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The Most Important Question

Important, Not Important

You already know things are broken. You read the news, you listen to the analysis, you"ve got the outrage. What you don"t have is a plan. The Most Important Question — 6x Webby-nominated, 2x Signal Award-nominated — is a weekly conversation with one person who stopped asking "what can I do?" and went and found out. Not pundits. Not commentators. The scientists, doctors, nurses, journalists, farmers, activists, and policymakers who are doing the actual work on the frontlines of climate, public

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71:52

Best of: How To Be A Better Ancestor

The Most Important Question ·

2023/01/17

How can I be a better ancestor? This question has haunted and inspired me since way back in 2019 when I first read the Optimist's Telescope. A beautiful, helpful, inspiring book by Bina Venkataraman. Then I had Bina on the show. I think it's fair to sa...

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27:09

Essay: What it all means

The Most Important Question ·

2023/01/13

Across the front of our website, in big bold letters, is our calling card: “Science for people who give a shit.” You may have seen it and immediately thought “That’s me!” or “You sir, are a child.” Either reaction is well and great. We’re not for every...

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55:09

Can Your Poop Predict The Next Pandemic?

The Most Important Question ·

2022/12/19

We’re taking giving a shit quite literally this week! Our guest is Newsha Ghaeli, the president and co-founder at Biobot Analytics. If you read our newsletter, you’ll have heard me go on and on about Biobot, whose mission is to transform wastewater inf...

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60:45

Why You Should Care About Soil Health

The Most Important Question ·

2022/11/28

What’s one big change we can make that can make our food healthier, make farming more lucrative, draw down carbon in the atmosphere, and reduce climate emigration? That’s today’s big question, and my guest is Sasankh Munukutla, another fellow in our se...

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58:09

The Future of Aluminum Recycling

The Most Important Question ·

2022/11/21

Aluminum. It’s everywhere! And we’re going to need a hell of a lot more of it in the future. Aluminum is a primary ingredient in solar, wind, hydro, concentrated solar, bioenergy, the grid, batteries, hydrogen, and more. And that’s just electricity gen...

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12:45

Newsletter #299: How to save 1.3 million lives

The Most Important Question ·

2022/11/18

This week: Global climate news roundup beyond COP27 The human cost of vaccine inequity Water runs dry Chatbots aren't your friends Caveats to exciting AI developments Here's What You Can Do: More Democratic Senators means a greater chance the US can st...

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66:53

Breaking Bread with the Korean Vegan

The Most Important Question ·

2022/11/14

There’s nothing quite like breaking bread with family and friends, old or new. By mid-2020, we’d have all taken the opportunity to break bread with just about anyone. Why are recipes, and the stories behind them, some of the most enduring parts of each...

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56:13

Why is Environmental Justice Journalism Important?

The Most Important Question ·

2022/11/07

It’s always worth revisiting the inarguable fact that our country was designed to be inequitable. And while much progress has been made over time, the powers that be continued to imagine and design new ways of marginalizing, at best, Black, Brown, Asia...

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11:30

#298: What they're *not* teaching kids today

The Most Important Question ·

2022/11/04

This week: Climate change in the curriculum Increasingly divergent subvariants Cell-cultured meat RSV vaccines are coming Generative AI (...didn't write this, but it might one day) Here's What You Can Do: Teachers can't teach without understanding the ...

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65:09

Introducing Climavores: "Our first Climavores guest...

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/31

Climate change is a touchy topic in farm country. But one third of greenhouse gas emissions come from food and agriculture, so it’s crucial that the industry becomes part of the climate change solution. For years almost all the action on climate change...

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12:27

Newsletter #297: Your neighborhood's about to get...

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/28

This week: $1 billion for electric school buses A potential "tripledemic" sandwich (not as delicious as it sounds!) One person's (treated) wastewater is another person's drinking water Most pregnancy-related deaths in America are preventable Bumble goe...

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60:10

You get an XPRIZE, and YOU get an XPRIZE!

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/24

Throughout history, kings, queens, governments, churches, and donors have funded contests and awarded prizes for solving the most difficult problems of the day. Today, as we stand on the precipice of huge problems and opportunity, with everyone looking...

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15:21

Newsletter #296: Fake meat, fake profits?

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/21

This week: Plant-based meat stocks Another COVID winter is coming A long-term plan for the baby formula shortage The uncertain future of telehealth Willfully shunning data privacy Here's What You Can Do: Help elect progressive state and federal candida...

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67:28

Automated Synthetic Biology (I'm sure it's fine)

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/17

Let's talk robots. But first: There’s a very particular bottleneck where groundbreaking science is more applicable than ever but inaccessible to many. The tools are unaffordable to the schools and groups who could use them to hook kids right when they’...

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54:39

Fight Fire With...Vortex Cannons?

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/10

How lucky are we? How lucky are we that we live in a time of such great opportunity – when, yes, we’re teetering on the edge of a global climate calamity, still reeling from a pandemic, knowing that our problems and challenges are not only enormous, bu...

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13:27

Newsletter #295: Insurance, for when climate change...

The Most Important Question ·

2022/10/07

This week: What climate change means for insurance Pregnancy and the COVID vaccine Food insecurity in America What wildfire smoke means for air quality Internet blackout in Iran What we can do Understand your flood risk with Flood Factor, a free tool t...

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14:39

Newsletter #294: Look for the helpers (that's us)

The Most Important Question ·

2022/09/30

This week: It's hurricane season Viral levels in wastewater spiking What the world might look like in 2050 Results from the biggest-ever Alzheimer's study Asking better questions about our apps Action Steps Send disaster recovery supplies to Florida, d...

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90:01

How to Electrify Your Home

The Most Important Question ·

2022/09/26

For decades Americans have relied on wood, oil, and gas to power, heat, and cool our homes, and the water we use to drink, cool, and bathe in. But these things have helped fuel our climate crisis – by some estimates, residential energy use accounts for...

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14:06

Newsletter #293: Is COVID "over"?

The Most Important Question ·

2022/09/23

This week: The companies building a new clean economy (and the pretenders) The "I" in COVID Defrauded pandemic funds for hungry kids Preventing overdoses with safer supply programs Increasing surveillance Action Steps Read Protocol's tips to make your ...

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55:28

When You REALLY Need a Clinical Trial

The Most Important Question ·

2022/09/19

Let’s say you get sick. Diabetes. Cancer. Heart disease. Long COVID. PTSD. MS. Depression. Alzheimer’s Despite the best efforts of your physician, nothing’s working. They’re out of answers, and you’re out of questions. You might both be increasingly ou...

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