments empowered Home Owners Associations (HOAs) 41:01 Quantifying the environmental impacts of modern US lawns 45:47 Why imported turf grass is a synecdoche for colonialism 50:40 Carpets of grass are fuel that spreads wildfires 51:38 Gas powered leaf blowers are huge polluters 55:00 How loud are leaf blowers? 55:51 Lawn care is a Sisyphean task of sterilisation 57:53 Norms around lawns are socially enforced 59:59 What solutions have helped people quit their lawn? 1:09:50 Conclusion and wrap up: the zeitgeist is shifting! 1:11:50 Luc's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

This was almost the name for our latest podcast episode. We went with another lawn pun instead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

Don’t mow it! It looks beautiful as is. The rabbit will thank you 🐰🐇

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to trace back the origins and dissemination of this artificial aesthetic. We also look into solutions, ranging from bans on gas leaf blowers to cash schemes to encourage people to quit their lawn. We read a poem about the lunacy of leaf blowers, and highlight ways in which manicured suburban imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. Sources: • Ann Leighton, American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, 1986. • Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns”, The New York Times Magazine, May 1989. • Georges Teyssot, The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, 1999. • Monique Mosser, The saga of grass: From the heavenly carpet to fallow fields, 1999. • Cristina Milesi, “More Lawns than Irrigated Corn”, NASA Earth Observatory, November 2005. • Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are, 2007. • Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007. • Elizabeth Kolbert, “Turf War”, The New Yorker, July 2008. • Joseph Manca, "British landscape gardening and Italian renaissance painting", Artibus et Historiae (297-322), 2015. • Jamie Banks and Robert McConnell, National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2015. • Christopher Ingraham, “Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them”, The Washington Post, August 2015. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: Local bans on gas-powered lawn equipment 01:48 Poem about leaf blowers by Touch Moonflower 03:59 Commenting on the poem 06:51 How did lawns become so common in the USA? 07:56 Versailles' green carpet and Italian Renaissance landscapes inspired the British lawn 18:59 How 18th Century aristocratic English turf grass took root on the new continent 21:53 Thorstein Veblen on why American elites found lawns so respectable 24:10 Founding fathers disseminate the pastoral ideal 27:05 Planning communities of continuous lawn: Andrew Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted 32:03 Frank J. Scott tells suburbanites that homogenous manicured grass is neighbourly 34:48 How the lawn got cemented into the American imaginary in the aftermath of World War II 37:16 Post WWII suburban developments empowered Home Owners Associations (HOAs) 41:01 Quantifying the environmental impacts of modern US lawns 45:47 Why imported turf grass is a synecdoche for colonialism 50:40 Carpets of grass are fuel that spreads wildfires 51:38 Gas powered leaf blowers are huge polluters 55:00 How loud are leaf blowers? 55:51 Lawn care is a Sisyphean task of sterilisation 57:53 Norms around lawns are socially enforced 59:59 What solutions have helped people quit their lawn? 1:09:50 Conclusion and wrap up: the zeitgeist is shifting! 1:11:50 Luc's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

Yeah that’s incredibly petty and busybody of them. Is this an HOA thing?
I’ve just put out a video on the subject if you’re interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to trace back the origins and dissemination of this artificial aesthetic. We also look into solutions, ranging from bans on gas leaf blowers to cash schemes to encourage people to quit their lawn. We read a poem about the lunacy of leaf blowers, and highlight ways in which manicured suburban imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. Sources: • Ann Leighton, American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, 1986. • Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns”, The New York Times Magazine, May 1989. • Georges Teyssot, The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, 1999. • Monique Mosser, The saga of grass: From the heavenly carpet to fallow fields, 1999. • Cristina Milesi, “More Lawns than Irrigated Corn”, NASA Earth Observatory, November 2005. • Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are, 2007. • Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007. • Elizabeth Kolbert, “Turf War”, The New Yorker, July 2008. • Joseph Manca, "British landscape gardening and Italian renaissance painting", Artibus et Historiae (297-322), 2015. • Jamie Banks and Robert McConnell, National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2015. • Christopher Ingraham, “Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them”, The Washington Post, August 2015. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: Local bans on gas-powered lawn equipment 01:48 Poem about leaf blowers by Touch Moonflower 03:59 Commenting on the poem 06:51 How did lawns become so common in the USA? 07:56 Versailles' green carpet and Italian Renaissance landscapes inspired the British lawn 18:59 How 18th Century aristocratic English turf grass took root on the new continent 21:53 Thorstein Veblen on why American elites found lawns so respectable 24:10 Founding fathers disseminate the pastoral ideal 27:05 Planning communities of continuous lawn: Andrew Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted 32:03 Frank J. Scott tells suburbanites that homogenous manicured grass is neighbourly 34:48 How the lawn got cemented into the American imaginary in the aftermath of World War II 37:16 Post WWII suburban developments empowered Home Owners Associations (HOAs) 41:01 Quantifying the environmental impacts of modern US lawns 45:47 Why imported turf grass is a synecdoche for colonialism 50:40 Carpets of grass are fuel that spreads wildfires 51:38 Gas powered leaf blowers are huge polluters 55:00 How loud are leaf blowers? 55:51 Lawn care is a Sisyphean task of sterilisation 57:53 Norms around lawns are socially enforced 59:59 What solutions have helped people quit their lawn? 1:09:50 Conclusion and wrap up: the zeitgeist is shifting! 1:11:50 Luc's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

Your lawn labyrinth is such a brilliant idea!
I’ve actually just done a video on the benefits of transitioning away from the invasive monoculture lawn and letting grass go to seed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to trace back the origins and dissemination of this artificial aesthetic. We also look into solutions, ranging from bans on gas leaf blowers to cash schemes to encourage people to quit their lawn. We read a poem about the lunacy of leaf blowers, and highlight ways in which manicured suburban imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. Sources: • Ann Leighton, American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, 1986. • Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns”, The New York Times Magazine, May 1989. • Georges Teyssot, The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, 1999. • Monique Mosser, The saga of grass: From the heavenly carpet to fallow fields, 1999. • Cristina Milesi, “More Lawns than Irrigated Corn”, NASA Earth Observatory, November 2005. • Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are, 2007. • Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007. • Elizabeth Kolbert, “Turf War”, The New Yorker, July 2008. • Joseph Manca, "British landscape gardening and Italian renaissance painting", Artibus et Historiae (297-322), 2015. • Jamie Banks and Robert McConnell, National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2015. • Christopher Ingraham, “Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them”, The Washington Post, August 2015. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: Local bans on gas-powered lawn equipment 01:48 Poem about leaf blowers by Touch Moonflower 03:59 Commenting on the poem 06:51 How did lawns become so common in the USA? 07:56 Versailles' green carpet and Italian Renaissance landscapes inspired the British lawn 18:59 How 18th Century aristocratic English turf grass took root on the new continent 21:53 Thorstein Veblen on why American elites found lawns so respectable 24:10 Founding fathers disseminate the pastoral ideal 27:05 Planning communities of continuous lawn: Andrew Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted 32:03 Frank J. Scott tells suburbanites that homogenous manicured grass is neighbourly 34:48 How the lawn got cemented into the American imaginary in the aftermath of World War II 37:16 Post WWII suburban developments empowered Home Owners Associations (HOAs) 41:01 Quantifying the environmental impacts of modern US lawns 45:47 Why imported turf grass is a synecdoche for colonialism 50:40 Carpets of grass are fuel that spreads wildfires 51:38 Gas powered leaf blowers are huge polluters 55:00 How loud are leaf blowers? 55:51 Lawn care is a Sisyphean task of sterilisation 57:53 Norms around lawns are socially enforced 59:59 What solutions have helped people quit their lawn? 1:09:50 Conclusion and wrap up: the zeitgeist is shifting! 1:11:50 Luc's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

I think you should go for it! And I did a whole video podcast about why lawns are a bad idea, co-hosted by an actual doctor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to t... The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

Anyone looking to transition their polluting #lawn into a #prairie #meadow #garden filled with #pollinator #plants would surely love this video documentary we just released! 🏡🧑‍🌾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc unpack how Americans got so obsessed with maintaining square green carpets on their front yards. We dive into the history to trace back the origins and dissemination of this artificial aesthetic. We also look into solutions, ranging from bans on gas leaf blowers to cash schemes to encourage people to quit their lawn. We read a poem about the lunacy of leaf blowers, and highlight ways in which manicured suburban imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. Sources: • Ann Leighton, American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century, 1986. • Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns”, The New York Times Magazine, May 1989. • Georges Teyssot, The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, 1999. • Monique Mosser, The saga of grass: From the heavenly carpet to fallow fields, 1999. • Cristina Milesi, “More Lawns than Irrigated Corn”, NASA Earth Observatory, November 2005. • Paul Robbins, Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are, 2007. • Ted Steinberg, American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, 2007. • Elizabeth Kolbert, “Turf War”, The New Yorker, July 2008. • Joseph Manca, "British landscape gardening and Italian renaissance painting", Artibus et Historiae (297-322), 2015. • Jamie Banks and Robert McConnell, National Emissions from Lawn and Garden Equipment, Environmental Protection Agency, April 2015. • Christopher Ingraham, “Lawns are a soul-crushing timesuck and most of us would be better off without them”, The Washington Post, August 2015. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction: Local bans on gas-powered lawn equipment 01:48 Poem about leaf blowers by Touch Moonflower 03:59 Commenting on the poem 06:51 How did lawns become so common in the USA? 07:56 Versailles' green carpet and Italian Renaissance landscapes inspired the British lawn 18:59 How 18th Century aristocratic English turf grass took root on the new continent 21:53 Thorstein Veblen on why American elites found lawns so respectable 24:10 Founding fathers disseminate the pastoral ideal 27:05 Planning communities of continuous lawn: Andrew Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted 32:03 Frank J. Scott tells suburbanites that homogenous manicured grass is neighbourly 34:48 How the lawn got cemented into the American imaginary in the aftermath of World War II 37:16 Post WWII suburban developments empowered Home Owners Associations (HOAs) 41:01 Quantifying the environmental impacts of modern US lawns 45:47 Why imported turf grass is a synecdoche for colonialism 50:40 Carpets of grass are fuel that spreads wildfires 51:38 Gas powered leaf blowers are huge polluters 55:00 How loud are leaf blowers? 55:51 Lawn care is a Sisyphean task of sterilisation 57:53 Norms around lawns are socially enforced 59:59 What solutions have helped people quit their lawn? 1:09:50 Conclusion and wrap up: the zeitgeist is shifting! 1:11:50 Luc's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell The Lawn Con: Manufactured Conformity – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 7

New video on the history of lawns. We trace how Americans got obsessed with maintaining manicured green carpets on their front yards. We analyse how imported lawn grass is a synecdoche for colonialism. We highlight solutions to transition away from polluting lawn care www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l1...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc spotlight an environmental success story: the Montreal Protocol's role in healing the ozone layer. We draw comparisons to the ... How Diplomacy Closed the Ozone Hole – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 6

The story doesn't end there either!
The 2016 Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol included bans on HFCs, which are indeed harmless to ozone but a potent greenhouse gas.
It's also a development towards possibly including other substances, as we discussed on my podcast:
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In this episode, Ralph and Luc spotlight an environmental success story: the Montreal Protocol's role in healing the ozone layer. We draw comparisons to the pitfalls of the IPCC's COP process and try to derive a diplomatic blueprint for climate policy. We look into the science of how ozone and chlorine works in the stratosphere, the history of the activist scientists (Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina) who first sounded the alarm about CFC's destruction of the ozone layer, and the work of technocrats in devising their replacement. We also examine the geopolitical dynamics that were foundational to this planetary victory. Sources: • We sample clips from the 2019 PBS documentary Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet, written and directed by Jamie Lochhead — notably interviews with Mario Molina, Joan Rowland (widow of Sherwood), Lee Thomas (administrator at the EPA), Crispin Tickell (adviser to Margaret Thatcher) and Bob Watson (NASA). https://www.pbs.org/show/ozone-hole-how-we-saved-planet/ (some of these clips are shown as a black screen for copyright reasons) • We also sample clips from this 2021 interview with Susan Solomon (the atmospheric chemist who demonstrated CFC’s impact on ozone) and Stephen Andersen (leader of the Montreal Protocol and co-chair of its Technology and Economic Assessment Panel), by the Future of Life Institute, in which they share their roles in the closing of zone hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwh-uDo-6A • We cite elements from the 1998 book Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet, by Richard Elliot Benedick. • We cite the 2002 book Ozone Connections: Expert Networks in Global Environmental Governance, by Penelope Canan and Nancy Reichman. • We cite the 2019 book The Ozone Layer: From Discovery to Recovery, by Guy P. Brasseur. • We cite the 2021 Nature article The Montreal Protocol protects the terrestrial carbon sink, by Paul J. Young, Anna B. Harper, Chris Huntingford, Nigel D. Paul, Olaf Morgenstern, Paul A. Newman, Luke D. Oman, Sasha Madronich & Rolando R. Garcia. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03737-3 • We refer to insights from the 2021 book Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now!: The Ozone Treaty’s Urgent Lessons for Speeding Up Climate Action, by Alan Miller, Durwood Zaelke and Stephen Andersen. • We also cite from the 2023 book 35th Anniversary of Protecting the Ozone Layer, by Marco Gonzalez and Stephen Andersen. • Finally, we draw upon materials from: https://ozone.unep.org/ozone-timeline and https://csl.noaa.gov/assessments/ozone/2022/downloads/twentyquestions.pdf @UNEP @worldmetorg @usnoaagov @NASAGoddard @mpichemie @ozonaction @uciquestforpeace @UCIOpen Hosted by @ralphlevinson and @LucLewitanski. Chapters: 0:00:00 Introduction: COP 28 Wrap-up 0:02:49 Science of the Ozone Layer 0:04:30 History of CFCs: Thomas Midgely’s invention and subsequent uses (1930s) 0:08:21 Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina’s Research shows CFCs' dangers for ozone (1970s) 0:17:42 Consumer Boycott of CFCs: All in The Family 0:24:05 Consumer Boycott of CFCs: children’s Entertainment led Mc Donald’s to change its packaging from foam to cardboard 0:29:51 Sherwood Rowland coins the term “ozone hole” 0:32:04 Ozone concentrations in the Antarctic were so low that the scientists thought it was a measurement error 0:33:53 Susan Solomon’s model explains how CFCs caused the ozone hole (1980s) 0:38:18 Scientists fly an airplane into the ozone hole 0:39:31 Global Diplomacy: First Framework, the Vienna Convention (1985): a modest start 0:40:45 Global Diplomacy: The Montreal Protocol’s "start and strengthen" amendment process 0:46:51 Geopolitics of the Montreal Protocol - comparing nations' relation to CFC production in the 1980s 0:59:51 Global Diplomacy: Stephen Anderson on the effectiveness of involving engineers to work on replacements (industry released their patents) 1:04:34 Stephen Andersen presents technological innovations that came as the fruit of his Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) and why it worked 1:17:31 Ronald Reagan's Administration contained factions that disagreed on whether to act on ozone 1:22:50 Margaret Thatcher's surprisingly collaborative response 1:25:21 2016 Kigali Amendment bans HFCs - the Montreal Protocol takes on greenhouse gases 1:32:11 World avoided scenarios: How effective has this process been? What do we estimate would have happened otherwise? 1:37:33 Comparing what worked with ozone to the climate change movement: distinctions between Montreal Protocol and COP and lessons to learn 1:47:01 Closing Phytoplankton Song How Diplomacy Closed the Ozone Hole – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 6

Thankfully, the ozone hole situation is actually getting much better thanks to the work of some activist scientists, technocrats and diplomats from around the world!
We documented this feel good story on our latest podcast episode, which you can watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlz8...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc spotlight an environmental success story: the Montreal Protocol's role in healing the ozone layer. We draw comparisons to the ... How Diplomacy Closed the Ozone Hole – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 6

My co-host and I actually did a thoroughly researched deep dive making this exact comparison (trying to learn lessons of what worked for the ozone to the climate change situation), if you're interested!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlz8...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc spotlight an environmental success story: the Montreal Protocol's role in healing the ozone layer. We draw comparisons to the ... How Diplomacy Closed the Ozone Hole – Your Planet, Your Health Episode 6

On episode 6 of our environmental podcast, we look at how humanity came together to heal the ozone hole.
We try to derive lessons from what worked for the Montreal Protocol to derive a diplomatic blueprint for other planetary crises: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlz8...
(feat. @robertwatson.bsky.social)

In this episode, Ralph and Luc chat with Michael Jefferies, Regional Conservative Outreach Coordinator for the Citizens' Climate Lobby. Together, we get out ... Your Planet, Your Health - Ep 5 - Talking Climate with Conservatives

This faith-based approach to discussing climate change is reminiscent of @katharinehayhoe.com 's work, and builds upon her fantastic research on communicating with conservatives. We must protect nature to protect ourselves! Listen to our conversation here:

In this episode, Ralph and Luc chat with Michael Jefferies, Regional Conservative Outreach Coordinator for the Citizens' Climate Lobby. Together, we get out ... Your Planet, Your Health - Ep 5 - Talking Climate with Conservatives

🚨🌎🐘 Check out our podcast episode with Michael Jefferies of Citizens' Climate Lobby!
We talk about Republicans' relationship to the environment, carbon pricing, import tariffs, bipartisanship, and listen to the climate journey of former Senator Bob Inglis.

In this episode, Ralph and Luc delve into what the oil companies knew about CO2’s impact on the climate, and how they lied to you to sustain their fossilized... Your Planet, Your Health - Ep 4 - Gaslighting

@daveanthony.bsky.social your voice is in this for like 5 seconds, FYI :)
youtu.be/muNF_1mC3FI?...

In this episode, Ralph and Luc delve into what the oil companies knew about CO2’s impact on the climate, and how they lied to you to sustain their fossilized... Your Planet, Your Health - Ep 4 - Gaslighting

We just put out a podcast ep about what Big Oil knew about CO2’s impact on the climate and how they lied to you to sustain their fossilized business model – but we'll lift your spirits by showing you how people hold them accountable!
We cite @naomioreskes.bsky.social's research.
Watch it on YouTube:

Check out this silly TikTok I made of Mitch McConnell #gerontocracy