Podcasts

Upstate New York's Fenner Wind Farm was the largest of its kind when built in 2001. Since then, The Fenner Renewable Energy Education Center has informed officials, school children and the public.

Clean water policies and climate change prevention have suffered regulatory rollbacks & funding streams cut in Washington. Environmental Advocates of New York lobbies for state policies that can help.

The teaching of public relations is changing as the field itself evolves. Assistant Teaching Newhouse Professor Arien Rozelle takes students through real client cases, AI and PR's role in activism.

The report Trash in America describes the amount of US trash, where it goes & better ways to deal with it. Environment America's Celeste Meiffren-Swango & MASSPIRG's Janet Domenitz join us.

Cornell School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Professor Joseph McFadden explains how cows for beef or dairy production create climate harming methane. Feed changes and manure management might help.

Newhouse advertising professor Rebecca Ortiz discusses research into the experiences of teen who crate content, the impacts they experience, community they create, and negative consequences.

New York State plans to plant 25 million trees by 2033. SUNY ESF Sustainable Resources Professor Colin Beier says trees effectively reduce CO2 and have other benefits. But the plan has challenges

A student multi-media project, Unlocking NY, allowed journalism, photography, digital media & other Newhouse students to create more than 30 stories around the Erie Canal as it reaches 200 years old.

The rise in AI and cryptomining create the need for huge data centers using large amounts of energy & water. Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy researches impacts and possible policy & innovation.

Federal incentives for electric cars, electric appliances and renewable energy upgrades are being cancelled. But advocates say progress to increase efficiency & reduce fossil fuel use will continue.