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The Most Important Question

Important, Not Important

Science for people who give a sh*t. Want to feel better AND unf*ck the world? The 6-time Webby nominee delivers deep conversations with the world"s smartest people (scientists, doctors, CEO"s, farmers, and more!), and digestible news updates every single week, to help you answer the world"s most important question: What can I do? We"re talkin" clean energy and coral reefs, COVID vaccines and pediatric cancer research, clean water and carbon capture tech, asteroid deflection and artificial

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01:02:12

Can Capitalism (Justly) Solve the Climate Crisis?

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2024/03/04

The climate clock is ticking faster and faster. How can we use capitalism to undo the bad stuff that capitalism did and maybe even make things better? That's today's big (loaded) question, and my returning guest is Akshat Rathi. Akshat is a London-based senior reporter, newsletter writer, and podcaster for Bloomberg News.Akshat has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. Akshat was previously a

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01:06:02

#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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01:10:31

#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 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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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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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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01:12:30

#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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01:04:26

#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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01:23:55

#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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#64: Sunrise Movement Tour - Live (ish) in LA!

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2019/04/30

In a very special Episode 64, Quinn & Brian discuss (live! Kind of): everything that’s good at the Sunrise Movement Tour (and everything that’s not-so-good in the local communities)! Our guests are politician and native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing, environmental activist Michelle Cerecerez, native activist Miguel Quimichipilli Bravo, and LA City Councilmember Nury Martinez. We make some new friends and have a lot of fun while we chat about the Green New Deal, supporting indigenous people, the scars of

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#63: Green Acres: Farming for Millennials and Other...

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2019/04/23

In Episode 63, Quinn & Brian discuss: Building a new pipeline of sustainable food growers.Our guest is Dena Leibman, the Executive Director of the Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (or Future Harvest for short), a non-profit that works to build a sustainable Chesapeake Foodshed from farm and fishery to table. But Dena is one to practice what she preaches – or a workaholic– so the Leibman family also started ZigBone Farm Retreat, a 100-acre sheep and goat farm in

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01:14:40

#62: Where Does Ebola Go From Here?

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2019/04/16

In Episode 62, Quinn & Brian ask: Where does Ebola go from here?Our guest is Karin Huster, a Field Coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, where she is currently bouncing between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique. She spent a decade in the trauma ICU before flinging herself head first into humanitarian efforts across the globe. She’s sorta the Forest Gump of humanitarian field nurses; if there’s a health-related outbreak, or a storm-related outbreak that turns into a health-related

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01:15:21

#61: How Do We Atone for Poisoning Generations of...

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2019/04/09

In Episode 61, Quinn & Brian ask: How do we atone for poisoning generations of American minorities?Our guest is Dr. Michael Dorsey, a recognized expert on global energy, finance and sustainability matters. Dr. Dorsey holds Rotary International’s highest honor, The Paul Harris Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity, and is a “full member” of the Club of Rome. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Yale, and Johns Hopkins University, he is currently Senior Program Officer for

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01:01:37

#60: Why You Should Run For Something in 2020

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2019/04/02

In Episode 60, Quinn & Brian discuss: Why YOU should run for something in 2020!Our guest is Amanda Litman, the co-founder and Executive Director of Run For Something, a PAC that helps recruit and support young diverse progressives to run for down-ballot races in order to build a bench for the future. They aim to lower the barriers to entry for these candidates – which could and should be you, unless you’re a white guy (because we have plenty of those) – by helping them with seed money,

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01:15:25

#59: Is Florida the Harbinger of Doom? (Probably)

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2019/03/26

In Episode 59, Quinn & Brian ask: Is Florida the harbinger of doom? (Probably)Our guest is Dr. Salvador Almagro-Moreno, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Florida. His lab, The Moreno Lab, lies at the interface between ecology and pathogenesis, studying the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens. From what we can tell, this means they’re focusing on how and why bacteria want to eat and/or kill us.This episode

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01:16:53

#58: Is Faith Sustainable?

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2019/03/19

In Episode 58, Quinn & Brian ask: Is faith sustainable?Our guest is Dekila Chungyalpa, a trained scientist and Buddhist operating at the intersection of science, faith, and the environment. She is the director of The Loka Initiative, a new and innovative education and outreach program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for faith leaders and religious institutions. Its mission is to support faith-led environmental efforts locally and around the world through collaborations with faith leaders

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BONUS REPLAY: Is Food Waste the Stupidest Thing We Do...

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2019/03/12

We’re digging into our vault and playing a hit this week because there’s big news for former guest Dr. James Rogers and his company Apeel Sciences: Fast Company named Apeel the 7th most innovative company on their list of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2019 (and the 2nd most innovative company in the food sector).In this bonus replay episode, Quinn & Brian ask: Is food waste the stupidest thing we do, as a species, and how can we cut it in half? (or: avocado toast is about to go

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01:19:15

#57: Make Food Great (Nutritious) Again

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2019/03/05

In Episode 57, Quinn & Brian discuss: Why more food ≠ more nutrition. Our excellent guests are Professors Kristie Ebi and Irakli Loladze.Dr. Ebi is the Rohm & Haas Endowed Professorship in Public Health Sciences at the University of Washington, where she has been conducting research and practice on the health risks of climate variability and change for over twenty years. She focuses on understanding sources of vulnerability, estimating current and future health risks of climate change, and

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01:24:21

#56: What’s It Feel Like To Be Asked To Save the World?

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2019/02/26

In Episode 56, Quinn & Brian ask: 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 main think tanks working on the Green New Deal.The Green New Deal is one of the most important pieces of policy being worked on right now, and it could have wide sweeping effects that impact not just our generation but the future for everyone. Conversations around environmental

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