The Green Pill

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  • Summary

  • This podcast is for all the green innovators out there. Join Dr Chris Newman, a medical doctor and healthy-climate advocate as he interviews folks as diverse as Transition founder Rob Hopkins, rapper and permaculture expert KMT, ex-child slave + NGO founder Nasreen Sheikh. Whatever your field of expertise, guaranteed there's someone greening it up already. This is where you'll find them. Out every Wednesday.
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Episodes
  • Baba Podcast
    Sep 21 2020
    Chris and Baba, the “peer-reviewed rapper” talk about politics, climate, and rhyming, and answer the following questions:

    How do you write rap about scientific topics?
    How does career success affect the environment?
    What is the societal function of Conservatism?
    How can governments tackle climate change?
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    50 mins
  • Nasreen Sheikh: From child slave to NGO founder
    Mar 18 2020
    Chris, and Nasreen talk of her story as a child labourer in the fast fashion industry, and how women’s empowerment can help tackle both climate change and human rights abuses. And they answer the following questions:

    How do child sweatshops operate?
    How many undocumented child labourers are there?
    How can we empower victims of child slavery?
    How is child slavery linked with climate change? 
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    52 mins
  • Matty Winning: Climate scientist + Eco-comedian
    Mar 11 2020
    Chris and Matty talk about the highs and lows of becoming a standup comedian, and how he balances that with a day job as a climate scientist. And they answer the following questions:

    How do you become a standup comedian?
    How can you talk about difficult subjects like climate change without putting people off?
    How do you keep sane when you work with climate science every day?
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    48 mins

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