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May 1, 2023

Check Your Insurance Policy

You've got insurance, right? Are you sure? That's today's big question, and my guest is Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks. Brianna's an extreme weather and disaster reporter for the Post where she explores how climate change is transforming the United States through violent storms, intense heat, widespread wildfires, and other…

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April 26, 2023

🌎 What Would You Say You Do Here

This week: Is what you’re working on important? Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado River Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. Get some help with the Climate…

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April 25, 2023

Disarming Climate Change Bomb ft. Heidi Roop

👉 Watch the full podcast: https://youtu.be/Im8aT0LUr6s 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/important-not-important/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/importantnotimportant/…

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April 24, 2023

Getting Ready for Disasters and Climate Change ft. Heidi Roop

Dr. Heidi Roop is the author of The Climate Action Handbook, the Director of the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership and an assistant professor of climate science and extension specialist at the University of Minnesota. She also serves as the Director of Knowledge Transfer for the NSF-funded COLDEX Science…

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April 24, 2023

Every Climate Action Matters

What can I do? The simple question is the underlying premise of everything we do here. It's often the easiest one to help people answer for themselves, but from the outside, it's often the most imposing. All of which is why we keep coming back to it, and why I'm…

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April 21, 2023

Why Do Human Necessities Cost Money?

👉 Find the blog version with action step links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/this-isnt-rocket-science 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/…

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April 18, 2023

🌎 This Isn't Rocket Science (Unless It Is)

This week: A very basic way to use a mental model, you’re welcome. PLUS: Mosquitoes, overseas abortion pills, healthy ice cream, German nuclear power, electric school buses, and more. Here's What You Can Do: • ⚡️ Interested in community solar? Check out Wattbuy’s (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/I1vdo-7CUlzCAiV8jz_iiRIKwkr-c5Qm8D_nodB0Jhp5vQsymVQO-h_o61XFxLwNDQNTvX0UkzVddrPcFdAb5V3r5qh6rb5dP7ys0pnCE6dXCh2JZXFw_fIgn4MEkpK2uOOtBRLcGQvUvGRDGBPTABgkYDrzN3z8zTSTRepD5lRyjDqOK3FagygvqB0RCN_R/3vc/cdegTWCxTEiCd6rWDieusg/h17/4jFtrx6nV0yU1s0WvFYpiokE7emwaMqj2wDr9GT1yJk) tools to get some. • ⚡️…

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April 17, 2023

Best of: Black Moms Matter

Why is it so dangerous to have Black babies in America? April 11-17th is Black Maternal Health Week, and so we are replaying one of our favourite episodes from 2021 with guest Representative Lauren Underwood of Illinois, a nurse and former senior advisor to President Obama. We discuss how this…

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April 10, 2023

Emma Pierson: AI, Data Science & Research | INI #155

Emma Pierson is an assistant professor of computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, and a computer science field member at Cornell University with a secondary joint appointment as an assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. Sure. Why not? Emma has published…

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April 10, 2023

Finding the Humanity in Artificial Intelligence

If you had all of the data in the world at your hands, what question would you ask first? That's today's big question, and my guest is Dr. Emma Pierson. Emma is an assistant professor of computer science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, and a computer science…

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April 3, 2023

Best of: What Really Happens When You Just Give People Money?

What if we just gave people money? That's today's big question and my guests are Caroline Teti and Michael Faye from GiveDirectly. This conversation from 2021, one of my all-time favorites is one of those conversations that can help you truly think outside the box and reconsider how to most…

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March 31, 2023

Making Money With ESG Investing

👉 Find the blog version with action step links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/newsletter/esg-is-good-business-but-don-t-call-it-esg 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@importantnotimportant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/importantnotimportant/…

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March 28, 2023

Best of: How to Stop School Shootings in the USA

We're going to keeping re-running this 2020 episode until America stops sacrificing children. --- Here we are, yet again. We first ran this episode with Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland victim, Jaime Guttenberg in 2020 - and what has changed? More gun violence and more senseless deaths. It doesn't have…

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March 27, 2023

Where Have All The Electricians Gone? Exploring the Skilled Labor Shortage with Emily Pontecorvo

Emily Pontecorvo was just until recently an energy, environment, and climate reporter at Grist, one of our favorite publications. She's now moved on to the new climate newsroom Heatmap. Emily has covered the whole enchilada from green hydrogen subsidies to coal ash, scope three emissions, Fashion Week, airports, locusts, frequent…

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March 27, 2023

Where In The World Are All Of The Electricians?

Where the hell did all of the electricians go? That's today's big question, and my guest is leading journalist Emily Pontecorvo. Until recently, Emily was an energy, environment, and climate reporter at Grist, one of our favorite publications. She's now moved on to the new climate newsroom Heatmap. Emily has…

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March 24, 2023

🌎 ESG is good business (but don't call it ESG)

This week: Fighting over ESG is stupid, risky, and bad business. Let’s move on. Plus: RSV vaccines, the E-BIKE Act, Skittles (?), deepfakes, allergies, and a new season of DRILLED What We Can Do: • ⚡️ Submit your comment (https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/w3dYILNc3lH6MOK0tu1At5AX6K6Tv69AXNP1ZPKIEz2r2KOURRdvU3vSdDULPoTN1bD3wjezuQpv7X3T4kWiagjTAu9BzO0X0RsQywlhHeg/3ur/9iQ4LFMDQ9GIftB5luGpVg/h15/w-XXEPtDiFbfCVH23HTTrWPurh_j5_Q5r9AQZaY1UzU) to keep Virginia in the very-successful — and very lucrative…

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March 23, 2023

How To Maximize AI Benefits While Preserving Human Purpose

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March 20, 2023

The Dive Into Challenger Deep

What if you got the chance to dive to the bottom of the ocean? Would you go? And what would you find there? That's today's big question and my returning guest, one of my all-time favorites, is Dr. Dawn Wright, better known the world over as Deep Sea Dawn. Dawn…

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March 19, 2023

How to Conserve Water in 2023 #shorts #waterconservation #drought #ecofriendly

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March 18, 2023

Journey to the Bottom of the Ocean: Exploring the World's Deepest Place with Deep Sea Dawn

👉 Watch the full podcast: https://youtu.be/d_0QLkdx4fo 👉 Find the audio version with useful links: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/podcast/why-we-cant-focus 👉 Find out more: https://www.importantnotimportant.com or become a Member at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/Membership. 🎧 You can listen our newsletters and podcasts on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7d1bcYSKPF19PQDLi7mJS3 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1336515208?mt=2&ls=1 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vaW1wb3J0YW50LW5vdC1pbXBvcnRhbnQv Castro: https://castro.fm/podcast/3dd79317-d048-4527-a9b8-a49d21536b5b 📲 Follow us on social…

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March 17, 2023

🌎 Welcome to the Unknown Unknowns

This week: What we know — and more importantly, what we don’t — about what AI is capable of, and how much change we’re capable of absorbing. Plus: the Willow Project, H-1B visas, blueberries, honeybee vaccines, climate disclosure rules, next-gen bed nets, and health insurance in North Carolina Here's What…

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March 17, 2023

Protecting Our Oceans from Mining: Why It's More Important Than Ever | Dr. Dawn Wright

Dr. Dawn Wright, or as many in the ocean community know her "Deep Sea Dawn" is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. She's the Chief Scientist at ESRI, where she works with other scientists to map the ocean floor in…

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March 16, 2023

I Can't Believe E-bike Rebates Are So POPULAR #shorts #ebikes #electricbike #taxrebate

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March 15, 2023

4 ONE-MINUTE Habits That Reduce Your Carbon Footprint #shorts #carbonfootprint #ecofriendly

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