Energy vs Climate
Energy vs Climate is a live, interactive webinar and podcast where energy experts David Keith, Sara Hastings-Simon and Ed Whittingham break down the trade-offs and hard truths of the energy transition in Alberta, Canada, and beyond.
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Episodes
74 episodes
A personal message from Sara Hastings-Simon
A personal message from EvC co-host Sara Hastings-Simon.You can find more information on cancer screening in Canada at the Canadian Cancer Society ...
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Introducing Climate Now: When insurers can no longer afford the risk
Introducing Climate Now: Today, we are excited to bring you an episode from the Climate Now podcast. Climate Now, hosted by James Lawler, and accessible wherever you listen to podcasts as well as on ...
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Season 5
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26:38
Energy vs Climate Promo
Energy vs Climate is available wherever you get your podcasts.Produced by Amit Tandon
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Canada vs Climate: Federal Minister of Energy & Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson
David, Sara, and Ed talk to Canada's Minister of Energy & Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson. Show Notes:(02:57)
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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58:53
FROM FIBS TO FINES: Climate Disinformation, Lawsuits & Their Ripple Effects
David, Sara, and Ed talk to Dr Benjamin Franta, Senior Research Fellow in Climate Litigation at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme and the founding head of the Climate Litigation Lab. Show Notes:(01:05)
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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Fully Charged: Battery Storage & How to Make it Better
Hosts David, Sara, and Ed chat with battery storage expert Dr. Shirley Meng of the University of Chicago.About Our Guest:Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is a Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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49:44
EvC Bonus - HOT TOPIC: Alberta Electricity Update
Another BONUS Podcast Episode!The electricity file has been popping, especially in Alberta, where on a weekly basis a clash of worldviews on the future of electricity generation is on full display.About Our Guest
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Season 5
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48:14
EvC Bonus - Hot Topic: Carbon Tax
New BONUS Podcast EpisodeCanada's consumer carbon tax policy has been getting a lot of press attention of late, especially following the $15/T increase that took affect on April 1, 2024. Much has been said about it across the politic...
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Season 5
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59:10
Buzzkill: Understanding the Shift in Media Perception Towards EVs
Dr. Simon Evans, Deputy Editor & Senior Policy Editor at Carbon Brief join co-hosts David, Sara, and Ed, to tease apart EV fact from fiction. About Our Guest:
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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52:40
Energy vs Oilsands: How did we get to 3.5m bbl/day and what do we need to do about it?
Co-hosts David, Sara, Ed, and energy/environmental economist Dr. Andrew Leach of the University of Alberta unpack the past, present and future of Canada's oilsands. About Our Guest:
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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56:02
History vs Energy - How the history of energy transitions can inform our future
Overview:What does the history of energy tell us about energy transition? Can we learn from the past or will we repeat the same mistakes? What do people get wrong when trying to extract lessons from the history of energy?
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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55:16
Stranger than (Climate) Fiction
What is the role of literature in the climate policy and technology discussion? How does the genre allow us to explore uncomfortable climate scenarios, including those to do with heat death and direct action? While ultimately successful, the pa...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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58:23
Energy vs IEA Oil and Gas Scenarios
Published each year, the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook (WEO) is a leading source of scenario-based analysis of global energy demand and supply. This year, as the global energy crisis shows signs of calming, the WEO fi...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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Energy vs Carbon Removal
We are excited to bring you a special live taping of Energy vs Climate from November 22, 2023 at the Ampersand in Calgary. Energy vs Carbon Removal is a dive deep into this still relatively new climate mitigation pathway. The ...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:12:41
Building for Sustainability - What Really Matters
What matters - and really doesn’t matter - when it comes to Building for Sustainability? David, Sara and Ed answer that question in a live episode of Energy vs Climate recorded on November 5, 2023 to kick off the
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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50:37
Transmission vs Climate
Long distance and interregional transmission lines promise to increase reliability, mitigate the impact of extreme weather events, and provide electricity consumers with access to low-cost resources. They are an important piece of the energy tr...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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55:24
BONUS | Nils Gilman on avocado politics and climate security from Challenging Climate
Hey everyone, Ed here. David, Sara and Ed will be back next week with an episode about electricity interties in the clean energy system. Until then we’d like to share another podcast with you that we think might be of inter...
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Season 5
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50:09
Energy vs 1.5°C - Breaking Down the 1.5C Warming Target
Since the Paris Agreement coming into force in 2016, world leaders have increasingly emphasized the need to keep warming to the 1.5°C target by the end of this century, in order to avoid more dangerous impacts from climate change. Yet temperatu...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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58:29
Albertan Attitudes Toward Energy Transition
On our first episode of Season 5, Sara and Ed speak to Dr. Melanee Thomas of the University of Calgary about her survey research into Albertans' attitudes to the energy transiti...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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56:15
Is Heat The Greatest Climate Threat? [Rerelease]
[Rerelease] David, Sara, Ed and author Jeff Goodell discuss the impacts of heat on humans, the topic of Jeff’s
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1:01:38
Take our survey!
Hi Everyone!We've got a favour to ask. We're doing a survey to help us understand what you like about Energy vs Climate, and how we can bring you more of that!We would be extremely grateful if you took just a few minutes out of ...
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Climate vs Wildfires
On a special summer episode of Energy vs Climate, we’re addressing the record-setting wildfires that Canada has been experiencing this summer. We're joined by molecular paleoecologist Allison Karp to examin...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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30:56
BONUS | Energy Efficiency at Home with Matt Ferrell of Still TBD
No, we didn’t forget to fill in the pod title after Matt Ferrell’s name. On Still TBD, aka the Still To Be Determined Podcast, Matt and his brother Sean discuss electric vehicles, renewable energy...
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Season 4
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