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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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#74: Incentivizing Those Dirty Capitalists to Solve...

The Most Important Question ·

2019/07/16

In Episode 74, Quinn & Brian discuss: Making carbon capture suck more (but this time, with carrots). Our guest is Henry Elkus, the frustratingly young and impossibly optimistic founder of Helena, an organization that assembles “some of the world’s most...

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BEST OF THE BEST: What’s It Feel Like To Be Asked To...

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2019/07/10

Today’s episode is a rerun of Episode 56, where Quinn & Brian asked: What’s it feel like to be asked to save the world? Our guest is Rhiana Gunn-Wright, who is writing policy and leading the Green New Deal project at New Consensus, which is one of the ...

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#73: Did A.I. Just Make My Life’s Work Obsolete?

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2019/07/02

In Episode 73, Quinn & Brian ask: Hold On A Minute -- Did A.I. Just Take Our Jobs?Of course, we aren’t talking about our jobs. If A.I. took our jobs, the show would have won that Webby. We’re talking about really, really important jobs – like curing cancer and slowing down our climate collapse. But we are talking about people like our guest Dr. Mohammed AlQuraishi, who is a Department Fellow at the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical

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#73: Did A.I. Just Make My Life’s Work Obsolete?

The Most Important Question ·

2019/07/02

In Episode 73, Quinn & Brian ask: Hold On A Minute -- Did A.I. Just Take Our Jobs? Of course, we aren’t talking about our jobs. If A.I. took our jobs, the show would have won that Webby. We’re talking about really, really important jobs – like curing c...

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#72: The Monsoon Is 11 Days Late

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2019/06/25

In Episode 72, Quinn & Brian discuss: Monsoons, food, and people. Our guest is Dr. Deepti Singh, an Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at Washington State University - Vancouver who is motivated by the potential for climate studies to...

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#72: The Monsoon Is 11 Days Late

The Most Important Question ·

2019/06/25

In Episode 72, Quinn & Brian discuss: Monsoons, food, and people.Our guest is Dr. Deepti Singh, an Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment at Washington State University - Vancouver who is motivated by the potential for climate studies to minimize future disaster risk to vulnerable communities around the world.Because here’s the thing: while there are still many people and governments who are still denying the existence and impact of climate change – or our active climate crisis –

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01:27:16

#71: Why Raising the Status of Girls Can Change...

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2019/06/18

In Episode 71, Quinn & Brian discuss: Why raising the status of girls can help change everything.Our guest is Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, a Vice President at Drawdown, an author, a public speaker, and an expert in just about everything. She’s made a very specific list of all the ways we can and should be fighting climate change and the climate crisis. She even put the list in order for us – and you won’t believe what number six is!So, this episode is pretty much an audio version of a Buzzfeed

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#71: Why Raising the Status of Girls Can Change...

The Most Important Question ·

2019/06/18

In Episode 71, Quinn & Brian discuss: Why raising the status of girls can help change everything. Our guest is Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, a Vice President at Drawdown, an author, a public speaker, and an expert in just about everything. She’s made a very...

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01:27:39

#70: Who’s Fixing the People Fixing Our Planet?

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2019/06/11

In Episode 70, Quinn & Brian discuss: When things are broken, when the people who are working on those things are also broken, and why we need to help them. Our guest is Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, a project development firm designing economic and environmental strategies with human left in.As the Co-Founder of Live Real and former Executive Director of People's Grocery and Green for All, Nikki has built and strengthened social equity for underrepresented populations

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#70: Who’s Fixing the People Fixing Our Planet?

The Most Important Question ·

2019/06/11

In Episode 70, Quinn & Brian discuss: When things are broken, when the people who are working on those things are also broken, and why we need to help them. Our guest is Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, a project development fir...

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01:10:38

#69: Rebuilding Los Angeles & L.A.’s Green New Deal

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2019/06/04

In Episode 69, Quinn & Brian discuss: Rebuilding Los Angeles and L.A.’s Green New Deal.Our guest is Jeanalee Obergfell, who works just down the street from Important, Not Important HQ as a City Planning Associate for Los Angeles. When it comes to making L.A. greener and more equitable, you know Jeanalee is either helping someone’s cause or leading the charge.Really, if the Game of Thrones were the game of creating more equitable housing and transportation options in a less hot and more

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#69: Rebuilding Los Angeles & L.A.’s Green New Deal

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2019/06/04

In Episode 69, Quinn & Brian discuss: Rebuilding Los Angeles and L.A.’s Green New Deal. Our guest is Jeanalee Obergfell, who works just down the street from Important, Not Important HQ as a City Planning Associate for Los Angeles. When it comes to maki...

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#68: Let’s Send Our Homework into Space

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2019/05/28

In Episode 68, Quinn & Brian discuss: Sending our homework to space. Our guest is Michelle Lucas, an actual rocket scientist and the founder of Higher Orbits. Michelle spent 10 years at NASA, where part of her role involved teaching astronauts how to.....

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#68: Let’s Send Our Homework into Space

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2019/05/28

In Episode 68, Quinn & Brian discuss: Sending our homework to space.Our guest is Michelle Lucas, an actual rocket scientist and the founder of Higher Orbits. Michelle spent 10 years at NASA, where part of her role involved teaching astronauts how to... you know, do space stuff. And now, at Higher Orbits, she’s teaching young people who aren’t astronauts yet,but might be, some day, because of her!Now, this isn’t an episode about how to get away with not doing your homework. On the contrary, this

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01:16:55

#67: Is Climate Change "Flippable"?

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2019/05/21

In Episode 67, Quinn & Brian ask: Is Climate Change "Flippable"?Our guest is Catherine Vaughan, CEO and Co-Founder of Flippable, an organization dedicated to flipping state governments from red to blue. You may not be surprised that Catherine is, indeed, one of the people trying to make a positive change by getting states back on the light side of the Force.So, when it comes to things like climate change, cancer, clean energy, (the Presidency,) artificial intelligence... are those things

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#67: Is Climate Change "Flippable"?

The Most Important Question ·

2019/05/21

In Episode 67, Quinn & Brian ask: Is Climate Change "Flippable"? Our guest is Catherine Vaughan, CEO and Co-Founder of Flippable, an organization dedicated to flipping state governments from red to blue. You may not be surprised that Catherine is, inde...

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#66: So We Can’t Just Blow Up Asteroids, Then?

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2019/05/14

InEpisode 66, Quinn & Brian want to knowwhy the hell we can't -- and further -- shouldn’t justblow up asteroids.Our guest is the incredibleProfessor K.T. Ramesh, professor of mechanical engineering at John Hopkins, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), and our new hero.You can think of HEMI as a real-life Avengers (no, we’re not just stuck on Endgame), except every member is like Bruce Banner without all the Hulk-iness or Tony Stark if he was never kidnapped by

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#66: So We Can’t Just Blow Up Asteroids, Then?

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2019/05/14

In Episode 66, Quinn & Brian want to know why the hell we can't -- and further -- shouldn’t just blow up asteroids. Our guest is the incredible Professor K.T. Ramesh, professor of mechanical engineering at John Hopkins, founding director of the Hopkins...

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#65: Chernobyl: A Preventable and Rare Accident from...

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2019/05/06

In Episode 65, Quinn asks: Is Chernobyl a preventable and rare accident from the past or a vivid picture of our hellish nuclear future? Our guest is Craig Mazin, a screenwriter, podcaster, and the creator of a new HBO mini-series called Chernobyl – whi...

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#65: Chernobyl: A Preventable and Rare Accident from...

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2019/05/06

In Episode 65, Quinn asks: Is Chernobyl a preventable and rare accident from the past or a vivid picture of our hellish nuclear future?Our guest is Craig Mazin, a screenwriter, podcaster, and the creator of a new HBO mini-series called Chernobyl – which is debuting TODAY, May 6th. So, if you currently have an account just to watch Game of Thrones, you’re in luck!We’ve had some accidents, but we’ve learned from them... right? We answer that question, talk about the how and why of nuclear power (and

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