A Battle of Tiny Proportions

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A government bureaucrat builds a website that saves a billion gallons in gas. The minuscule Irish invention that enables the industrial revolution. An innovation for doctor’s gloves kicks off women’s liberation. An ill wind leads to America being stuck with the gallon forever. On this episode, we present a series of small “nudges” (but not actual nudges) that have had profound impacts for the environment… or maybe not the environment, maybe just generally. Head to our website and vote on your favorite! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Hey. So today here in the studio are all of my colleagues, Justin Paradise.
0:06.0	Greetings.
0:07.0	Taylor Quimby.
0:08.0	Hello.
0:09.0	Erkagenic.
0:10.0	And the newest addition to the team, Sarah Ernst?
0:12.0	Yo. Yo. I'm curious to know. And the newest addition to the team, Sarah Ernst? Yoo.
0:13.1	I'm curious to know Sarah how you feel about being roped into our shenanigans.
0:17.2	A little nervous, I've never done it before.
0:20.2	You're a natural.
0:22.4	Okay, I have a story for you all.
0:24.0	This story begins with...
0:28.0	The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975
0:32.0	that specified fuel economy standards that specified the famous
0:37.4	cafe standards for motor vehicles.
0:39.6	Wof! Are you familiar with this?
0:43.2	You sound like woof like you really knew what that was.
0:47.2	I am familiar with the cafe standards.
0:49.5	So the cafe standards we're actually still fighting about today.
0:51.4	So that's basically the law that
0:53.2	says cars need to be ex efficient by X year nothing to do with lattes nothing to do with
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