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  • Send us your climate questions!

    From EVs to changing your diet, there’s no topic too big or small.

  • Introducing: Ripple (bonus episode)
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    Ripple is a new investigative podcast that returns to the scene of major events and discovers the long-term impacts that have been raging, unnoticed, for years — or decades.

  • Is composting really doing anything? (Bonus episode from “The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast”)
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    What’s cool about composting, and how you can do it too.

  • Amy trying out desalinated water at the Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant.
    Marissa Cabrera / Marketplace

    We’ve had a great year because of you!

  • Dec 6, 2023 · Season 4 · Episode 8

    Rights of Rivers

    Boulder Creek runs through Nederland, Colorado. In 2021, Nederland became the first community in Colorado to grant rights of nature to a local watershed.
    Amy Scott / Marketplace

    Should we give a legal voice to nature?

  • Nov 29, 2023 · Season 4 · Episode 7

    Water, water, everywhere

    Sommer and John “Chris” Decker, owners of Desert Monks Brewing, brew beer with “ultra-purified” water (aka recycled wastewater).
    Caitlin Esch/Marketplace

    How technology can help solve the water crisis in the West.

  • Nov 22, 2023 · Season 4 · Episode 6

    Betting on Conservation

    On the canal of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, gondoliers serenade visitors while floating on Colorado River water.
    Amy Scott / Marketplace

    How Las Vegas, the city of excess in an unforgiving desert, is fighting to keep growing.

  • Nov 15, 2023 · Season 4 · Episode 5

    The Price of Paradise

    Leigh Harris with some of the plastic bottles she fills with rain water.
    Caitlin Esch/Marketplace

    What happens when you lose access to affordable running water?

  • Nov 8, 2023 · Season 4

    Groundwater Wars

    When big farms moved into the desert, an Arizona town worried it would run out of water.

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“How We Survive” is an award-winning podcast from Marketplace about the messy business of climate solutions. From the glitz and glam of Miami, to the punishing Arizona desert, to a sinking island that our national security depends on, every season, takes listeners on an adventure. We’re finding the innovative, surprising and occasionally disturbing ways that people are navigating solutions to a changing climate. Previous seasons explored the underbelly of the lithium extraction economy with tech expert Molly Wood and investigated the red hot Miami real estate market that’s increasingly vulnerable to storms and sea level rise with journalist Amy Scott. The latest season hosted by former navy pilot Kai Ryssdal, examines the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, that’s also on the front lines of dealing with the climate crisis: The US military. How will the institution that shaped Kai, shape our climate future? Kai traverses the frigid landscape of Alaska, participates in experiments in a Navy lab, and gets stranded on a remote tropical island to find out. In addition to long-form deep dive seasons, “How We Survive” has a spin-off video-first podcast series called “Burning Questions,” that empowers listeners with information they can implement in their lives. We answer questions about how to find climate-safe places to live, the best and worst foods to eat for the environment, maintaining hope when all you want to do is doom-scroll and tips to climate-proof your house.