Best Transforming Transitional Justice Podcasts (2025)

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Energy and the ‘big beautiful bill’ | live from day 2 of the ACORE Finance Forum in New York 1:14:44

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As the US races against China to develop the most advanced capabilities in AI, energy is critical. In this second episode from the ACORE finance forum, we speak to experts about how US energy policy, and in particular the reconciliation bill now being debated in Congress, might affect that race. Host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe talk…

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What Happens When Your Town's Coal Plant Shuts Down? This CEO Has Solutions (S2:E7) 46:56

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What happens when entire communities built around coal plants suddenly face closure? Host Carolyn Parrs speaks with Heidi Binko, co-founder and CEO of the Just Transition Fund, to explore how communities can navigate the complex shift from fossil fuels to clean energy without leaving anyone behind. With over 25 years in climate philanthropy, Heidi …

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What's Europe's role in a divided world? 36:25

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At a time of major geopolitical turbulence, Europe finds itself at a crossroads. Long regarded as a pillar of stability and multilateralism, the continent's role in today's increasingly divided world is being tested in numerous ways – as are its key institutions. There is a new fragility to Europe's external relationships – underscored by Trump's t…

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Clean energy finance in uncertain times – live from the ACORE Finance Forum in New York 59:00

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The Energy Gang are at The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Finance Forum in New York City, which brings together industry leaders, investors, and bankers to discuss the hottest issues in clean energy. Host Ed Crooks and regular guest Amy Myers Jaffe talk to ACORE Chief Executive and President Ray Long about the uncertainty hanging over…

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FreshEd #391 – The Care Economy (Tim Jackson) 32:39

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Today we explore the care economy. My guest is Tim Jackson who chronicles in his latest book his own journey of valuing health instead of wealth and care instead of growth. Tim Jackson is an emeritus professor at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. His new book is The Care Economy (Po…

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Why the Most Expensive Energy Mistakes Aren't Technical—They're Human (S2:E6) 13:07

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What if the biggest threat to your energy project isn't equipment failure or budget overruns, but ignoring customer feedback or realities? In this episode of Just Power, host Carolyn Parrs reveals why "meaningful engagement" isn't just feel-good corporate speak—it's the difference between projects that thrive and investments that become stranded as…

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Reimagining Justice: Colonel Martin's Vision for a Modern, Tech-Enabled Correctional Future 34:21

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In this gripping episode of the 360 Justice Podcast, host Brian Lee has an enlightening conversation with Colonel James Martin, a 22-year veteran of the Marion County Sheriff's Office and a pivotal figure in its modernization. Promoted to Colonel in 2018, Martin has overseen transformative projects, notably the $575 million Community Justice Campus…

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FreshEd #390 – Constructing Student Mobility (Stephanie K. Kim) 29:29

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Today we look at how universities recruit international students and what that means for the internationalization of higher education. My guest is Stephanie Kim.Stephanie Kim is an Associate Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration at Georgetown University. Her new book is Constructing Student Mobility: How …

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Syria after Assad – will Syrians lead the transition? 34:32

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Since 2011, Syria has been ravaged by conflict, foreign interventions and political fragmentation – leaving millions displaced and communities in crisis. But amidst the devastation, a new conversation is taking shape. Just months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a new interim government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa has formed. A recent poll sh…

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Powerless: The Fight for Energy Access | Dr. Diana Hernández Interview (S2:E5) 43:14

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Millions of Americans live one missed bill away from losing power. In this powerful episode of the Just Power Podcast, host Carolyn Parrs sits down with Dr. Diana Hernández—Associate Professor at Columbia University and co-author of Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy—to reveal the urgent and often invisible crisis of energy insecurity, and…

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It’s looking bleak for clean energy in the US as Congress threatens to shred the Inflation Reduction Act 1:15:13

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Legislation with massive implications for clean energy in the US has been making progress in Congress. The Republican party’s “big beautiful bill”, introducing sweeping changes to taxes and government spending, would phase out most of the tax credits for low-carbon energy that were created, expanded or extended in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) …

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FreshEd #389 – Transforming Education Systems (Sara Ruto, Rakesh Rajani, and Brad Olsen) 28:44

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Today we explore the transformation of education systems. How does change happen? Is change always positive? And what do we even mean by an education system?With me are Sara Ruto, Rakesh Rajani, and Brad Olsen. Earlier this year, they were part of a Brookings Roundtable discussion about what it means to integrate scaling impact and systems transfor…

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S2:E4 Bluria Project: Pioneering Carbon-Neutral Farming in New Mexico 33:11

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Host Carolyn Parrs sits down with John Lonergan, CEO of PCC, to explore the Bluria project—poised to become America's first carbon-neutral fertilizer facility and a potential game-changer for the Southwest's agricultural landscape. This innovative development is addressing multiple challenges simultaneously: economic revitalization for the Navajo N…

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Can we add dozens of giant new data centers to the electricity grid? New research says yes – if we embrace load flexibility. 1:02:57

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It’s the most talked-about academic paper this year in the world of energy. Rethinking Load Growth, co-authored by Tyler Norris of Duke University has caused a stir in energy circles because it offers a new perspective on the hottest issue of the moment: how to provide power for new data centers and other large consumers. With new sources of electr…

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FreshEd #388 – The State of Publishing in Education Research (Gustavo Fischman) 32:55

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If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com.--Today we take stock of academic publishing in education research. From the massive growth in article submissions, to the growing profit margins of the major publishers and to the impact Generative AI is having on scholarship – we take a critical look at the state of publishi…

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S2:E3 - Colorado's Energy Model for Protecting Vulnerable Households in Uncertain Times. 38:01

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How do nonprofits work effectively (and dare we say harmoniously) with utilities on behalf of their most vulnerable customers? This episode is a testament to that – even in uncertain times like these. In this enlightening episode, Just Power Host, Carolyn Parrs sits down with Jennifer Gremmert, the visionary CEO of Energy Outreach Colorado, who rev…

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The critical minerals race – who will benefit? 37:21

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Minerals like lithium, cobalt and rare earth are not just commodities. They are strategic assets which are shaping global power and the future of the energy transition. As US-China trade tensions escalate, countries across Africa (and elsewhere) where these minerals are found are now renegotiating their role in an increasingly fragmented global eco…

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FreshEd #387 – Transitional Justice in Colombia (Russell, Mantilla-Blanco & Romero) 30:31

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If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com.--Today we explore transitional justice in Colombia. My guests are Garnett Russell, Paula Mantilla-Blanco, and Daniela Romero. They have recently published a report entitled Transitional Justice and Education in Colombia: Voices of Youth. Garnett Russell is an associate profes…

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S2:E2 Driving Electric Mobility for All 46:07

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In this episode of the Just Power Podcast, Host Carolyn Parrs explores the critical intersection of transportation electrification and social equity with Jeff Allen, Executive Director of Forth. Drawing from over a decade of experience championing inclusive approaches to EV adoption, Jeff shares valuable insights into how electric transportation ca…

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TikTok, Transit, and Transformation: How Elevated Chicago is Fighting for Transit Equity 9:53

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I started the page because I was walking to the train station, and it felt like Mario—I couldn’t get around. There was construction everywhere. I said, maybe people need to know about this. So I started recording. - Janice Newton, coordinator for Elevated Chicago In this episode, Chicago-based audio production team B Posi+tive Productions, with Sar…

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Mutual Aid, Resilience, and the Fight for Justice in Buffalo 13:00

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Now we need to make sure we have sustainable aid, ongoing. So we had to not only be boots on the ground, but also put on suits and go into boardrooms to tell stakeholders: This crisis isn’t over just because the headlines moved on. - Stephanie Simeon, executive director Heart of the City Neighborhoods In this episode we hear from Heart of the City …

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Holding the Land: Indigenous Resistance and Climate Justice in the Bayou 12:03

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My whole story is a story of diaspora and displacement. We lost everything but what we had on our backs. That’s why tribal communities are on the front lines of this crisis—because they were forced to the furthest ends of Louisiana, to places some thought were unlivable. — Chief Devon Parfait, chief of the Grand Caillou/Dulac band of Biloxi Chitima…

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Hutchinson’s Fight for Justice: How Community Advocacy Revived a Civil Rights Office 12:30

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How many of my friends and kids with similar stories to mine fall through the cracks? I mean, that keeps me up at night. It puts this fire in my belly to try to address the systems that we live in. - David Sotelo, Hutchinson County resident When community members refuse to accept injustice, change becomes possible. In this episode we hear from Hutc…

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An energy podcast crossover: Energy Gang and Interchange Recharged join forces to discuss flexibility on the power grid: why it is so important, and how to create it 39:29

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They called the film Avengers: Infinity War the most ambitious crossover event in history. We can’t quite make the same claim, but at Wood Mackenzie’s 2025 Solar and Energy Storage Summit, we did record a crossover episode. Ed Crooks, host of Energy Gang, is joined by Sylvia Leyva Martinez, Wood Mackenz’s principal analyst for solar power and host …

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FreshEd #289 – The Meddlers (Jamie Martin) 31:53

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Since the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund just ended, I thought it would be good to replay an episode about global economic governance. In my conversation with Jamie Martin, we look at early efforts of international development and technical assistance, revealing how many of the tensions that existed…

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Rachel Bruno: A Mother’s Nightmare, A Fight for Justice 35:36

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Join us for a deeply moving conversation with Rachel Bruno, an advocate and author of Fractured Hope, as she shares her unimaginable journey through a legal nightmare that tore her family apart. In this episode, Rachel had to speak some hard truths about herself and her children being treated inappropriately by Child Protective Services. She won ov…

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What do the tariff wars mean for low-carbon energy? | Recorded live at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit 30:13

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“With great uncertainty comes great opportunity”, says Abby Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, in this special episode of the Energy Gang, recorded live at Wood Mackenzie’s Solar & Energy Storage Summit. Is she right? And what are those opportunities? To find out, host Ed Crooks welcomed Abby and Shyam Sriniv…

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How can development financing be reformed? The road to Seville 33:30

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With economic uncertainty, rising debt burdens, and a growing share of the world’s poorest people living in fragile contexts, the stakes for the upcoming 4th Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) in Seville have never been higher. According to a recent OECD report, the gap between development financing needs and available resources could reac…

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S2: E1 The Energy Provider's Guide to Net Zero - A Global Report 37:04

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In this data-packed episode of Just Power, host Carolyn Parrs and Accenture’s Energy Retail Global Lead, Eva Buren examine the complex intersection of energy affordability and the transition to net zero. As global energy costs rise, households across the economic spectrum face increasing financial pressure, with one in three households worldwide an…

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FreshEd #386 – The Essential Howard Gardner on Education (Howard Gardner) 31:18

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If you want to join our growing community, sign up at FreshEdpodcast.com.--Today I’m joined by Howard Gardner, the renowned research professor of cognition and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For over half a century, Howard has impacted how we think about learning, intelligence, creativity, and ethics. He is a major education…

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Keeping cleantech investment alive | With technological, economic and policy challenges mounting, how can we keep energy innovation on track? 53:10

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These are hard times for investment in low-carbon energy. The lack of progress in international climate negotiations, threats to policy support, and an increased awareness of the challenges of decarbonization, have created some strong headwinds. Everyone agrees that more breakthroughs in innovative emissions-reducing technologies are essential for …

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FreshEd #360 – Education’s Neuro-Affective Turn (Kirsi Yliniva & Audrey Bryan) 33:42

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While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society.--Today we unpack the neuro-affective turn in education. With me are Kirsi Yliniva and Audrey Bryan.Kirsi Yliniva is a PhD researcher and university teacher in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Oulu. Audrey Br…

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Are Southern-led MDBs the future of development finance? 35:44

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Development finance is no longer just about aid. It’s about power, priorities, and who gets to decide. For decades, institutions like the World Bank and IMF have set the agenda, with high-income countries holding the reins. But a shift is underway. Southern-led multilateral development banks (MDBs) – where borrowing nations are also the majority sh…

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FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic) 29:58

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While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society. --Today we explore how univeristies are turning into data-driven institutions. My guest is Janja Komljenovic.Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her new co-written article with Sam Sellar and Kean Bir…

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How can the power industry meet the challenge of rising demand? | In a special live episode recorded at the American Clean Power association, we discuss how to meet America’s growing need for electricity ... 41:11

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If President Trump’s tariff strategy succeeds in sparking a revival in US manufacturing, one consequence will be surging demand for power. We are already seeing electricity demand starting to pick up after 15 years of stagnation, driven by new data centers for AI and a wave of factory-building for semiconductors and batteries that is already under …

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Telling Our Own Stories: DocuCourse and the Power of Community Narrative 10:24

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Oftentimes, what’s positive isn’t what’s promoted. And that’s been one of my biggest frustrations. They want the drama. They don’t want the uplifting story that our communities are yearning for. — Avrell Stokes, president BeGreat Together Who gets to tell the stories of Black and Brown communities? In Kansas City, Be Great Together is shifting the …

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Is the US being left behind in the race to develop new clean energy technologies? BYD is selling EVs that can charge in five minutes | China is streaking ahead of the US in the energy transition race 58:08

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The Chinese car company BYD, the world’s top-selling manufacturer of electric vehicles, is launching two models that can charge in five minutes; about the time it takes to fill a tank with gasoline. It’s news that looks like a landmark moment in the energy transition, the way that the release of the DeepSeek model was for AI. It’s another eye-openi…

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FreshEd #217 – Technology, Education, and the Digital Generation (Halla B. Holmarsdottir) 33:19

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While FreshEd is away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about education in a digital society. --Children are inundated with technology. Video games, smartphones, and computers are common in the lives of today’s digital generation. With school closures from the covid-19 pandemic, learning from home only added to the screen time …

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Can regional alliances save global trade? 34:18

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Trade policies are more than economic levers. Today they are instruments of influence, competition and – at times – conflict. We have seen how Trump’s recent tariff hikes on Mexico, Canada and China have heightened geopolitical tensions. The global trade system is also undergoing a deeper transformation. Countries are diversifying supply chains and…

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S1: E12 Cultivating Empathy in Energy Systems - How Human Understanding Powers Just Transitions 40:50

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For the Season 1 Finale of Just Power, host Carolyn Parrs invites Pamela Fann, Founder and CEO of Integrative Solutions, back on the show to explore how empathy—a quality often overlooked or lost in technical fields—may be the missing ingredient in creating profitable and equitable energy systems. Carolyn and Pam make a compelling case that empathe…

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FreshEd #336 – Digital Humanitarianism (Fleur Johns) 41:23

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FreshEd is at the CIES Annual Conference. While we are away, we are going to replay some of our favourite episodes about the theme of the conference: "Envisioning Education in a Digital Society." If you are in Chicago, please stop by the FreshEd table in the exhibition hall. And please consider becoming a member of FreshEd: freshedpodcast.com/suppo…

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What does financial market turmoil mean for low-carbon energy? 1:13:44

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Investors have gone sour on clean energy. In a troubled time for stock markets in general, where is the capital for energy flowing now? Host Ed Crooks is joined by Shanu Mathew, Senior VP and Portfolio Manager at Lazard Asset Management, and Amy Myers Jaffe, Director of the Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab at NYU. Shanu returns to th…

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FreshEd #385 – The Teaching Profession in a Globalizing World (Xavier Dumay, Tore Bernt Sorensen, Lynn Paine) 29:50

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If you find FreshEd a valuable educational resource, please consider becoming a member. You can sign up at our website, Freshedpodcast.com. Also, if you’re going to be at the comparative and international education society’s annual conference this week, stop by the FreshEd booth. Me and a few other FreshEd team members will be there!--Today we expl…

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S1: E11 Breaking the Energy Assistance Barrier - Automatic Relief for Vulnerable Communities 51:24

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Just Power host, Carolyn Parrs, speaks with Shubha Harris, an equitable energy policy consultant revolutionizing how we approach energy equity in America. As energy costs continue to soar, Shubha unveils the nation's first Automatic Bill Credit pilot—a $5.4 million initiative rolled out by Xcel Energy that eliminates the hurdles that have tradition…

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Can multilateralism be saved? 33:59

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As the world shifts toward a more regionally driven order, where power and security are dictated by strength rather than law, multilateralism faces an existential crisis. This has been made strikingly clear by recent events in the US. Oscillating between retreat and selective engagement, the US now sees global cooperation in transactional terms – a…

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FreshEd #384 – Why did mass education rise and spread? (Agustina S. Paglayan) 33:20

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Today we explore the history of modern mass schooling. My guest, Agustina Paglayan, argues in her new book that schooling was originally a strategy for state-building through indoctrination.Agustina Paglayan is a political science and public policy professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Glob…

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S1: E10 The Experts Speak: Making Room for All Voices in Clean Energy Planning 13:46

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We asked our energy equity and justice rockstars from Season 1 of the Just Power Podcast, "How can energy companies and communities work together?" This show is a medley of their words of wisdom from LA's unprecedented community steering committee to Sacramento's tailored neighborhood solutions to Navajo Nation's must do's. Learn practical strategi…

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Flexible, fast-responding and reliable – the growth of energy storage seems unstoppable. What could possibly go wrong? 57:00

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Charge when it’s cheap, when energy is abundant, and discharge when the energy is needed. The role of energy storage will be critical to the transition to low-carbon technologies. It’s an exciting time in the industry, with spectacular growth in battery storage markets in the US and around the world, and it’s predicted to continue. “We’re in the ho…

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FreshEd #383 – How Schools Make Race (Laura Chávez-Moreno) 27:04

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FreshEd will be holding its Annual General meeting soon. Everyone is welcome to join. You can find registration details on our website. Hope to see you there!--Today we explore how schools make race. My guest is Laura Chávez-Moreno. Laura Chávez-Moreno is an assistant professor in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Educatio…

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How is Ukraine redefining global security? 42:25

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Ukraine stands at a pivotal point as its war with Russia enters its third year. With high-stakes talks between the US and Russia taking place in Saudi Arabia, Ukraine finds itself excluded from crucial discussions, which raises alarms in Kyiv and Europe. As Western unity begins to fracture, the debate intensifies over whether to prioritise negotiat…