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60. N8 Take: Everything on Fire Everywhere (But we still have books) Aug 17, 2022

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The climate crisis came into full view this summer as countries across Europe experienced record-high temperatures in July. In the UK, a train track caught on fire, and an airport runway melted. In France, they called it a “heat apocalypse.”
But while Europe is trying to deal with 40-47 degree celsius weather, we need to remember that things have been bad for a long time now. In 2016, parts of India reached 51C degrees celsius. The climate crisis affects everyone on this planet, but why do we pay attention only to some countries, and not others?
Most of our infrastructures just weren’t built for this new climate, and the climate policy sphere, we refer to this as adaptation. Adaptation is where countries, companies, institutions adapt to new levels of warming from our warming planet.
We need to ask some important questions as well. How long will these events last? Where will they be? And what do these countries need to do or need to survive them?
Today, N8 has a list of climate resources he recommends:

Bloomberg Green
Volts by David Roberts
Carbon Brief
Professor Jesse Jenkins at Princeton
Professor Kuei-Tien Chou at the Risk Society and Policy Research Center in Taiwan

And here’s more -

And for your friends, colleagues, and families, here’s a digital library from the Waste Not Why Not team and our guests:

https://wastenotwhynot.com/#library

This is Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste.
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Nate Maynard (@N8May), Host
Gerald Williams, Research & Editing
Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu), Producer & Editing
Show logo by Southwicks Graphics
Theme tune by Dac Chang
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59. A Game Show! Circular Economy with Double Dribble, REnato Lab, AIT Jul 12, 2022

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Double Dribble is a fashion & accessories brand that upcycles basketballs. The founders come from product design, but they’re now trying to design a new system for upcycling sports waste.
Today, we bring you“The Incinerator”- a game show where a circular economy startup goes in front of a panel and gets their ideas burned and turned into better ideas. (Cheat sheet: Circular Economy = Environmental Impact + Business)

Contestant today is Roy Huang, co-founder of Double Dribble, based in Taiwan.
Panelists:
Aining Ouyang, COO of REnato Lab, a circular economy consultancy based in Taiwan. Luke Martin, Cultural Affairs Office at the American Institute in Taiwan, responsible for educational and cultural programming. And Nate Maynard (Nature N8), an environmental consultant focusing on waste, ocean, and energy.
We have a prize for one lucky listener!
That’s right we are giving away a prize, it’s like we are rewarding you for listening to our podcast! Name another podcast that does that! Here is what you do:
Go on Instagram - to Double Dribble’s page at @2doubledribble (https://www.instagram.com/2doubledribble/)
Share the design you want.
Tag Ghost Island Media (@ghostislandme), AIT (@ait_taipei), and Double Dribble (@2doubledribble).

Write “I heard about this on the Waste Not Why Not podcast.”
Good Luck!
This is Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste. Check out our digital library at wastenotwhynot.com/#library
+ Follow us on Twitter @wastenotpod
** Today’s episode is sponsored by American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Check out our full-length bonus video interview about its LEED Silver certified green building in Taipei. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PPlzYFa78&list=PLZzATvbhwVo_a0vn1oydVOXDzoccyaECY&index=2 **
EPISODE CREDIT
Host is Nate Maynard (@N8May)
Audio editing by Yu-Chen Lai (@aGuavaEmoji)
Produced by Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu)
Production assistant Gerald Williams
New show logo by Southwicks Graphics
New theme tune by Dac Chang
A Ghost Island Media production (@ghostislandme)

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58. Coral Resilience: Shashank Keshavmurthy (Academia Sinica) Jun 27, 2022

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The ocean temperature is rising, and that’s killing corals. But scientists are finding out that some corals can resist climate change. So if we wanted to make sure that at least some corals survive in the future, which species should we save?
We are at a coral lab to speak to Shashank Keshavmurthy at the Biodiversity Research Center at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He’s setting up an experiment to stress test corals in a lab, and trying to figure out how resilient corals can be to temperature changes.
Welcome to Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste.
Check out our digital library at wastenotwhynot.com/#library
Follow us on Twitter @wastenotpod

Today’s episode is sponsored by American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Check out our full-length bonus video interview with AIT on their LEED Silver green building. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PPlzYFa78&list=PLZzATvbhwVo_a0vn1oydVOXDzoccyaECY&index=2
EPISODE CREDIT
Host is Nate Maynard (@N8May)
Audio editing by Yu-Chen Lai (@aGuavaEmoji)
Produced by Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu)
Our intern is Gerald Williams
New show logo by Southwicks Graphics
New theme tune by Dac Chang
A Ghost Island Media production (@ghostislandme)
www.ghostisland.media

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57. Why care about corals (Ep 3) Jun 13, 2022

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A new, knowledge-filled, episode on corals is coming your way, but to prepare you for it, we bring you an old episode to catch you up to speed. Happy World’s Ocean Day!
Corals are dying. By 2050 we probably won’t have any corals left in our oceans. So scientists around the world are trying to figure out how to regrow coral reefs, and some have even turned to 3D printing for coral restoration. But is this possible? Can technology save corals?
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56. Solar Energy Investment 101 with Mark Oei (Kellogg) and Calvin Cheng (PGE Taiwan) May 30, 2022

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Solar is - in some places in the world - the cheapest energy, even cheaper than coal and oil with fossil fuel subsidies. Solar is inexpensive, inoffensive, inexpensive. But it wasn’t always this easy. Investing in solar used to be risky business. What happened?
Welcome to class SEI101: Solar Energy Investment.
Today, we speak to Mark Oei, an investor of real estate and clean energy. He’s founding partner at Redwood Coast Capital and a lecturer at the Kellogg School of Management.
We also catch up with Calvin Cheng, co-founder of the solar developer PGE in Taiwan. Cheng tells us it’s much easier to get financing now than ever.
By 2030, 1 in 7 American homes are expected to have solar panels. And by 2050, it’s to become up to 45% of the U.S. electricity supply. Over here in Taiwan, clean energy accounts for just 5% of our energy supply. Taiwan wants to raise that number to 20% by 2030. (Fun fact - Taiwan was an early manufacturer of the world’s solar panels.)
** Today’s episode is sponsored by American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) - who has a focus on climate-related initiatives. Check out our full-length bonus video interview with Lee Carnell, facilities manager at AIT who takes care of its new campus, a LEED Silver certified green building. WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PPlzYFa78&list=PLZzATvbhwVo_a0vn1oydVOXDzoccyaECY&index=2 **
Welcome to Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste. This season, we're onto green buildings, electric vehicles, coral, renewable energy investments, and the circular economy.
https://wastenotwhynot.com

+ Check out our digital library at wastenotwhynot.com/#library
+ Follow us on Twitter @wastenotpod
EPISODE CREDIT
Host is Nate Maynard (@N8May)
Audio editing by Yu-Chen Lai (@aGuavaEmoji)
Produced by Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu)
Our intern is Gerald Williams
New show logo by Southwicks Graphics
New theme tune by Dac Chang
A Ghost Island Media production (@ghostislandme)

www.ghostisland.media

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55. EV dirt bikes, supercars, space: Azizi Tucker (Graft EV) May 15, 2022

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From building dirt bikes to supercars, to something that may or may not be on Mars right now, Azizi Tucker has done it all. Being environmentally conscious has been a theme of his career, but his real focus? It’s been about making better products. But his products have a side effect of massively reducing pollution.
Azizi Tucker is a tinkerer, racer, engineer, and entrepreneur. Tucker raced mountain bikes competitively as a youth in California, worked on secret projects while at NASA, and was one of the first 100 employees at Tesla and had a heavy hand in figuring out its supply chain right here in Asia.
That's when Tucker realized that Taiwan was the perfect place for manufacturing and R&D. Since then, he's co-founded an EV company in Taiwan making electric supercars and solving electrification for the world's commercial and industrial vehicles. He's now founder of Graft EV where he will now make electric recreational vehicles right here in Taiwan. That’s dirt bikes, ATV, maybe your snowmobile in the future.
Today, we find out just how diverse the field of electric vehicles is, and see an example of how Azizi’s continued to learn, and innovate, and make fast breakthroughs.
Graft EV - http://www.graft-ev.com
** Today’s episode is sponsored by American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) - who has a focus on climate-related initiatives. Check out our full-length bonus video interview with Lee Carnell, facilities manager at AIT who takes care of its new campus, a LEED Silver certified green building.
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PPlzYFa78&list=PLZzATvbhwVo_a0vn1oydVOXDzoccyaECY&index=2 **

+ Check out our digital library at https://wastenotwhynot.com/#library
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Host is Nate Maynard (@N8May)
Audio editing by Yu-Chen Lai (@aGuavaEmoji)
Produced by Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu)
New show logo by Southwicks Graphics
New theme tune by Dac Chang
A Ghost Island Media production (@ghostislandme)

www.ghostisland.media

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54. Green Buildings with Vivian Loftness (CMU), Lee Carnell (AIT) May 02, 2022

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What does “good” look like? And what does “wonderful” look like? What does a “wonderful green building” look like? How do they make us happier?

We call up Professor Vivian Loftness, former head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, National Board of the US. Green Buildings Council, the American Institute of Architects, and International Living Futures Institute.
We then go see a man who manages a green building. His name is Lee Carnell, facilities manager at American Institute in Taiwan. (A bonus full-length interview with Lee will be on our YouTube soon: https://gimpod.me/wnwn-youtube)
Welcome to a new season at Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste.
Additional links and resources:
+ “Accelerating Decarbonization of the U.S. Energy System,” a report from the National Academy of Sciences to US President Biden on policy blueprint outlining critical near-term actions to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050: https://www.nap.edu/resource/25932/interactive/
+ Professor Loftness co-wrote this Encyclopedia for Sustainable Built Environments: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-1-4614-5828-9
+ Check our digital library at wastenotwhynot.com/#library

** Today’s episode is sponsored by American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) - who has a focus on climate-related initiatives. Check out our full-length bonus video interview with Lee Carnell, facilities manager at AIT who takes care of its new campus, a LEED Silver certified green building.

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PPlzYFa78&list=PLZzATvbhwVo_a0vn1oydVOXDzoccyaECY&index=2 **
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Host is Nate Maynard (@N8May)
Audio editing by Yu-Chen Lai (@aGuavaEmoji)
Produced by Emily Y. Wu (@emilyywu)
New show logo by Southwicks Graphics
New theme tune by DAC
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53. One more week Apr 23, 2022

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Taiwan's seeing an uptick of COVID the past two weeks. And while that's happening, our new season launch is pushed to May 3. In today's home recording, Nate reflects the past 3 years of the podcast and of his own work.
For our sister shows in our network, search Ghost Island Media.
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New season coming on April 22 Apr 18, 2022

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As promised, we’ve new episodes coming to you, starting April 22, Earth Day, aka our third anniversary! Get ready for a 5-part mini series with the American Institute in Taiwan.
It’s a really fun mini series. The Waste Not Why Not team visited a green building. I got to test drive an electric dirt bike. We saw a coral being stress tested in a lab. We talk to solar and money people. These are entrepreneurs, researchers, and just generally, doers.
Oh, and also, look out for a new theme tune!

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52. Circular Economy 101 by Angela (Mandarin episode 循環經濟) Feb 02, 2022

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Angela Chao was a rising senior at National Taiwan Univ (NTU) when she made this episode for “In Training 小鬼登島” - a Ghost Island Media program for and by emerging creators / interns. Angela worked on Waste Not Why Not, cares a lot about the environment, and wanted to explain to her friends #circulareconomy. This episode was nominated for a Sustainable and Constructive News Award (2021).
Originally aired as here: https://ghostisland.media/#intern
Writing by: Angela Chao
Production Coordinator: Trevor Liu
Supervising Producer: Yu-Chen Lai
Waste Not Why Not will be back this spring with an exciting collaboration. Stay tuned!
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