Roberts: That’s Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and policy expert, and Alex’s co-host on How to Save a Planet, which launches on Spotify and other podcast platforms tomorrow, August 20th. Which brings us back to saving the planet.Īyana Elizabeth Johnson: So he sold his company, he bought a Tesla and decided that he wanted to do a podcast on climate. which was sold to Spotify last year for a reported $230 million dollars. Roberts: More recently, he co-founded a podcast company called Gimlet.īlumberg (audio clip): I’m Alex Blumberg, and you’re listening to Start Up, the podcast mini-series documenting the launching of my podcast company. Roberts: Alex is a big, big figure in the audio world: he was a longtime producer for This American Life, creating some of that iconic show’s most popular episodes, and he also co-hosted Planet Money for National Public Radio.īlumberg (audio clip): But first our Planet Money indicator: it is 31,000. And I said to her, “Isn’t it weird that they’re all named Nielsen?” If you don’t recognize his name, maybe you recognize his voice.īlumberg (audio clip): I was talking with a friend of mine, who was talking with her friend, who’d been selected to be a Nielsen family. Roberts: That’s Alex Blumberg, being very forthcoming in a trailer for a new show called How to Save a Planet. Invest billions in renewable energy? Galvanize a campaign to get people to eat more plants and less animals? Pour everything you’ve got into education?Īlex Blumberg (audio clip from How to Save a Planet preview): I perhaps have an outsized faith in the power of podcasts. Michael Roberts (Host): If you wanted to save the planet right now, what would you do? Like if you had enormous resources and could take one action, what would it be? Outside Podcast Theme: From Outside Magazine and PRX, this is the Outside Podcast. Learn more about it and purchase yours at /trailseries
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This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Hydro Flask, maker of the new Trail Series bottle, which lets you go farther with less weight. Her journey to becoming a star in the environmental movement has been defined by a collaborative approach to problem solving, and now she’s asking us all to work together on answering a very big question: What does the future look like if we get it right? And starting this week, she’s cohosting a new podcast with industry titan Alex Blumberg ambitiously titled How to Save a Planet. She’s currently editing an anthology of essays by women climate leaders, and also writing her own book on solutions to climate change. In June, she wrote an influential op-ed for The Washington Post that explained to white environmentalists why it’s critical for them to join the movement for racial justice. She was an advisor to Elizabeth Warren’s campaign.
She runs a conservation consulting firm, Ocean Collectiv, as well as a think tank focused on the future of coastal cities called the Urban Ocean Lab. Marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has to be among the busiest scientists in the world.
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