

I'm 38 years old, and I live in South Philly. So I gave her a call.Īnisa: My name is Anisa George. Accurate and amusing.Īnna: And in that episode, we concluded that though we cannot tree plant our way out of the climate crisis, more trees is better than fewer trees.Īnna: So after that episode, one of our listeners wrote in about this other tree planting project, and she wanted to know our take on it.

Beast, who got his audience to raise $20 million to plant 20 million trees in under two months.Īyana: And I believe you described that episode when you shared it on your personal Instagram as "A wildly chaotic, what are the kids doing these days story."Īyana: It struck me as accurate which is why it was worth repeating. Here with our first piece of listener mail is producer Anna Ladd.Īnna: So in case you forgot, we did an episode about this YouTuber, Mr. That is all coming up after this quick break.Īyana: Wait, I want to say after the break! It's my favorite thing to say.Īyana: All of this coming up after a break.Īyana: All right. Plus, we're following up on your most common questions from our recent episode on nuclear power. And what it all has to do with your browser tabs. Īyana: Alex! Treecember? Every month is Treecember on this podcast.Īlex: Our producers went digging into listener mail, they're bringing us two stories about trees, about planting them.Īlex: Saving them. And to set up this episode, allow me to present a dad joke.Īlex: Ayana, do you know what month it is?Īyana: It is December. And this week we're gonna be responding to a couple of emails that we got from our listeners.

Īyana: Yeah, and you have five seconds between seeing the blast to cover, so if you don't just stare outside the window, you actually could protect yourself a bit.Īlex: It's really amazing the level of expertise that is out there amongst our listeners. "Īlex: If you're outside of the blast zone, and basically the big risk there is, like, things falling on your head, and so then it does make sense to get under your desk and so.

And then a couple of people wrote in and were like, "Well, actually. And we sort of made a little bit of fun about this duck and cover and how it wasn't really gonna protect you from a nuclear accident. Some of them are extremely thorough.Īlex: And some of them are like loving corrections to throwaway jokes we make.Īlex: There was this episode we did about nuclear power, and we played this newsreel from the '50s about a cartoon turtle doing duck and cover. We're hearing from our listeners.Īyana: You all send us some really great emails. Today we're doing something that we do from time to time. And this is the podcast about what we need to do to address the climate crisis, and how we make those things happen. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.Īlex Blumberg: And I'm Alex Blumberg.
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Record a short voice memo on your phone and send it to us at We might use it in an upcoming episode.Īyana Elizabeth Johnson: This is How to Save a Planet. If you take an action we recommend in one of our episodes, do us a favor and tell us about it! We’d love to hear how it went and what it felt like. If you want to learn more about Chipko, check out these documentaries! Check out these organizations that are planting trees in India: SankalpTaru’s Project Protect Himalayas, the Sustainable Green Initiative, and Grow-Trees.Give Ecosia a try – maybe try a search for Chipko or baseload energy.If you plant a tree, please hug it and send us a picture. Plant a tree! Find the right kind of tree for where you live on the National Wildlife Federation’s Native Plant Finder, and learn how to plant it and take care of it here.Want more tree content? Listen to our episode 20 Million Trees. What’s up with that tree-planting search engine? Who were the original tree-huggers? And we top it off with some answers to your questions about our episode on nuclear power. This week, we dig into some of your questions about trees. Some made us laugh, some made us cry, and some made us say – hey, that’s a great question! We should answer it. We love listener mail! You've sent us some amazing notes.
