Air pollution results in over 7 million deaths each year. In this episode of Possibly, we look at the most common way to measure air quality, the Air Quality Index, and what it means for you.
Megan Hall
Host/Managing Producer for Possibly
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What can we learn from France about food waste?
Possibly’s founder and the Provost for sustainability at Brown University Stephen Porder recently visited a supermarket chain in France that sells products other stores would have thrown away.
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How can schools fight food waste?
Wasted food takes up lots of space in landfills and, while getting a compost bin at home is great, it isn’t enough to solve the problem. This week, we investigate how schools are taking big steps towards eliminating food waste.
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When should I charge my electric car?
If you have an electric car, and you want to try to reduce the greenhouse gases that are created in order to power that car, when should you charge it?
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Are geothermal networks the future of heating and cooling?
A new program in Framingham, Massachusetts is leading the transition from gas to geothermal heating and cooling.
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How can hospitals cut their plastic waste?
Hospitals have to use a lot of single-use plastics to deliver care for patients. In today’s episode, we look at how one hospital is cutting down through their medical plastics recycling initiative.
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What is the Conservative Climate Caucus?
With the second Trump administration underway, the Possibly team takes a look at a group hoping to shape the country’s energy policy: a Republican caucus in the House of Representatives.
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What happened to the Inflation Reduction Act?
In the summer of 2022 President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The law was the US’s largest investment in climate and clean energy ever. But what’s happened since then? Who has actually been implementing the bill?
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Could we just fire our trash into the sun?
We asked our listeners to send in their wildest ideas for addressing climate change. And one listener, thinking about all of the trash Americans throw into landfills, asked if we could send it somewhere else: the sun.
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Our resolutions for 2025
As we head into a new year, our Possibly team decided to think about all of our episodes, and how they might inspire our resolutions for 2025. Here’s what some of us had to say.
