Talk Earthy To Me

Talk Earthy to Me is a bold, engaging podcast that brings clarity, curiosity, and a touch of sarcasm to the climate conversation. Hosted by environmentalist Isabelle, each episode breaks down complex issues—like wildfires, food systems, and fast fashion—into accessible, actionable insights. No guilt, no jargon—just honest dialogue, real solutions, and a fresh take on how we can live lighter on the planet without losing ourselves in the process.

Talk Earthy To Me is a education podcast hosted by Isabelle Frazier, with 54 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Isabelle Frazier hosts Talk Earthy To Me, a education show with 54 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  Chapter 3: You Are What You Emit

  Sep 28, 202635 minS2

  A dinner-table comment about beef burgers and carbon footprints sent me down a research rabbit hole — and it turns out food and agriculture account for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than every car, plane, and ship on the planet combined. This episode breaks down what John Doerr's Speed & Scale gets right about fixing the food system, where the peer-reviewed science pushes back, and the two changes that actually move the needle on your plate — no guilt trip required. Poore, Joseph, and Thomas Nemecek. "Reducing Food's Environmental Impacts through Producers and Consumers." Science , vol. 360, no. 6392, 2018, pp. 987–92. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216 Ritchie, Hannah. "Sector by Sector: Where Do Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Come From?" Our World in Data , 2020. https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector Ritchie, Hannah, et al. "Environmental Impacts of Food Production." Our World in Data , 2023. https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food Clark, Michael A., et al. "Global Food System Emissions Could Preclude Achieving the 1.5° and 2°C Climate Change Targets." Science , vol. 370, no. 6517, 2020, pp. 705–08. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357 Gustavsson, Jenny, et al. Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Extent, Causes and Prevention. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011. https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/Cutting-food-waste-to-feed-the-world/en United Nations Environment Programme. Food Waste Index Report 2021. UNEP, 2021. https://www.unep.org/resources/report/unep-food-waste-index-report-2021 United States Environmental Protection Agency. Estimating the Cost of Food Waste to American Consumers. EPA, Apr. 2025. https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2025-04/costoffoodwastereport_508.pdf Bai, Xiongxiong, et al. "Responses of Soil Carbon Sequestration to Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices: A Meta-Analysis." Global Change Biology , vol. 25, no. 8, 2019, pp. 2591–606. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14658 Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT), via Ritchie, Hannah, et al. "Per Capita Meat Consumption by Type." Our World in Data , 2024. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumption-by-type-kilograms-per-year Willett, Walter, et al. "Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems." The Lancet , vol. 393, no. 10170, 2019, pp. 447–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788-4 Ranganathan, Janet, et al. Creating a Sustainable Food Future. World Resources Institute, 2019. https://www.wri.org/research/creating-sustainable-food-future Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "COP26: Agricultural Expansion Drives Almost 90 Percent of Global Deforestation." FAO Newsroom , 8 Nov. 2021. https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/cop26-agricultural-expansion-drives-almost-90-percent-of-global-deforestation/en World Resources Institute / Coolfood. Coolfood Pledge: Collective Member Progress Through 2023. Coolfood.org, 2023. https://coolfood.org/resources/coolfood-pledge-collective-member-progress-through-2023/

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  Episode #25

  Chapter 2: The Grid Is Everything

  Aug 31, 202627 minS2

  Electricity is a quarter of global emissions — and it's also the fastest-changing sector on the planet. Solar costs have fallen by 90% since 2010. A wind grid in Denmark that sometimes runs on more power than it needs. And a very real gap between "the technology works" and "the grid can actually carry it." We get into what's driving the clean electricity transition, who's currently paying the health cost of the grid we have now, and what's standing between here and there. Works Cited Doerr, John, and Ryan Panchadsaram. Speed & Scale . Speed & Scale, https://speedandscale.com/tracker/ . Accessed 28 Aug. 2026. International Energy Agency. World Energy Outlook 2023 . IEA, 2023, https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2023 . Lazard. Levelized Cost of Energy+ . Lazard, 2023, https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-energyplus/ . International Renewable Energy Agency. Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2022 . IRENA, 2022, https://www.irena.org/publications/2023/Aug/Renewable-Power-Generation-Costs-in-2022 . Way, Rupert, et al. "Empirically Grounded Technology Forecasts and the Energy Transition." Joule , vol. 6, no. 9, 2022, pp. 2057–82, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2022.08.009 . Sepulveda, Nestor A., et al. "The Design Space for Long-Duration Energy Storage in Decarbonized Power Systems." Nature Energy , vol. 6, no. 5, 2021, pp. 506–16, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00796-8 . Vohra, Karn, et al. "Global Mortality from Outdoor Fine Particle Pollution Generated by Fossil Fuel Combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem." Environmental Research , vol. 195, 2021, article 110754, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.110754 . Mikati, Ihab, et al. "Disparities in Distribution of Particulate Matter Emission Sources by Race and Poverty Status." American Journal of Public Health , vol. 108, no. 4, 2018, pp. 480–85, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304297 . Energinet. Annual Energy Data . Energinet, 2023, https://en.energinet.dk/energy-data/ . International Energy Agency. Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector . IEA, 2023 update, https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050 . Epstein, Paul R., et al. "Full Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , vol. 1219, 2011, pp. 73–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05890.x . Energinet. Renewable Energy Data . Energinet, 2023, https://en.energinet.dk/energy-data/ . Jenkins, Jesse D., et al. "Electricity Transmission Is Key to Unlock the Full Potential of the Inflation Reduction Act." Princeton University ZERO Lab, REPEAT Project, Sept. 2022, https://repeatproject.org/docs/REPEAT_IRA_Transmission_2022-09-22.pdf . R Street Institute. Emission Benefits of Permitting Reform . R Street Institute, 2026, https://www.rstreet.org/research/emission-benefits-of-permitting-reform/ . McDuffie, E. E., R. V. Martin, J. V. Spadaro, et al. "Source Sector and Fuel Contributions to Ambient PM2.5 and Attributable Mortality Across Multiple Spatial Scales." Nature Communications , vol. 12, 2021, article 3594, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23853-y .

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  Episode #24

  Chapter 1: Electrify Transportation

  Aug 24, 202630 minS2

  Gas engines waste 80% of their energy as heat. EVs waste maybe 10-15%. That math broke my brain — and it's the entry point into episode one of our Speed & Scale mini-series, where we dig into John Doerr's plan to electrify transportation by 2035. Spoiler: the tech is basically solved. The grid, the minerals, the charging infrastructure, and who actually gets to afford any of this? Very much not solved. We've got battery costs down 97%, a Shenzhen bus fleet flexing on the whole planet, 3.6 million reasons this is a public health story and not just a climate one, and a relay-race metaphor that's doing a lot of heavy lifting. Doerr, John, and Ryan Panchadsaram. Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now . Portfolio/Penguin, 2021. Health Benefits of Zero-Emission Transport Through 2050 . International Energy Agency. Global EV Outlook 2023 . IEA, 2023. United States, Environmental Protection Agency. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990–2021 . EPA, 2023. BloombergNEF. Battery Price Survey 2023 . BloombergNEF, 2023. Knobloch, Florian, et al. "Net Emission Reductions from Electric Cars and Heat Pumps in 59 World Regions over Time." Nature Sustainability , vol. 3, 2020, pp. 437–47. International Energy Agency. Global EV Outlook 2023 . IEA, 2023. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "Transport." Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change , Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC, Cambridge UP, 2022. Vohra, Karn, et al. "Global Mortality from Outdoor Fine Particle Pollution Generated by Fossil Fuel Combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem." Environmental Research , vol. 195, 2021, article 110754. Tessum, Christopher W., et al. GeoHealth , 2023. Atlas Public Policy. Electric Vehicle Buyer Income Analysis . Atlas Public Policy, 2022. International Energy Agency. Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector . IEA, 2023 update. Bi, Zhicheng, et al. Nature Climate Change , 2019. Rocky Mountain Institute. U.S. EV Charging Infrastructure Needs . RMI, 2023. World Bank. Climate-Smart Mining: Minerals for Climate Action . World Bank, 2022. Ryssdal, Kai, and Maria Hollenhorst. "The Entrepreneur Building a Marketplace for Used EVs." Marketplace , American Public Media, 5 Aug. 2026. Mani, Dave. "Shenzhen China: The Most Advanced City on Earth (& It's Unsettling)." YouTube , uploaded by Dave Mani, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyza4Y_agk

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  Episode #20

  Power Play: Renewables vs. Fossil Fuels

  Aug 16, 202618 minS2

  Remember watching gas prices blow past $5 a gallon in spring 2022? That wasn't a local problem — that was a war on the other side of the planet, reaching straight into your wallet at the pump. This week we're laying the foundation for something big: a brand-new 10-part series digging into Speed & Scale, John Doerr's data-driven climate action plan. But first, the basics — what actually separates renewable from nonrenewable energy, what each one costs the planet and our health, and why energy independence is as much about national security and your monthly bill as it is about carbon. SHOW NOTES — SOURCES U.S. Energy Information Administration. “Nonrenewable” and “Sources of Energy.” EIA.gov, Energy Explained. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/what-is-energy/sources-of-energy.php U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “Electric Power Sector Emissions.” EPA.gov. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/electric-power-sector-emissions Vohra, Karn, et al. “Global Mortality from Outdoor Fine Particle Pollution Generated by Fossil Fuel Combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem.” Environmental Research, vol. 195, 2021. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935121000487 National Renewable Energy Laboratory. “Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization.” NREL.gov, U.S. Department of Energy. https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/life-cycle-assessment International Energy Agency. “Key Findings.” World Energy Outlook 2022. https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2022/key-findings International Energy Agency. “Renewable Electricity.” Renewables 2025. https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2025/renewable-electricity International Energy Agency. “Overview of Outlook for Key Minerals” and “Critical Minerals.” Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025. https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook-2025/overview-of-outlook-for-key-minerals Doerr, John, and Ryan Panchadsaram. Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. Portfolio/Penguin, 2021. Official plan and tracker at https://speedandscale.com/about/ Stanford Graduate School of Business. “What Will It Take to Solve Climate Change? Investor John Doerr Shares His Plan.” https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-will-it-take-solve-climate-change-investor-john-doerr-shares-his-plan Speed & Scale. "The Speed & Scale Tracker." SpeedandScale.com.

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  Episode #19

  Greenwashing Playbook

  Aug 10, 202624 minS2

  That green label on your cleaning spray, your shampoo, your favorite fast-fashion haul — does it actually mean something? Or is it just really good marketing? This week on Talk Earthy to Me, we're breaking down greenwashing: where the term came from (it started with a hotel towel card), why it's exploded into a real legal and societal problem, and how some of the biggest brands in the world — Kohl's, Walmart, Colgate-Palmolive, KLM, Shell — have gotten caught making claims that didn't hold up. By the end, you'll have a real, practical checklist for spotting greenwashing before it gets your money — plus this episode's Earthy AF Spotlight on the nonprofit calling out corporate greenwashing brand by brand. Sources: Hill, Stephanie, et al. “Testing the Greenwashing Assessment Framework.” Ecology and Society, vol. 30, no. 2, 2025, article 31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16106-300231 U.S. Federal Trade Commission. “Green Guides.” FTC.gov. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/truth-advertising/green-guides U.S. Federal Trade Commission. “$5.5 Million Total FTC Settlements with Kohl's and Walmart Challenge ‘Bamboo’ and Eco Claims.” FTC Business Blog, 8 Apr. 2022. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/04/55-million-total-ftc-settlements-kohls-and-walmart-challenge-bamboo-and-eco-claims-shed-light European Commission. Proposal for a Directive on Substantiation and Communication of Explicit Environmental Claims, COM(2023) 166 final. EUR-Lex. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A2023%3A0166%3AFIN Natural Resources Defense Council. “What Is Greenwashing?” NRDC.org. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-greenwashing Fair Trade Certified. “What Is Greenwashing in Business?” Fair Trade Certified Knowledge Base. https://es.fairtradecertified.org/knowledge-base/fair-trade-ethics/what-is-greenwashing/ Institute for Advertising Ethics. “Greenwash Prevention Toolkit.” IAEthics.org. https://www.iaethics.org/greenwash-prevention-toolkit Changing Markets Foundation. “Disrupting London Fashion Week: Changing Markets Foundation Launches Greenwash.com.” Press release. https://changingmarkets.org/press-releases/disrupting-london-fashion-week-changing-markets-foundation-launches-greenwash-com/

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