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A Climate Change with Matt Matern

Hosted by Matthew Matern · science · EN · 268 episodes

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A Climate Change with Matt Matern is a weekly show featuring influential guests from government, business, activism, academia, and culture. The show serves to inform its audience with a focus on environmental and climate issues. Join us as we commit to making "a climate change." Similar to these great podcasts: TED Climate, Reversing Climate Change, Climate One, My Climate Journey, Volts, America Adapts, & A Matter Of Degrees.

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What is A Climate Change with Matt Matern about?

A Climate Change with Matt Matern is a weekly show featuring influential guests from government, business, activism, academia, and culture. The show serves to inform its audience with a focus on environmental and climate issues.

Who hosts A Climate Change with Matt Matern?

A Climate Change with Matt Matern is hosted by Matthew Matern. The show has published 268 episodes to date.

What has A Climate Change with Matt Matern covered recently?

Recent episodes include "266. Your Garage Could Be Part of a Power Plant w/ Regan George" (22 October 2026, 43 minutes), "265. Why Do We Know So Much About Climate Change and Do So Little? w/ Frédéric Samama" (15 October 2026, 42 minutes), and "264. The XPRIZE Winner Pumping Antacid Into the Ocean w/ Mike Kelland" (8 October 2026, 46 minutes).

How often does A Climate Change with Matt Matern publish?

A Climate Change with Matt Matern publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 268 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on A Climate Change with Matt Matern?

Booking probability for A Climate Change with Matt Matern is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Climate Change with Matt Matern requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Climate Change with Matt Matern's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch A Climate Change with Matt Matern?

The strongest fits for A Climate Change with Matt Matern are Environmental Agencies. A Climate Change with Matt Matern has a science audience.

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Matthew Matern hosts A Climate Change with Matt Matern, a science show with 268 episodes published.

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  • Episode #266

    266. Your Garage Could Be Part of a Power Plant w/ Regan George

    Oct 22, 202643 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Regan George, Founder and CEO of SOLRITE Energy, about turning home batteries into a power plant that helps homeowners and the grid at the same time. Regan explains why rooftop solar stopped...

  • Episode #265

    265. Why Do We Know So Much About Climate Change and Do So Little? w/ Frédéric Samama

    Oct 15, 202642 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Frédéric Samama, adjunct professor at Sciences Po and author of The Enigma of Climate Inaction, about a simple question: if almost everyone knows about climate change, why aren’t we acting? Fred...

  • Episode #264

    264. The XPRIZE Winner Pumping Antacid Into the Ocean w/ Mike Kelland

    Oct 8, 202646 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Mike Kelland, Co-founder & CEO of Planetary, about using the ocean to pull carbon dioxide out of the air. Planetary adds calcium and magnesium minerals, basically an antacid, to water flowing out...

  • Episode #263

    263. Buildings Cause 40% of Global Emissions and Fewer Than 1% Are Net Zero w/ Drew Shula

    Oct 1, 202647 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Drew Shula, trained architect and Founder and CEO of Verdical Group, about the part of the climate problem hiding in plain sight: the buildings we live and work in, which account for roughly 40%...

  • Episode #262

    262. EPA's New Water Rule Could Strip Protections From 60% of America's Streams w/ Jim Murphy

    Sep 24, 202640 min

    Today, Matt Matern speaks with Jim Murphy, Associate Vice President of Legal Advocacy at the National Wildlife Federation, about EPA's proposal to rewrite which streams and wetlands the Clean Water Act actually...

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  • Episode #261

    261. The Forest That Stopped Storing Carbon and Started Releasing It w/ Rob Mullen

    Sep 17, 202658 min

    Today, Matt Matern speaks with Rob Mullen - artist, author, and Director of the Wilderness River Expedition Art Fellowship - about the boreal forest, the largest land ecosystem on Earth and one most people have never...

  • Episode #260

    260. Leah Qusba on Why Republicans Still Support Solar

    Sep 10, 202651 min

    Today, Matt Matern speaks with Leah Qusba, CEO of GoodPower, a nonprofit working to win public support for the clean energy transition. They talk about moving the energy conversation away from sacrifice and toward...

  • Episode #259

    259. California Just Passed Balcony Solar - Now It's Up to Newsom w/ Cora Stryker

    Sep 3, 202631 min

    Today, Matt is joined again by Cora Stryker, co-founder of Bright Saver. One year after first joining us on the show, a lot has changed. When she was last on, plug-in solar was legal in exactly one state and nobody in...

  • Episode #258

    258. The AI Beehive Fighting Colony Collapse w/ Saar Safra

    Aug 27, 202647 min

    Today, Matt is joined by Saar Safra, co-founder and CEO of Beewise, to talk about one of the quietest threats to our food supply - the collapse of the world's bee colonies. Saar shares how he teamed up with a commercial...

  • Episode #257

    Building the “Apple of EV Charging,” w/ Zak Winnick

    Aug 20, 202642 min

    Today, Matt Matern speaks with Zak Winnick, founder and CEO of Rangeway Energy, about building America’s first hospitality-forward EV charging network. Zak shares how a career running hotels - and years of frustration...

  • Episode #256

    256. Why the Ocean Always Wins with Bren Smith

    Aug 14, 202653 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Bren Smith, co-founder and co-executive director of GreenWave, about his journey from commercial fisherman to pioneer of regenerative ocean farming. Bren shares how a cod collapse in his native...

  • Episode #255

    255. What If We Could Store Carbon the Way the Ocean Already Does? w/ Garrett Boudinot

    Aug 6, 202643 min

    Today, Matt is joined by Dr. Garrett Boudinot, founder and CEO of Vycarb, to talk about a new approach to carbon capture and storage that works with water instead of pipelines and underground wells. Garrett explains how...

  • Episode #254

    254. How Fossil Fuel Companies Are Quietly Buying Legal Immunity with David Fenton

    Jul 30, 202646 min

    Today, Matt is joined by David Fenton - veteran progressive communications strategist and host of The Fenton Forecast - for a conversation about the climate movement’s biggest failure: how it talks, or doesn’t talk...

  • Episode #253

    253. He Helped Build Waymo. Now Tom Chi Builds Robots That Replant Forests

    Jul 23, 202640 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Tom Chi, founding partner of At One Ventures and a founding member of the Google X team behind Waymo, about using deep tech to restore ecosystems instead of just slowing the damage. They talk...

  • Episode #252

    252: Why Only 1% of US Farmland Is Organic with Linley Dixon

    Jul 16, 202655 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Dr. Linley Dixon, Co-Director of the Real Organic Project and cohost of the Real Organic Podcast, about why how we grow food may be the climate lever we're ignoring. Linley explains that...

  • Episode #251

    251. Why 40% of Americans Can't Charge an EV at Home with Jeff Prosserman

    Jul 9, 202644 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Jeffrey Prosserman, CEO and co-founder of Voltpost, about a simple idea with big potential: turning the lampposts and utility poles cities already have into electric vehicle chargers. Jeffrey...

  • Episode #250

    250. The Founders Loved the Land - and Left One Thing Unfinished

    Jul 3, 202616 min

    In this milestone 250th episode, Matt Matern goes solo for the final installment of our “250 for 250” series - tracing what the people who founded the country actually believed about land, soil, and stewardship. From...

  • Episode #249

    249. He Watched January 6 Happen - Then Wrote This Book w/ Brian Jay Jones

    Jun 30, 202648 min

    Today, Matt speaks with New York Times bestselling biographer Brian Jay Jones, author of Becoming Dr. Seuss and the new book The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building. Brian traces Theodor Geisel’s...

  • Episode #248

    248. Why The Lorax Matters More Now Than Ever with Philip Nel

    Jun 25, 202629 min

    Today, Matt speaks with Philip Nel, University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University and one of the world's leading Dr. Seuss scholars, about The Lorax and its place in the environmental...

  • Episode #247

    247. America’s Best Idea: How the U.S. Invented the National Park

    Jun 24, 202612 min

    Today, no guest - just Matt, with the story of what one writer called “the best idea America ever had”: the national park. In 1872, in a country built on private property, the United States set aside Yellowstone as land...

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