Tonight's loss was unfortunate, solely because of Ray Allen.
The Lakers didn't really outplay the Celtics tonight, rather Ray Allen axed the Celtics.
If you look at the stats, similar shoot percentages for the teams. The 3 point and FT percentages cancel each other out. The Lakers had more rebounds but the Celtics more assists. Similar turnover rates and the Celtics had more steals but Lakers more blocks. You can argue the Celtics sucked in the first half, but they came back in the second half pretty strong.
Ray Allen killed the Celtics tonight. He played 42 of the 48 minutes and scored 2 points on 0-13 shooting and 0-8 from three point.
He was completely ineffective. Sure he had decent defense on Kobe all night, but that was more Tony Allen's doing. If Ray Allen even went 3-13 and 1-8 from 3 point, the game would have been tied.
If we lose this series, I really hope Ray Allen doesn't come back to Boston. That was a pathetic showing after such a great Game 2.
Hyperbole. It is a team game. No loss solely falls on a single player.
Would you rather be down 3-0 or 2-1? With your logic, you don't win game 2 without Allen.
So if Ray Allen did make a couple shots, then the game could have been completely different, KG might have not scored as much or some other factor would have played in.
He single handedly won game 2 for you guys and now the hate? Some people have bad shooting nights and though he had some good looks, for most of the night the Lakers made him work for everything and I guess its true what Fisher said about him having to guard Kobe as well, while Fisher hounds him around the court.
LOL blame it on the team as a whole I love it when this team wins and if its because of ray the credit is given to others like Rondo, even if KG or Pierce is off they will speak on them more than Ray.
Who's fault was it for losing Game 1?
That makes no sense. Most of Ray Allen's misses were rebounded by the Lakers. Allen had countless good looks, such as the missed three pointer at the end of the game that led to a Fisher three point play. Had he made that, it would have been 84-83 and Fisher would have never scored.
No one really played that terribly on the Celtics besides Allen. Game 1 was a team effort in losing, Game 3 was Ray Allen losing the game for the Celtics. Someone said Pierce sucked, he had 15 points on 5-12. 2 points on 0-13 and 0-8 three point is a heck of alot worse than 15 points on 5-12 shooting and 3-4 from three point. That's not great, but it's okay. Allen sucked. He lost the game for the Celtics.
You didn't get what I said, I meant if Ray Allen scores a few possessions then it could have taken away a few points from KG or someone else.
You don't want the guy who won you a ring, played the best ball last playoffs to get you get in the second round, and won you a damn Finals game by himself?
Cry me a ****ing river. He had a bad game, but Allen has won you a hell of a lot more games than Boston was doing for years before he joined the team.
And I'm rooting for Boston to win.
I see what you're saying, but he's saying if Allen did have a good game, Garnett wouldnt have been able to have all the touches he had and the Lakers didnt grab all of allen's misses either.
Go cry in your corner... You cant blame any team member for a loss. Where is the team spirit. He won you game 2 and then you come back and ask him to win you game 3 as well? Way to come in with the same gameplan that the lakers studied.
Allen had a bad night but PP and Rondo also needed to do more. Plus if your a Lakers fan you say we could have won by 20 if Kobe shoots better and Pau/Bynum play better.
At the end of the day, players are gonna have bad games in a series (especially if they are playing good defensive teams). You just need the guys that are hot to find a way to get you a win. In Allen's defense, he helped win game 2 for you guys.
Why would have KG not scored on one possession because Ray Allen didn't score on another?
Way to blame the Celtics loss on one player. Last time I checked, Boston played team basketball, not individual ball.
Ray Allen was every Celtics fans hero in game 2 and now your calling him out for a bad game in game 3?
KG's touches would have been limited if Ray Allen had a good shooting night. KG had the hot hand so you feed it.
Couldn't of said it much better.
Allen is a shooter. He will have good and bad shooting nights. It's normal. He was playing hard. His shots were just not falling that's all. He doesn't deserve to be blamed.
Ray Allen is the latest victim of the law of averages. Jermaine O'Neal will shoot 35-for-40 in the first 5 games next season.
that's just a weak and sad attempt to blame the loss on one player.
ray allen had a big affect on the game even if he doesn't make a basket.
do you know how much energy is used from kobe/fisher inorder to chase ray around to put a hand up in his face?
do you realize how many opportunities ray allen gave his teammates just by being on the court and spreading the floor? giving rondo/kg/pierce more room to operate because the guy guarding allen can't leave him to help.
a lot more i can say, but i'll leave it at that.
i just pity those bandwagon fans.
this guy is a moron.
the what ifffffff??? what if ray allen didnt get pierce memo about not going back to LA?
Glad you know how to read..
I blame Paul Pierce. After a bad offensive show in Game 2, I thought he would be MUCH better in Game 3. I knew Ray Allen would cool off in Game 3 (not by this much however lol). Anyway, it shows that Rondo truly is the best player on that team. He always brings it and is mad consistent.
GOD you're dense....then again, if memory serves me right, aren't you the guy that started a KG bashing thread in the Cs board, after game1?
ray is terrible. i can shoot better than him.
Aside from Fisher's clutch 4th qtr, the Lakers were amazingly unimpressive the entire game and still won on the road.
You dont just blame Ray Allen for that.
allen had a horrible day shooting today, but boston had plenty of chances to take the lead and win this game in the 4th quarter. they lost as a team and you can never place the blame for a loss on one player.
Just blame it on the refs!!!!!
Your right, he was pathetic. And frankly it looked to me as if he wasn't even trying on a lot of plays. Half of the game he would just go to the 3 point line and stand. Now I know Doc Rivers runs a terrible offense that has Ray doing nothing if they don't call a play where he runs through screens, but still Ray was horrible. I was thoroughly displeased, and am very saddened/angered on nights when he seems not to try at times.
But how dare you say solely on Allen, when Pierce was almost just as bad. He hit 3 3-pointers yes, but besides that was pitiful. Pierce has been good for a couple games in the playoffs but has been horrible for the rest of the games, and lost this game for the Celtics just as much as Allen did. How dare you not even mention Pierce! How about Glen Davis playing the worst defense ever at the end of the game, committing profoundly stupid fouls for 3 point plays, and missing countless immediate basket area lay-ins? How about Perkins being the worst finisher in the NBA?
I would have loved to see you say you don't want Ray Allen back next year after the last game when he won the game for the Celts.
Well considering he handed you guys game 2 on the road I wouldn't be complaining because either way you'd be down 2-1.
I didnt realized he was the only Celtics player on the game? Where were the others?
I could repeat this post for the many times throughout a season that people blame a single player for a loss. I share your perspective.
1) Drew up a 3 point play with 50 seconds left for Ray, when he's 0 for 12, and Pierce was 3 of 4 from downtown. Ridiculous.
2) Calling that timeout that allowed the refs to review the out of bounds play and give the ball to the Lakers.
3) Did not bring Sheed or Perk back into the game late, when Bynum was struggling and would have had a hard time coming back into the game cold. Baby then got posted up by Gasol. Davis should have never been in the game at the end.
So, if he felt all his shots were flat, why the hell did he draw up a play for him and not Pierce??? Awful play call.
kg might have scored more if allen hit some shots because the lakers were just sitting in the paint with that said pierce didnt play well and neither did sheed he shot way to many threes hes never been a consistent 3 point shooter so he should stick to playing in the paint.
Actually, I think Doc cost the Celtics this game by pulling Garnett in the first quarter and sitting him until about the halfway point of the second. It's no coincidence that the Lakers went on their run when he was out of the game. Boston then went on a 9-0 run as soon as Garnett came back in.
That is not true. Allens struggles certainly didnt help but there were a lot of reasons why the C's lost. Horrid free throw shooting, terrible defense in the 2nd Quarter. Too many and1's for LA. Foul trouble for Pierce. Not playing D on Fisher (pick n roll).
To say it is solely on Ray is completely absurd.
There are more holes in your thread than Greg Popovich's face. So a Kobe Bryant, playing the whole season at 60% has a poor shooting night and it's good defense by Tony Allen?
But Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen getting pretty much shut down in their terms, save for Ray Allen hitting a record setting amount of threes in game 2 (because Bryant was in foul trouble) is the detriment of the team? Not the Lakers defense?
shooters aren't supposed to have a conscience. Live with it. They are shots he normally makes.
You are ridiculous. Ray was the man after game 2, but now it is all his fault. You don't understand man. Ray Allen is guarding Kobe Bryant all game for 42 minutes (lots of energy and stress) and then on offense he is running around all night to get open looks when little Fisher chasing him and everyone on the Lakers with an eye on him. He had a bad game offensively and there really is no excuse, but he played well defensively. If Kobe didn't shoot 30 percent the Lakers would have score a 100 points. So your logic is BS when you talk about Ray making 3 shots to tie the game.
you know the bad part is even your rivals are telling you , ray just had a bad game . he just won game 2 for you . if you dont get what everyones telling you, maybe its just you.
And he won game 2 for the Celtics. **** evens out. A player always goes back to his % and yesterday brought Ray back.
Celtics loss because they didn't play good enough defense on Derrick Fisher. They brought the game within one point in the fourth, so up until then both teams played about even. Lakers finished the game and simply just wanted the game more the Celtics. They fought harder. It was a tough game for both teams all game. No team shot well and both teams played great defense. Lakers just fought harder and edged out the game.
Does anyone remember Ray's shooting slump leading up to the finals in 2008? How did the Celtics make it to the finals then? He got it back for the finals but someone had to step up to get them there, right? Where has Paul Pierce been?
And maybe it wasnt such a good idea to get rid of spot up jump shooters and replace them with a player who cant be on the court at the same time as Rondo?
At the same time though, 0-13!!! Are you kidding me Ray? WTH.
Id buy that if it was 3 for 13 but were talking about an 0-fer. He was one away from the worst 0-fer ever.
I agree that it would be a totally different ganme if Ray made shots. But I don't get your reasoning. If Ray made the shots that he took anyway, I don't see how that would take away from the shots KG took. If Ray only took 1 shot and someone said the Celts would have won if he made 4 threes I'd get your point. But I don't understand what you're saying here.
Its unfair to blame any one player. I remember the New York media did the same to John Starks, but as the saying goes; live by the sword, die by the sword. Yeah, Allen had what is likely the worst game of his career, and at the very worst possible time, but he also gave Boston a win in LA. And had Garnett been defending Gasol like he was once able to defend players, and had he be popping in the 18-20 points and 10-14 rebounds like he did in the '08 run, Boston would be up 3-0 right now.
It is NEVER just one players fault. Ever time a guy misses a last second shot, or gets scored on in the final play, or has a bad shooting night, people blame them, and yes the game would have been different it, but there is always a sloppy turnover from another player earlier in the game, or a soft foul that allows a three-point play, or a shot clock violation, or a bad call, and it is all these things that add up to a loss. Boston did not play a perfect game and though Allen was a big reason for the loss, he was not the only one.
This is a team sport. You can't put that loss all on Ray. As much as I could care less how often you Celtics fans throw your players under buses or eat your young, I think it's reprehensible nonetheless.
You cant only blame Ray Allen here. He won game 2 for the Celtics the credit just goes to the lakers.
LOL. Look at all the Laker fans defend Ray Allen saying you cant blame one player and that its a team game. But when it comes to Cleveland losing, nothing stops them from blaming LeBron. And according to them LA wins because Kobe is better than LeBron and not because he plays on a better team.
You're right. If Ray went 0-13 it means he already took 13 shots. If a few of those went in the score would have been different and it would NOT have taken away shots from other players. The shots were already taken. So the logic fails.
That said, everyone who made it clear that it's a team game and no one player loses a game, are right. Using the same logic it's clear that no one player completely wins a game either. It's a team game and anyone who undervalues each contributor is not really a fan of this team sport.
I blame the loss on Pierce as well. But the reason Ray looked so bad was because he was so tired from game 2. Also he got hit early in the game so that might have affected his shot as well.
ok but then the argument could be made for any player that missed a shot, kobe missed like 20 shots or more if those went in then it would of been a blowout.
I think he was trying to say, if ray allen made a few of the 13 he took, he would have taken even more shots. but because he kept missing, he was slightly hesitant and passed out a few shots that he thought would be makeable if he was feeling hot.
ie. ray took 20 shots in game 2 even though lakers' defense had more focus on him that game because he was on fire.
atleast that's what i think he was saying.
Every player has bad games. I don't think anyone could have predicted that Ray would miss that many shots in a row. He's an excellent shooter and I don't think he was wrong for assuming one of his shots would eventually fall.
I don't think Ray Allen should be solely the blame for the lost. Even though he shot poorly, Boston still had a chance to win the game. That game was ugly across the board. The lakers just made more plays down the stretch.
It is a team game and you can't blame the loss on one player but Ray Allen is an integral part of the Boston Celtics. He definitely needs to play better for the Cs to win games. He's the celtics best shooter but for him to score 2 pts in 42 minutes while scoring nothing form the field is unacceptable.
exactly. if he made that shot and celtics win, it'd be one of the biggest redeem performance in the history of finals.
a great shooter like allen can miss 20 in a row then make the biggest shot in the game.
it's kind of like ron artest (not comparing players) vs suns in game 5. 1/8 horrible shooting, a lot of mental mistakes, then phil leaves him in the game, and he makes a put back buzzer beater, and everyone's happy.
if he missed that put back or never even grabbed that board, people would be saying phil should have put sasha, brown, farmar or walton in the game to spread the floor for kobe.
one game does not make or break a player, not to mention a play.
Well that's one of the reasons why fans have to understand that players go through streaks. You can't ever count hypothetical points.
But I was saying that the other guy's logic failed because he wouldn't need to take any more shots to have made an impact.
I agree that's what he was saying but the logic didn't work.
Even if Ray had hit 3 or 4 out of 13 -- not unreasonable for a shooter like Allen -- it would have changed the game. He would still be shooting poorly, therefore passing as you say, but it would have made an impact on the game.
Fact is, it didn't happen and there's no point speculating about what-ifs.
The game gets won and lost by the team. Allen is no more to blame in this game than Kobe was in Game 2 or KG was in Game 1. These players pick each other up. They are playing against another elite team with elite defenders and they are bound to have off games.
The Celtics play team basketball, they work together as a group.
In Cleveland, Lebron runs the show there. If he doesn't come through, their team loses.
The Celtics have so many weapons, if someone is off, another player will pick up the slack.
We shouldn't even be defending a Celtics player but blaming a loss on him is unfair.
It's hard to blame it ALL on him seeing how he took over in game 2, but yes he played a huge part in the loss of game 3.
Wow. With that kind of contortion, youre going to need a chiropractor.
That is some serious tap dancing. Sammy Davis Jr would be proud.
Yeah, I guess I'd say the same thing if I didn't have anything back to say.
By the same token, you can say the Celtics won game two because of Allen's three-point barrage. Granted, game three was an aberration for him (to say the least) but Kobe didn't have a particularly Kobe-like game either, even though he got his points. In my opinion, Ray Allen shooting threes all day is fool's gold even though he's the best at it. Garnett made up for Allen's disappearing act, though.
You have to give me something to respond to first, guy. Throwing spaghetti against the wall doesnt do that.
You call out Laker fans for defending Ray Allen when clearly BOS plays team basketball but complain that we don't defend Lebron when clearly he runs the show in Cleveland. We can't defend everybody.
Ray Allen doesnt have the game of his life in game 2 and the Celtic's would have come back home down 0-2. Paul Pierce didn't do much, neither did Rondo. Perkins doesn't give you anything offensively. KG had the highest scoring playoff in years, from him. There's all sorts of variables. If Kobe, Pau or Bynum were as efficient as they've been in the first 2 games it would've been a blowout. No one player makes or breaks your team. That's why you win and lose as a team. Someone else has to step up and pick the team up.
If you're going to blame a loss on Ray Allen, blame the game 2 WIN solely on his shoulders too.
first you praise the guy game 2 now you fault him for game 3.. I suppose Boston loses the series you wouldnt want to resign him?
Yes, on a dirty play by Artest.
Well, without him you wouldn't have won game 2.
Are you really gnna comment or complain on dirty plays?
This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen on PSD (and I've seen my fair share). Nothing else needs to be said.
I also want to say I don't give a damn if Ray was 0-20, like I didn't give a damn Fisher was like 0-5 from the 3pt line versus Orlando in game 4 last year.
The fact is you ride with what got you to the dance and just like Fisher has hit plenty of clutch shots for LA, Allen has hit many for Boston.
You should have that faith in him.
I dono, he's the reason why you guys won game two. To say you don't want him back is a little harsh.
Wow so much disrespect ... you're fan???
Your in the finals BECAUSE of Ray Allen and you are just gonna give up on him because of one game and possibly one final series?!
hy? The Celtics are the dirtiest team in the league. All they do is talk ****, cheap shot, flop, and cry to the refs. I told my boy the other day when we were watching the last Celtics Movie how I couldn't believe this team is in the finals.
Lakers fans should just let Boston blame their players...who cares. Let them single out a individual player....at the end of the day I dont give a shat!!!
Prove PP right, and don't come back to LA!!
If Ray Allen made a couple of his shots, that could have altered Lakers offense as well, it might have not taken anything away from KG now that I think about it, but if he did make a 3 or two, who's to say Lakers don't come back and attempt to shoot a 3 instead of going in for a 2? you can't simply say if he hit a couple of his shots Celtics would have won.


Moon Over Miami Egg, Egg in a Basket, or Toad in a Hole. Those are some of the nicknames for this healthy breakfast. An organic, cage-free egg is cooked up inside of a slice of whole grain bread. What you name this dish is up to you, but one taste is all you'll need before you'll undoubtedly call it delicious!
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Blog Meets Brand and their client, Pepperidge Farm®. I have been compensated for my participation, but as always, all opinions are my own.
When I was growing up, my mom made a lot of casseroles and soups. It was in my mom's nature to use up every bit of food if at all possible, so we never really knew what would end up in our meals, but there was a good chance that we had seen at least a few of the ingredients in a meal earlier in the week. For example, the piece of leftover bread from my favorite breakfast, a Moon over Miami egg, would later become bread crumbs that would be added to meat loaf.
Mom made our meals as healthy as possible, too. Lots of whole grains and fresh vegetables were used. That good habit carried on with me. Well, for the most part. Of course, I still have a major sweet tooth for desserts, (especially chocolate desserts!), but I've never strayed away from using healthy, whole grains like brown rice and whole wheat bread.
When I was offered the chance to try the new Pepperidge Farm Harvest Blends bread, I was truly excited. I had heard that it was exclusively available in select areas of the Midwest, but I hadn't seen it in the local grocery stores here. I received samples of all three varieties: Seeded Grain, Ancient Grain, and Sprouted Grain.
I decided to use the Seeded Grain bread to make a Moon over Miami egg, but because I got the package right around lunch time, I used the Ancient Grain bread right away to put together an easy open-faced sandwich. I spread a little olive oil mayo onto the bread and topped it with some garlic and herb cheese, some fresh basil from my indoor aeroponic garden, and a thick slice of tomato. It hit the spot perfectly, and the bread was delicious! Hearty, but not heavy. The slices are small enough that I didn't feel too full, either.
The next morning, I was ready to try the Harvest Blends Seeded variety to make the Moon over Miami egg!
Mom used to pinch her middle finger and thumb together to pull enough bread out to make a hole in the center. I'm a perfectionist, so I used a cute mini sized cookie cutter. Go with whatever works for you, but make sure that your hole isn't too much larger than the size of your egg yolk. Otherwise, all of the white will ooze onto the top of the bread and you won't see the nice toasty bread.
Instead of using butter in the skillet, I used a teaspoon of avocado oil. It's still fat, of course, but its a much healthier fat than butter is. If I wasn't allergic to coconut products, I would have used coconut oil. Olive oil would be another really delicious and healthy option to use when making your egg.
A simple, healthy egg breakfast made with cage-free, organic eggs and hearty, whole grain bread.
Preheat a medium skillet over medium heat.
Use a cookie cutter or your fingers to make a hole in the center of the bread. Make the hole just large enough for the yolk to fit into.
Place the bread oiled side down into the pan. Cook for 1 minute, then carefully open the egg over the bread so that the yolk falls into the hole in the center. Sprinkle salt over the egg.
Cook for 1 more minute to allow the bread to toast, then use a large spatula to gently flip the bread and egg over. Continue to cook until the egg is cooked to your liking. (About 2 minutes for a runny yolk and 3-4 minutes for a hard yolk.
Remove egg from pan and transfer to a serving plate with the yolk side up. If desired, apply any/all of the garnish options before serving.
Pepperidge Farm Harvest Blends bread is available in select areas of the Midwest. Check your local grocery store for availability.
Hey there! Happy to meet you, Becca! Just came to say hi and acknowledge that you're the best chef blogger I have ever known. Thanks for sharing your recipes and your memories from the past. Normally, I don't comment, as I don't consider myself to be a very sociable person, but I couldn't stop writing, when I read this post.
I remember making something like this when I was a kid. I used to love it. I bet it taste really good with the fresh parsley. I can't wait till breakfast tomorrow, I am so going to make this. Thanks!!
I'm new here…hello! I'm glad i found you! My husband has mentioned a favorite memory of toad in the hole that I thought was a casserole…I happily see here that there is another "toad" that is simple and healthy. Love the avocado oil idea…I use olive oil on grilled cheese sandwiches now for a healthier and very tasty switch from butter!! You give good but simple and inspiring ideas for eating well!
I hope that you'll find lots of great recipe inspiration here!


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Q: Using Foundation_EXPORT correctly I have a file called Event.h:
@interface Event : NSObject

FOUNDATION_EXPORT NSString * const KP_STATUS_NEW
FOUNDATION_EXPORT NSString * const KP_STATUS_APPROVED
FOUNDATION_EXPORT NSString * const KP_STATUS_DELETED

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString * name;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString * description;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString * status

I would like programmers who use my SDK to have access to the STATUS strings especially when setting a status for an Event object. Should I be using FOUNDATION_EXPORT like the above?
So that a programmer can just do
Event * myEvent = [[Event alloc] init];
myEvent.status = STATUS_NEW;

?
Is that the way to do it in objective-c?
By the way KP is the common prefix for the project. Should I be prefixing the status with KP or something else? What's the standard?

A: You can just use extern, rather than FOUNDATION_EXPORT (which I believe is what it is defined as anyway).
Using a common prefix is a good idea, given the lack of namespaces in Objective-C and this goes double for a class called Event which is a very common name.
So something like this, looks OK to me:
#import "KPEvent.h"

KPEvent * myEvent = [[KPEvent alloc] init];
myEvent.status = KP_STATUS_NEW;

or better still:
myEvent.status = KP_EVENT_STATUS_NEW;

if statuses only relate to the event class.
What you don't explain, is why you cannot use an enum, which is more elegant:
typedef enum {
    KP_EVENT_STATUS_NEW,
    KP_EVENT_STATUS_APPROVED,
    KP_EVENT_STATUS_DELETED
} KpEventStatus;

and you can forget about that extern nonsense.

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Are My Retirement Savings Invested in Fossil Fuels?? Help!
Look inside your retirement savings and you may find some surprises: oil and gas companies, pipeline operators, utilities with coal-fired power plants. It can feel like no matter what you're doing to combat climate change in your daily life, your money is working against you. So how do you invest without wrecking the planet? Is there such a thing as green investing? And why isn't this easier to fig...
Air Conditioned Stadiums. Cruise Ships. New Hotels. Can the World Cup in Qatar Really Be Carbon Neutral?
More than a million soccer fans will travel to Qatar this fall for one of the biggest sporting events on Earth: The FIFA World Cup. The event sounds like it will be a climate nightmare, thanks to all the flights, air conditioned outdoor fields, docked cruise ships and brand new stadiums. But despite all this – the organizers claim this month-long event will be carbon neutral. How can they say that?...
Spark Tank! How Do We Solve the Energy Storage Problem?
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Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Helps You Find Your Climate Superpower
It's a question we get all the time: "What can I do to address the climate crisis?" This week, our one and only original co-host, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, pays us a visit and offers her advice on how to find your place in the climate movement. We're sharing her TED Talk, "How to find joy in climate action," given this spring at TED2022 in Vancouver. Plus, Alex and Ayana catch up, and we hear al...
Presenting: Hot Farm – Grain of the Future
This week we're sharing an episode from a new podcast called Hot Farm. It's from our friends at the Food & Environment Reporting Network. The podcast is about what farmers are doing – or could be doing – to take on climate change. In this episode, we'll hear about the crops farmers actually grow. And we'll explore the question, Can that change? Because as the world gets hotter and the weather more ...
Meet The Influencer Who Wants You To Buy LESS Stuff
In our episode Fast Fashion's Dirty Little Secret (Hint: It's Oil), we made the call to action: buy less clothing, and keep your clothing for longer. Some of you may have heard that and thought – "yeah, sure." It sounds great, but it's really hard to do, given the ecosystem of desire creation that is social media. How can you buy less when your feed is encouraging you to buy more, more, more? To fi...
When 'Electrify Everything' Means Quitting Your Desk Job and Getting Your Hands Dirty
Nate Johnson didn't plan to switch careers. But since he did he's gone from just writing about the energy transition, to actually making it happen. In this episode, find out what it's like to become an electrician — and the challenges that could be holding back the decarbonization of our grid. And hear from one company, Solar Holler, that came up with a surprising solution to the issues they were f...
Why Is It So Hard To Fix Our Electronics, And What Can We Do About It?
Electronics — smartphones, computers, televisions — exact a hefty toll on the planet. One way to lighten their load? Use them for longer. And yet, for decades now, manufacturers have made replacing our gadgets easier than repairing them. But Kyle Wiens, co-founder of the repair website iFixit, has been working to reverse that. He talks to us about why repair matters, why our devices are so hard to ...
Presenting: Not Past It - The "Crying Indian" Ad
We're bringing you an episode of another Gimlet podcast, Not Past It, which looks at a moment from that week in history and explores how it shapes our world today. On Earth Day, April 22nd, 1971, a commercial debuted starring a crying American Indian. The image stuck in the country's consciousness. But there were surprising forces behind the ad. Not Past It digs into the powerful players who helped...
Feeling Doomed? How to Tackle Climate Anxiety
"We're all doomed." If you've ever thought this to yourself while looking down at the remnants of your paper straw floating in your plastic coffee cup (just me?), you may be experiencing climate anxiety. Climate feelings, like anxiety and grief, are on the rise all over the world. And researcher Britt Wray started feeling them herself when she was newly married and started thinking about having chi...
Should I Give Up Beef?
A quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and land use – and a big portion of those emissions come from producing meat. Adopting a plant-based diet is one of the biggest steps an individual can take to reduce their own carbon footprint. So, should we all stop eating meat? Or is it more complicated than that? This week, we take a tour through the bodily functions of cows, mi...
Sacrifice Zones: ProPublica Takes Us Inside America's Toxic Hotspots
All across the United States, industrial polluters are emitting toxic air... and people who live near those polluters are breathing it in. Kendra spoke to journalists from investigative newsroom ProPublica about the communities most affected by carcinogenic air pollution, often referred to as "sacrifice zones": where they are, why they matter, and how you can find out if you and your loved ones are...
Canvassing for Climate Action: Here's How to Make it Work
What can you do if someone you know – or an entire town – isn't on board with renewable energy? This was the dilemma facing The West Kootenay Eco Society in Trail, a small city in British Columbia. The Eco Society wanted to gain support for an energy pledge, but couldn't gain traction within the community. Until the Eco Society's Executive Director got the idea (from a podcast) to send volunteers d...
Presenting: Extreme Home Makeover - Threshold Edition
We're bringing you an episode from a podcast called Threshold.
Bringing Climate Change to the Frontlines: The Fight to Get Militaries to Go Green
Militaries around the world emit a lot of carbon, but they aren't required to report these emissions directly…plus they aren't exactly known for prioritizing climate change in their projections. Still, if we want to lower emissions and limit global warming, we're going to need their help. So how exactly do you get an institution whose focus is national protection, to care about climate protection? ...
Kelp Farming, for the Climate
Seaweed and giant kelp are sometimes called "the sequoias of the sea." Yet at a time when so many people are talking about climate solutions and reforestation — there aren't nearly enough people talking about how the ocean can be part of that. In part one of our two-part series, we go out on the water to see how seaweed can play a role in addressing climate change, and how a fisherman named Bren Sm...
Mind Your Mines: The Push to Make Mining Safer and Cleaner
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to stop digging up fossil fuels. But the switch to renewables doesn't mean we stop digging altogether. Wind turbines contain literal tons of copper and iron. Batteries for electric vehicles contain lithium, cobalt and nickel. All those materials come out of the ground—and we need to dig up more of them to power the switch to renewables. In other...
Waste, Worms and Windrows: Domingo Morales' Quest to Make Compost Cool
Food waste accounts for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But it turns out composting — the mystical art of turning your food scraps into nutritious organic material that can be used to grow even more food — can help to reduce those emissions. We talk to Domingo Morales of Compost Power about how he found composting, how he's trying to make it cool, and why he's building compost sites at publi...
Are The Coral Reefs Really Doomed?
You've probably heard of coral bleaching; if you live near a coral reef, maybe you've even seen the impacts of climate change on that reef up close. But what — if anything — can we do to keep coral alive? This week, we talk to Julia Baum, a marine ecologist who's made the unlikely journey from climate despair to climate optimism… and ask her what finally changed her mind about the future of coral r...
Fast Fashion's Dirty Little Secret (Hint: It's Oil)
Whether you consider yourself a fashion maven or not one thing is true: you wear clothes. It's a basic rule of most societies. But in recent years, it's become clear that the clothes that keep us warm in winter and protect us from the sun in summer are also harming the planet. According to the EPA in the United States we threw out close to 13 million tons of clothing in 2018 alone. One factor? Clot...
Cold Hard Cash for Your Greenhouse Gas
When we think about what's heating up the planet, we may picture CO2 from smokestacks and tailpipes. But there are other greenhouse gases that are even more dangerous. And some of these are hiding in garages and sheds all over the country. We're talking about refrigerants. They're the secret sauce behind how refrigerators and air conditioners keep things cool. But they're heating up the planet. Thi...
What's it Like to Work at Exxon – and Then Quit?
Back in 2003, Dar-Lon Chang took a job as an engineer at ExxonMobil — a job he thought would be focused on transitioning beyond fossil fuels. But over a 16-year career, he found it harder and harder to reconcile the threat of climate change with Exxon's role as an oil and gas producer. We talk to Dar-Lon about what it was like to work inside the oil giant, what finally compelled him to leave, and w...
Presenting: Science Vs. Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview
Today, we're sharing an episode from another Gimlet Media podcast, Science Vs. This episode fact-checks some claims made in a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Dr. Robert Malone. As you may know, this episode has caused an uproar: Many scientists have called out the show for spreading false information about the Covid-19 vaccines and some 270 scientists and medical professionals...
How Adam McKay Got Climate Change on the Big Screen
How do you get people to care about climate change? Simple: Make a blockbuster movie about it, packed full of the biggest stars in Hollywood. At least, that was Adam McKay's approach. The writer and director of 'Don't Look Up' joins the show this week to discuss the film, which parodies society's tepid response to impending disaster. 'Don't Look Up' shattered Netflix viewership records, earning mor...
A Storm is Brewing. Is it Climate Change?
For years, we were told it wasn't possible to link specific weather events to global warming — and that made communicating about climate change difficult: When extreme weather events were in the news, climate change was often left out of the story. This week, we tell the story of how that changed. We talk to the scientists who figured out how to model the role of climate change in events like Hurri...
Presenting: TED Radio Hour - An SOS From the Ocean
Today we're sharing an episode from TED Radio Hour on NPR, which explores the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. The host Manoush Zomorodi speaks with four ocean experts, including our former co-host Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, about how to grocery shop for seafood sustainably, how much the ocean has changed over the last century, and how beautiful whale ...
How Oil Companies Greenwash (and the Campaign To Make Them Stop)
For decades, fossil fuel companies have fought action on climate change. They've done so directly – by challenging legislation that would help reign in emissions. But they've also done it indirectly, by funding organizations who lobby congress, launching fake grassroots campaigns, and perhaps most importantly, through advertising. These ads, according to Martin Watters at the nonprofit firm ClientE...
Electrify This!
We asked for your weirdest alternative energy ideas, and you delivered. This week, Alex — plus climate journalists and experts Brian Kahn and Amelia Urry — vet some wacky new ways we could power our planet in the future. Join us as we assess the good, the bad, and the viable… in our very first HTSAP game show.
The Fight to Stop Oil Pipelines: "For Water. For Treaties. For Climate."
This week, we're talking about oil pipelines. From the fight against Keystone XL to Standing Rock, pipeline protests have been central to the climate movement in the U.S. But they've always been about more than just the climate -- they've also been a battle for Indigenous rights, demanding that Native American people and Tribes should have a say over what happens in their historic territories. This...
How Amazon Workers Got Serious About Climate (and How You Can, too)
A common piece of career advice is to bring your whole self to work. But what if your whole self includes a deep concern for the climate? Can you bring that part of yourself to work, even if it makes your workplace uncomfortable? This week we talked to a couple of people, Emily Cunningham and Eliza Pan, who had that same question. They were deeply concerned about the climate crisis and they felt th...
What's Your 2022 Climate Resolution?
At the end of every episode of this show, we give you all calls to action – things that you, our listeners, can do to address climate change. This week, we're giving ourselves some calls to action, and setting climate action New Year's Resolutions. Oddly enough, they have to do with rats, poutine, Delia's jeans, and more. Also, Mr. Beast is back with another environmental stunt, and we've got an up...
The Evangelical Christians Taking On Climate Change
In public opinion polls, one group of Americans stand out, telling researchers they are particularly skeptical about climate change: white Evangelical Christians. That skepticism has had a major influence on American politics and policy. So how do we bring more people of faith into the climate movement? We talk to a Christian climate scientist about how she became a climate skeptic whisperer, by co...
The Earth Gets Left Off the Balance Sheet. Let's Fix That
For decades politicians and other leaders have said that acting on climate change comes at too high a cost — to jobs, to business, to the economy. And they've used economics, the dismal science, to support their argument. But some climate activists have long said that those politicians have it all wrong. That there are no jobs on a dead planet.
Trying to Talk to Family about Climate Change? Here's How.
It's important to talk about climate change. But how do you talk about it with friends and family who don't believe it's real, or don't think we can do anything about it? We hear from a father and son who successfully navigated this conversation, and we bring you step-by-step tips from an expert on how to have a conversation where both sides actually hear each other. This episode originally aired i...
We Go Inside the COP26 Climate Talks
At the COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly 200 countries signed a deal aimed at increasing efforts to tackle climate change. The goal? "Keep 1.5 alive" — that is, set the world on a credible path to limit warming to 1.5°C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. So, did countries succeed? We take you inside COP26: from the protests at the gates to the late night negotiations —...
Presenting: Life Raft - Could We Just Make Our Houses Float?
With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there's got to be a better way to tackle the challenge. For example: could we make our homes float when the water comes? We're sharing an episode of Life Raft from New Orleans Public Radio, who talked to an architect who has devoted her professional life to answering that question, and visited a Louisiana comm...
The Tribe that's Moving Earth (and Water) to Solve the Climate Crisis
The Yurok tribe is reversing centuries of ecological damage to their land and making it more resilient to climate change by marrying two systems that might seem contradictory: indigenous land management practices and modern Western economics.
The Small Island Nations that Got Big Action on Climate
In 2015, the landmark Paris Agreement was adopted. For the first time, nearly every country on Earth pledged to cut carbon emissions to tackle climate change. But in the years since, emissions have continued to rise. Now, an estimated 25,000 people are descending on Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, to hammer out the next steps after the Paris Agreement, and it's fair to ask...do these climate talks eve...
Sheep + Solar, A Love Story
We all know that a key part of addressing climate change involves getting off fossil fuels. But renewable energies, such as solar energy, are not without costs. One key cost? It uses a lot of land. We take a look at one creative solution to this problem – mixing solar panels with agriculture. And we are not at all sheepish about the role of one very adorable four legged animal.
Reintroducing How to Save a Planet!
Climate change. We know. It can feel too overwhelming. But what if there was a show about climate change that left you feeling... energized? One so filled with possibility that you actually wanted to listen? Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds, as we bring you smart, inspiring stories about the mess we're in and how we can get ourselves out of it.
Environmentalist Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Says The Outdoors Is for Everyone
It's no secret How to Save a Planet is a pro-nature podcast, and that's not just because we like the mountains, or because trees suck carbon out of the atmosphere: outdoors experiences can also be an important way to build the climate movement. But not everyone feels welcome or safe in the outdoors. Environmentalist drag queen Pattie Gonia is on a mission to change that. Her goal: bring more queer ...
How TV Weathercasters Went From Climate Skeptics to Champions
Nearly every night on local news stations across the country, Americans hear scientists talking about the weather…the local broadcast meteorologist, giving the weather report. But for years, those weather reports omitted one crucial element: the impact of climate change. In fact, many broadcast meteorologists were openly skeptical of climate change -- and spread that skepticism to their viewers. In...
Presenting: Windfall
Offshore wind's potential in the United States — both as a renewable resource and as a job creation tool — is enormous. But the sector's current reality is tiny. There are just seven wind turbines operating off the coast of the US. The few attempts to build large scale wind farms on par with those in Europe have run into long delays. And yet, now, after decades of political gridlock, the U.S. is p...
We Can't Solve the Climate Crisis Without Gender Equality. We'll Prove It To You.
Take a look at many of the spaces where climate-related decisions are being made — from government to business to media — and you'll notice a numbers problem. Despite being roughly half the people on the planet, women rarely have equal representation in critical climate decision-making spaces. This isn't just bad for women — it's bad for everyone. This week, How To Save A Planet co-host Dr. Ayana E...
How We Got our Grid and How We Get a Better One
Wind and solar are now some of the cheapest ways to make electricity. So, what's standing in the way of using more of these renewable energies? One of the biggest barriers is something all around us that we rarely notice – our electricity grid. Not just the wires and technology that make up the grid, but also the people and institutions that run it. In this episode we talk with anthropologist Gretc...
Should We Go Nuclear?
When it comes to nuclear energy, many people have strong opinions. Some say that if you're not on board with nuclear energy, then you aren't serious about addressing the climate crisis. Nuclear, after all, produces a lot of electricity and doesn't emit greenhouse gases while making energy.
The Unexpected Idea to Get Coal off the Grid
One of the most effective ways to fight climate change is to quit using coal to generate electricity. And while coal-fired power plants are closing at record rates, many are scheduled to remain operational for years to come - even if remaining open doesn't make economic sense. How To Save A Planet co-host Alex Blumberg teams up with A Matter Of Degrees co-host Leah Stokes for an episode about an un...
The Shareholders Vs. Exxon
In our first episode on green investing, Are My Retirement Savings Invested in Fossil Fuels?? Help!, we talked about how to get your retirement money out of fossil fuels. Now, we're looking at a different strategy – keeping your money IN fossil fuels, and using those investments as leverage to force companies into changing their behavior. Companies like Exxon Mobil, the poster child for a big, bad ...
Presenting: Ologies Dives into Coral
Will changing your sunscreen save coral reefs? What even IS a coral? Where do they grow and what do they eat and why are they so pretty? Is it reefs or reeves? The charming coral biologist and cnidariologist Shayle Matsuda of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology/UH Mānoa takes time out of his busy schedule to chat about how magical and beautiful coral can be and why reef health is important. Toda...
Look inside your retirement savings and you may find some surprises: oil and gas companies, pipeline operators, utilities with coal-fired power plants. It can feel like no matter what you're doing to combat climate change in your daily life, your money is retirement savings are working against you. So how do you invest without wrecking the planet? Is there such a thing as green investing? And why i...
In recent years, more and more people from Central America have tried to emigrate north to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Many leave home not because they want to, but because they have to: Droughts, brought on by climate change, have forced many to choose between staying home – and risking starvation – or migrating. But a different way of farming could change that calculus. We look at how ...
Is Your Carbon Footprint BS?
We're tackling a sibling debate: Do your individual actions matter when it comes to climate change? Or is it all about big, systemic change? In this episode, we break down both sides of the argument. We lay out the actions that have the biggest impact on your carbon footprint – and then ask if there's a better way to think about our individual role in climate change. (This episode originally aired ...
Like The Monarch, Human Migrations During Climate Change
Human migration is nothing new, but the scale at which people will need to relocate due to climate change will be different than ever before. A World Bank report estimates that over the next thirty years, 143 million people will be displaced within three of the most vulnerable regions alone: sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. To handle such shifts in population, our governments and ...
Fighting Fire with Fire
From California's crimson skies to smoke so thick along Colorado's front range that sent people indoors for days, wildfires in the US have becomes more and more extreme. On today's episode, we ask, how did the wildfires get so bad – and what can we do to address them?
Soil: The Dirty Climate Solution
On this week's episode, we meet two farmers who, at first glance, seem very different. One is a first-generation farmer in upstate New York raising fruits and vegetables for the local community. The other is a third generation farmer in Minnesota who sells commodity crops—corn and soybeans—to big industrial processors. But they share something in common. They're both bucking modern conventions on h...
Drs. Jane Goodall & Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Talk About Hope
If you're curious to know how Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jane Goodall first fell in love with the natural world, both on land and underwater, this week's episode is for you. Dr. Jane Goodall, a primatologist and conservationist best known for her long-term study of chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania, currently hosts a podcast called The Jane Goodall Hopecast. One of her recent guests was ...
Recycling! Is it BS?
The recycling bin — many of us have learned to view this humble container as an environmental superhero. It is, after all, the critical first step in turning our trash into… well, not treasure, but at least more stuff. Or is it?
An Origin Story of the Blue New Deal
This week, the inside scoop on how a climate policy gets made. In 2019, when the Green New Deal resolution was unveiled, How to Save a Planet co-host Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson noticed something big (and blue) was missing: the ocean. The ocean is not just a victim of climate change, it's also a hero, offering many climate solutions. Ayana, along with a bunch of other ocean policy nerds, didn't wan...
Presenting: Gastropod
Over the past century, we've transformed the arid lands of the American west into year-round, well-irrigated agricultural powerhouses. Today, fruits, nuts, and nearly all of our leafy greens are grown in the desert, using water diverted, stored, and supplied at taxpayer expense. This intense irrigation is having an impact: Reservoir levels are dropping, rivers are drying up, and the state of Arizon...
A common piece of career advice is to bring your whole self to work. But what if your whole self includes a deep concern for the climate? Can you bring that part of yourself to work, even if it makes your workplace uncomfortable? This week we talked to a couple of people, Emily Cunningham and Eliza Pan, who had that same question. They were regular people, with regular jobs who were deeply concerne...
Are Electric Cars Really Better for the Climate?
We love listener mail! You've sent us some amazing notes. Some made us laugh, some made us cry, and some made us say – hey, that's a great question! We should answer it. So this week, we dig into one of your questions, and in the process, resolve an argument for a couple who can't decide what kind of car is better for the climate.
Is Biden's Jobs Plan a 'Skinny Green New Deal'?
The Biden Administration's American Jobs Plan is billed as an "infrastructure" package. But it's also something else: the most ambitious climate plan a U.S. president has ever proposed. So what's in it? And how can we make sure this plan avoids the fate of the last big climate bill (hint: it didn't go well)? We talk to an architect of the Green New Deal and one of our favorite energy policy expert...
Presenting: No Place Like Home
This week, we're sharing some wisdom from Sherri Mitchell. Sherri is an Indigenous rights attorney, author, activist, and contributor to the book Ayana co-edited, All We Can Save. In this conversation, which originally aired on the podcast No Place Like Home, Sherri speaks about indigenous knowledge, prophecy and Mother Earth. We're excited to share it with you.
Listener Mail: Is Renewable Natural Gas a Scam?
It's listener mail time! This week, we're digging into a mysterious email one listener received from their utility about renewable natural gas. Can natural gas actually be renewable, or is this just a marketing scheme? We also take a look at Venn diagrams sent by listeners after our episode, "Is Your Carbon Footprint BS?" to see what kind of climate actions you've got planned!
Where's Our Climate Anthem?
Social movements are often bolstered by anthems, songs that help unite people and remind them of what they are fighting for. In this episode, we take a look at one of the most famous anthems in US history. We ask what lessons it holds for the climate movement. And we investigate: does the climate movement already have an anthem? Reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis scours the charts to find what's out ther...
This week, we're talking about oil pipelines. From the fight against Keystone XL to Standing Rock, pipeline protests have been central to the climate movement in the U.S. But they've always been about more than just the climate -- they've also been a battle for Indigenous rights, demanding that Native American people and Tribes should have a say over what happens in their historic territories. . Th...
Presenting: Stolen
This week, we're sharing a Spotify Exclusive from another Gimlet podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain. In 2018, a young Indigenous mother named Jermain Charlo left a bar in Missoula, Montana, and was never seen again. After two years and thousands of hours of investigative work, police believe they are close to solving the mystery of what happened to her. Stolen goes inside the investigation, tr...
Presenting: Outside/In
It's one of the most important Supreme Court cases you may never have heard of: Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. The ruling held that the U.S. government could regulate greenhouse gases. Today we're sharing the wild backstory of this critical Supreme Court case, from a podcast we love,"Outside/In," from New Hampshire Public Radio. If you don't believe a legal case in all its intima...
The Beef with Beef
Your carbon footprint – everything from eating meat, to flying, and driving, all have carbon costs associated with them. We tell you what's at the top of the American carbon footprint list, and then we take a step back and ask a bigger question...does your carbon footprint even matter? In this episode, we answer that question, and settle a sibling debate on individual actions vs. systemic change.
Solving a Rooftop Solar Mystery, and What's a Nurdle?
If you put a plastic bag in a bin outside your grocery store - will it really end up being recycled? Are some utilities trying to sabotage the solar industry? We've got answers to these questions and more incredible info about kelp (we are glad you love it as much as we do!) If you have a burning climate-themed question, send us a voice memo to howtosaveaplanet@spotify.com!
Presenting: A Matter of Degrees
Kelp Farming, for the Climate (Part II)
So, what do you do with 579 pounds of seaweed? In our last episode, we ventured into the ocean to learn how seaweed farming can help solve climate change. In part II, we ask: What do we do with all that kelp? Plus our team does some seaweed R&D of its own and discovers...green scones?
Party Like It's 2035
President Biden has set a goal of reaching 100% clean electricity in the U.S. by 2035. That means cutting all carbon emissions from the entire electricity sector in just 15 years. So... is that even possible? And if so, how do we pull it off? This week, we talk to experts who say that goal just might be in reach – if we act now.
Presenting: Timber Wars
When loggers with massive chainsaws headed into the Willamette National Forest on Easter Sunday in 1989, they found a line of protesters blocking the road. Some protesters buried themselves in front of bulldozers and spent months sitting in the tallest trees in the world. The ensuing battle would help catapult old-growth forests into a national issue, and become known as the "Easter Massacre." Toda...
Meet Your New Climate Czar
Gina McCarthy will serve as the first-ever National Climate Advisor, heading up the newly formed White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy. So, who is she? We spent time with her before the nomination and talked about her relentless fight to link environmental policy with public health. From her early days inspecting septic systems, to her time leading the Environmental Protection Agency in the...
Presenting: Resistance
How do you take a global movement local? What happens when you refuse to accept things as they are? This week, we're excited to bring you an episode of a new Gimlet show called Resistance. Resistance is a show full of stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change. Warning: this episode of Resistance has some strong language in it.
Presenting: Science Vs
We know that carbon dioxide is rising and we know that it's warming the world, but how did scientists figure that out in the first place? And what will all this warming mean for our future? Our friends at the Gimlet podcast, Science Vs., visited a couple climate scientists to find out.
Answering Your Tree-Mail (and Nuclear) Questions
We love listener mail! You've sent us some amazing notes. Some made us laugh, some made us cry, and some made us say – hey, that's a great question! We should answer it. So that's what we did. This week, we dig into some of your questions about trees. What's up with that tree-planting search engine? Who were the original tree-huggers? And we top it off with some answers to your questions about our ...
Breaking Buildings' Addiction to Fossil Fuels
If we're going to deal with climate change, we've got to talk about buildings. Thirty percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to our homes, offices and other buildings – how we heat and cool them, how we insulate them (or don't) and the electricity we use. But greening buildings is really hard. Donnel Baird is on a mission to change that. He founded the startup BlocPower to prov...
If Miami Will Be Underwater, Why Is Construction Booming?
Miami Beach could be mostly underwater within eighty years, but construction of new beachfront properties is booming. What's behind this disconnect? To find out, writer Sarah Miller went undercover posing as a high end buyer to meet with real estate agents across the city. Here's the story of what she found.
Trying to Talk to Family about Climate Change? Here's How
It's important to talk about climate change. But how do you talk about it with friends and family who don't believe it's real, or don't think we can do anything about it? We hear from a father and son who successfully navigated this conversation, and we bring you step-by-step tips from an expert on how to have a conversation where both sides actually hear each other. Maybe try it out this socially ...
How Much Does the President Matter for the Climate?
When it comes to climate change, it can feel like our future hangs in the balance of this presidential election in the U.S. But how much does the president really matter? And how can climate action move forward regardless of who wins? This week, Alex and Ayana talk with Abigail Dillen of Earthjustice about fighting for climate in the courts. Then, we speak with Benji Backer of the American Conserva...
Presenting: Drilled
Decades ago, the oil company Exxon made a decision that drastically changed our country's response to climate change. At the time, the company's scientists were warning about global warming and Exxon was investing in the research and development of renewable energy technologies. But instead of going down the path of pursuing renewables, a small group of powerful people decided to double down on fos...
From California's crimson skies to smoke so thick along Colorado's front range that sent people indoors for days, this year has been an especially bad one for extreme wildfires. On today's episode, we ask, how did the wildfires get so bad – and what can we do to address them?
How 2020 Became a Climate Election
For years, American politicians have failed to take climate change seriously. The 2016 presidential debates didn't even include a single climate question. Fast-forward four years, and climate change is a major election issue. So how did 2020 become a climate election? This week, how a bunch of outsiders turned the Green New Deal into a national rallying cry — and pushed Joe Biden to adopt the most ...
Making Republicans Environmentalists Again
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The BBC debuted a new soccer highlights show over the weekend called Football League Show.
Their first airing contained an odd addition: A 38-second video clip of Kate Bosworth sitting on a toilet.
This was either an accident, an intentional PR ploy, or some deep-meaning statement regarding the quality of play from Torquay and Chesterfield.


This month our Featured Artisan is Jeff Steele of Steele and Rowe – third generation canvas fabricators for yachts and boats in North Dartmouth, MA. I met Jeff a couple of years ago through his fiancé, Courtney Saunders, one of my favorite peeps who is incredibly driven and creative, with energy to spare…and Jeff shares those qualities and then some, which makes them a dynamic duo. Jeff's photo (above) includes their beyond adorable son, Leo. Knowing what Jeff does for work, I asked him to replace the canvas on my vintage directors chairs (the orange and white striped one featured) and not only did he do a beautiful job of replacing the fabric (on chairs that are not supposed to be replaced!) but did a lovely job of refinishing the wood arms… I had to know more! So I asked him to show me other work that he did, which you will see. He also do leather work on yachts that is equally lovely.
And while he is fortunate to have more business than he can say grace over, like all small business owners he is looking to the future for himself and the next generation, and the changes to make in this business to continue to be profitable and relevant.
1. What are the biggest changes you have seen to the industry and to your business in the last five years?
3. What do you predict for the art and design industry? And how will you prepare for it?
Thank you, Jeff for your participation and your commitment to excellence.


Winterization of systems, which includes draining the lines (using your timer) and shutting down the system to prevent freezing of pipes. Draining the water prevents it from freezing in the lines and cracking the pipes when the winter temperatures get really cold.
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Revealed: Slow down of China's retail sales growth
China's retail economy saw a slump in July as a result of the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19 and extreme whether.
The country's retail sales increased by 8.5 percent last month, year-on-year, lower than the 11.5 percent increase expected by analysts, and significantly down from June's 12.1 percent year-on-year rise, according to data released by the country's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The cosmetics sector was one of the slowest-growing categories, with sales rising by just 2.8% in July compared to a year ago, versus growth of 13.5% in June.
The NBS report revealed that in the first seven months of this year, the online retail sales reached was up by 21.9 percent year-on-year.
Although China's economy has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels of growth, it is now slowing down and preforming below expectation levels dampened by inflation and higher costs of doing business, supply chain challenges as well as the pandemic and the natural disasters the country has witnessed recently.
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I make short documentaries about self-taught learners who've followed an interest to success — charismatic people who have become experts in their field. Whatever the subject is that drew them in, that's what I seek to learn more about. Once the film is made, I try to give it exposure by submitting it to film festivals and distributing it to nonprofits, ultimately to inspire viewers to pursue their own interests.
My current documentary is "A Sound Life". It's scheduled for release in '20.
Richard Beggs followed his interest in painting, classical music, and music recording, to work in sound for film. He received an Academy Award on his very first film, "Apocalypse Now." As retirement looms, Richard shares insights from 40 years of experience of creating motion picture soundtracks. Among his unique contributions are his choice, throughout his career, to give women a gateway into a male-dominated field. A good film soundtrack is critical to a successful film experience, but few people know what goes into its creation. "A Sound Life" includes behind-the-scenes footage and candid interviews with award-winning film professionals such as Sofia Coppola, Barry Levinson, Walter Murch, Gary Rydstrom, Randy Thom, Lora Hirschberg, and Skip Lievsay who add to California's rich film history about post-production sound for film.
With production nearing completion, I'm currently accepting private and corporate donations to subsidize post production costs including attorney's fees, music licensing costs, sound-editing honorarium, tests screenings, DCP copies, and festival entries.
Ultimately, my film is intended to be screened, followed by discussion questions, at non-profits, particularly those with media programs. Art museums needing intellectual content for donors and would benefit from screenings. Public libraries could make this unknown aspect of filmmaking finally available to the public.
I'm looking forward to sharing the film history I've gathered from Richard Beggs, and his esteemed directors and colleagues. Their masterful interpretation of post sound work for film has never been explored like this before.
Ultimately my hope is that "A Sound Life" will inspire women and people of color to seek work in this currently white-dominated male film profession.
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Schools in Greene County will distribute COVID-19 test kits to students, but some supplies will be limited.
Schools to hand out COVID test kits
By Ted Remsnyder
Columbia-Greene Media
The Catskill Central School District announced Monday that the district would be distributing a limited supply of at-home COVID-19 testing kids to students on Tuesday and Wednesday.
As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the region, Greene County recorded two more virus-related deaths over the holiday weekend.
In a statement, Catskill Superintendent Ronel Cook noted that the test kits will be distributed to parents from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Jan. 4 and 5 at the Catskill Elementary School parent pick-up loop.
Each district parent can collect one kit per child, with each kit containing two COVID tests and a set of directions to follow.
"We kindly ask that parents remain in their car and follow the directions of staff and law enforcement," Cook wrote.
In the Coxsackie-Athens School District, Superintendent Randall Squier updated district parents on Dec. 30 to the future availability of the at-home kits, noting that the district was expecting to receive them from the state early this week.
Squire said that once the kits are received by the district that each child would be offered two testing kits.
The district will allow families to opt out of receiving the kits if they do not want them. Parents will be given the option to choose whether they want the kits to be sent home in their child's backpack or to pick them up on campus.
The two deaths over the weekend brought the county's total number of COVID-related deaths to 95 since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
According to Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden, both unidentified victims were in their mid-70s and both were unvaccinated at the time of their deaths. One of the victims did have comorbidity issues.
The county currently has 803 active positive cases, up 168 cases since the county last updated its numbers four days prior.
There are currently 27 county residents hospitalized due to COVID-related illnesses.
"We're going to continue to have these spikes for awhile," Groden said. "I think everyone is going to get this in some variant before it's done. We're not locked down, so your chances of exposure are so much more increased. You're much better off being vaccinated."
Groden said the county has not received an update from the state on when the county might receive at-home test kits to distribute free to residents. Local school districts are being sent the kits directly, with each district allowed to distribute them how they see fit.
For residents who do acquire their own at-home tests, Groden stressed that they need to report test results to the state and county health departments in order to facilitate contact tracing efforts.
"Our concern all along is that people won't report out the results from their home kits," he said. "That's going to be important or how else are we going to know the results positive or negative? We have a self-reporting form on our website that people are requested to go on and fill it out. It's not public information, it's just for us so we can put anybody who's positive into the database."
Groden said that to date 120 residents have reported at-home tests to the county health department. The county administrator added that residents looking to get tested can also go to a new state testing site at the Crossgates Mall in Albany that runs from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily.
"I know it's up in Albany, but it's not that far if you can't get into one of our sites," he said.
The county is running testing sites on Mondays and Wednesdays at 370 Mansion St. in Coxsackie.
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Miami Dolphins running back Arian Foster, a former Vol, knelt during the anthem last Sunday before the Dolphins played the Seattle Seahawks.
Kaepernick's actions have generated controversy because a certain segment of the population believes protesting the anthem is a sign of disrespect to the country and members of the military.
'Everyone has the right to freedom of speech and belief. But in college football, we don't really have that because we are not on the field for the national anthem,' Jones said on Wednesday during a news conference at the Ray & Lucy Hand Digital Studio. 'To be very honest with you, I haven't given it too much thought. I respect it and I respect what is going on and I have some personal opinions on that. But you know for us, we are not really affected by that because we are always in the locker room for the national anthem.'
-	Rhiannon Potkey covers Tennessee football for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Follow her on Twitter @TennesseeBeat


Beard Salts No. 32 Cinnamon Funnel Cake is a delicious cinnamon funnel cake. This e-juice takes us back to the times at the fair or amusement park where we would walk around and smell the sweet scent of the funnel cakes. This flavor is a nicotine salt infused e-Liquid formulated for pod systems and other similar low power devices.
It is a rich flavor. It's great after eating food. I'm still on my first pod of it in rotation with others.
This is the most flavor-filled salt liquid that I have found. I can smoke it all day and never get enough! Its like smoking dessert ALL day! I highly recommend!!!!
My absolute favorite. I've been vaping on this for a while and the guys over at Beard Vapor are awesome. Such great flavors!
My 2nd favorite salt out there.
This juice is one of my all time favorites. It has a great flavor of cinnamon funnel cake, which I never get tired of. I've heard some say the flavor wasn't great, if they already know they like cinnamon salts, like milkman churrios for instance, but are not enjoying the beard no 32, and because of the frequency this seems to sell out at, I would tell them to open it, let some air in, shake it every few days and wait a week or two for the flavor to steep, blend and enhance itself. The result will be rewarding. And since salts have a much longer shelf life , there's no rush. What I love about this salt besides its standalone deliciousness is that you can use it with other salts or juices to add a nice bit of cinnamon to compliment other flavors. For instance, I often mix beard 32 with custards and blueberry ejuices to make delicious blends that work for my personal taste. Of course you're not going to be mixing this with a flavor like lemonade or sour gummy worms, that would be atrocious , I would imagine. As it stands, I buy more of this than any other salt. I would say milkman churrios is the only other salt I buy close to as much as this. But the milkman has a more distinct milky churro flavor that's fantastic on it's own, but this beard 32 has an easier to take, slightly more mild cinnamon desert flavor, which again, mixes with other flavors as great as it is by itself. If cinnamon desert flavors are your thing, I would highly recommend beard no 32.
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Edward Alexander Crowley was born at 36 Clarendon Square in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, between 11:00pm and midnight on October 12, 1875.
His father, Edward Crowley, was trained as an engineer but according to Aleister, never worked as one. He did, however, own shares in a lucrative family brewery business, which allowed him to retire before Aleister was born. Through his father's business he was an acquaintance of Aubrey Beardsley. His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop, drew roots from a Devon and Somerset family. Both of his parents were Exclusive Brethren, a more conservative faction of the Plymouth Brethren.
Crowley grew up in a staunch Brethren household and was only allowed to play with children whose families followed the same faith. His father was a fanatical preacher, travelling around Britain and producing pamphlets. Daily Bible studies and private tutoring were mainstays in "Alick's" childhood.
On March 5, 1887, his father died of tongue cancer. This was a turning point in Crowley's life, after which he then began to describe his childhood in the first person in his Confessions.
After the death of his father to whom he was very close, he drifted from his religious upbringing, and his mother's efforts at keeping her son in the Christian faith only served to provoke his skepticism. When he was a child, his constant rebellious behaviour displeased his mother to such an extent that she would chastise him by calling him "The Beast" (from the Book of Revelation), an epithet that Crowley would later adopt for himself. He objected to the labelling of what he saw as life's most worthwhile and enjoyable activities as "sinful".


If, for whatever reason, serving as an animator is not feasible for you, there are still a number of ways you are able to contribute to the JYSEP.
Having a sound and thorough knowledge of the JYSEP and being able to articulate this to the wider community will play a significant role in establishing a presence within a neighbourhood, creating an awareness of the JYSEP and its effects, and contributing to a culture, in which junior youth are perceived as active agents of social change.
Coherence among core activities is both an approach and an outcome of effective growth. Pursuing lines of action in a coherent manner by centering activities around a particular point of focus can be a strategic way of achieving organic growth. At the same time, "initiating one activity, can, quite naturally, lead to the emergence of others"3 or enhance already existing activities. A potential offshoot of a junior youth group, for example, may be a children's class for their younger siblings.
The Universal House of Justice states, that "By multiplying vibrant junior youth groups, a community learns a great deal about, for instance, how capable human resources are increased and deployed" and "how capacity for service is raised within cohorts of individuals"4.
As junior youth move through the program, they widen the pool of human resources available to a community by becoming engaged in service. There must, therefore, be activities to channel their energies – study circles to participate in, tutors to accompany them, children's classes for them to teach, junior youth groups for them to animate. The educational process is a community-wide effort and though we may look to the junior youth to spearhead community-building efforts, the community itself will be made up of more than just junior youth: As such, each and every member has a role to play and an equal – though not identical – contribution to make within it.
Supporting the JYSEP may look like supporting your community in general and responding to its varying needs. Assisting a children's class, starting a Book 1, making regular home-visits, participating in a collective teaching campaign –all these efforts will eventually feed into the advancement of the JYSEP as will the JYSEP mutually advance the efforts of a community.
3. The ornaments of a home are the guests who frequent it.
Home-visiting parents is something that can be co-ordinated with members of the community. Particularly when animators are younger youth, it is helpful to have a mature adult to accompany them on a home visit to a parent.
4. It's not what you know, but who you know.
The most difficult aspect of running a junior youth group is starting one. Finding enough participants to form a sizable group is challenging – particularly in the Western countries, where approaching a junior youth you do not know can feel unwise or inappropriate.
Using an existing relationship as a starting point can be advantageous. Do you know a junior youth or do you know a family with children of junior youth age? Your contacts may be the greatest contribution you can make to a budding junior youth group.
5.…Okay, and also a bit of what you know.
An essential part of the JYSEP is the incorporation of creative endeavours and activities. If you have a particular skill, craft, talent or passion that you are able to share, then facilitating a work-shop in either one or part of a session may be your way of assisting the lateral development of a junior youth.
Offer your home, offer your car, offer your food but more importantly offer your time, your energy and your service because without it, no community can hope to prosper and with it, we can only grow.
One aspect that is important to realize as that the Junior Youth Program is not meant to work in isolation. This as well as other core activities are all part of the Community building effort. So for example, the parents and junior youth also participate in devotionals in the given neighborhood. Study circles happen with the older siblings and parents.. but most importantly all find ways to contribute to each of the activities be it by participating, by helping with food, funds, invitations, visits, etc.. etc.. With this deep ties of friendship evolve between people of all ages and the neighborhood changes.
two each pave (sparkly beads) and one charm each. The designs were lovely and the Jr. Youth made them for Ayyam-i-Ha gifts for parents, grandparents, and their teachers. There were two parents present, a lovely woman who accompanies but hasn't declared yet, and Sharon Ballard and her husband.
Next, I will host a card making class with rubber stamps and punches to decorate the cards. I teach this in an after school achivement program.
And since I am an author, in the future, I will teach a creative writing class to the Jr. Youth. Thank you for the wonderful suggestions at this site.
When I do the Creative Writing Program, I will pick out a story from Baha'i history and have them identify the three "P's". People, Place and Plot and have them try to tell the story in their own words, using a "balloon system," with connecting blank circles that they fill in with names, (i.e. the three "P's"). It's a technique I learned a long time ago. It helps one to have all the links on paper in order to write the story.
In my experience, starting a junior youth group is by far the *easiest* part of having one. Animating, visiting all the junior youth and their families on a regular basis, maintaining a constant presence in the neighborhood, developing ongoing relationships with the junior youth, helping them to understand the Institute process and the main sequence of courses to be pursued after turning 15, keeping adequate records, engaging in regular expansion to make up for attrition, and mentoring new animators is an exhausting process, and keeping it up for three years even more so. Starting a group might take a month in a really resistant neighborhood, or between hours and a couple of weeks in a highly receptive one, depending on how much time you have to devote to home visits.
On-going effort is definitely required for the entire duration of the process, from starting a group to maintaining one through to transitioning each of the participants on to find their path of service. You are right in pointing out that starting a group may be the first step but from that point on, it will require many, many more.
Inviting a junior youth to a group that does not yet exist can be daunting. Asking a stranger to have faith in a process that has not yet begun even moreso. In that sense, as you rightly emphasised, a willingness to "get to know" people is vital.
Could I use your article/blog in our newletter (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)?
The Junior Youth Spiritual Programme is an ever-advancing phenom wich we cant end learning out of it. Am 21 and once upon a time l was a junior youth, at the age of 16 l was trained as an animtor, and now have 3 years experience as an animator. I can see that the programme is expidient, and it has actually changed my life both spiritualy and intellectualy, l can say it actually fulfilled its purpose on me!, Now with that little knowlege and experince l have in the programme, l was called upon as a regional Junior Youth Coordinator, a responsibilty that l know was shouldered upon me not becoz l hve much knowlege in the programme but its actually an opportunity to learn. I always come across massive improvisons in the JYSEP everyday!