Episodes

Meet your host: Dr Kimberly Nicholas, climate scientist at Lund University and creator of the SHIFT guide to high impact climate action. The show's approach: facts, feelings, and action, used together to face the climate crisis rather than avoid it. The five climate superpowers: citizen, professional, investor, consumer, and role model. Why it matters: if you earn around $38,000 USD a year or more, you're in the world's top 10% of earners, a group responsible for roughly half of all household...

Could your bank account be one of your biggest climate superpowers? Most people never think to check who their bank lends to or invests in, but switching to a fossil-free bank is ranked as the highest-impact climate action you can take with your money in the SHIFT guide. In this episode, host Kim talks to Matt, a First Direct/HSBC customer in the UK, who discovers his bank's fossil fuel financing for the first time, live, on the call, and what he found when he compared fossil-free alternat...

Why is voting one of the most powerful things you can do for the climate? Most people rank recycling as a climate action ahead of voting, but research has found that voting for a pro-climate candidate could matter far more than your personal emissions. In this episode, host Kim talks to Kate, a former construction sustainability manager turned Environmental Voting Project volunteer, about why so many climate-minded people don't vote consistently, and what to actually do about it. "I think peo...

How does flying contribute to climate change? For many people concerned about the climate, how much we fly is a big dilemma and a challenge! Flying burns a LOT of fossil fuels, and is the single biggest source of climate pollution for most frequent flyers. Family lives abroad, work demands travel, and social pressure pushes the other way. "The plane's going anyway" is something you hear a lot, but does it actually hold up? In this episode, Kim talks to Ed about his struggle to fly less:...

Caroline Merrell, senior director of sustainable winemaking at Jackson Family Wines, shares how her company set a science-based climate target, the challenges of reducing emissions in a growing business, and the actions working now such as using less glass in wine bottles, installing solar on farms, and looking at supply chain emissions. Take action at work with SHIFT’s science based targets guide: https://jointheshift.earth/climate-actions/work-sbt Subscribe or follow Climate Actually right ...

Tempestry Project co-founders Emily and Asy turn temperature records into hand-knit tapestries, a hands-on way to build climate community, one of the highest-impact climate actions in the SHIFT guide. What started as a joke after the 2017 US presidential inauguration, worried that government climate data might disappear, grew from a single museum exhibit into a worldwide community: handcrafted tapestries, or as they call it, tempestries, made by local knitting groups everywhere, turning local...