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Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Energy vs Climate | Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts
110 episodes
1 week ago
You asked — David, Sara, and Ed answered. We're wrapping up the year with our annual Ask EvC Anything episode, touching on topics that pair well with New Year's bubbly: We talk about whether Canada’s climate targets are quietly slipping out of reach, the practicalities and prospects of direct air capture, what a net zero electricity grid in Alberta might actually look like by 2050, whether shiny new materials like metal organic frameworks are breakthrough solutions or just the latest carbon h...
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You asked — David, Sara, and Ed answered. We're wrapping up the year with our annual Ask EvC Anything episode, touching on topics that pair well with New Year's bubbly: We talk about whether Canada’s climate targets are quietly slipping out of reach, the practicalities and prospects of direct air capture, what a net zero electricity grid in Alberta might actually look like by 2050, whether shiny new materials like metal organic frameworks are breakthrough solutions or just the latest carbon h...
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Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Ask EvC Anything 2025 | David Keith, Sara Hastings-Simon, and Ed Whittingham
You asked — David, Sara, and Ed answered. We're wrapping up the year with our annual Ask EvC Anything episode, touching on topics that pair well with New Year's bubbly: We talk about whether Canada’s climate targets are quietly slipping out of reach, the practicalities and prospects of direct air capture, what a net zero electricity grid in Alberta might actually look like by 2050, whether shiny new materials like metal organic frameworks are breakthrough solutions or just the latest carbon h...
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1 week ago
47 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Energy Past vs Energy Future with Energy Innovation's Robbie Orvis
A look back at the biggest energy stories of 2025 and some crystal ball gazing about what to watch for in 2026. David, Sara and Ed chat with Robbie Orvis, Senior Director of Modeling & Analysis at Energy Innovation, an American Think Tank. The show was set up to do two things: First, to sort out what genuinely shifted in 2025 and what didn't. Second, to build a 2026 energy and climate watch list that helps separate real transition signals from the noise and the hype. It's a li...
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4 weeks ago
59 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Energy Agreement | Hot Take
There are many takes on the big Carney-Smith energy agreement – we thought you could use one more. The new Canada–Alberta MOU unveiled last Thursday is already generating more chatter than a pipeline hearing, and has set off a fresh round of debate about economy, emissions, and where the country is headed on energy. The hot takes have been flying. Naturally, we couldn’t resist adding our own, so we grabbed the mics the next day to sort through what it all means. And because we weren’t the o...
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1 month ago
43 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Sara & Ed - Help Us Reach Our Annual Listener Fundraising Goal
For us, delivering content about energy and climate is a labour of love – we put our time towards Energy vs Climate because we feel strongly about the public service benefit of the project. But there are costs for our producer, website, Ed’s manicures, and more. (OK one of those isn’t true.) That's why this show relies on the support of generous donors, like our listeners. Please consider making a one-time or monthly donation to our annual donation campaign. Your generosity di...
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1 month ago
2 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Rewiring a Nation of 1.4 Billion: India’s Energy Transition with Dr. Jai Asundi
David, Sara, and Ed chat with Dr. Jai Asundi, Executive Director of the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), an independent Indian think tank. Dr. Asundi has been leading CSTEP since 2009, connecting data, modeling, and policy to tackle India's energy and climate challenges. They dive into India's electricity grid, the EV revolution, oil and gas dependency, and where energy meets geopolitics. About Our Guest Dr Jai Asundi is the Executive Director at the Cente...
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1 month ago
45 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen x EvC | Energy, the Economy, and the Environment
David, Sara, and Ed join Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen for a live on-air conversation. Their decidedly non-spooky Halloween round-table discussion covered a lot of climate and energy ground, including the G7, critical minerals, carbon capture and storage, and oat milk cream liquor. (Well admittedly that last one is not a climate and energy topic, but if you listen you'll get the reference.) It's live (or was live), it's real, it's Real Talk with the EvC gang! Send us a text (if you...
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2 months ago
1 hour

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Drill & Dash: The Oil and Gas Liability Crisis with Martin Olszynski
Sara & Ed chat with Martin Olszynski about Alberta's mounting energy liability crisis. They discuss the billions in future costs for decommissioning, remediation, and reclamation of oil and gas projects as well as the challenge in accurately quantifying government and public exposure to financial and environmental risk amid profound energy sector disruption. The question isn't whether these liabilities will materialize—it's who pays when they do. It's a lively and wide-ranging c...
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2 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Energy Tech That Has Us (and You) Talking
A fun, fast-paced, skeptics tour through some of the most talked-about emerging energy technologies. From enhanced geothermal systems to thermal batteries, balcony solar, flying cars, and yes, even space-based solar power – David, Sara, and Ed dig into what’s real, what’s hype, and what might actually move the needle on decarbonization. (00:00) - Cold open (02:08) - Small modular nuclear reactors (09:14) - E-bikes (15:46) - Balcony solar (22:13) - Fusion (28:33) - Thermal batteries (34:56...
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3 months ago
57 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
The Great Energy Showdown: Solar Takes All?
Sara's back for the launch of Season 7 of Energy vs Climate! For our first episode, David, Sara, and Ed discuss whether solar will be the big energy winner. Has solar energy already won? What’s driving its rapid ascent? And what does it mean for energy production and policy here in Canada? Show notes available on the episode page About Your EvC Co-Hosts: David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the...
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3 months ago
56 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Season 7 Promo: She's baaack...
Send us a text (if you'd like a response, please include your email) Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts ___ Energy vs Climate Podcast www.energyvsclimate.com Contact us at info@energyvsclimate.com Bluesky | YouTube | LinkedIn | X/Twitter
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4 months ago

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
BONUS: Author Don Gillmor on his latest book "On Oil" | Climate Book Reviews
We're sharing another episode of Ed’s podcast Climate Book Reviews with acclaimed Canadian author Don Gillmor on his latest non-fiction work, On Oil. Ed is joined by his regular co-host Dr. Roger Thompson, Director of Writing Programs and Professor at Arizona State University. This episode dives into the sharply drawn and darkly funny world of On Oil, a slim and punchy examination of the most earth-altering industry of our time. Drawing from Gillmor's early years working on Alberta oil ri...
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4 months ago
44 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
BONUS | Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill vs Climate: Hot Take with BlueGreen Alliance’s Jason Walsh
Ed chats with Jason Walsh, Executive Director of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA). Jason and his organization recently made headlines for opposing the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act—President Trump's sweeping piece of legislation passed this summer that rolls back many of the clean energy tax credits introduced by the Inflation Reduction Act. While a lot of the climate world focused on the emissions impacts, BGA came out swinging over what they saw as a quiet gutting of labour standards, ...
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5 months ago
33 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
BONUS: Climate Book Reviews with author Ashley Shelby on Honeymoons in Temporary Locations
In this latest episode of Ed’s occasional podcast Climate Book Reviews, we dive into the wildly imaginative and disturbingly plausible world of Ashley Shelby’s acclaimed story collection, Honeymoons in Temporary Locations. Recently named one of Fresh Energy’s Favorite Climate Books of 2025 and shortlisted for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, Shelby’s collection has been praised by Scientific American, Foreword, and the Post and Courier for its biting wit, emotional punch, and genre-bending ...
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5 months ago
46 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
From Doom to Hope: Katharine Hayhoe on Bridging the Climate Gap
David & Ed chat with renowned scientist, author and Canadian, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe who argues that hope—not doom—is what drives action. Dr. Hayhoe is one of the world’s most prominent climate communicators and known for crossing political, religious, and cultural lines to connect with audiences that most climate advocates can’t or won't reach. It's an engaging discussion that delves into the psychology of despair, the limits of data in changing minds and behaviour, and whether hop...
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6 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
BONUS: Canada’s Carbon Edge - How We Can Lead in Carbon Removal with Na'im Merchant & Grégoire Baillargeon
LIVE from the Montreal's Climate Solutions Prize Festival 2025 Na'im Merchant, Executive Director of Carbon Removal Canada and the host of The Carbon Curve podcast, and Grégoire Baillargeon, President of BMO Quebec and Vice Chair of BMO Capital Markets join Ed Whittingham for a panel discussion exploring how Canada can become a global leader in carbon removal. With two podcast hosts and one Bank of Montreal president, Ed, Na'im and Greg pass the host's mic like a baton as they unp...
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6 months ago
34 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Energy Transition in Africa & its Climate Dilemma with Dr. Rose Mutiso
Send us a text David & Ed chat with Dr. Rose Mutiso about the tension between energy, climate, and economic development in Africa and the global south. They touch on many topics to do with sub-Saharan Africa, including energy production & consumption, electricity and power grids, and the vast economic inequity that still exists between the global north & south. About Our Guest: Dr. Rose M. Mutiso is a Kenyan scientist, thought leader, and social entrepreneur. She is the Fo...
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7 months ago
50 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown? Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Send us a text Ed and David chat with special guest Andreas Malm, author of How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire. They discuss Malm’s critiques of climate inaction—how liberal democracies, fossil capital, and the Global North have collectively abandoned meaningful efforts to stop climate breakdown—and what comes next for movement strategy, the ethics and effectiveness of disruption, and what kind of climate ac...
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7 months ago
55 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
BONUS: Upton Sinclair's Oil! - Climate Book Reviews Podcast with Michael Tondre
Ed Whittingham & Roger Thompson discuss Upton Sinclair's classic novel - Oil! We're sharing another episode of Ed's occasional podcast, Climate Book Reviews, this time discussing the book that was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Ed and co-host Dr. Roger Thompson (Associate Dean and Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University in New York) chat with Michael Tondry, editor of a critical edition reissue b...
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7 months ago
47 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Power Hungry: Can Our Grids Evolve Fast Enough for AI's Appetite? | with Amy Myers Jaffe
Send us a text Energy expert Amy Myers Jaffe returns to EvC to chat with Ed about Energy and Artificial Intelligence. Nearly every aspect of the economy seems to be impacted by the stunningly rapid development of AI. Energy is no exception. Ed and Amy have a wide-ranging discussion that covers a lot of ground and touches on several hot topics, including: How AI is transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of energy; The energy needs of data centers; Whet...
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8 months ago
51 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
BONUS - Carbon Removal Day Panel: Lucy Hargreaves, Daniel Kelter, Jorden Dye
There’s something in Carbon Removal for everyone — are we building enduring relationships to advance the sector? A bonus EvC episode - on February 27, 2025, EvC co-host Ed Whittingham hosted a panel discussion at Carbon Removal Canada's Carbon Removal Day in Ottawa. They cover a number of topics including the changing political headwinds in the US, efforts to bolster investment in Canada, and silicon valley's interest in CDR. Plus, they take a few audience questions. Detailed show notes on ep...
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8 months ago
47 minutes

Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
You asked — David, Sara, and Ed answered. We're wrapping up the year with our annual Ask EvC Anything episode, touching on topics that pair well with New Year's bubbly: We talk about whether Canada’s climate targets are quietly slipping out of reach, the practicalities and prospects of direct air capture, what a net zero electricity grid in Alberta might actually look like by 2050, whether shiny new materials like metal organic frameworks are breakthrough solutions or just the latest carbon h...