exploring our transition to a low-carbon society, the communities that lead the way, and the people who support them.

Climate change and sustainability have become a large focus in research as we try to cope with and prevent climate change. With that, many researchers have become interested in organizations and people working on sustainability issues.

There are many organizations out there hoping to contribute a sustainable transition. Yet, despite the effort they put into their work, it’s been a struggle for many of them to simply exist much less make progress in their goals.

Thus far in the transition basics series, we have talked about transitions as a process through which one way of doing things is replaced by another and that in order to fight climate change we must go through a transition to a more sustainable society. Today we are going to give “the way we do things” a name: the regime.

I think that the word “transition” means a lot of different things to different people. The word has certainly been around for a while – there is the demographic transition and transition economies, there is also transitioning from one field of work to the next.

Today’s podcast is with Dr. Bernd Hezel, the Creative Scientist at Climate Media Factory. I talk to Bernd about the work of Climate Media Factory, how they create their content, and who they work with.

Today’s podcast is with Mr. David Landholm, a PhD student at Humboldt University and a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work focuses on understanding local, regional and global causes of deforestation.

Today’s podcast is with Mr. Alexander Breit, a member of Transition Town Frankfurt. Transition Town Frankfurt is a community-based initiative in Frankfurt focused on tackling issues such as climate change and peak oil.

Today’s podcast is with Dr. Prajal Pradhan, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. I talk to Prajal about his motivation to study food systems and climate change. He explains the relationship between agriculture and the environment.

Today’s podcast is with Wei Weng, a PhD student at the Humboldt University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. I talk to Wei about how she first got interested in studying aerial rivers.

Today’s podcast is with Dr. Mady Olonscheck, one of the founders of GreenAdapt. I talk to Mady about the how GreenAdapt was started, including her inspiration from both talks to school children and her PhD.

Okay, so I am back after far too long of break!

Today’s podcast continues my discussion with Dr. Ramana Gudipudi and Dr. Luis Costa who both do work on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Today’s podcast is with Dr. Ramana Gudipudi and Dr. Luis Carvalho Costa who both do work on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ramana’s work focuses on reducing emissions in cities whereas Luis’ work focuses on which lifestyle and technology changes reduce emissions.

So last week was the Fridays For Future protest. This protest which started by Swedish student Greta Thunberg  and encourages students to skip school on Fridays to protest the lack of action on climate change.

As you may have noticed, I have really gotten behind on my weekly TWIST posts. It’s not that I haven’t tried, but every time I have been uninspired. However, this week something has changed. This week a large hurricane, Hurricane Florence, is hitting the east coast of the United States.

It’s been one of those whirlwind weeks.

Early in the week President Trump announced his nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. While many articles focused on Kavanaugh’s view of presidential deference or tried to analyze his past rulings on Roe v. Wade, environmentalist were screaming at his threat to the environment.

Thursday there was sudden breaking news all over social media. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt handed President Trump his resignation letter (and boy what a “Dear Leader” letter it was).

This week the news featured both World Refugee Day and the separation of families at the border in the United States- putting immigration into the front and center stage. So this week’s TWIST is focused on climate change and refugees.

A lot of news this week focused on how what we eat can mitigate climate change. In particular, we saw the argument that we should eliminate or greatly reduce dairy or meat products. In the news, China’s increasing consumption of milk could greatly increase our global livestock emissions. We also saw the argument that “natural” ranching practices are also just a bad.